“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] Both are quite handy and both are methods of telling stories and both might seem to agree within their own systems, and yet, in larger respects they cannot be realities. [...]

[...] There is instant feedback between the interior and exterior conditions, but the mobility, the necessity and the method of changing the physical environment will always come from within.

By now, we were both convinced that the human mind or consciousness had abilities and methods of perception far beyond those we had thought possible. [...]

[...] Physical expression, facial expression, is again the result of the personality’s characteristic method of manipulating the physical organism, and when I operated primarily as such I had my own characteristic way of doing so.

[...] The spacious present is the basic time in which the whole self has its existence, but the various portions of that self have their experience in their own time systems, which are the results of their characteristic methods of perception.

I would suggest a simple method for a while, of simply lying down, relaxing, and letting his thoughts stray where they will. [...]

[...] Time as you understand it is utilized as a method of focus, a divider like a room divider, separating purposes instead of furniture. [...]

[...] Both literal interpretations were true, you see, but Ruburt took the opportunity (unconsciously of course) to use valid information, that of the trip, as a method of getting back for the imagined and unreasonable treachery of her friend.

[...] Perhaps this method had its merits?)

[...] Needless to say, the use of energy, and of emotional energy in particular, varies in the male and female on your plane; and both methods of using and discharging energy are necessary to maintain not only psychic and emotional balance, but also to maintain physical balance as far as living things are concerned, and also in the counterbalancing effects within weather and nature as it exists in your physical universe.

[...] The improved methods of communication alone mean that you are everywhere surrounded by varying theories, cultures, cults, and schools. [...]

[...] Medicine men, through certain ceremonies, would try to rid the body of the demons — and those methods worked also. [...]

[...] Although your reactions at times may be different, and although you may not agree with me, still Ruburt will rarely be unrealistic in understanding or in utilizing methods that are highly practical, though neither of you may understand them as such.

—a characteristic method, and an unwholesome one, of satisfying needs, a characteristic method which has been built up through personality patterns that have been adopted through many existences. [...]

[...] Whether or not reincarnation has been proven objectively, the belief structures surrounding that concept, or even the idea of it, have served very well as a forum within which certain present-life challenges have been worked out, through the therapists’ use of hypnosis, allegory, association, symbolism, and other very respectable methods.

[...] Then, a bit later, Seth made a statement that I’ve thought most ironic ever since: “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 conditon.”

[...] The board gives us a breathing spell and is a method of saying good day or good evening, or tipping one’s hat. [...]

Now you can translate inner data into the terms of the outer senses, but always some distortion is absolutely necessary, for the very method of perception you see colors that which is perceived.

[...] It is a method that is wrong. [...]

Methods mainly of finance having to do with the company itself and with the recession, and with which books they thought would make the quickest returns. [...]

[...] I think that his exacting mechanical abilities are reflected in Linden’s very realistic models, and are transmuted in the methods I use to solidly “construct” my paintings and to keep the records for the Seth material.