“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] When you turn on a television set the picture seems to come out of nowhere onto the screen — yet that picture is the result of order precisely focused.

[...] The majority of accepted beliefs — religious, scientific, and cultural — have tended to stress a sense of powerlessness, impotence, and impending doom — a picture in which man and his world is an accidental production with little meaning, isolated yet seemingly ruled by a capricious God. [...]

[...] Barbara, who paints, has painted a picture of a violin that she wanted to show me. I have also painted a picture of a violin. [...]

[...] This we think is more of the immediately-above data, an attempt to get at Barbara painting pictures.

[...] However, because you are presented with a fairly cohesive picture, in which certain laws seem to apply, you think that the laws come first and physical reality follows. Instead, the cohesive picture is the result of the unpredictable nature that is and must be basic to all energy.

[...] In greater terms you chose both life and death, and the picture of you at the age of 16⁹ was never taken in one reality.

This distorted picture depicts a species of sinners innately driven by evil, sometimes demonic, forces. [...]

[...] You are, therefore, tuning into another channel, experiencing a reality that is not only quite as real, but presents a far truer picture. [...]

[...] It can be understood that they are transitory, however, and in the entire picture they begin to dissolve easier and easier. [...]

[...] The imagination will follow, painting dire mental pictures of a particular condition. [...]

(10:09.) If you mistake the symbols for the reality, however, you will program your experience, and you will insist that each forest look like the pictures in your book. [...]

[...] Such practices can lead you to use your own “history” so that it gives a very distorted picture of who and what you are — a picture that then paints your present circumstances.

Each person alive helps paint the living picture of civilization as it exists at any given time, in your terms. [...]

[...] At other levels, however, you carry a picture of the world’s news, [one] that is “picked up” by signals transmitted by the c-e-l-l-s (spelled) that compose all living matter. [...]

All of this presented a quite erroneous picture. [...]

Give us a moment … Historically, of course, you follow a one-line pattern of thought, so you see a picture in which fish left the oceans and became reptiles; from these mammals eventually appeared, and apes and men. [...]

[...] It may well be a letter that you have written him, and he concentrates on my name; and thinks (pause) of a picture in a frame, of his wife I believe, but not one just taken.

The picture may also have flowers in it. [...]

[...] As the pictures and representations in a photograph are only dim, incomplete symbols for the people and objects they represent, so the physical universe is but a dim image of the reality for which it stands.

You would learn little of what it means subjectively to be a human being by simply studying a picture of one. [...]

(“The habit of squirreling away” is a good reference to my father, in whose photographic studio my brother Loren took the pictures he refers to in the test letter. [...]

[...] Three men and one woman were present in the studio when the pictures shown on page 198 were taken, for the correct total of four people: Jane, myself, my father and my brother Loren.

[...] There was a fine distinction to be made here, since both Lois and my brother were involved taking pictures of Jane for the same purpose: Jane’s ESP book. [...]

[...] Although our house is separated from it by quite an expanse of lawn, our new neighbor is quite obvious as he walks back and forth before his picture window in his undershirt. [...]

Give the spider an ego and an intellect and you will see then how the picture would change. [...]

[...] She reported that just as her delivery ended, she had another mental picture. [...]

[...] So we used this tendency here to enlarge the picture and bring in further details that gave you rather respectable data … and in a way that was fairly natural to Rubert.”

[...] (Since then, a student and a friend of ours have both seen Seth as he appears in this picture.)

[...] The picture is one of our favorites, and belongs to Rob’s “people series”—portraits of people we’ve never met. [...]

Seth did say, however, that Rob’s picture using the color-building technique is a portrait of the artist in question. [...]

[...] In fact, both houses are pictured, one above the other, on the same page of the catalog. [...]

[...] It was a ranch-style, cedar-sided dwelling that had just been painted a dark green — a conventional one-story affair with white shutters, a fireplace, a picture window, an attached double garage in back, and many trees and shrubs. [...]

(Now I’d like to present a batch of notes, ideas, and excerpts from sessions about reincarnation, counterparts, and related data, pulling them together into a coherent picture. [...]

But such pictures are there for any of you who want to view them. [...]

[...] Otherwise you will not understand anything at all, and have a very lopsided picture. [...]

[...] I could have helped him further, but I was part of the picture.