“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] The vitality must constantly create itself in new patterns and each new pattern, of course, brings forth new possibilities of development.

[...] It is a counterfeit living pattern, and you are using it to avoid developing your full strength and stature as a personality.

Nor would such a counterfeit pattern suit you for long. [...]

[...] This same spirit should be used in approaching our work, and in his general living pattern.

[...] The same qualities and spirit that you bring to your work should be extended to your life pattern, for they are correct for you both, and you operate at prime efficiency then.

(All of the following historical dates are quite approximate, but they show the overlapping pattern of the physical lives of the three personalities making up the Christ entity.

Some carried on following the same pattern taken by Christ, performed psychic feats and healings, had groups of followers, and yet were not capable of holding that powerful focus of psychic attention that was so necessary.

[...] They were simply a result of correlating many details into the correct specific pattern.

[...] Your understanding of this must be limited because you automatically think in terms of one life experience at a time, and in linear patterns of development. [...]

[...] A spread with upraised pattern in hobnail fashion. [...]

[...] This having to do with Ruburt’s characteristic chemical patterns in the first warm weather. [...]

(Long pause.) If the “earthling” spoke, the alien would of course instantly know that you were communicating creatures, and in the vocal sounds recognize patterns that contained purpose and intent. [...]

[...] It presupposes a mouth and a tongue, the kind of physical organization necessary; a mind; a certain kind of world in which sounds have meaning; and a very precise, quite practical knowledge of the nature of sounds, the combination of their patterns, the use of repetition, and a knowledge of the nervous system. [...]

[...] Your conscious mind, however, directs your temporal perception and interprets that perception, organizing it into mental patterns. [...]

[...] To an extent you develop habitual patterns of reference in that regard, so that certain cues in the environment automatically trigger the familiar neurological activity. [...]

(Pause at 9:45.) The changed pattern of activity is helping Ruburt. [...]

[...] Yet the feeling is the result of the natural person’s knowledge of the symbolic nature both of objects and thoughts, and of the rhythmic patterns that both follow, so that, again, on such occasions such activities do trigger new unconscious activity and set up new patterns of organization. [...]

[...] In this particular case built-up negative attitudes of years’ standing set up negative patterns that prevented the most creative parts of the self from using their natural potential.

[...] The negative patterns, many of them, came from conscious deductions made about the nature of reality. [...]

The specific exercises I gave are to break up lingering habit patterns, both mental and physical, and to encourage spontaneity. [...]

[...] The mental patterns are beginning to break up, and I want to be sure that this is translated into physical behavior, completely. [...]

When you view the animal kingdom, you also do so through your specialized sexual beliefs, studying the behavior of the male and female, looking for patterns of aggressiveness, territorial jealousy, passivity, mothering instincts, or whatever. [...]

As a result, you see in nature only what you want to see, and you provide yourselves with a pattern or model of nature that conforms with your beliefs.

The two changes, one in the back, and your kitchen, will satisfy you both to a large measure for quite a while, and therefore are desirable since they do not entail a wholesale breaking up of daily pattern. [...]

[...] The web is a camouflage pattern that definitely exists on your plane. [...]

[...] Therefore your camouflage patterns are invisible to them, but the tissue capsules are not.

[...] It is not a lessening of self but an extension of self, so that the self-awareness can include not only self but independent (you may call this other) self experience, to include a value that is usually lacking in your ordinary behavior patterns.

[...] He automatically translates inner data given by me into coherent, valid and faithful camouflage patterns. [...]

The problem is not only to receive data through the inner senses in an undistorted, coherent manner, but also to translate this into the particular camouflage patterns with which you are familiar. [...]

As breathing is carried on in a manner that seems automatic to the conscious mind, so the important function of transforming the vitality of the universe into pattern units seems to be carried on automatically. [...]

Aggressions are merely the result of energy not clearly directed, invalid survival patterns. [...]

Except for disappointment in his writing, Ruburt almost instinctively operates within a beneficial pattern in this respect, and you are certainly progressing. [...]

While many of your expectations are formed in childhood, no switch is really stuck in one position, and it is your prerogative to channel your emotional energy into whatever pattern for action you desire. [...]

(The effect, which always reminded me of a mirage, began with a smallish, bright sawtooth pattern of light just to the right of my direct line of vision. Now, with memory of almost-forgotten episodes returning, I knew that this brilliant, shimmering pattern could spread so that as I looked at an object it would be obliterated, even while I still had peripheral vision.

[...] When the interference had been strong, covering most of the field of vision, I had experienced a peculiar sense of both darkness and light, with the objective world indistinguishable within what I can only describe as a field of patterned, alternating lightness and darkness that possessed a velvety depth.

The gestalt patterns of which I have spoken is the basis here, and yet all members within such gestalts are themselves independent, possessing identity and separation even while they cooperate in a complicated pattern. [...]

[...] There are languages that do not fit that pattern (intently). [...]

Since the two of you together follow more or less the same pattern of reaction there, you are faced with spotty results. [...]

Now: Dictation … These idealizations (as discussed in the last session) are certain kinds of psychic patterns, then, occurring at different levels. [...]

[...] Privately your thoughts are expressions of your idealizations; and while expressing those inner patterns they also modify and creatively change them. [...]