“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] I must be more negative than I thought after all this time, for I didn’t believe her when she said she wasn’t going to die now. [...]

(When she finally asked me what I thought of the session, I had trouble expressing any hope, versus those negative feelings I’ve been aware of for so long now. [...]

[...] She looked very poor — gaunt from eating far too little — like an aged fetus, I thought, in her drawn-up position.

[...] I was evidently so numb from repeated doses of fear and concern and negativity and Jane’s worsening situation daily, that I couldn’t react. [...]

[...] Now you know of positive and negative matter. There are also other kinds of matter forming other systems of reality, invisible to your eyes, as is negative matter.

Negative thoughts running rampant do cause infections. Negative suggestions however can also keep them going. [...]

(Pause.) It was a time when your inner thoughts veered off at a tangent from their familiar ways. I believe you had an image of the inside portion of a human body, or a thought having to do with inner organs. [...]

[...] I don’t recall any strong inner image of the interior of a body, but at the same time I know I have thought of this recently.)

[...] It forms another life situation and discovers the answer. [...] It is quite necessary that all of these questions be answered, for the inner self is composed of energy, and in other fields of activity thoughts and emotions are instantaneously translated, their results instantly seen. [...]

Old negative patterns of thought, always present beneath an exterior optimism, had gone unrecognized by him, and were like a thorn in his side. [...]

[...] The best thing the father can do for now is to be simply kind to the boy, but relieve the child of his heavy-handed thoughts mentally. [...] He is picking up the father’s negative attitudes telepathically.

You also help maintain and form constructions or events of others that fit in with your own particular varieties of interests. [...] Very definite portions of the nervous system that you do not understand are the receptors of impulses that go outward from you to form events.

You must remember that you dwell always in a natural framework — which means that your thoughts themselves are as natural, say, as the locks of your hair. In what may seem to you to be an odd analogy I will compare your thoughts with viruses,¹ for they are alive, always present, responsive, and possess their own kind of mobility. Physically speaking at least, thoughts are chemically propelled, and they travel through the universal body as viruses travel through your temporal form.

— to begin dictation: Physical existence is valuable for many reasons, one being that the flesh is so responsive to thought and yet so resilient. There are built-in guidelines so that the body consciousness itself, while mirroring your negative images at times, will also automatically struggle against them.

[...] There are many casualties, but this is still a system that you have chosen, and your ideas still form your reality. [...] Put simply, your thoughts can be regarded as invisible viruses, carriers, sparks setting off reactions not only within the body but the entire physical system as you know it.

It is natural to live after death, and natural to return the body to earth and [then to] form another. It is natural for your thoughts to be as quick, responsive, and alive as viruses. [...]

[...] You will not progress individually or as a race until you realize that you form your own physical reality from your thoughts and feelings, and that you can manipulate matter through you mind because your mind creates it. [...]

[...] Your thoughts form their reality, cause their illness or their health, and in Alpha I you do this at a level of awareness that you can recognize. [...]

[...] These are only methods to educate you to the importance of thought for you can perform the same without the images. Even in the body it seems to you that you need physical hands to manipulate reels, to change what you see when a thought would suffice. [...]

[...] The structure within the neurons is no longer a dead thing but the structure is a reality that speaks; and the reality speaks quite loudly in terms of heritage, of experiences encountered long before your physical form knew itself. You perceive realities of which the physical form is aware, but the ego is unaware. [...]

[...] You have denied many impulses, or programmed others so that they are allowed expression in only certain forms of action. [...] She worried about her overweight condition, and [was] depressed at what she thought of as her lack of discipline in following diets. [...]

[...] The mass world is formed as the result of individual impulses. They meet and merge, and form platforms for action.

[...] “Seth’s been telling us to be alert for negative Freudian and Darwinian beliefs — and suddenly I’m surrounded by my own. [...]

Ruburt has been reading old poetry of his own, and he was appalled to find such beliefs in rather brutal, concentrated form. [...]

Thoughts of plenty will bring you plenty in material and financial terms, and in other terms. Thoughts of want will produce want. [...] When you think in terms of want, and then see physical materializations of want, you are tempted to think that your fears were justified, and therefore those thoughts are reinforced. But the thoughts caused the want, and I am simply trying to help you stop that cycle. Now, if you and Ruburt could agree on the sort of home you would like, and if you dreamed of it and thought about it specifically, you would have it.

—you are defensive, because you realize too well now the effect of your negative thoughts in this direction. [...]

