“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] By supernatural I mean the source from which nature springs, and Framework 2 represents the medium in which the natural and the source of the natural merge in a creative gestalt. [...] Nature, without nature’s source, would not last a moment.

Saying this, I do not want to make you impatient with Ruburt’s progress, for he is naturally improving. He can do more than naturally improve, however, if you understand what I am saying, and does not confuse the rules of the two frameworks. [...]

In Framework 2, extranatural help, energy, impetus, and knowledge are “naturally” available. This should be apparent from the very fact of our sessions and from the nature of Ruburt’s writing. [...]

[...] Your freedom to think is so transparent and natural that you are scarcely aware of it. [...]

Such actions naturally possess all the characteristics of action in general, and therefore will seek other methods of materialization and expression. [...] The whole personality at any given time, because of its own nature and characteristics, has only a given amount of energy available to it in practical terms, though ideally speaking its energy is not limited.

The complicated organism which is the human personality with its physical structure, has evolved, along with many other structures, a highly differentiated “I” consciousness, whose very nature is such that it attempts to preserve the apparent boundaries of identity. To do so it chooses between actions, for the very choice, or act of choosing, and ability to do so, represents the nature of identity. [...]

[...] If the impetus is a powerful one, then the impeding action will be of more serious nature, blocking up large reserves of energy for its own purposes. [...]

[...] This acquiescence to even painful stimuli is a basic part of the nature of consciousness, and a necessary one.

The personality, again, looks at the nature of experience in its purest terms. In some previous civilizations this was done within a natural framework (pause), in which the old were cared for physically while their words were listened to most carefully.

Individuals feeling this way will be very uncomfortable when they mingle with others of a different race, creed or color, and despite themselves may be revengefully conservative in dealing, for example, with problems of a community nature. [...]

[...] To these people senility seems a natural, inevitable end to life.

There are specific functions brought into operation quite naturally that are scarcely perceived by your scientists, much less understood. [...]

The earth has its own natural given data, however, and you must use this body of material to form all of your manufactured products. The dream world also possesses its own natural environment. You form your dreams from it (long pause), and use its natural products to manufacture dream images. Few view this natural inner environment, however.

[...] Physically the day may be brilliant, but if you are in a blue mood you may automatically close yourself off from the day’s natural light, not notice it — or even use that natural beauty as counterpoint that only makes you feel more disconsolate. [...]

[...] This should be easy to grasp, for if you tried to understand physical life having only a group of snapshots taken at different places and in different times, then it would be rather difficult to form a clear idea of the nature of the physical world.

[...] You should write down your description of each dream picture, therefore, and keep a continuing record, for each one provides more knowledge about the nature of your own psyche and the unknown reality in which it has its existence.

[...] At some later occasion, we shall go into seeming duplications, for such duplications are only apparent, of a nature that could be compared to a reflective result. [...]

[...] The point that I want to make here is that any attempt at such duplication actually forces, because of the nature of the attempt, the impulses to line up in a different pattern. [...]

In this case action forces change, and by the very nature of action no such duplications can occur. [...]

An identity is by definition and nature, one.

As a result, you see in nature only what you want to see, and you provide yourselves with a pattern or model of nature that conforms with your beliefs.

[...] There may be minor interweaving ones, but the nature of personality, religion, politics, the family, and the arts — all of these are considered in the light of the predominating theme.

In usual historic terms, humanity has been experimenting with its own unique kind of consciousness, and as I have mentioned many times, this necessitated an arbitrary division between the subject and the perceiver — nature and man — and brought about a situation in which the species came to consider itself apart from the rest of existence.

[...] You saw the species pitted against nature, and man pitted against man. [...]

[...] He will work out the best way of doing this, for it will be a natural development, an alchemy, resulting from the nature of his own writing talents, which are considerable, his own intuitions, and the material. They will form a natural whole. They will combine to a natural art production and career.

[...] They are doing subconsciously what came naturally, attempting to form, as always, their own physical construction. [...]

[...] All of this has to do with the nature of existence and personality, for your personality directly affects your plants. [...]

Evil, so termed, is a lack of knowledge, a lack of fulfillment, a lack of growth, measured against that which has felt inward enough to understand more of its nature. [...]

Belief systems are as necessary and natural as physical organs are. [...] Left alone, your thoughts will come and go through your belief systems just as naturally; and ideally, they will balance out, maintaining their own health and directing your body so that its innate therapies take place.

