“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(But so fearful and reluctant are we to face or to grasp ideas about death that run counter to what we’ve been taught, that we’ll literally do almost anything to ourselves in order to prevent nature’s plan from working in its own natural and creative way. [...]

[...] The child, however, according to circumstances, may hear only the order “Brush your teeth.”

[...] Verbally oriented, Ruburt hears only an implied order, or criticism. [...]

[...] You do this to the best of your ability, but in order for the painting to have a reality in your world it must be materialized to some degree on the physical plane.

[...] In order to check a bit on whether any telepathy was involved between us, I told Jane I had a question I wanted to ask Seth, but was not going to voice it, at least not yet.

[...] In order to explain them, we must describe them separately, though their effects are felt together.

[...] In a fashion that particular approach, for all of its reliance upon “sorcery,” is not actually true to the magical approach at all, because it insists so fervently upon the impediments that stand in man’s way, and stresses the importance of rituals and methods, and the almost superhuman effort that is required (pause) in order to meet the “magical ends.” [...]

[...] It goes without saying that he must concentrate his energy in that direction in order to achieve the best possible success. [...]

[...] Repression becomes the order of the day. [...]

[...] In ordinary living, you often imagine yourself behaving in a different manner than you did, or in your mind reexperiencing events in order to gain greater understanding from them. [...]

[...] There is an orderly progression, an intimate relationship.

[...] It is true that the old interactions between an associative pattern of thought and its habitual action may be broken down, but it is also true that the inner-ordered structure has been shocked psychically and biologically.

If self A were limited to the perceptions of the ego, and if self A were limited then to the dimensions in which it found itself, then my dear friends precognition in dreams would be impossible, and in order to perceive the future self A would of necessity be forced to discontinue existence within the physical system.

[...] Jane caught herself at once, she now said, in order to prevent possible distortions growing out of this thought. [...]

[...] Yet she has to get into a “certain mental climate” in order to reach Seth Two, Jane said, and all of her other trance phenomena — Sumari, and so forth — are also related to that state.¹

(Finally, the excerpt to follow from the 612th session is presented just as received, but I’ve updated some of the notes for it [beginning with Note 4] in order to take advantage of later material, including some published in Volume 1.)

6. In Chapter 6 of Adventures, Jane described how we rented a second apartment across the hall from our first one in order to have more living and working space. [...]

In somewhat the same way, a strong belief in a particular ability generated in the present will reach into the past and effect whatever changes would have had to occur there (with gestures) in order to now make the ability apparent.

[...] But he resented having to be ill in order to reach you. [...]

[...] And if you try to consciously discipline it then, indeed you can tamper with its beautiful, spontaneous order. [...]

[...] that there was someone around to keep order... [...]

In order to sell your paintings in any important way, or to achieve a reputation, you must want to achieve a reputation, and want to sell the paintings. [...]

[...] Therefore, regardless of present consequences, one portion has been kept down in order to avoid any serious, that is disastrous, cleavage.

[...] I speak as literally as possible to you, but in order that any information appears within your three-dimensional system then translations are automatically necessary, or you would not perceive it. [...]

[...] To some extent, then, the “truth” must be sifted through your own conceptual patterns in order for you to comprehend it at all.

[...] In order to do so, Ruburt must be trained somewhat more intensely. [...]