“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

In a way, on one level, a personality seems to be operating “blind,” while in another it is aware of its accomplishments and challenges. [...]

[...] My consciousness does not normally operate at the same speeds as yours, either, so what I am saying has long ago, in my terms, been said, while in your present it is new, or just reaching you.

[...] The affair began however when you first realized that your father would be no longer operative. [...]

[...] It serves to remind you that the issue is operating. [...]

(Long pause.) It may be far more pleasant to be good-humored all of the time — but in Ruburt’s situation the fairly infrequent periods of blueness do indeed operate therapeutically, so that he is able to express those feelings through tears, and therefore relieve the body of expressing the same feelings through additional symptoms.

[...] He understands so little about the eyes’ operation to begin with, that he does not bother to figure out, or try to figure out, the order that such improvements should take, or how they should happen.

[...] It might help if now and then he imagines his walking taking place as easily and naturally as his thoughts come and go, and in ways as mysterious as the way his vision operates, when it is suddenly clearer, and he reads so much more quickly — for the quick reading will soon be the norm.

[...] In some psychological circles there are therapeutic groups that operate by setting up such dramas. [...]

[...] I do not operate Ruburt’s controls as automatically as he does, you see.

Now, I am in fine form, but I understand the circumstances under which you operate. [...]

[...] The natural self operates within a state of grace, by whatever name, a state that allows for spontaneity, and implies self-trust. [...]

[...] You have a divided self, of course, in that regard, operationally speaking, and this happens often in your society. [...]

[...] Until then you have parts operating at the very least without a sense of unity. [...]

[...] It was the practical impetus of your need at the time, however, that operated as the final emotional trigger—you recall the circumstances.

[...] On the other hand, I can only operate mentally in your world. [...]

[...] Yet Frank believes that muscles can only operate in a certain way in time, and he supposes that certain improvements must therefore take so much time. [...]

[...] Personal association, therefore, is highly involved with your personal bank of symbols, and it operates in the dream states precisely as in waking life — but with greater freedom, and drawing from the future, in your terms, as well as from the past.

[...] The inner banks of symbols, however, operate as a drawing account, latent unless you take advantage of them. [...]

[...] They operate as a sort of shorthand. [...]

[...] That particular type of consciousness operates “at different speeds” than your own. Biologically, your own physical structures are quite able to operate at those same speeds, though as a species you have disciplined yourselves to a different kind of neurological reaction. [...]

[...] Your physical senses will only operate in their and your present.

Now: Electrons themselves operate at different “speeds.” [...]

[...] Your personal cluster of probable realities surrounds you, again, on a cellular basis, and biologically your physical body steers its own line, finding its balance operating in a cluster of probabilities while maintaining the focus that is your own. [...]

[...] Seth gave us this prediction perhaps two years ago.) Unfortunate expectations and various projections operated here however, but the intuitive background was enough to wipe these out within an instant of your first meeting. [...]

[...] Remarkable is not too strong a word for the car’s improvement, literally overnight, in operation two weekends ago. [...]

[...] I spent a little time explaining to her how a car operates, in the hope that this more specific knowledge would help her relay Seth’s data re the Ford in a future session.)

[...] That is, such abilities operate so smoothly, so continuously, and with such ease (intently) that you become aware of them only under certain conditions. [...]

[...] To some degree historically speaking, that sort of situation operated in the past when — comparatively speaking, now — people realized that there was indeed an inner world of complexity and richness that could be approached in certain fashions, one that existed alongside with the physical world, so that the two intersected. [...]

(9:29.) The intellect could handle both approaches, operating with separate assumptions. [...]

[...] Your own reassurances are very helpful — and remember that they operate on other than physical terms.

[...] The personality will be seen to operate in some manners that would be considered quite normal, if he were in the waking state.

[...] The personality also operates within the dream state in ways that would not be considered normal in the waking state. [...]

In the sleeping state we see the personality as it is in operation. [...]

Because suggestions do have an electrical and a chemical reality, they can therefore change the framework within which you operate. [...]

[...] The search for knowledge would mean often that you would be between beliefs, operating as you had been taught through training, and trying to operate according to the new knowledge. [...]

[...] As the years went by Tam and Ruburt arrived at certain methods of operation that suited Ruburt personally, and that were understood by both of them. [...]

(Long pause at 9:19.) These methods of operation involved certain evidences of play, some social chatter, mutual trust, and left open the doors to a certain kind of unpredictable pattern of development—a pattern in which, for example, Tam could recognize the latent book in the Emir dream, and help fire Ruburt to write it, even though eventually Prentice was not the publisher. [...]

[...] He valued the more or less clear channel of operation from the completion of a book by himself to its publication. [...]

He realized that at another house he might receive more money or more publicity, or possibly another more esthetically-presented package, yet against the other uncertainties and vicissitudes he felt he had an acceptable framework of operation. [...]

[...] You can indeed levitate, but not with your physical body, practically speaking in operational terms. [...] The body in which our friend, Joseph, viewed his relatives (in the dream mentioned earlier) was not operationally physical. It was quite real, however, and at another level of reality it was operational, suited to its environment.

[...] Instead, such concepts are relatively true — operationally true. For example, the physical laws that you are familiar with operate where you are. [...]

[...] The psyche dwells in a reality so different from the world you usually recognize that there good and evil, as you think of them, are also seen to be as operationally or relatively true as the difference between the perceiver and the object perceived.

— natural mode of operation. [...]

You and Ruburt have had the feeling many times — but what we are trying to do is change over completely from one mode of operation to another, and to construct, say, new inner blocks of meaning that will give rise to the next era.

[...] To the best of my ability, I explained what telepathy, clairvoyance, and precognition were, and what experiments might be conducted to show them in operation. [...]

[...] Identity operates in many dimensions, however. [...]

“I have helped him, in that his own personality operates more effectively. [...]

[...] Smiling, Seth said, “One other point: These sessions are scheduled, and therefore operate under certain controlled conditions. [...]

It is as if I was operating on one of many channels, and I am still in the process of teaching you to operate the other dials. [...]

[...] The inner senses are not accustomed to operating so freely and this upsets that all-present ego, and would seem sometimes to drive it to distraction.

Usually in these sessions only one inner sense is in strong operation, but as I mentioned in our last session, man does not trust anything which occurs to him or in him unless he is consciously aware of what he is doing, how he is doing it, and why. [...]

[...] I have said also that this psychological time operates during sleep and during quiet times of consciousness. [...]

[...] They are as important to the operation of that reality as electrons are to your physical one (long pause), providing inner pathways for the accumulation of wisdom and pleasure.

(Long pause at 9:10, then all intently:) In a fashion your own dreams operate or appear as electrons in other realities. [...]

[...] A belief in powerlessness in any area sets up its possibility in others — it operates as negative suggestion.”

[...] Usually, however, a pattern of unsuccessful diets occurs, operating then as a series of negative suggestions. [...]