“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

If you want your mind blown, then blow your own mind. [...]

(Seth speaking to Kyle after he had described living with the mind reader and the man’s effect on him:)

[...] Information or events running counter would be ignored to a large degree, or distorted in such a fashion that they would be made to fit in with what the mind said was reality.

[...] The “proper” emotions will be generated, bringing about those body states that exist in your conscious mind.

Often, of course, those who try the hardest to be “good” do so because they fear for their basic worth, and those who speak of having youthful minds and bodies do so because they are so terrified of age. [...]

[...] But when you are unaware of the contents of your conscious mind, and not fair with your emotions, you run into difficulty.

[...] Literal minds, looking for evidential proof, would insist that the physical body itself must rise, ascending, hence the related stories, the misinterpretation of data. [...]

He also stressed the importance of a childlike belief, knowing that the adult mind was apt to question “How, and when, and in what manner can my request be granted?”

[...] Tell Ruburt that if he continues in this manner, and if the two of you can manage to maintain your peace of mind long enough—over a two or three day period, for example, then you can expect rewards in all areas. [...]

[...] I recommend that it be kept in mind and referred to every so often, for it certainly contains many clues to individual capacities.)

[...] He has in his mind seen himself not as a woman who had certain symptoms, along with many excellent good points and abilities, but he has identified himself primarily at times with the symptoms alone. Hence the appalling “monster woman” image that sprang to his mind.

Now, we will have some dictation and some personal material—and I will change my mind and give you the personal material first.

[...] Actually it is his state of mind. [...]

When you awaken with a dream photograph in mind, it may appear meaningless because it does not seem to correlate with the official order of activities you recognize. [...]

[...] Far greater leeway exists, however, as a thought or feeling in the dream world casts its greater shadow out upon the landscape of the mind.

[...] You might choose instead to learn from such hallucinations by allowing them to continue, while realizing that they are indeed shadows cast by your own mind.

[...] In such cases you should think of the dire dream situation as a shadow, and look for its source within your mind.

[...] You must try not to categorize things in old ways, but when you open your mind you will see a similarity between chlorophyll as a mental enzyme or mover, and emotion which is never still. [...]

[...] Since feeling is so often the cohesive with which mind builds, it is feeling itself which must be changed if you would find freedom from your particular plane of existence at your particular time. [...]

[...] I wrote these notes on the morning of January 8; they came to mind while I was working on an ink drawing of a complicated tree bearing within it two birds’ nests. [...]

[...] It is an attempt to get to the heart, the mind’s heart, of the matter.

[...] Many people believe fervently that with approaching age they will meet a steady, disastrous deterioration in which the senses and the mind will be dull, and the body, stricken with disease, will lose all of its vigor and agility. [...]

The mind grows wiser with age when it is allowed to do so. [...]

A few moments earlier he vaguely caught an image, as his mind, picking up inner information, translated it: he was being led to a physician’s office in the image. [...]

[...] Few work so intimately with body and mind. [...]

[...] This also meant that they had certain slants of mind. [...]

[...] I want a Wednesday night session, if you do not mind—

The conscious mind does not even know, and cannot of itself command, the legs to walk across the floor. Is it any wonder, then, that the conscious mind does not know how it creates the dream universe?

The fact also remains that on other levels but conscious ones, you know and every individual knows that the dream world that the conscious mind believes so foolish and irrational, is indeed constructed by the inner self with utmost care, with a precision known only by the intuitions. [...]

They will then think that there is no real comparison to be made between the two, since each individual dream world would be a conglomeration of diverse individualistic symbols, even if they were projected into a type of universe of which the conscious mind was ignorant.

He projects it in a dimension unperceived by the conscious mind. [...]

The reasoning mind, as you have used it thus far, roughly (underlined) since the birth of Christianity, has used—instead of used, confined—has confined its reasoning abilities to a very narrow spectrum of reality. [...] (Pause.) That is, the reasoning mind, as you have used it, considers that only reasoning creatures are capable of understanding life’s values. [...]

