“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] Sometimes they spring to the surface of the mind, but often they are in the background, beneath the thoughts to which you are currently giving attention.

Nevertheless, you react to those background thoughts, and often they serve as a springboard for those in the front of your mind. [...]

[...] “They were on the telephone—why it bothers us and why we’ve been turning it down so much lately—but he decided to let us make up our own minds about it. [...]

[...] On the side of consciousness, it is a tale symbolically representing the birth of the conscious mind in the species as a whole, and the emergence of self-responsibility. [...] It represents the emergence of the conscious mind and of the strongly oriented individual self from that ground of being from which all consciousness comes.

[...] As a child it was quite necessary that you accept beliefs from others before your conscious mind could form its own.

[...] It simply acts then to familiarize the body with those deep feelings of relaxation that the mind has denied it, and can be an excellent learning process.

[...] Resolutely I replaced the issue in my mind by trying to compose a limerick.... [...]

Most of the material disappeared instantly, like some dreams, but I did remember that Seth told me to stress pleasure over responsibility and that thought was in my mind as I fell to sleep Friday PM.

[...] And I remembered things I’d written in old Contents of the Mind notes about how we form focuses through which we then experience reality.... [...]

In the meantime another excellent verse for my poem came to mind plus the phrase, the body of pleasure and the magical impetus.... [...]

[...] The memories and associations bring old beliefs to mind, and you see in such family visits the culmination in your brothers of those old beliefs. [...] You must liberate yourself whenever such thoughts arise to mind—not by inhibiting them but by confronting them, recognizing their origins, and realizing that you have left them intellectually behind, resolving that you will emotionally free yourself from their effects. [...]

You have, again and again (with amusement) an unconventional mind, unconventional abilities—abilities that straddle several fields of endeavor. [...]

The man of letters is not understood either, and you feel that your brothers cannot understand what you do, since their minds seem relatively closed —relatively closed—to the books themselves, which would automatically offer an explanation. [...]

[...] There is a great history of masculinity that expressed itself through the development of thought, quiet meditation—and I do not necessarily mean of the mystical kind—of communion of the mind with nature. [...]

[...] So it is the conscious alert mind that must take these pictures if you hope to later make sense of your inner journeys. That conscious reasoning mind must therefore be taken along. [...] Certain techniques will help you pack your conscious mind for your journey as you would pack your camera. [...]

[...] Your state of mind, freed from its usual physical focus, creatively expresses itself in all of its power and brilliance. The state of mind itself serves as an intent, propelling you into realities of like conditions.

[...] If you are alert you may even take snapshots — only as far as inner tours are concerned, the snapshots consist of clear pictures of the environment taken at the time, developed in the unconscious, and then presented to the waking mind.

[...] To say the least, they lie in virgin territory as far as your conscious mind is concerned. [...]

Often other people can make some small, seemingly innocuous comment that suddenly opens the disturbed person’s mind to new possibilities. Because the entire mental, physical, emotional, and spiritual portions of the self are always stimulated to seek further growth and development and satisfaction, then it is quite possible for the mind to seize upon even the smallest event that will spontaneously release the person at least momentarily from depression, or even despair.

[...] Often such people are in a very depressed state of mind, so that they have already closed their thoughts to the reasons for living, and only keep reminding themselves of the availability of death.

Once again, I activate those coordinates that promote your own peace of body and mind, and quicken the healing processes — and I bid you a fond good early evening.

[...] Others, however, operate even without conscious participation, and those are often solved, or remedied, at the same level without interfering with the conscious mind. [...]

[...] This does not mean that any of those people could bear consciously knowing their own decisions — or could board that plane with the conscious consequences in mind.

The conscious mind, however, can only hold so much. [...]

As a civilization you fail to reap dreams’ greater benefit, and the conscious mind is able to handle much more dream recall than you allow. [...]

[...] When you watch, say, the news on television, you must keep in mind several important issues. Despite the perhaps deplorable conditions being televised—whether of wars, massacres, graft, or whatever—the great inventiveness of man’s mind is responsible for that technological achievement. [...]

[...] Whenever possible, minimize the impediments in your minds. [...] At least keep in mind what I have said, for it is true. [...]

(However, I do keep much of what Seth has said on such troubles in mind, even if it doesn’t show too well, often. [...]

(By the same token, I try to keep Seth’s material in mind concerning her own challenges and problems, and this has helped enormously. [...]

Write down or enumerate all of your known physical and mental abilities, whether they have been developed or not, and all of those inclinations toward particular activities — even those only remotely considered — as well as those that have come at all vividly to mind.

[...] The main image of yourself that you have held has, to a large extent, also closed your mind to these other probable interests and identifications. [...]

(11:14.) In your mind, therefore, see those probable abilities or events taking place. [...]

[...]

It certainly seems that the best way to get specific answers is to ask specific questions, and the rational mind thinks first of all of something like a list of questions. In that regard, Ruburt’s response before such a session is natural, and to an extent magical, because he knows that no matter what he has been taught, he must to some degree (underlined) forget the questions and the mood that accompanies them with one level of his consciousness, in order to create the proper kind of atmosphere at another level of consciousness — an atmosphere that allows the answers to come even though they may be presented in a different way than that expected by the rational mind.

[...] Particularly if you want to make a living at your art, you fall into the frame of mind in which you think that “each minute is valuable” — but what you mean is that each minute must be a minute of production. [...]

Being your own natural and magical self when you dream, you utilize information that is outside of the time context experienced by the so-called rational mind. [...]

