“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] Those tensions were projected upon it by mental states of mind. [...]

Much of your mental experience daily is based upon the proposition that there is something wrong with each of you, for one reason or another. [...]

[...] I think that now I’ve learned — and hope to help teach Jane — that there’s nothing for it but to use one’s abilities full blast in every area — and that that resolve and action will conquer all and set her free — physically, creatively, and mentally.

[...] First had come her reactions to a group of upsetting letters she’d received this noon: One is a 20-page missive from a mental patient who wants returned to him all of the notes, objects, manuscripts, and books of poetry he’s sent her over the years: another is from a woman who informed us that she’s writing a book dictated by Seth: a third is a long letter from a man who’s claiming us as his counterparts, for reasons we can’t agree with. [...]

The control panels of the nuclear plants, many of them, were designed as if consciousness did not enter into the picture at all, as if the plants were [to be] run by other machines, not men—with controls that are not handily within reach, or physically inaccessible, as if the men who drew up the plans had completely forgotten what the species [is] like mentally or physically.

[...] The problems were being taken out of the physical realm, where you could indeed handle them, into a mental realm, where you tried to hide them.

[...] You try to be, both of you, too mental and intellectual about your emotions, thinking them away if possible rather than freely admitting them.

Actually, while getting the book, I felt like a secretary taking mental dictation. [...]

[...] The Afterdeath Journal of an American Philosopher: The World View of William James came the same way, like mental dictation; only where the Cézanne world view had specialized in art, the James world view was more comprehensive. [...]

[...] Your feelings about the world—to some extent—are mental and hypothetical. [...]

[...] But you have felt jointly that it was unsafe to trust the world; unrealistic; and while you could maintain a mental isolation, Ruburt adopted a physical one.

Learn the importance of touch, for both of you rely often too much on purely mental expression. [...]

[...] Doors of all kinds will open when you take away that restraining mental habit. [...]

[...] She’d been interrupted right after the start of the session by a nurse bringing her vitamin C. Recording the session, I’d been quite amazed that a certain frightened portion of Jane’s self could exert such power over the rest of her mental and physical personality. [...]

(Long pause.) Epilepsy is a disease often experienced also by people who have strongly conflicting beliefs about the use of power or energy, coupled with a sometimes extraordinary amount of mental and physical energy that demands it be used.

[...] In one he had to “prove” his mental stability, to his way of thinking. [...]

[...] The small panics themselves, for example, are meant to lead to psychological questioning and so forth in a give-and-take mental and therapeutic exchange of activity—an activity bound to release and activate the creative abilities also. [...]

An illness is a failure to solve a mental or psychological problem in the correct manner. [...]

The problem, as a mental manipulation, has not been settled. [...]

[...] Your mental and emotional horizons have broadened, so that you now take for granted a mental world that others do indeed, and properly, look upon with wonder.

We go back to our fundamentals: You create reality through your feelings, thoughts, and mental actions. [...]

You must understand that each mental act is a reality for which you are responsible. [...]

If you are seeking future information, then you should mentally state this. [...] If you are simply exercising, trying to use the inner senses generally, then state this mentally, also. [...]

[...] By mentally asking questions, I obtain ‘yes’ or ‘no’ answers according to whether the pendulum swings back and forth, or from side to side.”

If you are concerned about any given problems — mental, emotional, or physical — there are certain facts you should hold in mind. [...]

[...] (Pause.) Those movements follow mental patterns, of course. [...]

For material on mental and psychic expansions in old age, and the hemispheres of the brain, see the 650th session in Chapter 13 of Personal Reality. [...]