“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(While speaking tonight, Jane said she has within a definite “feeling of a pulsation”; it might be likened to the perpetual opening and closing of a fist, she said, with each opening and each closing creating a new reality, and thus moving itself perpetually on.

If you will remember the three creative dilemmas discussed in our past session, you will see that we have here the reason for our self-perpetuating universe, the reason for termination within it, and the inherent necessity for change. If one thought were held forever, no other thoughts would follow, no action would follow, and no identity. In your own intimate psychological experience, in the intimate psychological experience of every individual within your race, you will find recognition of the thought.

Catastrophes, such as earthquakes or floods, are not perpetuated by certain elements of nature against other portions of itself. [...]

We have here in the room unbeknown to all of you a perpetual motion machine (Rachel swinging her leg). [...]

[...] I feel, and I do indeed feel, as you with the perpetual motion leg will know, like a friend to all of you this evening and hardly like a bishop. [...]

[...] A circle of reaction has formed about the family therefore, that so far is self-perpetuating. [...]

[...] Instead they seek to perpetuate their existence as surely as any other living organism does, and in certain senses come to appear to be irrational, in that they seem unable to understand that certain beneficial changes would perpetuate their own lives as well as that of their host, whom they are damaging overly much. [...]

[...] At the same time, I wanted material on why Jane might be perpetuating behavior that might lead her back into the hospital—an experience which she’d found to be so traumatic last time. [...]

[...] And that, maybe, the young man they’d taken in represented me as I’d used to be, or a perpetuation of their belief systems into later generations. [...]

[...] But I disapprove of the terms, since in themselves they serve to perpetuate a most unfortunate distortive concept.

Energy is self-perpetuating. [...]

[...] The upsetting circumstance mentioned—the decision—representing the basis of conflict that perpetuates many of his physical symptoms. [...]

(Now that idea, I thought as I went into the kitchen to get Jane some wine for the session, made sense—it could account for the perpetuation of her symptoms on a daily, present-life basis, and made a lot more sense than thinking she was suffering now because of something that happened to her when she was perhaps eight years old or whatever. In other words, I said, we’d been approaching the problem backwards: Jane wasn’t sick so much because of her past as she was because of what we were doing every day in present reality—reinforcing and/or perpetuating the symptoms because they served a number of beliefs about present-day reality. [...]

[...] My point was that if she perpetuated her symptoms because of any reasons involving me, that she should instantly dispense with all of those reasons. [...]

(An added note: I now also realize that my not having an outside job helps Jane perpetuate her symptoms—the idea of “protecting” me against the world, etc. [...]

Medicine and Therapy as Used to Perpetuate Illness

[...] Wars are self-perpetuating because they combine both natural and unnatural guilt, compounded and reinforced by memory. [...]

[...] Until now the belief, however, has resulted in a condition of experience—a falsehood perpetuated upon the body, to which it has then responded. [...]

[...] There was a resultant manufacture of various chemicals within his system that tended to reproduce and perpetuate the depressed state of mind. [...]

They are to a large degree, but not entirely, self-perpetuating, as if the seeds of an apple, instead of falling down to the ground, fell backward into some mysterious dimension within the core of the apple itself. [...]

[...] (With emphasis:) Aggression in the most basic terms has nothing to do with physical violence as you think of it, but with the force through which love is perpetuated and creatively renewed.

And when I looked around me, it seemed that for all of man’s good intentions, he only transmitted the errors of his race; that each man or woman unknowingly perpetuated the peculiar sins and failings of their families. [...]

[...] You will then help perpetuate the “characteristic” climate to which you travel.

[...] The detection of the break-in at Watergate both uncovered and perpetuated a labyrinthian series of events that culminated in the resignation of President Nixon on August 9, 1974.