“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

If this is understood clearly as a method, then Ruburt will realize that he is quite at liberty to change a method, particularly when he has run it into the ground. Nor should he berate himself, for a method is a learning process, and from it he has indeed learned much. He knew well, however, that the method was taken only for a time. The fears about the future are natural triggers within the method itself, that automatically prevent it from going too far, and that signal the end of the method itself.

The whole point however was to transcend the method itself, but the method could not be pretended. When this is clearly understood then you and he will see that the method is only half experienced, for the method itself includes triumph over the conditions. If this is not understood then the method seems purposeless to a large degree.

There were many other methods. Ruburt felt that because he was younger than you he could more safely afford the particular method he chose. The solution lies of course in the method, in that it was meant as a method to an end, and not as an end in itself.

While these suggestions may appear on the surface quite different from others I have given, if you look closely you will see that they are another method of encouraging spontaneity, and methods most suited now to his circumstances. In a weekly period, for example (rather than a daily one), these suggestions if followed will show him his own rhythms and patterns, so that he may feel like going out impulsively because he wants to, after a bout of writing, rather than feel that he “should.”

In psychological time therefore it is at least possible that you can have some experience with other methods when you close off habitual methods of perception. [...] In the dream state there can also be other methods at least slightly experienced.

Verbalization is not a basic method of communication for in quotes “higher” forms of consciousness, nor is it for lower forms of consciousness. [...] Because of its importance at your particular stage it is an excellent method for our purposes. [...]

[...] Any conceivable method of perceptions is possible to the inner self, latent within it. It can adopt any method of perception it chooses, according to the environment in which it finds itself.

[...] As I mentioned some sessions ago, on the one hand you can say that the method involves distortion, but without the distortions there would be no meaningful knowledge for you to understand. [...]

[...] The methods vary according to their circumstances and your own. We will describe one method at a time.

[...] In this method the impetus comes from survival personalities, acting directly through the physical mechanism of the most sensitive person at the table.

There is also a change of molecular vibration in this person when this method is used. [...]

The flexibility and yet the focusing ability of the main sensitive is very important with this method. [...]

[...] As Ruburt’s notes also mention, the “magical approach” means that you actually change your methods of dealing with problems, achieving goals, and satisfying means. You change over to the methods of the natural person. [...] They are not esoteric methods, but you must be convinced that they are the natural methods by which man is meant to handle his problems and approach his challenges.

I want it understood that we are indeed dealing with two entirely different approaches to reality and to solving problems — methods we will here call the rational method and the magical one. The rational approach works quite well in certain situations, such as mass production of goods, or in certain kinds of scientific measurements — but all in all the rational method, as it is understood and used, does not work as an overall approach to life, or in the solving of problems that involve subjective rather than objective measurements or calculations.

That approach does indeed fly in direct contradiction to the learned methods you have been taught. You have held on to those methods to varying degrees, since after all it seems that the world shares them. [...]

I use the word “methods” because you understand it, but actually we are speaking about an approach to life, a magical or natural approach to life that is man’s version of the animal’s natural instinctive behavior in the universe.

When science seems to betray you, in your society, it does so because its methods are unworthy of its intent — so unworthy and so out of line with science’s prime purpose that the methods themselves almost amount to an insidious antiscientific attitude that goes all unrecognized. The same applies to medicine, of course, when in its worthy purpose to save life, its methods often lead to quite unworthy experimentation (see Note 3 for Session 850), so that life is destroyed for the sake of saving, say, a greater number of lives. (Pause.) On the surface level, such methods appear sometimes regrettable but necessary, but the deeper implications far outdo any temporary benefits, for through such methods men lose sight of life’s sacredness, and begin to treat it contemptuously.

[...] Evil does not exist in those terms, and that is why so many seemingly idealistic people can be partners in quite reprehensible actions, while telling themselves that such acts are justified, since they are methods toward a good end.

There are methods that you barely understand by which you give your bodies vitality and strength. There are ways and methods by which you daily send forth your image out into the universe. There are ways and methods by which you form each organism within you and those organisms that you perceive as outside of you. Hopefully you will reclaim these methods consciously and use them. [...]

[...] Not to experience your being second-handed through the experience of others or through the opinions of  others, but through your own experience and so I hopefully expect that you will learn these methods as  you get them here and as you receive them for yourselves in your own ways. [...]

[...] On the other hand it was part of his method, a way of intensifying focus, increasing perception in a small area while also insuring safety, so that inner excursions would be balanced by a constant worrisome body that would urge him to return.

[...] In larger terms, you cannot say that this was a good or a bad method. [...]

[...] This was a natural result of his method.

[...] He has since realized at various times that the method has outlived its purpose—but the resulting feeling of helplessness has impeded his progress. [...]

[...] You are aided and abetted, of course, because of previous beliefs of society, where illness is a quite acceptable method of procedure, where it is considered normal. It is a method, therefore, that belongs with those old beliefs, and should be discarded with them.

[...] All of this boils down to what I have said unceasingly (whispering) about trusting the spontaneous self—for in the most simple of terms, you do not need poor mobility as a working method for any reasons, if you trust the spontaneous self in its dealings with the conscious personality and with the world.

[...] It is a method that he tried, but it did not work because it defeated its own purposes.

[...] There are many methods from your point of view, some better than others, of course; and what I am saying this evening is largely directed to you with my knowledge of your viewpoints. [...]

[...] It is not merely a matter of learning new methods to acquire knowledge, then, but a situation in which old methods must be momentarily set aside — along with the type of knowledge that is associated with them.

[...] Various so-called esoteric traditions provide certain methods that allow an individual to set aside accepted modes of perception, and offer patterns that may be used as containers for these other kinds of knowledge. [...] (Pause.) Some such methods are very advantageous, yet they have also become too rigid and autocratic, allowing little room for deviation. [...]

