“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] In a matter of moments it may trigger you to think of events in your childhood, so that many mental images fly through your mind. [...]

Thoughts of your own next birthday, for instance, may instantly lead you to think of past ones, or a series of birthday pictures may come to mind of your own twelfth birthday, your third, your seventh, in an order uniquely your own. [...]

[...] Events and images will spring to mind in an out-of-time context. [...]

[...] Tell yourself you are going to do so, and begin with the first thought or image that comes to mind. [...]

[...] Have him do it out of the corner of his mind, as it were, and whenever it comes to his mind.

Now I do not mind your chasing the cat (Seth’s voice was suddenly loud; I had taken a swipe at our cat Willy with my notepaper, when he was about to jump up into Jane’s lap), but chasing my foot is another matter… this energy is then picked up by the families of the students, and their lives indirectly benefited.

(“No, I guess you’ve already answered the ones I had in mind.”)

[...] Since your universe springs from an inner one, and since that inner one pervades each nook and cranny of your own existence, you must look where you have not before — into the reality of your own minds and emotions. [...]

Thoughts spring into your mind as the objective universe swims into reality — that is, in the same fashion. [...]

[...] They are implied in your own spontaneous behavior — that is, in the wondrous activity of your bodies and minds.

[...] The body knows how to heal itself, how to use its nourishment, how to replace its tissues, yet in your terms the body itself has no access to the kind of information the mind possesses. [...]

[...] You were then a music teacher, teaching the flute mainly, but in the back of your mind you had a great plan which you were never able to bring to fruition in that particular life. [...] And yet in your mind you heard the music. And when you taught the flute, in the back of your mind always, was the idea of the piano. [...]

[...] Now I tell you this because there is a connection in your mind and illness becomes to you the symbol of something far different and far more profound. It becomes in your mind the symbol of evil which attacks you in your mind in small ways to small illnesses. [...]

In the third quarter of your life there was some strong physical difficulty that prevented you from plying your trade, and during this period more and more you began to emphasize in your mind the reality of this strange instrument called the piano, and in your mind you composed for it. [...]

(9:34.) The conscious mind sees with a spectacular but limited scope. [...] I use the term “conscious mind” as you define it, for you allow it to accept as evidence only those physical data available for the five senses—while the five senses, of course, represent only a relatively flat² view of reality, that deals with the most apparent surface.

[...] With defects built in, mind you (with some humor), and better models coming every geological season.

You limit the capacity of your conscious mind by refusing to allow it to use a larger scope of attention, so that you have remained closed and ignorant about the different, varied, but rich experiences of other species: They do appear beneath you. [...]

[...] Again, I am aware of the contradiction that seems to be presented to your minds. [...]

[...] Keep that word ‘trust’ in mind.”

These rather self-deceptive feelings are not hidden deeply in the subconscious mind, as you might suppose. [...]

[...] The changes have already begun in his mind, and they will (underlined) be physically expressed.

It is no coincidence, in your language, that the word “will” refers to the future, as in a line like “it will happen,” and also refers to the decision-making quality of the mind.

[...] He should in his exercises imagine strenuous exercise, running very fast for example, until in his mind’s eye his muscles are fully relaxed.

[...] He should try jumping rope in his mind, and then perform physically. [...]

[...] To her they are nongoals, for money is the basic one to her, the magic charm which in her mind makes all other benefits or comforts possible. [...]

As far as possible, take your conscious mind away from the condition. [...]

[...] But I found it at least roughly reminiscent of Seth’s idea of simultaneous time to watch the color broadcasts from different areas of the world each day, and then to mentally hold all of those actions, especially the backgrounds, in mind at once, visualizing them as simultaneous happenings at different places on the planet.

[...] But she changed her mind, obviously; then at 9:25 she told me she knew what Seth was going to talk about: “The horizontal consciousness.”)

[...] Those people had only to deal with their own enclosed civilization, for the conscious mind, in the terms of this discussion, now, could not extend itself to the extent that is now habitual. [...]

(9:48.) A ruler cannot make his decisions based upon national events only, but he must take international ones into mind, and in a more direct fashion, say, than even 10 years ago. [...]

In that life you did not understand, however, the true independence of men’s minds. You went overboard, trying to influence their minds, and not influencing their minds at the same time in this life, lest they follow you blindly.

[...] In early years Ruburt found it difficult even to contradict you, even while he insisted upon his own independence of mind, and upon his use of his abilities. [...]

[...] You were both used to the idea of attaining knowledge and influencing minds. [...]

[...] The mind cannot be fully used when it is used at the body’s expense. [...]

[...] I understand your feeling and your sense of accomplishment but also remember in your heart that the most stereotyped unoriginal suburbanite, in your terms, has within him all the capabilities of which we speak so that you do not, in your own mind, set him down as a caste system for that is what has been done to you. [...]

[...] I said, recognize within yourself those evils that you recognize in others, but I meant only those things that in your own mind you set up as evil for you project those things upon others and make your own reality. [...]

[...] Now we have been through this with keener minds than your own. [...]

You are speaking about one specific group of tests and the doubt exists, you see, in your mind and while that particular kind of doubt exists nothing will convince you. [...]

