“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] The data came through because of a discussion Jane and I had before the session, in which I expressed a good deal of resentment and negative attitudes, about a lot of things....)

You are also of course open to negative moods of others in the same way. [...]

[...] He also thinks in terms of making such a venture pay, however, of ventures financially rewarding and enjoyable, while yours are negative in this regard.

(I will make the attempt to change negative attitudes. [...]

[...] Comments such as these: “You look tired,” or: “What’s the matter, don’t you feel well?” and other such remarks often simply reinforce the individual’s earlier sense of dejection, until finally this same kind of give-and-take leads to a situation in which the individual and his fellows begin to intermix in a negative rather than a positive manner.

[...] (Long pause.) I am not speaking of genuine questions of concern so much as rather automatic, unthinking, negative comments. [...]

[...] In such a way, you reward positive behavior, and may indeed begin a chain of positive activity instead of continuing a chain of negative reactions.

[...] For example: If you constantly focus on the belief that your early background was damaging and negative, then only such experiences will flow into your present life from the past. [...] You have concentrated upon the negative to such a degree that anything else seems invisible. [...]

No negative beliefs were thrust upon you, therefore, despite your will. [...]

[...] It is a perfect example of the instantaneous results possible ideally — but not usually seen practically — as present beliefs negate past ones.

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.

[...] So you are locked into physical situations that are corroborated by the great evidence of sense data — and of course it is convincing because it reflects so beautifully, so creatively, and so actively, your own ideas and beliefs, whether they are positive or negative.

[...] I did not want to imply that you make a list of specifically negative ideas, however. [...]

[...] The shattered belief may leave him open to illness, which would seem like a negative experience. [...]

The affair is also a lesson to you when you think negatively, showing you the results of such negative thoughts, followed without letup — and, in fact, followed in spite of redeeming actions that would change events. [...] The negative and bitter qualities of personality came fully to the fore, uncompromised and unredeemed by the fulfilling and creative functions that they had also smothered.

After the Seth sessions began, Seth told us that we, ourselves, had created the images of the couple, projected all of our negative attitudes into them and then reacted. [...]

[...] “To create them with all our negative feelings was bad enough,” I said to Sue, “but then to cast them loose on their own!”

[...] Through the probable experience, she was able to see what could have happened to you in this system, had you given in to negative thoughts and feelings and not been persistent in your work and efforts.

[...] Instead, they constantly reinforce the negative experience from which they are trying to escape. [...] A great many unsatisfactory conditions result because individuals become frightened at various periods in their lives, doubt themselves, and begin to concentrate upon “negative” aspects.

[...] To look backward for the source of current problems can lead you into the habit of seeking only negative episodes from your past, and prevent you from experiencing it as a source of pleasure, accomplishment, or success (very intently).

In almost all cases of present limitation, there is one main theme in that particular area: The individual has schooled himself or herself to stress “negative” aspects, for whatever reasons.

If such a practice is continued, the concentration upon negatives can gradually bleed out into other previously unblemished areas of experience.

When this continues you project negatively on all alternatives so that change always seems disruptive and negative. [...]

[...] A half-hour at a time is fine, plus the effort to express any normally negative feelings at once.

Now, because it seemed to you for so long that you could not move freely in your own life, that you did not paint full time, you got in the habit of automatically viewing all change as negative. [...]

As this occurs, negative habitual patterns of thought are also being healed. [...]

[...] This will help him counter some of the unspoken negative suggestions—that because of his small size he is fragile—

[...] I thought the session material might have bothered her, since from it, it seemed that the negative suggestions given by Georgia yesterday were still on her mind. [...]

[...] 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. [...]

[...] 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. [...]

If there are strongly negative characteristics present in your most intimate thoughts, if these actually form bars between you and a more full life, still you often look through the bars, not seeing them. [...]

[...] You may hold God or the devil responsible, or you may simply say, “That is life,” and accept the negative experience as a necessary portion of your lot.

Only when it abdicates its functions does it allow itself to become swayed by “negative” experience. [...]

Now: Books on positive thinking alone, while sometimes beneficial, usually do not take into consideration the habitual nature of negative feelings, aggressions, or repressions. [...]

