“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] Change your living room furniture, your bedroom, your kitchen or whatever you can—simply to symbolically and slowly break you in to the idea of change, and to break up the invisible bulk of mental patterns that are connected with your present state.

[...] Change your hours—but think in terms of change—and now for change’s sake—to show that you can operate quite well without rigid patterns of behavior.

[...] Frank avoided that kind of behavior with his children, but did not fully surmount the pattern as far as his own father was concerned.

What is unusual is that Ruburt was able to use his perceptions fully to see within the patterns of the physical system, or to see through them to the patterns formed by another system.

[...] A large circular shape on a rectangular pattern, and movement. [...]

(“A large circular shape on a rectangular shape on a rectangular pattern, and movement. [...]

[...] So can the psychic patterns of those now living, and even of those not yet born. [...]

[...] In these sketches, with their simple but very effective patterns of line and primary colors, Jane somehow bypasses her everyday challenges and very clearly reflects her basically mystical view of the world. [...]

Already we’ve given up many old living patterns since Jane came home from the hospital, and in a strange way we now have the freedom to focus daily upon just a few main things. [...]

[...] Because Jane still requires regular care, our sleeping patterns remain much more evenly divided between the daylight and nighttime hours (see the essay for April 16). [...]

[...] I have explained camouflage patterns to you, I have explained the way the vitality or stuff of the universe changes from plane to plane. [...] It has enough camouflage pattern to enable me to make contact, but not so much as to distort me out of all recognition. [...]

[...] It will enable you to see it more clearly for what it is, and therefore you will be able to manipulate camouflage patterns more adequately.

Manipulation of camouflage patterns actually opens up inner abilities. [...]

[...] Not only is the illusion of space caused by your own physical perceptive mechanisms, but it is also caused by mental patterns that you have accepted — patterns that are adopted by consciousness when it reaches a certain stage of “evolution” within your system.

(9.39.) You feel sometimes a visual outrage, because your natural ideals tend to follow the design and integrity, the lines and flowing patterns that belong to the nature of the universe. [...]

On the other hand, of course, the very individuality implied in art itself tells you that even the ideal must follow its own eccentric patterns, and that man must find his own way out of his l-a-c-k-s (spelled). [...]

[...] It is not a case of one portion of the personality inflicting difficulties on other portions so much as you have a pattern of reactions to various forces in the personality—which to some extent end up serving certain purposes. [...]

[...] (Long pause.) It always tries to right itself, but it must also work within the effective overall pattern of beliefs and expectations. [...]

[...] It subverts art’s nature to some extent when it is asked to serve another master, however beneficial that master may seem to be—for art by its nature will always come up with surprises, and deals not so much with specifics or with directions as with overall patterns that must always be free to fall in fresh and unexplored directions. [...]

[...] Left alone, Ruburt’s creative life falls into inspirational patterns that spring from their own secretive sources. [...]

All of this is old, yet the patterns began strongly then. [...]

[...] Some traces have to be made in the material delivered, and “timely” reasons are still connected to these patterns.

Significances fall or happen in certain patterns, and when these become very obvious they appear as cause and effect. [...]

[...] These are like charged emotional patterns, formed of your own highly personal emotions and intents.

[...] You have taught yourselves to respond to certain neural patterns, and to ignore alternate ones that now simply operate as background activity. [...]

[...] Old patterns of thought can at times rearouse feelings of hopelessness and failure. [...]

(Then Seth himself continued in that 24th session:) Concepts fit together in patterns. In order for there to be communication between us I must disentangle a concept from its pattern, which is somewhat difficult. [...] I experience patterns made up of concepts, and you use words in associations.

[...] That is, he automatically translates inner data given by me into coherent, valid, and faithful camouflage⁵ patterns — into words. [...]

[...] And if I succeed in convincing you of my reality as a personality, I will have done extremely well … Ruburt’s subconscious has enough camouflage pattern to enable me to make contact, but not so much as to distort me out of all recognition. [...]

[...] This certainly does involve a looking inward on his part, but it is not self-hypnosis in usual terms — merely a focusing upon an objective inner stimulus … Any such signs (as the powerful, deeper Seth voice) involve camouflage patterns, and do not actually represent direct experience. [...]

[...] Within the general patterns I have mentioned, each will, of course, find his or her own particular rhythm, and some experimentation might be necessary until you learn the maximum balance. [...]

It is true that the patterns will have their own flow at certain points in your life. [...]

[...] It mentally formed the patterns through which all physical life could flow. [...]

Up until then, the main communications had followed the characteristic patterns of units of consciousness (long pause), each unit knowing its relationship to all others upon the planet. [...]

[...] (Long pause.) Now once energy is formed into any kind of a pattern, the identity of the pattern is maintained. [...]

[...] The distortions in all cases form your physical camouflage patterns.

[...] It is more the other way around, in that evolved consciousness forms itself into many different patterns and rains down on reality. [...]

[...] Such a context would allow you to share in life experiences of many other forms, to follow patterns of energy and emotion of which you barely conceive, and to sense a world-consciousness in which you have your own independent part.

[...] You form these keys into certain sound patterns that have particular meanings.

[...] That competence is obviously responsible for language, but beyond that it is intimately connected with the patterns of languages themselves, the construction of syntax, and even with the figures of speech used.

[...] You do not concentrate upon the exceptions — the children who do not seem to fit the patterns of their families or environments, so of course no attempts are made to view those kinds of unofficial behavior.

Because of this, large organized patterns behind human activity often escape your notice almost completely. [...]