“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

So does the personality, through negative charges, cause boundaries to be set about its own emotional system. It will accept most readily those thoughts and emotions, or electric actions, which attract it, which have a similarity to its own charged emotional climate; and it will have greater resistance to those which have the greatest dissimilarities. It is, therefore, most advantageous to study well those thoughts and emotions which are habitually accepted by any given personality.

[...] Nevertheless it must be clearly understood that thoughts and emotions are actualities in themselves, that directly work upon the physical mechanism. Any thought or emotion is bound to directly affect the physical body. Because thoughts and emotions, as electrical actualities, are independent from their subjective point of origin, a given thought or emotion, initiated by an individual, may be rejected by him and cast out. If the thought or emotion is similar to those usually accepted, then this will take time, for new electrical patterns must be set up. But an idea, thought or emotion so rejected still has independent actuality, and may be attracted to the emotional climate of another.

Positive and negative thinking is more than a turn of phrase. [...] The electrical reality of emotions and thoughts represents a thought dimension that has been completely neglected; and in it there are other dimensions; as within your field there is apparent space and time and height and thickness, so in the electrical system there is intensity and what I will call space reality, electrical mass and potentiality, which is different from intensity and polarity.

You are familiar with such a limited portion of the actuality of your own thoughts. These thoughts are things, so to speak, as real as a chair; but you are acquainted only with their purely subjective reality. [...] If you could fully understand or comprehend directly the reality of a thought in its full actuality, you would be amazed at the power behind it.

[...] You cooperate together to form the physical reality that you know telepathically, through ways and means that are unknown to you. [...] Your thoughts intertwine with the thoughts of others. You are responsible for your own thoughts. You need to learn the power of thought and emotion, but this should fill you with the joy of creativity and the possibility, not frighten you out of (words missing) of responsibility. Once you realize that your thoughts form reality then you are no longer slave to events. [...]

[...] You not only form the future, as you think of it, but you also form the past. [...]

[...] I am no poet but then thinking of one of Ruburt’s poems, then think of the brain, indeed, as a web you form about the inner self. [...] You form this and then perceive the world, but your viewpoint is very small and the garden you perceive very intimate, but within yourself you have far greater abilities of perception and you are not limited to Wednesday or Thursday. [...]

And when you realize that you form the events of your life, in the same way that you form the events of a dream, then you learn to grasp a hold of your entire consciousness and to take a hold of the life that is your own in whatever aspect it shows itself. [...]

[...] They remembered that they formed physicial reality from the vitality of their own thoughts and fellings and images. [...] They knew how to send their thoughts and feelings out into a universe and to make the kind of universe that they wanted. [...]

[...] After all this time you still do not personally accept the fact that you are, in your terms at this moment, the sum of your own thoughts and emotions about yourselves and that whatever you want to fix you can fix, and that whatever you want to change you can change. [...] You form the outside. [...]

[...] There are ways and methods by which you form each organism within you and those organisms that you perceive as outside of you. [...] That you form the universe as you know it en masse and individually from the focal point of this moment, from the focus of this moment that all of your selves exist now and are not done and finished anymore than you are done and finished. [...] En masse and individually, as you know, you form the room, the funiture, the time, the setting in which it now seems to you, you exist. [...]

([Arnold:] “That’s a negative attitude.”)

If you find yourself running around in a spiritual frenzy, trying to repress every negative idea that comes into your head, then ask yourself why you believe so in the great destructive power of your slightest “negative” thought.

The “negative” subjective and objective events that you meet are meant to make you examine the contents of your own conscious mind. 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.

[...] The thoughts are as necessary to the whole system as the body’s cells are. Ruburt correctly interpreted an analogy I gave him in which I compared thoughts to individual cells, and belief systems to the physical organs, which are composed of cells. [...]

[...] You give no conscious thought to the coming and going of cells within your organs. 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.

[...] Jane came out of trance quickly, but before I could even tell her how good I thought the session was, she now told me that lately she’s been picking up from Seth that animal consciousness is turned inward to form the civilization of nature, and that ours is turned outward into our physical civilizations—but that ours have to be built upon that civilization of nature. [...]

(She thought the information would be part of this book. Another idea—“It’s no big deal”—was that for centuries man thought the universe was created for man, and everything else revolved around man.

[...] By session time they were somewhat diminished, but were very inhibiting during the day, making me hesitate to do the things I’d ordinarily do without a second thought, such as drive to the post office to mail Jane’s intro for Sue’s book Conversations With Seth. [...]

[...] There is no need here to again outline the barrage of negative cultural beliefs with which indeed your civilization has an overabundance. [...]

[...] The creative artist can be in somewhat of a quandary, according to his beliefs, for he wants to preserve the precious moment, the fleeting thought, the daffodils, the perceived insights. At the same time he often feels the need to stand apart from life, from the fleeting thoughts, the daffodils or the insight, so that he will not be lost completely in the moment, but able to form almost a second self with a larger viewpoint, who can then more clearly examine and understand the thought, the moment, or the insight.