You must allow yourself to think naturally, and thoughts of plenty will follow. [...] They are to counter the negative exercises that you are doing.

[...] Then switch your thoughts to ideas of plenty. [...] You must feel that this is legitimate and practical, because the thoughts of plenty will automatically begin to attract plenty. [...]

(4:28.) We must also remember, however, that in a fashion beliefs themselves are tools, and that in some situations beliefs that seem quite negative can also clear the way for more beneficial ones. With all of this discussion of negative beliefs, therefore, it is a good idea not to call any beliefs bad or evil in themselves. [...] If you look upon them in that manner, you will avoid being overwhelmed by what seems to be an endless parade of negative thoughts and beliefs that can only lead to destruction. Instead, compare the negative beliefs, for example, with the storms that sweep the country: they have their purposes — and all in all those purposes tend to promote and support life itself.

[...] Remind yourselves also that despite all of your worrying, the spirit of life itself is continually within your experience, and forms your physical body.

[...] I cannot put this emphatically enough: your beliefs form a psychic climate that in itself attracts and forms the materialization of those beliefs.

[...] You must replace the negative images you have with positive ones. The negative ones are being faithfully reproduced in physical terms, and this is hardly to your advantage.

[...] The belief that you can afford the kind of car you require will in itself form the circumstances that will make such an automobile literally possible.

[...] By your attitude you are effectively forming a barrier against any financial betterment of any significant kind. [...]

[...] Negative dreams tend to reinforce the negative aspects of the personality, helping to form vicious circles of unfortunate complications. [...]

[...] Seth makes this clear: “Each individual from birth forms his own counterpart from built-up, individual, continuous electrical signals that include his dreams, thoughts, desires, and experiences. At physical death his personality then exists detached from its physical form.”

[...] He decided to think of all negative feelings as enemies, and to give them form in another plane of reality where he could do battle with them. [...]

In a sort of backhanded compliment, Seth asked Rob to tell me that my abilities were improving—it was a well-made thought-form. [...]

[...] (Pause.) You still —and I do not simply mean you two alone—do not feel the unsurpassable force that thoughts have. You do not understand that they do form events, that to change events you must first change thoughts. [...]

[...] When you have fearful thoughts about a book—or worse, about a future book—then you feed other people’s static. [...] Your thoughts have reality, but behind that statement is the apparently unrecognizable truth that your physical world is the exteriorization of your thoughts. [...]

[...] Remember, however, to concentrate now upon, say, Prentice’s failings are an exercise in negative meditation, in negative suggestion, so try, each of you, to avoid that. [...]

Now: When you concentrate mainly (underlined) in Framework 1 and its communications with Prentice, then while overall you do achieve results of a beneficial nature—the publication and distribution of the books in a largely adequate form—there are glaring discrepancies also: entanglements that you do not like because you have taken your intent from Framework 2, where the creative event began, and placed it into Framework 1’s communication system almost entirely. [...]

Both the dream universe and the universe of negative matter then, are by-products of the physical universe, in that they were formed as inward energy attempted to form itself in a physical way.

[...] It is the appearance only of an effect within the physical perspectives; that seemingly unusable energy helps form your dream universe. That energy from which you seem to get no work physically, that energy which seems to diminish in value, is plowed backward into inwardness, regenerated and used to form universes without which you could not exist even as physical beings.

[...] And as I have told you consciousness, conscious energy, continually manifests itself in various forms. [...] Remember last session’s explanation of mental enclosures, composed of inward, individualized, aware energy, materializing itself in physical form, and at a particular point closing off and becoming more or less a closed system.

The energy is then transformed in the dream universe, and again regenerated and used in the formation of the universe of negative matter, into which it seeps from the dream universe. Our discussions will have to thoroughly discuss the nature of the dream universe before we can hope to consider the universe of negative matter, but it will not hurt if you keep the above mentioned facts in mind.

[...] It is because the man thinks differently that he has the ulcer, for the ulcer is the result of his characteristic method of thought. [...] The ulcer is formed intimately from the electrical reality that composes his thoughts. [...]

[...] This time I picked a negative I had taken during our vacation in 1964 at York Beach, ME. [...] See the sketch of the negative on page 255 of this Volume 4.

Because suggestions are formed of the same stuff that forms your physical reality, suggestions can indeed change the framework within which you operate. [...]