[...] They possessed methods, but the methods presupposed or necessitated a knowledge that others did not possess.

[...] It is also a method of understanding and perceiving creativity. It is a method of learning that redoubles upon itself, and you are uniquely equipped (pause) to discover comprehensions from a standpoint that is most unusual, unique. [...]

[...] For the poet did not simply string words together, but sent out a syntax of consciousness, using rhythm and the voice, rhyme and refrain, as methods to form steps up which his own consciousness could rush. [...]

[...] His specific art (pause) was both his method of understanding his own creativity, and a way of exploring the vast creativity of the universe—and also served as a container or showcase that displayed his knowledge as best he could. [...]

(To me:) I want you to specifically understand that there is and can be no conflict, for example, between your writing and painting, for in the most basic of ways they represent different methods of exploring the meaning and the source of creativity itself. [...]

[...] Therefore often such preventative inoculations—by inoculations I mean here any method of enforced introduction of disease—these methods often bring about other effects of an unfortunate nature.

Now: in large part inoculation, and that type of preventative medicine, is the result of your particular methods of dealing with the world.

You cannot afford that kind of method now, because you do not believe that the mind itself can help protect the body against disease caused by bacteria or virus. [...]

[...] Animals in fact suffer greatly, for they often become so terrified of modern methods of medicine that an inoculation against one disease promptly brings about the occurrence of another.

[...] In our sessions and in your work with me, various kinds of teaching methods have been used, and will be. [...]

The Sumari language is a language then in those terms, a method of communication. [...]

[...] The Sumari language in those terms will be used as a method of carrying you further into the nature of inner cognizance, and then allowing you to return again, retranslating what you have learned, not automatically into the stereotyped verbal pattern.

[...] Some method was needed to prevent this translation of inner data from becoming too distorted by the verbal forms that so readily awaited it. [...]

[...] We do not strain them, and in this, one of our most familiar methods, I can make my personality plain to you, without any attempt made for any more severe change such as would follow in the method given earlier.

[...] When Jane spoke again her eyes were wide open, voice very animated.) This is a compromise method, and a good one. [...] Now these methods, when perfected, will go a long way toward explaining how I see you, and how I can make my reality known to you. [...]

When this method is thoroughly learned and Ruburt allows me greater control, then you shall notice a greater sense of immediacy and vitality. [...]

There are many reasons why this state is also an excellent one for various purposes, and each of these states involves us in various methods by which I can make myself known to you. [...]

Benefits received by personalities who are in deep trance are not nearly as long-lasting as they are in my method. [...] In other methods than my own this transference takes place at a later time, usually on a midplane after the death of the personality on your plane.

There are other methods also, but they are lesser in importance and not relied upon generally. [...] My method does involve the strong possibility of some distortions and the active cooperation of my students, but this presents a challenge to me rather than a detriment. [...]

[...] It is regrettable, and yet I can give you a checking method that should be used in the future, to check any material in which you find distortions of any kind.

[...] However, and I have emphasized this at times, because of our materials and methods of communication such distortions will almost of necessity occur now and then. [...]

I have not given you complicated methods concerning out-of-body travel, and yet all of our books, by changing your attitudes, will help you bring about changes in yourselves that will automatically enhance such activities. [...] No methods will help you otherwise.

I have not given you a multitude of methods or suggestions, telling you how to decipher or understand your own dreams, though I have mentioned such topics often in this book and others.

(9:30.) I do not, therefore, want you to concentrate your efforts in memorizing methods of perceiving other realities, but to realize that such insights are everywhere within your grasp. [...]

[...] Ruburt chose the method. The methods came from his own experience in this life. [...]

He did of course care deeply, (and had) his interpretation of your feelings: he believed that the symptoms served you both, that you would on the one hand object, give lip service against his methods, but that underneath they provided you service.

[...] Some of the beliefs Ruburt holds, that you think you disapprove of, you agree with—though not with his methods.

[...] He thought he chose methods then that would annoy each of you the least.

His method of dealing with the affair was also good in this way. [...] That kind of method gives you something to work with, and a time period you can handle.

The whole idea of the release of muscles, joints, the physical procedure, involves necessary methods and procedures while you are operating in Framework 1, and there you always are looking for the necessary quite vital evidence of improvement. [...]

[...] In terms of creativity, however, Ruburt has long been operating in Framework 2, and this session should help him make certain correlations so that he can automatically begin to use such methods in regard to his physical condition.

[...] I have used the word creative before, asking you both to utilize creative methods to the physical situation. [...]

[...] When you work on individual notes, however, you are back in the more normal necessary method of procedure, where you must know what you have said in time, consecutively. You switch back and forth between these two methods. [...]

The belief is that if you frighten yourself badly enough through imagined projections and imagination, you will be frightened enough to change—but the nation or the individual following that method does not change for the better, but compounds the original condition, concentrates upon it until it looms larger than before. Such methods cause panic, national or individual.

You are so immersed in that method of problem solving, however, that it comes back to haunt you. [...]

[...] You felt too sorry for him, and yet angry and embarrassed, and all of that was caused by concentrating upon the problem, projecting it in the future, in the definite belief, for all I have said, that that method of problem-solving works.

[...] The method is the opposite, of course, of what you are taught. [...]

[...] The pity of the world’s present situation is that the methods people use often to achieve their desires, are those specific methods that will bring them the opposite.

Instead imagine the desired result, the health; and his methods in Psycho-Cybernetics do serve him very well in that regard, firing his imagination. [...]

[...] In the overall with your methods, he is doing well. [...]

[...] By such a statement you effectively make sure that you will not find the pen you want, and it is a small example of the use of the wrong method.