You will inhibit any thoughts of death or dying, or of old age, and so close out quite natural feelings that are meant to lead you beyond your earlier years. You are denying the body’s corporeal existence and its focus in the time of the seasons, and cheating yourself of those natural biological, psychic, and mental motions that are meant to take you past themselves.

[...] In their way the hateful or revengeful thoughts are natural therapeutic devices, for if you follow them, accepting them with their own validity as feelings, they will automatically lead you beyond themselves; they will change into other feelings, carrying you from hatred into what may seem to be the quicksands of fear — which is always behind hatred.

[...] Dealing with thoughts and feelings as just directed at least roots you firmly in the integrity of your present experience, and allows its innate motion and natural creativity to thrust toward a therapeutic solution.

(9:57.) That kind of activity would automatically and naturally stimulate him to further walking. He gets upset and irritated with the chair, because now he is getting around the house more, and realizes that walking would be the natural way to do so—where before he was content to be in one place.

[...] It is natural enough in stressful situations to fluctuate, so that when you have been largely in a Framework 1 reference, I often give you advice geared to it, while allowing you avenues out of it into Framework 2. The morning suggestions are Framework 2 openers, so to speak.

[...] That stimulus naturally led him to do the bathroom, and to plan to do the bedroom. [...]

[...] Early man’s identification with the natural world so led him to feel a part of it that he did experience a kind of being-with the universe in a personal manner or context. [...]

This is an excellent example of the way in which natural hypnotism can act to affect your system adversely. [...] While it is easy then to understand the nature of exterior actions of repetitive quality, it is far more difficult to see many physical symptoms in the same light — but here also whole groups of recurring reactions to certain stimuli are involved. [...]

[...] The literature and announcements act as strong negative suggestions, following the nature of natural hypnosis — as a conditioning process, you see, where you are looking for specific symptoms, and examining your body under the impetus of fear.

Natural hypnosis and conscious beliefs give their proper instructions to the unconscious, which then dutifully affects the body mechanism so that it responds in a manner harmonious with the beliefs. [...]

[...] This is the worst kind of natural hypnosis, and yet within your system insurance is indeed a necessity, because the belief in illness so pervades your mental atmosphere.

[...] They naturally communicate. They naturally want to move. [...] Man’s desire to journey into other worlds is in its way as natural as the plant’s urge to turn its leaves toward the sun.

[...] The most secluded recluse must still depend upon the biological sociability of not only his own body cells, but of the natural world with all of its creatures. [...] It presupposes a mouth and a tongue, the kind of physical organization necessary; a mind; a certain kind of world in which sounds have meaning; and a very precise, quite practical knowledge of the nature of sounds, the combination of their patterns, the use of repetition, and a knowledge of the nervous system. [...]

[...] [In the note she’s making for her Introduction to Seth’s The Nature of the Psyche, Jane describes a world view as “…a living psychological picture of an individual life, with its knowledge and experience, which remains responsive and viable long after the physical life itself is over.”]

[...] From [the earthling’s] appearance the alien would be able to deduce — if it did not already know — the proportions of the various elements upon your planet; this being surmised from your method of locomotion, appendages, and the nature of your physical vision.

[...] There is a force, if you prefer, that actively loves each individual, each consciousness, and actively works to help that consciousness attain the fulfillment inherent in its nature. Despite all misinterpretations, therefore, the universe is caring, and so is nature.

[...] For that matter, in the terms of your language, and intellectual concepts, you will probably have to take it for granted that you cannot understand the nature of such a God.

The impetus toward creativity is a loving one, and the natural processes in both body and mind as lovingly directed.

The body even lovingly seeks to follow its own nature, and is lovingly directed to do so. [...]

[...] The specific nature of inoculations, however, means that more and more become necessary in that system, for the fear of each newly discovered disease becomes paramount—and no time is given, in your terms, now, for the body to respond naturally to those natural conditions, and therefore build up a natural immunity, biologically speaking.

[...] It seems like the most heartless lack of compassion to say that such a situation was the most natural, and in the long run for all, the most advantageous. [...] There were fewer suicides, for those who survived, survived because of their own intent, their own desire, and the young died when it seemed natural to them. They died naturally, that is, and wholeheartedly, and were not torn between life and death.

