“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

All motion is mental or psychological motion, and all mental or psychological motion has its electrical reality. [...]

[...] But many of these actions are also mental manipulations or aesthetic realizations and even aesthetic performances. [...]

[...] In the dream world, the slower physical growth process is replaced by psychic and mental value fulfillment which does not necessitate any long-range imprisonment of molecules within a pattern. [...]

This is not to say that structure does not exist within the dream world, for structures of a mental and psychic nature do exist. [...]

[...] This mental or psychic — or in any case nonphysical — environment is ever in a state of flux and motion. [...]

[...] There are currents of thought as there are currents of air, and the mental patterns of men’s feelings and thoughts rise up like flames from a fire, or steam from hot water, to fall like ashes or like rain.

All elements of the interior invisible environment work together, and they form the temporal weather patterns that are exteriorized mental states, presenting you locally and en masse, then, with a physical version of man’s emotional states. [...]

[...] Behind all realities there are mental states. [...]

Dictation: Impulses, therefore, provide impetus toward motion, coaxing the physical body and the mental person toward utilization of physical and mental power.

[...] Again, impulses are doorways to action, satisfaction, the exertion of natural mental and physical power, the avenue for your private expression — the avenue where your private expression intersects the physical world and impresses it.

[...] Avenues of probabilities are closed bit by bit until you do indeed live — if you follow such precepts — in a closed mental environment, in which it seems you are powerless. [...]

There are many different reasons involved there, depending upon the circumstances, his mental activities, and the habits, mental and physical, built up with the idea of sitting or lying down.

There will be a beneficial mental and physical carryover from the exercises to other activities, particularly as the trust is built up. [...]

[...] We have spoken of mental genes. These are more or less psychic blueprints for physical matter, and in these mental genes existed the pattern for your human type of self-consciousness. [...]

[...] The inner senses were always paramount in evolutionary development, being the impetus behind the physical formations; and themselves, through the use of mental enzymes, imprinting the data contained in the mental genes onto the physical camouflage material.

[...] Your senses, and again this is to bring John-Philip up to date, your senses are perceptors of a camouflage physical world which is created by the inner self through the use of mental enzymes in a pattern set by the mental genes.

If [certain viruses] are triggered, however, to higher activity or overproduction by mental states, they then become “deadly.” [...] Literally, individual mental problems of sufficient severity emerge as social, mass diseases.

[...] In terms of the species’ integrity your mental states are, then, highly important. [...] Social conditions, political states, economic policies, and even religious or philosophical frameworks that foster such mental states, bring about a biological retaliation. [...]

[...] The mental state brings about the activation of a virus that is, in those terms, passive.

[...] Your private mental states en masse bring about the mass cultural stance of your civilization. [...]

[...] Your mental vision holds hints as to data that could be, but are not visually, physically perceived. You have trained yourselves to react to certain visual cues which trigger your mental interpretations, and to ignore other variations.

In thinking your own private thoughts, you also add to a larger psychic and mental reality of which you are part. [...]

2. We should emphasize touch also rather than strict mental expression.

[...] Retracing (in answer to my question at break) will not occur in any predetermined rigid manner, as it has been described unless there is a psychic or mental return to the mental patterns that caused the difficulties to begin with. This is not operating then in Ruburt’s case—the mental patterns are not being returned to.

[...] It only applies when a mental aspect of illness is not understood, and to the degree that it is not understood. [...]

[...] The sound exists connected with but quite apart from the mental words you use in thinking.

[...] When you say, “I am tired,” mentally you are not only giving silent messages to yourself — I say messages rather than message because the general statement is broken down; many portions of the body must be affected before you feel tired — but beside this the inner sound value of the messages automatically affects the body in just that way.

[...] Instead you say mentally that the body can now begin to rest and refresh itself. [...]

[...] Now Ruburt should go along with the continuing relaxation sessions as they occur, and try to capture his mental state then in ordinary times. [...]

Ruburt did very well with his mental exercises — unusually well except for a few instances, when he did allow self-pity to grab ahold. [...]

All the improvements necessary are indeed happening at various levels of activity within his mental and physical experience. [...]

[...] It is impossible to deprive a human being of dreams, for even though you deprive him of sleep, this necessary mental function will be carried on subconsciously.