[...] Jane said the first thing she thought of when she read the article was that the stranger might have been on his way to see her for help. I thought this a very meaningful projection, reflecting her exaggerated feelings of responsibility to the world because of her psychic abilities. [...]

[...] So both of you form subjective extensions that you must one way or another put together in physical time. (With gentle humor:) My books represent vast creativity, and yet you perform your own additional subjective leaps, forming subjective platforms that then deal with the circumstances of the books.

Largely, he has stopped projecting negatively into the future. [...]

Each of you will find habitual thought patterns in your own life backed up by resulting action — conditioned behavior as it were — by which you continually reinforce negative aspects, concentrate upon them to the exclusion of conflicting data, and so bring them into experience through natural hypnosis.

[...] Many who make a practice of “denying” negative suggestions from others, asserting positive affirmations instead, actually do so because they are so fully convinced that the power of negative beliefs is stronger than that of beneficial ones.

[...] You will have utilized natural hypnosis in a concentrated form.

[...] Neither of us had ever heard about thought-forms then, and the whole thing sounded incredible to me. And yet, I thought, psychologists talk about projection and transference by which we project our fears outward to another person or object and then react to them.

“The man and woman in the York Beach dancing establishment … were fragments of your selves, thrown-off materializations of your own negative and aggressive feelings … the images were formed by the culminating energy of your destructive energies at the time. [...]

“In the same way that the body’s proteins and chemicals can be used to form various kinds of images, they may also be utilized to form an ulcer, goiter, or to affect other changes [in the body itself]. [...]

[...] If really large areas of the self are inhibited, a secondary personality can be formed, grouped about those qualities distrusted and denied by the primary ego, and usually opposed to it. In other instances, the inhibited emotions can be projected outward into other persons, or as in the case of the York Beach images, very charged repressed energy can actually form pseudophysical images which present the personality with the physically materialized image of his fears.

Ruburt has made some effort to avoid negative projections, and has therefore met with some success. Last evening, however, he became involved in a round of such projections, which operate, of course, as negative suggestions. [...]

[...] There is no use in telling yourself in absolute terms that you will never project negatively. [...] Ruburt can, however, each day tell himself that for that day he will try to avoid such negative projection. [...]

Your simple remark then was strong enough to completely alter the pattern of his thoughts and behavior last evening, and most of today, so I want you to recognize the importance of your comments. [...]

Even if you think the body does have something wrong with it, then the necessary adjustments would be made in another kind of time that in Framework 1 would take no time at all—or, the amount of time you thought required.

[...] and your thought may be instantly transposed into reality. Therefore, now you must learn the nature of your thoughts and how to handle energy.

([Tom:] “But between the time of thinking about it now and the time it becomes a reality, other thoughts can come to bear on that idea and change it before it becomes a reality. [...]

([Tom:] “I see, and form a compromise... [...]

[...] In the time lag on this plane, there are other thoughts, projections on the same idea or object; Seth declined to go into their effects on the final idea or object until a later time.

[...] There will be a time lapse within this system, but in other systems there may be no time lapse—and your thought may be instantly transposed into reality. Therefore, now you must learn the nature of your thoughts and how to handle energy. [...]

([Theodore:] “But between the time of thinking about it now and the time it becomes a reality, other thoughts can come to bear on that idea and change it before it becomes a reality. [...]

([Theodore:] “I see, and form a compromise—composite.”)

[...] In the time lag on this plane, there are other thoughts, projections on the same idea or object; Seth declined to go into their effects on the final idea or object until a later time. [...]

New paragraph: Consciousness then is not dependent upon physical perception, though this attribute does require an awareness immersed within a material form. [...] You have been taught that there is little connection between your thought and your body’s activities.

[...] Electrons are negatively charged particles circling a nucleus on which there are an equal number of positive charges; together these make up an atom; groups of atoms combine to form molecules.

[...] It is your most intimate feedback system, changing with your thought and experience, giving you in flesh the physical counterpart of your thought. So it is futile to become angry at a symptom, or to deride the body for its condition when it is presenting you with the corporeal replica of your own thought, as it was meant to do.

Therefore the inner self forms, first, the “invisible” body structure which will “later” emerge in flesh. At the event of this mental seeding, the conscious mind, in your terms, is obviously not connected with the brain, which has not yet been formed in flesh. [...]

[...] The others can, it seems, help minimize the negative aspects of a situation while enhancing the positive. Have I helped Jane in this manner, or hindered her by reinforcing joint negative beliefs? [...]

(Jane did get a few answers, and was able to hold the pendulum better in her left hand than she’d thought she could. [...]

(Thoughts of her birthday at once led her to Mother’s Day and her own mother, Marie. [...]

[...] Very interesting, we thought.

Keep in mind here, though a discussion will wait for quite a while, that a like relationship occurs between the dream universe and the world of negative matter. [...] They are important however; and from what you now know you realize that these energy forms represent mental enclosure units, operating in the same manner as our earlier ones of which we spoke when discussing the early development of energy within the physical field.

