“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

If I speak slowly it is simply because I am casting about in his mind for what I can find of help.

(“I thought Jane had that in mind.”)

[...] The fact of trying the other experiment is really important in his present state of mind particularly. [...]

Now: you can depress the body and the mind through certain drugs, destroying that great natural resiliency. A concentration upon negative thoughts and feelings to the exclusion of all else, will depress the mind and body as surely as any drugs.

The mind may want to react. [...]

[...] Ruburt is literal-minded in many ways. [...]

I am literal-minded, in that I believe you are meant to be creators, and I have done all in my power to see that you did not swerve. [...]

[...] I made it a point to reiterate my statements about freedom being absolutely necessary to us in order to create, and that we requested its help and assistance with these limits or goals in mind. [...]

[...] So already in his mind he is gaining weight, seeing himself fairly agile—but he felt this was in spite of your attitudes, not with your enthusiasm or understanding.

[...] The more you can minimize it in your minds the quicker its solution.

[...] Because he is so literal-minded this was his interpretation of it.

(Because we’d been looking at houses today, Jane was excited: “How am I going to get my mind on the session?” Just before Seth came through, she reread his list of the families of consciousness that he’d given for the 732nd session. [...]

[...] They then work with all of their minds to bring that probability into physical reality.

[...] As a rule, however, they have one purpose in mind: to change the status quo in whatever the area of primary interest.

[...] It will also include in the opening chapter several occasions when I tried to reach Ruburt in the dream state, and the ways in which I was able to insert several ideas into his dreaming consciousness, and the ways in which the conscious mind utilized and distorted the information.

[...] The children have brilliant minds, healthy bodies, and strong clear emotions.

[...] No one aspect of mind or body is developed at the expense of another aspect.

The personalities possess a keen resiliency of both body and mind, and serve as a strong earth stock. [...]

The first (in Sayre), mentioned far earlier in “Unknown” Reality, you thought was definitely sold, and today you discovered that the sale was not that final.¹⁰ As you discussed these issues a rather important main point escaped your minds: The man who owned the first house (Mr. Markle) was a dealer in antiques and precious stones, utterly devoted to his work and engrossed in it, considering it his art. [...]

Regardless of your farm, you, in your own mind, feel “scattered”—that you are not doing enough in other directions, and you are not sure what those directions are. [...]

[...] In your mind, that is a romantic gesture, and when he makes a comment about fire, there are several unconscious implications that you make, and that in the past have been understood by both of you at an unconscious level. [...]

([Rob:] “Seth said you could make up your own mind about the operation.”

[...] ‘Cause he might want a statement of when I would get an operation, and I don’t—I haven’t made up my mind if I want one or not, yet.”)

He may think of some hypothetical literary writer—a composite image again, comfortable enough, slightly avant-garde, fashionably so, in contact with his peers, quite forgetting again that his—and his mind has always been far less conventional than that, far more probing and again, forgetting that he always enjoyed viewing society from a vantage point slightly outside of it. [...]

Both of your minds are doing more than fulfilling their promises: they are being used to excellent capacity. [...]

[...] The religious area in general, from time immemorial, has dealt intensely and sometimes one-mindedly with “the good ideal.” [...]

When you brooded about past errors, criticizing Prentice in your mind for past and future errors, you were reacting to implied threats of a kind. [...]

[...] But do not question yourself out of feeling or emotion and do not build up a barrier in your own mind for there are no barriers here. [...]

[...] The creative selves within you know what you are up to and I know what I hope this class will be up to and you must have faith in each other and trust if we are going to do the kind of group experiments that I have in mind. [...]

[...] It can roll backward as well, but in your intentness you have a forward direction in mind, and to go backward would seem to divert you from your purpose.

[...] The psyche’s picture of reality, then, would be equally incomprehensible to the conscious mind because of the intense focus upon singularity that your usual consciousness requires.

[...] Waking and sleeping reality is therefore balanced in the world mind — not the world brain.

(As can be seen by Seth’s comments about the mass world mind-brain, he was all ready to launch into some new material. [...]

[...] Recall Ruburt’s episodes with the [psychic] library.¹ Those are examples of far lesser versions of my activities, and yet in those terms, and using an analogy, I travel to many great universities of the mind.

[...] Keep your minds open for them, but without any preconceived ideas of how they might appear. [...]

[...] The addition, however, brought with it a new sense of responsibility—not just to make money, but as his writings continued he wanted his creative work to be “responsible” and he began to discover that others, so it seemed, were all too ready to latch upon what he almost considered magical inspirational productions, and to follow them with very literal minds. [...]

[...] These are patterns of attitudes of long standing, and at different times, as Ruburt improved, and new decisions came to mind, he backtracked, and you largely went along. [...]

I suggest that each day he write what comes to mind for a while, for his next book is here as surely as the past ones are.

Ruburt did an excellent job with that, and the dream also shows that so-called unconscious material will come to the surface of the mind when it is requested. [...]

[...] By all means, ask any questions you have in mind.”

As the give and take between Rob and Seth continued, Rob got used to the voice and really enjoyed himself, there being no doubt in his mind now that Seth was Seth, someone entirely different and independent.

[...] The remark about the change in my features was included in the notes, of course, but it was otherwise forgotten until a year later when it was brought rather forcibly to mind. [...]

[...] The linen artist’s canvas is very strong and sturdy, the best kind to use for paintings, and I bought it with this purpose in mind.

[...] It was a piece two yards long, and the proprietor of the Art Shop sold it to me for half price; it was just what I had in mind for an experiment, as will be seen. [...]

[...] The object is trimmed from the linen canvas I bought at the Art Shop, and this piece of canvas was glued on to large sheets of Masonite so as to have a firm support—the experiment I had in mind which was referred to later.

I did not mind because I did so well. [...]

[...] Regardless of what you may think I do have your convenience in mind. [...]

[...] I’m also of the opinion that small ritual tends to emphasize data in the mind, and set it off to advantage, in the same way that good cuisine is set off by fine dishes.

[...] He should be clear in his mind as to what I have said about myself, and what I have not said.

Many, or any of the books, Montgomery comes to mind. [...]

[...] He will do the sort of book he had in mind, but at a later date, and it will be a far better book.