Dreams are an example of mental activity that has its origin within the physical organism, but exists in a dimension which is not mainly physical. [...]

[...] There is a transference of main energy in deeper dream states, from physical concentration to a mental concentration, actually quite separated from physical connections.

[...] The energy that is not being expended within the physical system is used to sustain these mental actions.

[...] Mentally asked for help, think I had ectoplasmic arm in mind. [...]

[...] I said mentally, “Out, out, out,” trying to project my energy outward in a particular direction. [...]

[...] Yesterday told myself that all my energies physical, mental, spiritual and psychic would be released since I was doing what I was supposed to do. [...]

Dictation: Your next question is easy to anticipate, of course, for you will want to know the origin of that “interior” universe from which I have said the exterior one ever emerges — and here we must part company with treasured objectivity, and enter instead a mental domain, in which it is seen that contradictions are not errors; an inner domain large enough to contain contradictions at one level, for at another level they are seen to be no contradictions at all.

The child, laughing with joy and awe at the sight of the first violet, understands far more in the deepest terms than a botanist who has long since forgotten the experience of perceiving one violet, though he has at his mental fingertips the names and classifications of all the world’s flowers. [...]

[...] Diagramming sentences tells you little about the spoken language, and nothing about those miraculous physical and mental performances that allow you to speak — and so diagramming the species of the world is, in the same way, quite divorced from any true understanding.

A person with several existences stressing intellectual achievement might purposely then decide upon a life in which mental abilities are beyond him, and the emotions allowed a full play that he had denied them “earlier.”

In many cases it is the family, rather than the incapacitated member, who questions and does not understand — as in cases of severely mentally retarded children, for example. [...]

[...] Often, particularly in the case of mental or physical birth defects, the incapacitated person will be accepting that role not only because of personal reasons; he or she will also be choosing that part for the family as a whole.

[...] Some artists with great ability may shut out intellectual maturity, utilizing native emotional qualities to such an extent and with such intensity that the mental reasoning faculties are largely shunted aside. [...]

[...] One of these will be a mental exercise, taking no more than ten minutes, and if done properly, only three times a week, will be of great benefit in keeping joints and muscles loose and free. [...]

[...] He should then imagine the neck revolving easily and normally three times in each direction; mentally here doing the yoga neck exercise that he recalls.

[...] At the same time, he should dwell on the idea of flexibility and freedom, mental, spiritual, psychic and physical flexibility. [...]

[...] The whole thing should be done with a mental lightness, more as if it were a children’s game, and he must remember this for it is the whole point of the procedure.

[...] It mimics perfectly your psychic and mental reactions.

[...] Ruburt for example has found out what certain mental patterns will do to his image, and he is now attempting to undo the damage that became apparent. [...]

There is then a mental, psychic, or emotional lack of sight. [...]

[...] The best thing the father can do for now is to be simply kind to the boy, but relieve the child of his heavy-handed thoughts mentally. [...]

[...] Now, mentally, have Ruburt pretend it is simply a weed, and mentally throw it over his shoulder after he has plucked it from the seed of his consciousness.

[...] “Those aren’t the kind of thoughts I want,” that mental statement is a help. [...]

His mental attitude should be “Of course I can feel fine in the morning,” and instead of imagining himself dragging down the stairs, he should playfully imagine himself ahead of you, as if he were playing a game. [...]

An overly conscientious, restrictive mental and physical state evolved, in which the organism’s natural physical need for survival was in every way hampered. Mentally, the civilization progressed. [...]

Those who have left it have evolved into the mental entities that they always were, you see. [...]

Now: Energy must be allowed to flow freely through the physical system, controlled and directed mentally, or psychically if you prefer.

[...] A dog may remember where he saw his master last, but without being able to summon the memory, and operating without the kind of mental associations that you use. His connections will be of a more biological nature and will not provide the leeway (pause), that your own mental conditions allow you.

The splendid biological acceptance of life could not be thrust or forced upon his emerging consciousness, so to be effective, efficient, to emerge in the new focus of awareness, grace had to expand from the life of the tissue to that of the feelings, thoughts and mental processes. [...]

[...] You move through psychic, psychological and mental areas in the same way. [...]