[...] It did not even, except superficially, represent a dangerous lapse or relapse on your part, into those truly dangerous and quite disastrous negative battles of thoughts, which eventually in any individual can and often do lead the integrated self into annihilation.

[...] A warning that after all there had been a recent tendency on your part, though slight, to slide into negative thinking. [...]

[...] Negative expectations, far from protecting either the individual or those with whom he comes in contact, will actually, to a greater or lesser degree, turn as destructive as any epidemic.

(For some other examples of the psychic power of negative expectations, see the 9th, 15th and 17th sessions, involving Jane and me at York Beach, Maine. [...]

[...] Many beliefs, not negative in themselves but overemphasized, lead to what certainly appear to be negative results.

[...] I wanted to know if these changes, from negative to positive, were legitimate, and possible in such a short time.

I am trying to tell you that you have concentrated as strongly at times in a negative manner on success symbols (pause), as others might in a positive manner to acquire them. [...]

[...] You were almost putting the cart before the horse, but in a negative manner. [...]

This will automatically build up Ruburt’s resources and inner psychic defenses against negative influences. [...]

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. [...]

If you desperately try to remain young, it is usually to hide your own beliefs about age, and to negate all of those emotions connected with it. [...]

[...] If you believe that youth is the ideal and struggle for it while simultaneously believing that old age must involve infirmities, then you cause an unnecessary dilemma, and hasten aging according to the negative aspects of your mind.

[...] Your mental images are therefore of course very important, and two of Ruburt’s of a negative nature have been broken down. [...]

[...] The stool was no longer comfortable simply because his muscles were stretching further, but his fear at the seeming poor performance previously led him to some negative projections. [...]

I’ve often thought that the repetition in the Seth books, say, is nothing compared to the repeated barrages of suggestion—much of it negative—that our species has chosen to subject itself to daily. I constantly search for balances between the positive and the negative. Indeed, however, Jane and I think that in ordinary terms, and for many reasons, our species long ago began creating a great deal of negative thinking and action—so much so that those qualities came to range throughout all facets of our world culture. [...]

I’m sure that in much larger terms even negativity is creative, and often in ways we cannot comprehend in our temporal reality, but I do believe that Jane’s work offers more penetrating and redeeming insights into many of those challenges we create. [...]

[...] I trust myself and my integrity,” if at the same time you are afraid of your own emotions and become upset whenever you catch yourself in what you think of as a negative frame of mind.

(10:01.) Any help that you give to others will come through the creative utilization of your own characteristics and no one else’s. Do not get upset with yourself when you find yourself dwelling on negative issues in your life. [...]

[...] It is silly to try to fight what you think of as negative beliefs, or to be frightened of them. [...]

[...] If you are fifty and are still convinced that the older generations are rigid, fast in the way of growing senile, mentally incompetent and physically deteriorating, then you are holding an old belief in the ineffectiveness of the older generations and setting up negative suggestions for yourself. [...]

[...] He makes no reference in his writing to the part the negative suggestions he constantly gives himself may have to do with his growing forgetful state—rather amazing, we’d say. The man is regarded as a leading authority, unfortunately; we wonder how many students he’s inculcated with the same negative thinking over the years of his teaching career. [...]

[...] At the same time, by session time she was quite upset and irritable—appalled, really—at the content of some of the letters she’d read—this, we agreed, because we usually would focus more on the one negative letter compared to the ten positive ones—and by far most of them were very positive, friendly, sometimes even adulatory. [...]

[...] I must remind you both that peoples’ good intent, their constructive creativity, their desire “to do better,” is far stronger, far more vital and all-pervading than any of their negative qualities—or, quite simply, you would not have a world, in your terms.

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. [...]

[...] Because you are less affected obviously by the negative suggestion, you can catch him, and he will now respond beneficially.

It was not necessarily a negative identification. That negative quality emerged only when he felt the need for greater protection, when he threatened to become uncivilized—going against his society in unforeseen ways. [...]

[...] The ape could not have appeared however until after the blond man forcibly threw out that negative image. [...]

[...] The negative image, dashed then, gave forth the symbolized image that he had been using in his mind. [...]