They actually represent the ways in which beliefs can dull native qualities of mind and heart alike, so that the intellect seems opaque, and emotional relationships are unduly tangled. Ruburt is working with the nature of impulses, and old ideas about impulses, spontaneity and discipline rose to mind, for the family situation of your brother and his wife almost typifies the kind of situation that Ruburt was determined to avoid. [...]

[...] Later we wished we’d had the presence of mind to get up at dawn, say, when Jane’s more acute discomfort began.

[...] [I suggested she have this session, although the thought crossed her mind also.]

[...] He used meditation as a tranquilizer to dull his senses and mind, and not for understanding himself. [...]

[...] My hunch is that because of my state of mind — interpreting Rob’s dreams, and my reading of his notes, I was in a particular kind of correspondence with him, or with his state of mind, that facilitated the inner communication. [...]

So on August 6th I sat in the patio-room with fresh paper, fresh typewriter cartridge, and hopefully fresh mind, looking over my interpretations of Rob’s latest dreams. [...]

As I wrote the fan whirred, stirring the air against my skin as the green leaves winked — and I felt a trance at last entering the neighborhood of my mind. [...]

[...] At the threshold of my mind those “psychic gears” turned. [...]

It is however usually operating at subconscious levels, and without either knowledge or intent as far as the conscious mind is concerned. To be able to bring these natural but subconscious forces at all under any domination by the conscious mind is a terrific task.

Such domination will never be habitual, but conscious awareness of subconscious manipulation of matter may become habitual, and may often of its own accord follow the desires of the conscious mind, if certain conditions are met.

Now here; this end, seemingly, to his mind could be achieved in no other more ordinary way. [...]

[...] An open mind therefore, or an open spirit, must be–

[...] Your feelings have as much natural validity as the tides, and they have their own kind of attraction — mind does move matter. A ring manipulated at a seance under controlled conditions is but the most simple kind of demonstration of the great ability of mind to interact with matter. [...]

In the back of your mind is one question that I have avoided for many reasons. [...]

[...] Sometimes this idea quality is received as intuition, where it sparks into the conscious mind. [...]

(A few days ago, while doing some painting, the idea had popped into my conscious mind unbidden that the very act of painting a picture involved the construction of a plane. [...]

(Seth’s following answer, through Jane, tallied so closely with the words forming in my own mind that once again, as in the 28th session, I wondered if telepathy might be involved, as in the case of John Bradley.)

Then, you thought, you could be quite free to use your mind and your other abilities, and no one could say a thing because you could always say, “Obviously, I’ve proven my womanhood, and I’m free to use my mind.”

[...] That you had a mind and a womb, and that somehow the two did not go together. [...]

(To Carl:) Now this was a poor-enough bargain for her to make, but for you to add to it in her mind, to demand that she prove this womanhood daily with the dishes or the housework or whatever, was too much for her to bear, and she felt doubly betrayed by you and by herself.

Your own artistic abilities also brought up problems, since they seemed in your mind, unconsciously, more feminine than masculine.

[...] What he is trying to do is to turn on the “high intellect,” or “spacious mind.” The high intellect or spacious mind is a combination of what you think of as psychic or intuitional, and intellectual qualities—only raised to a much higher degree, and united.

On the other hand, the decision to have the interview (for the Village Voice), to take up with Eleanor, and so forth—these events catapult old beliefs to the forefront of Ruburt’s mind—an excellent reaction, by the way—for when those beliefs are voiced and discussed then they can be understood and eventually dismissed.

[...] You both considered yourselves fine intellectuals, and at that time advocates of science and of the mind. [...]

Then the mind, the intellect, alters its focus, using its abilities automatically for intuitive ends, and its questioning abilities are freed from endless queries from the outside, so to speak, and it joins with the intuitions, seeking its answers freely in that greater realm.

[...] His mind was refreshed. [...]

When you do the morning suggestions then, keep Framework 2 in mind, for you are placing your intents there. [...]

[...] Relaxation allows the body to rest securely in the source of its being, and refreshes the mind and spirit as well.

I want you to keep Framework 2 in your minds—for that reminder alone can help you understand that your needs are being met in Framework 2, and the physical results will indeed appear. [...]

Your mind is equipped with a certain mental understanding, as your body is equipped with an automatic physical understanding of its nature in relationship with the environment. [...]

[...] In the same fashion your mind knows what thoughts are best for it to think, for it knows the great capacity of the individual human mental processes, and it “works” for mental and psychic fulfillment even as the body “works” for physical fulfillment.

[...] For various reasons not to be gone into here, your people have learned not to trust their bodies or their minds. [...]

[...] He was afraid, too, of his own spontaneity, as I have so often said—when of course his spontaneity is the best insurance of protection, for the mind and body know when there is danger and when there is not. [...]

(With pauses): Your scientists are finally learning what philosophers have known for centuries — that mind can influence matter. They still have to discover the fact that mind creates and forms matter.

What happens to a thought when it leaves your conscious mind? [...] For these thoughts and emotions that have left your conscious mind will lead you into other environments.