(Bill Gallagher voiced the thought that during delivery there is always a change in Jane’s face, but that he couldn’t articulate it. [...]

I would like Ruburt to make a red star each time during the day he finds himself thinking pleasant or optimistic thoughts, and a large one each day or time he feels a strong surge of faith or exuberance. [...] He is not to count the negative thoughts, for that is not the kind of concentration we want.

All of that is known in Framework 2. There, personal and world associations form their own kinds of patterns. There, your thoughts are as actual as physical events, for the physical events could not occur without that inner activity. [...]

Physically there is nothing wrong with Ruburt’s body, except constantly applied tension, partially caused by negative habits of thought.

[...] Your thoughts are far more important than any physical act in terms of changing a situation, for only your thoughts will allow you to do so.

As I mentioned earlier (in the 616th session), you are also sending your own telepathic thoughts outward. [...] A family can constantly reinforce its joy (louder), gaiety, and spontaneity by concentrating on ideas of vitality, strength and creativity; or it can let half of its energy slip away (deeper) by reinforcing resentments, angers and thoughts of doubt and failure.

In greater terms positive and negative have little meaning, for the physical experience is meant as a learning one. But if you are unhappy then the word negative has a meaning.

Because you do not understand that your thoughts create illness you will continue to undergo it, however, and new symptoms will appear. [...] When you are in the process of changing beliefs — when you are beginning to realize that your thoughts and feelings cause illness — then for a while you may not know what to do.

But here you become involved with one of the most meaningful aspects of the nature of personal reality, as you test your thoughts against what seems to be. There may be a time before you learn how to change your thoughts effectively, but you are engaged in a basic meaningful endeavor.

[...] You allowed negative patterns of thought to take an upper hand, and fears to predominate. [...]

[...] Negative habits of thought, and withheld feelings and emotions got you into this, and the same, backwards, can get you out. [...]

[...] Whenever you find yourself projecting failure in any sense into the future, even into tomorrow, stop yourself, remind yourself that your thoughts form reality.

[...] (To John:) I have told you that you formed your own physical body and your own image. [...]

You form the fabric of your experience through your own beliefs and expectations. These personal ideas about yourself and the nature of reality will affect your thoughts and emotions. [...]

[...] It is the body of your experience, coalesced in physical form. The inner self forms the objects that you know as surely and automatically as it forms your finger or your eye.

[...] Your own conscious thoughts will give you excellent clues. Often you will find yourself refusing to accept certain thoughts that come to your mind because they conflict with other usually accepted ideas.

The seemingly unconscious portions of yourself draw atoms and molecules from the air to form your image. [...] (Pause.) The atoms and molecules move constantly, forming into cells, tissues and organs. [...]

It is not true, however, that positive and negative feelings and beliefs “take” there with equal vitality. It is true that your beliefs form your reality; however you do have a certain leeway, in that those desires that lead to fulfillment and positive creativity are more in keeping with the natural leanings of Framework 2 itself.

The stool at the sink reminded Ruburt that he could indeed use the stool in other areas of the kitchen, so he thought of cooking, and to that extent his thoughts became more naturally attuned. [...]

[...] Rather to my surprise she suggested having a session tonight, so we thought we’d see how things went.)

Practically speaking, now, negative beliefs often finally catch up with an individual, leading to various diseases. [...]

[...] The large complex dealing with the development of the new drugs and so forth forms its own organization, so that the concentration is always upon more drugs, and the concept of any natural health is lost in the process. It is an excellent idea for Ruburt to mention such instances of negative suggestion to you, as he did today. [...]

[...] She told me that she’d had to counter negative suggestions given to her in hydro this morning by both Lottie and Georgia, relative to new bedsores breaking out beside the sits of old ones—in other words, she was always to have bedsores. [...]

[...] I hadn’t heard her today or yesterday, and thought she’d been moved. [...]

Apropos Ruburt’s mention of the negative suggestions given this morning—remember, as I have said before, that the doctors and nurses are also the victims of such habits and behavior. [...]

[...] You have lost a sense of responsibility for your conscious thought because you have been taught that it is not what forms your life. [...]

Man’s thoughts no longer seemed to have any effect upon nature because in his mind he saw himself apart from it. [...] He became blind to the connection between his thoughts and his physical environment and experience.

[...] I cannot say this often enough: Your beliefs form your reality, your body and its condition, your personal relationships, your environment, and en masse your civilization and world.

Before that time man did believe that he could affect matter and the environment through his thoughts. [...]