“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] Nevertheless, the condensed code-like comprehension of what I prefer to call the mental genes is at all times available, though not necessarily to the egotistic “I am.”

[...] I am not going to have these sessions deal with mental tricks, even though the end would be a good one. [...]

At the bottom so to speak, will be found a layer of the subconscious dealing with racial heritage, concerning the dim first materialization of man; and beneath this a heritage dealing with a comprehension of reality as concerned in physical matter before the physical evolution of man, following backward to that first inner self within its mental enclosure, that was adept enough to translate and transform its psychic energy to form the first, most minute physical materialization, from which all other physical constructions then flowed.

[...] He was never in danger of any severe emotional or mental difficulties. [...]

[...] You spent more mental energy setting up barriers to protect it, so that any one instance, say, of interruption or conflict, would immediately arouse the power of the buried fear, and become a symbol for it. [...]

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

[...] We made mental notes to ask Seth about it if he did not bring up the subject himself.

[...] She had the mental picture of a border, of something square, as the photograph is, with a border around it. [...]

[...] I did not know who it represented consciously; merely that I had a very clear mental image of a face and figure to paint. [...]

(The second effect did produce a little alarm when it began, but she mentally told Seth to go ahead. [...]

[...] A mental muddle. [...]

(Of course I did, yet I seemed to be peculiarly numb mentally: I couldn’t think of any. [...]

[...] Now I am speaking now of any given particular issue, not for example, of an entire mental life style, but beneath the humility a stubbornness; an attention to detail; a freedom of thought on the one hand, but an attention to detail having to do also, with this life when you took care of a sacristy and attended to altar veils and the placement of candles, missals and statues in specific and given places. [...]

[...] He has never been mentally unbalanced, and he has avoided this and any deep emotional difficulty. [...]

[...] Your thoughts, feelings and mental pictures can be called incipient exterior events, for in one way or another each of these is materialized into physical reality.

[...] Know that all events are mental and psychic first and that these will happen in physical terms, but do not keep watching yourself. [...]

[...] This applies on all levels — atomic and psychological — and to biological stimulus and mental intent.

Now: Dictation (slowly and softly). The unknown reality: It cannot be expressed in the cozy terms of known knowledge, and so you must stretch your own imagination, rouse yourself from mental lethargy, and be bold enough to discard old dogmatic comfort blankets.

(“It’s a sort of superrelaxation; almost profound, and mental and physical at once. [...]

It would be difficult for me to change the features of a third individual indeed, but far less difficult to change Ruburt’s features, since he gives me permission to work through him, and his mental and psychic abilities would help me. [...]