“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] Obviously this didn’t always apply, since some people became chronically ill, or died, or suffered devastating illnesses —but for the most part whatever helpings they managed to achieve came about through subconscious mental and bodily processes. [...]

In a fashion therefore he possessed a greater leeway of mental activity (long pause). [...]

[...] Some of you have physical children as well—but you will all “one day” also be the mental parents of dream children who also waken in a new world, and look about them for the first time, feeling isolated and frightened and triumphant all at once. [...]

[...] The willingness and recognition have occurred mentally of course, to make the exercises possible. [...]

Lately he was convinced that he was unattractive to you from the face down, that you considered him stupid, as he did, while having physical difficulty; that you were a perfectionist and did not want to see crooked legs—that physically, not mentally, he got in your way, and that physically you did not look upon him with approval, as he did not.

[...] All of this applied to his mental, psychic, spiritual, and physical life, and his overall purpose.

[...] Any intense mental act — thought or emotion — will not only be constructed in some physical or pseudophysical manner, but will also bear to some extent the imprint of the personality who originally conceived it.

[...] In other words, you should be as flexible mentally, psychologically, and spiritually as possible, open to new ideas, creative, and not overly dependent upon organizations or dogma.

[...] On the other hand, within these other systems there is a strong innovative group consciousness developing, in which identity is retained but greater inner play allowed between individuals, a large creative interchange of symbol-pools, a drawing upon mental and psychic symbols with greater facility. [...]

[...] A single image may suddenly open up into an entire mental landscape, but you will know none of this if you do not acknowledge the first clues that are just beneath present awareness, and almost transparent if you are only willing to look.

[...] The male seems to perform better at mathematical tasks, and so-called logical mental activity, while the female performs better in a social context, in value development and personal relationships. [...]

Simple-enough incidents, like shoveling the driveway, can bother you because they arouse old conflicts having to do with your earlier situation and the decision, say, to explore your mental and creative abilities rather than to pursue the physical ones in the excellence of sports.

[...] Instead of a time sequence that governs or seems to govern thought, mental activity of any kind, and overt action, you have associative processes, offshoots, and possibilities. [...]

[...] None of the communications from me have been in any way conducive to a development toward mental or emotional instability. [...]

[...] If anything, the personal advice I have given you both should add to your mental and emotional balance, and result in a stronger relationship with the outside world.

[...] On the other hand, I can operate only mentally in your world. [...]

[...] [These in turn lead to a last note.] In Chapter 3 of Seth Speaks, see the 519th session for March 23, 1970:) When I enter your system, I move through a series of mental and psychic events. [...]

[...] She said she didn’t know if she had any mental images; as we went through the material she recalled a few.

[...] Jane had an image here. She saw mentally the four divisions, and had the feeling of blue—of a white package with blue lines or ribbons dividing it.

(I then tried to contact my husband Rob mentally. [...]

[...] Then on impulse I said mentally: “What’s wrong with John Bradley’s neck?” [Visiting last night and witnessing the 63rd session, John had remarked about the feeling of a lump inside his throat or neck, yet could not find any lump.]

[...] They are intimately connected, however, with mental states which are then materialized, and so your own mental processes are highly involved.

(See Note 1 for descriptions of the [two] unusual mental events I experienced Sunday and today: I may have seen myself as a Roman military officer in the first century A.D.

[...] He has always been mentally quick and intellectually agile. [...]

Precisely at this time however the individual is told to beware of any such straying, and to consider that kind of behavior a symptom of mental deterioration. [...]

[...] You do not have to set about converting others for example, but you do need to devote some large measure of mental and emotional intensity inward. [...]