“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] Then it seems that an improvement operationally suddenly happens.

[...] The young woman you did not know is in severe difficulty, and unless her method of operation changes, there will be tragic circumstances, indeed. [...]

In poor periods he is almost completely vulnerable to negative suggestion, so that it operates through his own psychic and physical system. [...]

I mentioned long past that creativity continued to operate in a work of art long after its physical completion. The intensity that first generated, say, a painting, continues to operate and there is new creation sparked in the interchange between such a painting and each observer of it.

[...] As a whole personality now, Ruburt has found himself operating at prime efficiency in several late incidents, when the ego and intuitive self have worked in harmony. [...]

1938, an illness, I believe leading to a hospital stay, either an operation or thoughts of one.

[...] The chemical changes were caused by the transition in beliefs that operated, and not the other way around.

[...] Unfortunately, a system of medicine that largely deals with symptoms only encourages a patient to project such beliefs on new organs, for instance, after already sacrificing others in operations.

[...] Personality, then, can be seen to operate as a field of action in identity; but identity that is conscious of its relation to action as a whole.

[...] It is ego who plans for the future, trying to anticipate the environment in which it must operate. [...]

[...] The ego operates as a partitioning agent. [...]

He will be at all times a prisoner of clock time and of aging, for he will consider these the primary conditions under which he must operate. [...]

Identity of the inner self operates very well within primary conditions. [...]

[...] The inner I operates very well without them. [...]

You will simply be learning to operate in a new environment in which different laws apply, and the laws are far less limiting than the physical ones with which you now operate. [...]

[...] Telepathy operates without distortion in this after-death period, so you must deal with the true relationships that exist between yourself and all relatives and friends who await you.

This is not meant in any way as any sort of reprimand, but merely as an example close at hand as to how expectation operates. [...] The assessor, then, with his own free will of course in operation, nevertheless saw the property as you had constructed it. [...]

[...] Such pulsations, expansions and contractions also operate as far as energy in the psychological structure is concerned.

[...] Her—and I say her advisedly, since here Ruburt operated as a woman—her disappointment was instant but superficial.

Schizophrenia is caused by a personality fragment that is broken off, so to speak, from the primary acting personality, operating often in direct opposition to it, but in any case, operating as a secondary personality.

[...] If you’ll forgive a pun, because a certain cause will usually give a certain effect in your physical universe, you may be justified in saying that the apparent results are laws that operate within your system. [...]

[...] The enzyme part of our little equation permits vitality to operate successfully under diverse mental and physical situations and forms the basis for each particular system of existence.

[...] Certain kinds of science cannot operate without it.

(To me:) You died as a young boy in an operation, however, in this life as you think of it. [...]

[...] (To me:) “Your” desire to live straddled the death of the child in an operation. [...]

[...] As he said in the 29th session for February 26, 1964: “Later I will attempt to show you where the boundaries are — though (with a laugh) there really are no boundaries — that form a variety of such planes [realities] into a sphere of relation in which, to some extent, cause-and-effect operates as you understand it. [...]

“… Needless to say, I wanted you to know that there is much more than even this, complexities that are truly astounding, intelligences that operate in what I suppose you would call a gestalt fashion, building blocks of vitalities of truly unbelievable maturity, awareness, and comprehension. [...]

[...] The nontime principle however operates in such a manner that a personality can only participate in the ways that I have described, in systems with which he has some familiarity because of his own experience. [...]

[...] In those projections still within your system, you are still bound by a time relationship, in that it seems to you that perception operates as usual.

[...] (See notes 5 and 6 for Session 702.) They can operate in a freewheeling fashion as identities in themselves, or as ‘psychological particles.’ They can also operate in a wavelike fashion, flowing through other such particles. [...] Certain portions of these gestalts can then operate as ‘psychological particles’ in time and space, while other portions operate in a wavelike manner outside of time and space. [...]

[...] My identity includes the identities of many others, and they each operate in their own fashion. [...] More specifically, however, and to a lesser degree, each physical person operates partially as a particleized being, and partially in terms of a wave.³⁵ But identity, being itself inviolate, is on the other hand everchanging — and there is, in the larger framework of reality, no contradiction.

A deeper trance state would allow us to get less distorted information on such a test as this, initially, but our results will improve, and such experiments will be helpful in that the various layers of the two personalities, Ruburt’s and my own, will be seen in their operating procedures.

I myself operate well clairvoyantly … for my own reasons and peculiarities, and usually obtain such information [in that manner]. [...]

[...] To be told that you might have a brain tumor, or multiple sclerosis one week, as I was in my early days at the hospital, then be told that I would most probably never be able to put my weight on my feet again without a possible series of long operations. To be told my hearing might possibly be gone for good, or that I might need an instant operation to avoid losing a finger, to be told that it was certainly possible I could lose fingers and toes—all of those suggestions and ideas, with their implications, were hard to take, and in many ways I handled them well. [...]

[...] Bill was using his trimmer in the front lawn—a very noisy operation.)

[...] There are rules; Seth calls them root-assumptions that operate in all realities, our own included. [...]

All layers of the personality are ‘conscious.’ They simply operate like compartments, so that often one portion of the self is not aware of other portions. As a rule, when you are awake you do not know your sleeping self; you know your neighbor far better, so your sleeping self seems mysterious indeed. [...]

[...] Only by finding these can you discover the nature of human personality and the nature of reality within which it operates.

My answer is that I am an energy personality essence, momentarily in contact with your physical system, in that I am able to operate through Ruburt.

[...] There is a wisdom and an understanding operating, a beautiful give-and-take in life between the intensity of a desire and its fulfillment—an underlying exquisite sanity. [...]

In other ways the same kind of mechanism operates in the growing popularity of the books. [...]

[...] (Also see Session 863 at 9:21.) This propensity operates below and within the framework of matter. It operates above as well, but I am here concerned with the cooperative nature with which value fulfillment endows all units of consciousness within your physical world.

The dream world operates as a creative situation in which probable acts are instantly materialized, laid out in actual or symbolic form. [...]

[...] I guess the idea was that males operate as a Mafia regardless of gangster connections.... [...]

You may also be part of a self operating within other fields, and operating also within another system of units. The inner self operates as a relay station, as a reference point for the various seemingly disconnected selves. [...]