“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

“This thing will never work,” I said.
“We must be out of our minds,”
But we weren’t, at least not yet.
The cat smiled but didn’t say anything.

But my mind felt crowded out of itself,
By thoughts not its own,
As if someone were settling down in my skull
That I hadn’t invited in.

For me, the episode was amazingly vivid, the scenes clear and bright in my mind’s eye. [...]

[...] “Even that would show the mind’s fantastic abilities. [...]

[...] For example, a man in a desperate frame of mind is more apt to emphasize the unpleasant aspects of the news and to see bitterness rather than the joy in the faces of those he meets. [...] So your frame of mind when projecting will largely determine the kind of experiences you have.

[...] Your conscious mind was fully taken up with your activities at the art department, giving the inner self full rein.

[...] Projection experiments, then, should only be tried when you are in a peaceful state of mind, as Ruburt should know after his black creature experience [described in The Seth Material].

[...] The wind is the wind irregardless of the branches through which it blows, and I am, irregardless of the subconscious mind in which or through which I appear. [...]

[...] I was not aware through Ruburt’s subconscious mind of the Society when Duke was mentioned earlier in these sessions. [...]

[...] This should relieve your minds on this point.

[...] There is the problem here of my entry also into your conscious minds. [...]

[...] We cleared our minds of objective thoughts and wrote down whatever came into our heads, trying to predict the day’s events. [...]

[...] But those who have a closed mind will not get any evidence that will satisfy them.”

[...] I wasn’t sure myself as to who or what Seth was, and the thought crossed my mind more than once that the doctor’s attitude was simply a device to gain my confidence—the psychologist’s pretense that he believed in the existence of his patient’s delusion as unquestioningly as the patient did.

[...] So for all general purposes, I put the dream out of my mind and went on my way. [...]

Then, gradually, I became aware that my consciousness was settling back in my body again, but slowly, like dust motes descending through the evening air down to where my body sat upright at the table, head bent, fingers furiously scribbling notes about what was happening as if they had a mind of their own.

The subconscious is the threshold of an idea’s emergence into the individual conscious mind. [...]

[...] The mind is uncamouflaged. [...]

[...] This experience must come from the mind, through use of the inner senses. [...]

[...] Jane said the question brought her mother to her mind; Seth however did not want to give her mother’s name, which is Marie Roberts, or those initials; and Jane did not do so. [...]

[...] Now you have some idea in your head that good is gentle and bad is violent and that no violence can be good and this is because in your mind, violence and destruction are the same thing. Now by this analogy, you see, the soft voice is the holy voice and the loud voice is the wicked voice and the firm step is the bad voice and the soft step is the good voice and a strong desire is the bad desire and a weak one the good one so that you become afraid of projecting ideas outward or desires outward, for in the back of your mind you think that what is powerful is evil and what is weak is good and must be protected and coddled and prayed for and begged for. [...]

[...] Now, far be it from me, even in a fantasy, to accuse you of such an act, but you stand here and look at a slattern and this time you are out of your mind. [...]

If you recall, part of your mind was conscious, you were capable of normal conversation. [...]

[...] This was a very brief vision, and the first that had popped to mind consciously while I was doing something else.)

[...] His subconscious mind always knew the true nature of death and flirted with it consciously.

[...] I must use phrases with which your minds are somewhat familiar. [...]

If you are of the mind, Joseph, you may subtract the minutes of tonight’s session from your next session. [...]

[...] Because I was using the word light for the first time in these experiments, [with a rather ill-defined idea of levitation in mind, after Jane’s attempts], I also told myself I was not afraid. [...]

[...] I will be more than happy to work for our common goal when I am dealing with a personality who is not stupid, who is open-minded.

[...] you have the sort of mind, Dr. Instream, that will be of great benefit to us here. [...]

[...] Dr. Instream said that the impression he had of Seth was of a very mature and capable mind. [...]

[...] As usual my mind was on getting the next word on paper, rather than to critically appraise each one. [...]

[...] As we speak of such subjects in their relation to various phenomena, again it must be kept in mind that such realities are being considered often from one aspect only, but that their reality extends into many other dimensions.

[...] You saw the disclaimer as fact, imagined it in your minds on the pages of our books, projected all of that onto future books, and for fine good measure you both imagined this famous disclaimer published in editions of all the books as well.

[...] It was not a conclusion based upon fact, but a conclusion based upon a reason that applied to one probability only, one series of probable acts — or based upon the probable act of a disclaimer being used to begin with.¹ So again, what we are dealing with is an overall lesson in the way in which the reasoning mind has been taught to react. [...]

(To Arnold) And you have closed your mind to your own role, but we will get to it as far as our African god is concerned. [...]

[...] The minds that are your own are new. [...]

[...] The President felt threatened — and not only personally threatened, for he felt that the good for which he stood in his own mind was in peril (intently). [...]

[...] Impulses in children teach them to develop their muscles and minds [each] in their own unique manner. [...]

(“The minute before I said I was going to have a session, that idea came into my mind,” Jane said. [...]

[...] It would perhaps have been more convenient if the effort had been started on other than a session night, but in any case I expect to see the endeavor succeed, and certainly do not mind missing a session for this purpose.

(Pause.) Your father’s sentence—the paper-bag reference—was one he actually made in his own mind, in the life that you actually knew him in, and he considered that sons rather than daughters represented his one physical triumph —that is, he believed sons preferable, and they alone compensated for a working man’s life—a life he felt did not befit him. [...]

No, except that rigidity and closed minds can be detrimental. [...]

[...] He wants the freedom necessary to ask whatever philosophical questions come into his mind.

Often, however, in their private worlds people have their own versions of the feared probabilities, which they then run through the screens of their minds for good measure, so that they can take steps to avoid whatever catastrophe or near-catastrophe is involved.

[...] But a physical storm is a collective endeavor, and can be compared, if it is disastrous, only with disastrous collective emotional storms such as those that sweep across nations, when all minds seem seized by irrationality.

[...] The question was in your minds however, and so we have taken a short while to give you some brief notes concerning it. [...]