[...] And yet the body knows that all-in-all, ideally, it does not make sense to inflict even a minute infection or illness upon the body, to introduce foreign elements that have not naturally been accepted by the body in its own context. Therefore often such preventative inoculations—by inoculations I mean here any method of enforced introduction of disease—these methods often bring about other effects of an unfortunate nature.

[...] In each system of belief, the evidence however is overwhelming, and in the vast nature of reality both notions are equally beside the point, and one is no truer or more false than the other—a hard pill to swallow for modern man.

[...] You are connected through spiritual, biological, natural webworks with all of your fellows through the reality of the natural world, regardless of cultural, political, or religious frameworks.

Fanatics certainly serve a purpose, and actually they help maintain overall equilibrium of society by serving as examples to others, who often have some of the same beliefs but are of a less explosive nature.

As each species of flower has its place in the natural world, so, in terms of this analogy at least, the fool and the scholar, the fanatic, the timid, the weary and the exuberant, the greedy—all of these also have their place.

The varying and various fanatical groups, such as, for example, the anti-homosexual Florida contingent, are in a way quite natural and necessary in your country. [...]

In a basic way, it is against nature’s purposes to contemplate a dire future, for all of nature operates on the premise that the future is assured. Nature is everywhere filled with promise — not only the promise of mere survival, but the promise of beauty and fulfillment. [...]

It is the natural, easiest way to behave, yet this natural mental behavior is often quite difficult for the intellect to understand, since the intellect is apt to enjoy playing with complications and solving problems. [...]

(Long pause.) All of nature demonstrates this almost miraculous seeming simplicity. [...]

[...] It naturally seeks fulfillment, vitality, and the fullest possible expression.

It is always because you do not trust the natural self that you resort to such drug therapy. The individuals who seek out treatment fear the nature of their own identity more than anything else. [...]

[...] As you learn to use your thoughts, or even as they naturally change, resulting alterations take place within the cells. [...]

(A one-minute pause at 9:21.) In normal daily life, considerable natural therapy often takes place in the dream state, even when nightmares of such frightening degree arise that the sleeper is shocked into awakening. [...]

[...] In the same way that some LSD treatment finally results in a feeling of rebirth (that is often only temporary, however), so a period of such nightmares often leads quite naturally to dreams in which the self finally makes new and greater connections with the source of its own being.

[...] Your myths tell you that nature itself has no intent except survival. [...] In its workings, nature then appears to be impersonal, even though it so consists of individuals that it cannot be regarded otherwise.

If you think of your world with all of its great natural splendors as coming about initially through the auspices of chance — through an accident of cosmic proportions — then it certainly often seems that such a world can have no greater meaning. [...]

Without the particular plants, animals, people, or even individual cells or viruses, nature has no meaning. [...]

[...] Both experiments and conclusions are right — and mutually exclusive; whichever result is obtained is due to the nature of the particular experiment.

[...] In such concepts any natural goodness, or natural intent in man becomes not only invisible psychologically to the fanatic, but man’s natural nature appears as a direct threat to the ideal projected by dogma of any kind.

When ideals are set more or less artificially, greatly divorced from man’s nature, he cannot begin to live up to them. [...]

Concentration upon natural data, as mentioned often of late, offers a healthy return to the body’s biological reality, and to its stance in space and time.

[...] You can learn to reinforce each other’s courage, good nature, and optimism. [...]

(10:30.) So can a child then in a dream receive such communications from a probable future self, of such a nature that its life is completely changed. [...] All divisions are merely illusions, so one probable self can hold out a helping hand to another, and through these inner communications the various probable selves in your terms begin to understand the nature of their identity.

[...] You might wonder what would have happened had you mailed an important letter that you subsequently decided not to mail; and in such small wonderings only, have you ever questioned the nature of probabilities. [...]

[...] Now there is a natural attraction between yourself and other probable selves, electromagnetic connections having to do with simultaneous propulsions of energy. [...]

[...] By changing this past in your mind, now, in your present, you can change not only its nature but its effect, and not only upon yourself but upon others.

You’ve been largely operating from a base that isn’t naturally yours but was taken on as a result of your sympathy for the world and for the problems of others. [...] Then, helping others follows naturally as your work helps others help themselves. [...]

[...] The framework is an excellent one for those who find it a natural extension of inner intent. [...]