The inwardness, or inward energy which forms all these systems, is the inventive stabilizer; and yet in its search it ever creates new outlets that result in creative chaos, a lack of temporary balance which is then balanced. It is from the inwardness then, operating through its forms, that all innovations come, and from which the most seemingly unexpected developments can be expected.

[...] Evidently she picked up my thought about conversing with Seth’s friends. [...] She then answered my thoughts in closing out the session.

[...] An action may occur therefore in the world of matter, and be perceived in both the universe of negative matter and the dream world, but in such a case each universe interprets the action according to, and within, its own framework of reference.

(Pause at 9:16.) Your physical body … give us time … is, as an entity, the fleshed-out version — the physically alive version — of the body of your thoughts. It is not that your thoughts just trigger chemical reactions in the body, but that your thoughts have a chemical reality besides their recognizable mental aspects. [...] It is not the best, but I hope it will get the point across: It is as if your thoughts turned into the various appendages of your body. [...] Your thoughts are as physically pertinent to your body as viruses are, as alive and self-propagating, and they themselves form inner affiliations. [...] When you think thoughts, they are conscious. [...] Those thoughts, as clearly as I can explain this, rise from inner components of which you are unaware.

You think of viruses as physical, and of thoughts as mental. You should know that thoughts also have their physical aspects in the body, and that viruses have their mental aspects in the body. At times you have both asked why an ailing body does not simply assert itself and use its healing abilities, throwing off the negative influence of a given set of beliefs and thoughts.

When the thought is thought, it is, say, broken down again to those components. Your thoughts have an emotional basis, also. The smallest c-e-l-l (spelled) within your body contributes to that emotional reality, and reacts instantly to your thoughts.

(9:28.) Give us a moment… In those terms, thoughts move far quicker of course than viruses. The action of the virus follows the thought. Each thought is registered biologically. [...]

Every thought in one way or another is constructed by you in physical terms. You cannot escape the result of one thought. Every thought is an actuality. It affects every action and it forms your physical environment. As you sit listening to my voice, you are all subconsciously forming the physical environment of your classroom. You are forming the physical chairs. You are forming the blackboard. You are all forming reality, as you know it. [...]

[...] For these are your own constructions, formed in faithful replica to your own thoughts. [...] Using these you form a physical environment that is cohesive enough so that you can all agree with what you see and feel and smell and touch.

[...] The beauties that exist in your physical universe are the results of constructive and positive thought. The ugliness is a direct result of negative thought.

[...] They form reality for you, and yet the reality that they form is highly distorted; and what you see, dear friends, does not exist and you do not see what does exist.

[...] A concentration upon negative thoughts and feelings to the exclusion of all else, will depress the mind and body as surely as any drugs.

[...] These are not negative states on their own, any more than twilight is less natural than dawn. [...] Your overall beliefs, however, can be so exaggerated in a negative manner that finally some people accept as valid the most negative picture of the world.

[...] Your own thoughts wore you out. [...] You remembered doing Ruburt’s Dialogues drawings, and Adventures diagrams, and those thoughts crowded your present. [...]

[...] At once afterward I thought that such an event was quite unlikely on a Sunday morning. [...]

[...] Desire, love, intent, belief and purpose — these form the experience of your body and all the events it perceives. [...] Your thoughts are as active as your cells, and as important in maintaining your physical being.

Your thoughts are also as natural as your cells. Your thoughts propel you toward survival and growth also, and in the same way that your cells do. If you find yourself in physical difficulties healthwise, you cannot say: “Why doesn’t my body stop me and assert its own wisdom?” because in the truest sense there is no division between your thoughts and your body. [...] Your thoughts multiply even as your cells do. [...]

(9:40.) Events obviously are not formed by your species alone, so that, as I mentioned in our last session, there is a level of the dream state in which all earth-tuned consciousnesses of all species and degrees come together. From your standpoint this represents a deep state of unconscious creativity — at the cellular levels particularly — by which all cellular life communicates and forms a vital biological network that provides the very basis for any “higher” experience at all.

When you ask: “How are events formed?” you more or less expect an answer couched in those terms. [...]

In other words, these concepts, so natural to all of creation, have not been practiced by humanity in anything like their pure form. [...] They run directly counter to much of your official knowledge and contemporary thought as far as the mainstream of world culture is concerned. [...]

[...] She thought it was as terrible — as cheap and sensationalized — as I did. [...]

[...] Their strength, vitality, and worth has been greatly undermined, however, by distortions, negative ideas, and some sheer nonsense.

[...] Often hair is a symbol for strength, but in this case it represents the strength of old beliefs, and your father is a barber who cuts away those — whereas in the past he followed many quite negative beliefs and concepts. [...]

[...] I read a few paragraphs from the first part of the session to her, since I thought them very important. [...]

It made his position clear to him in the world’s eyes, he thought. [...]

[...] Your own statement of course was quite true, as to the concentration on negative aspects (since supper time), but both of your attitudes have definitely improved.

Now Ruburt’s weight gain is a prerequisite for continuing improvement, and happened also once in the past before the more recent negative aspects. [...]