“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Over a period of time, then, certain portions of the body will habitually respond in any given overall positive or negative way. [...]

I did remind Ruburt that the body, the body’s condition, the negative aspects of the body’s condition, that is not the problem.

[...] It could bring various potentials to bear that could be used positively—or in your terms negatively.

[...] You gave it more negative ones than Ruburt, but each of you felt it was all you could afford, and poor at that. [...]

You do not believe me now when I tell you that you have always exaggerated your situation and Ruburt’s as far as its negative aspects are concerned—but you have, and this has been part of the difficulty.

[...] 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.

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. [...]

[...] By concentrating too deeply upon the world of newspapers and the negative reports of man’s actions, it is truly easy to lose sight of what I tell you (louder) is each man’s and each woman’s basic good intent.

The most negative projection or prophecy seems to be the most practical one; when you are reading of the world’s ills, you say in all honesty, and with no humor: “How can I ignore the reality, the destructive reality, of the present?” In the most practical, immediate, mundane terms, however, you and your world are in that moment naturally and physically safe, as your bodily senses immediately perceive. [...]

[...] You only add to their unfortunate nature by negatively brooding upon what might happen in the future, and you destroy your own stance. [...]

So does the personality, through negative charges, cause boundaries to be set about its own emotional system. [...]

Positive and negative thinking is more than a turn of phrase. [...]

[...] In certain conditions however, the inner self, abandoning its usual reliance upon the physical senses, is aware of these periods that would seem to you to be negations.

[...] The intervals are the positive pulses and the nonintervals are the negative pulses.”)

[...] I added that we simply have to banish all negative thinking, and concentrate upon creative ends—we have no room or need for anything else. [...]

The same sort of reaction occurs if you concentrate upon a personal illness, and then find any improvements insignificant because of the great focus of your attention upon the negative aspects.

[...] What you do, of course, is to isolate a group of people who are filled with negative beliefs about illness. [...]

[...] All of this applies quite apart from any other dehumanizing effects, such as overcrowded conditions, the denial of human privacy, and often the negation of dignity.

[...] In daily life such people will concentrate upon negative events, store them up, and unfortunately cause personal experience that will seem to quite reinforce the basic ideas.

The mind is a system of checks and balances even as the body, and so often a set of beliefs that can be seen as highly negative will often serve beneficial ends in countering other beliefs. [...]

[...] If Ruburt’s symptoms represent the seemingly negative aspects of his life, then your dissatisfactions about work represent the same in your private experience. [...]

[...] You do not get on top of your own negative thought patterns, therefore, though you can see Ruburt’s to some extent.

[...] I explained to Jane that my own idea of why Seth’s statements over the years, that she was on the way to recovery, were always negated was that these very statements alerted the Sinful Self to redouble its efforts to prevent Jane’s recovery because of its own fears. [...]

The main issue is of course not to project negatively into the future, for there you are borrowing trouble. [...]

[...] Sorrow of itself can be negative or positive according to the reasons why you entertain it. Detachment can be negative or positive according to the reasons that you adapt it. [...]

[...] They are far more practical than any negative considerations, regardless of how realistic those might appear at any given time. [...]

You take negative, sorrowful, or even disastrous events more or less for granted, and pride yourself on your creativity in spite of such odds.

It is at first appalling to discover that the negative as well as the positive events are formed at automatic levels, but in response to your expectations and beliefs. [...]

[...] You did not either, incidentally have to confront your negative beliefs about taxes until you were lucky enough, and creative enough, to find yourself in a position where you need pay a considerable amount. [...]

[...] Earlier Ruburt would have become alarmed and frightened, felt you were being negative, and discouraged at any verbal and emotional encounter with the feelings that you expressed, precisely because they brought into the open feelings of his. [...]

A point now that I want you to heed in advance: In the past, because of joint negative attitudes, I have given the reasons for some of these. [...]

[...] He is so used to automatically negative suggestions that to say nothing to himself leaves a vacuum. [...] I’ll try it,” which allows a breathing space and a slight weakening of previous conditioning, in which he is no longer taking negative beliefs as fact, but looking at them as beliefs.

[...] Ruburt has noticed several occasions when he projected negatively in your direction. In other words, instances where he misinterpreted your meaning, or anticipated a negative reaction.

[...] These two books are, I think we agree, the most recent triggers that she has responded to in a negative way, so yesterday I suddenly realized that Jane must be reacting presently to the imminent publication of those two works. [...]

Your feelings presently that Ruburt is on the brink of being bedridden are —mainly now—the results of negative conditioning—they seem very realistic. [...]

[...] In those areas you have grown beyond the negative conditioning of the society in large measure. [...]

[...] And Jane, trying to protect herself from the negative suggestions that had been administered to her like psychic hammerblows, ever since she’d entered the hospital, could only weakly demur on the subject of operations.

[...] To us, however, in all but one case their general unconscious biases were negative. [...]