“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

It goes without saying then that the soul does not require a physical body for purposes of perception; that perception is not dependent upon physical senses; that experience continues whether or not you are in this life or another; and also that the soul’s basic methods of perception are also operating within you now even as you read this book. [...] It also follows that some hints of the soul’s direct experience can be gained by momentarily switching the physical senses off — by refusing to use them as perceptors, and falling back upon other methods. [...]

This method however also brings about a kind of alliance with the body highly important for Ruburt. [...]

[...] The method of getting upstairs will no longer concern him, simply the ascent, and that the two of you together are conquering the physical situation.

The next chapter will deal with the basic methods of communication that are used by any consciousness, according to its degree, whether or not it is physical. [...]

[...] I hope to show through the entire book that the reader himself is independent of his physical image, and I hope, myself, to give him some methods that will prove my thesis to him.

[...] I will give the methods. [...]

Seth also appears frequently in the dreams of my students, giving them instructions that work — either involving methods of using their abilities or of achieving certain goals. [...]

[...] The methods are given in the material. [...]

“It is also true that you may need to learn the methods by which you can perceive other realities, simply because you are not used to manipulating these other conscious portions of yourself. [...]

[...] He is now free enough so that the spontaneous method of working on our book came to him, and he began working upon it in that manner today.

[...] I wanted to make clear the fact that illness can be a method of learning (long pause), and to tell you that Ruburt’s subjective feelings this evening were legitimate. [...]

[...] You may need to learn the methods by which you can perceive other realities ... [...]

[...] It is true also that certain methods—and I have given some of these to you—are necessary to allow you to switch your focus of attention from physical reality to other realities. [...]

[...] You can learn methods that will enable you to tune in on these other channels. [...]

[...] Your methods are sometimes thought of as avant garde in comparison to many others. [...]

You always seek in your profession, you see, to go above the others to seek new methods to be avante garde. [...]

As I told you, we will go into deeper reasons, but for now, I want you to pay attention to what I have said, and to try these methods for they will work and they will show results if you apply them.

Now you are dealing with methods that have been known through the ages and other civilizations than your own have learned them, some have mastered them. [...] Alpha I is a very simple method of learning to control physical matter through realizing that you do yourselves make it and can direct its flow and direct the energy available to it. [...]

[...] These are only methods to educate you to the importance of thought for you can perform the same without the images. [...]

He suspects that others have some difficulty, that they do not understand themselves sufficiently, and add to their own problems through putting to use the methods in his first such book. [...]

Episodes will therefore be related one to another by entirely different methods, and the methods will be intuitional and highly selective and psychological. [...]

(9:14.) There are no magical methods, only natural ones that you use all of the time, although in some cases you use them for beliefs that you take for truths, when instead they are quite defective assumptions. A small example — one, incidentally, that Ruburt finally realized; but it is a beautiful instance of natural methods. [...]

Now as far as the group is concerned there is always a method in my madness, as there is a method in your own madness. [...]

Through such methods, and through such group hysteria, the responsibility for separate acts is divorced from the individual, and rests instead upon the group, where it becomes generalized and dispersed. [...]

Organized action is an excellent method of exerting influence, but only when each member is self-activating; only when he or she extends individuality through group action, and does not mindlessly seek to follow the dictates of others.

[...] Normal aggressiveness is basically a natural kind of communication, particularly in social orders; a way of letting another person know that in your terms they have transgressed, and therefore a method of preventing violence — not of causing it.

[...] You confuse violence with aggression, and do not understand aggression’s creative activity or its purpose as a method of communication to prevent violence.

[...] A frown is a natural method of communication, saying, “You have upset me,” or, “I am upset.” [...]

[...] Methods will be given that will allow the present ego, to some extent, to become aware of its own greater reality. [...]

[...] But the theories will be laid out, and clearly, and the methods will be laid out, and clearly. [...]

[...] I have told you often that there are methods by which you can indeed take your waking self into the dream state and follow your own travels. [...]

[...] Then rather dramatically but beautifully I tell her that: “Poetry is your characteristic method of expression, your way of translating the data into physical reality and that even its rhythm is the rhythm of your heartbeat.” [...]

I regret that due to our method of communication that my voice does not sound as genial. [...]

[...] 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 use the word ‘methods’ because you understand it, but actually we are speaking about an approach to life, a magical or natural approach that is man’s version of the animal’s natural instinctive behavior in the universe. That approach does indeed fly in direct contradiction to the learned methods you have been taught.

[...] It’s not contradictory to note that during August and September, following his regular schedule of twice-weekly sessions, Seth methodically presented some very exciting concepts. [...]

(Seth added a few lines for Jane, then described a method by which I could help her work with her own beliefs.)