[...] The analogy may be a simple one, yet each person chooses the living vessel of the body, with his or her own intents and purposes in mind.

[...] Idiots also serve their role by moderating the sometimes fierce hold that the reasoning mind can (underlined) have upon human activity.

(Long pause.) Perhaps at first that prejudice of the reasoning mind might escape you, since after all mice are far divorced from your own species. [...]

[...] It is, however, the subjective feeling that is the important clue here, and once you experience it there will be no doubt in your mind.

[...] Portions of the brain not used lie latent, waiting for the recognition that will trigger them into activity (intently). When this happens, the mind will become aware of the rich bed of probabilities upon which the ego now rides so blindly.

It was known, however — and unconsciously written in the cells and mind and heart — that this procedure would only go so far. [...]

[...] This need not take place, for the conscious mind — basically, now — having learned to focus in physical terms, is meant to expand, to accept unconscious intuitions and knowledge, and to organize these deeply creative principles into cultural patterns.

(No doubt, of course, that extrasensory information was obtained; telepathy from Jerry in some cases perhaps—from her conscious and subconscious mind. [...]

[...] I am more interested in other projectiles and other movement, thoughts that fly through your minds rather than tables that leap about the floor. [...]

[...] Before this brings to your mind hilarious images of tipsy spirits, if you will excuse the pun, I will leave you to the rest and quiet in which I found you, perhaps. [...]

[...] Nevertheless, there is a point here that my friend Ruburt would do well to take to mind. [...]

[...] And one of the things that hampers you, what you are afraid of, is very simple: You are afraid that underneath it all you will find the autocratic, cruel, frightening and basically unjust God that lingers in the back of your mind and subconscious. [...]

[...] I will tell you that the god in the depths of your subconscious mind is a capricious god who brings death and desolation without warning; who is unforgiving, who is indeed in doubt [sic] (endowed?) with male characteristics highly in character. [...]

[...] For in all that you had, those qualities of unbending justice, inhumanely applied, were what clung to your mind and heart and tinged the edges of your soul with fear. [...]

I’m personally intrigued, of course, that this book was written through me, without my conscious mind there at every point, anxiously checking, organizing, and criticizing, as it does in my own work. Then, while my creative and intuitional abilities are given a good deal of freedom, the conscious mind is definitely in control. [...]

[...] Suddenly my consciousness left my body, and my mind was barraged by ideas that were astonishing and new to me at the time. [...]

[...] Generally speaking, I put his work out of my mind, and didn’t even see the manuscript for months at a time.

[...] He needs my ability with words; even, I think, my turn of mind. [...]

[...] I noticed this and suggested she not read it, having in mind my recent experience with illness and my poring over the daily New York City newspapers. [...]

[...] She wasn’t happy with the short session, since once she has begun a session she has yet to mind continuing it.

(Quite forcefully:) A certain beneficial and natural situation is arrived at, in which the conscious and unconscious minds meet. [...] The optimum state is so short because of the prolonged drugging of the conscious mind.

In the natural body-mind relationship the sleep state operates as a great connector, an interpreter, allowing the free flow of conscious and unconscious material. [...]

[...] Conscious stimuli is over-applied, making assimilation difficult and placing a strain upon the mind-body relationship.

(10:13.) Now: Ruburt’s condition is as I gave it last time, and it is highly important that you both keep this in mind: The bodily commotion is most beneficial. [...]

[...] Form in your mind the image of a check to that amount. [...] See in your mind’s eye a surplus of money in your folder when the month’s expenses are paid.

[...] Ruburt has learned, the hard way, that the physical image is a direct materialization of the inner state of mind.

—then make all efforts to imagine in your mind those figures you wish were there.

[...] See them in your mind as your balance, and following Maltz you will then feel those emotions suitably connected with the desired amount. [...]