[...] All of the recent material I have given you has enabled you to see some considerable results because for a time you have managed to give yourselves some peace of mind—at least enough to move ahead.

[...] I suggest you read the late sessions again, and I imagine that by our next session you will both be in a better frame of mind, unless you allow your discouraging feelings to predominate, which would be a vast mistake.

To some extent the perspective one, two, three material is related to Frameworks 1 and 2, for the symbols of your mind grow in their own fashion, changing shape and form, but following the emotional content rather faithfully. [...]

[...] Remember, along with these passages, material I gave recently on the uses of the rational mind, and its necessary dependence upon intelligence that it cannot itself directly perceive.

[...] It will be, for example, less difficult to have pleasant expectations, for they will begin to bubble up by themselves into the mind. [...]

In that larger picture (underlined) there are no errors, for each action, pleasant or not, will (underlined) in its fashion be redeemed, both in relationship to itself and in relationship to a larger picture that the conscious mind may not be able presently to perceive. [...]

(Long pause.) He is learning to create whole private and public worlds that directly correspond to his own states of mind. [...]

(Tonight Jane said she thought she’d “done a damn good job” of keeping her mind off her condition, especially while painting and writing—all the time except when “something hurt quite a bit.” [...]

For example, Ruburt might think “I must make up my mind, go out into the world, do lectures and tours, state my case, be an excellent example of the material, not only in normal physical condition but in glowing health.” [...]

[...] I do want to make the point that that state of mind should be applied whenever possible to all areas of your lives. [...]

[...] That is why the concentration upon the moment, upon his writing, upon, say, meals, immediately helps to take his mind off of his body. [...]

(Long pause.) You had your own experiences last evening: your foreknowledge of your friend’s phone call, and the unorthodox (long pause) knowledge about the money — and those two events happened because you did indeed want another small assurance of the mind’s capabilities despite the official concepts of the mind, by which you are so often surrounded.

(Third: At 6:10, as I began feeding Jane, the thought of Steve and Tracy Blumenthal crossed my mind quite definitely, without being terribly intrusive. [...]

[...] While these attributes are expressed in the body, they also exist in the mind, and there are some cumbersome mental beliefs that may severely impede mental and physical well-being.

[...] For now, often that recognition alone can clear your thoughts and mind.

[...] I said that these units could operate as entities, and as forces, so we are not speaking of a mental mechanics but of entities in the true meaning of the word: entities of unimaginable creative and psychic properties, purposeful fragments propelled from the infinite mind as that mind was filled with the inspiration that gave light to the world. [...]

This tale, I admit, is far more difficult to understand than a simple story of God’s creation of the world, or its actual production in a meaningless universe through the slippery hands of chance—and yet my story is more magnificent because elements of its truth will find resonance in the minds and hearts of those open enough to listen. For men’s minds themselves are alive with the desire to read properly, and they are aware of their own vast heritage. [...]

[...] They worked mentally while asleep, constructing in their individual minds and in their joint mental endeavors (long pause) all of the dazzling images that would later become a mental reservoir from which men could draw. [...]

The conscious mind cannot handle that kind of multidimensional creativity, yet it can expand into a kind of new recognition when it is carried along, still being itself, by its own theme.

[...] It has been said that statistics can be made to say two things at once, both contradictory; so the facts of nature can be read in completely different fashions as they are put together with the organizational abilities of the mind operating through the brain’s beliefs. [...]

[...] This is done when the conscious mind is separated from direct involvement with physical events. [...]

[...] In a way dreams are of course composite behavior — mental and psychic games that suit the purposes of mind and body alike. [...]

[...] Many sleeping pills are detrimental, in that they inhibit the body’s natural response to its environment while an individual is sleeping, and deaden the intimate relationship between the dreaming mind and the sleeping body.

[...] The birth of a conscious mind, as you think of it, meant that the species took upon itself free will. [...]

(As Seth-Jane delivered this material, my mind flashed back many years to a summer day when I was about eleven years old. [...]

If you are religious-minded and fundamental in your beliefs, you may blame a devil who causes you to behave in such and such a manner. [...]

Over a period of time the conscious mind, because of its position, can override the body’s messages. [...]

[...] He thought that body and mind were two different things, that the body must be controlled for the sake of the mind, that his consciousness existed apart—in his head, say—with its own abilities, while his body had its own pursuits as apart from his own. [...]

(With all of the recent hassles involving family visits, publishers, and so forth, I’ve begun keeping that session in mind often. [...]

His creative spontaneous self created the body to begin with, and all of its physical desires were precisely those that his creative abilities needed—a quickness of body and mind working together, a quick perception mentally and physically, a natural exhilaration that is supported by (underlined) the power, of his own nature.

(9:52.) There are mental conditions also: the so-called retarded people who do not use their reasoning minds as others do. [...]

[...] A certain portion of your mind was drifting at the time.

[...] They also exercise their consciousnesses in the same fashion—doodle with their minds, relaxing themselves in such a fashion, wandering off to refresh themselves—and you were both doing that, but Ruburt caught himself in the act, so to speak.

You were mentally wandering through the house, the both of you, and Ruburt caught himself where his mind was—only his physical body was not in the same place. [...]

I spoke of many minds in our last book session. [...] These refer, however, to man’s other minds. [...] I could have said that one mind had many variations, but then you would still try to understand the concept using your old ideas about identity itself. [...]

[...] Largely unsuspected, however, the mind has been literally assimilating data at an accelerating rate. [...]

[...] There are other psychological mediums, however, other lands of the mind that will open up experience far more than seems possible.