“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

You can direct his anticipation for example of vacation along positive lines. When this happens positive and negative attitudes interflow freely. [...]

[...] Instead I want you to talk about your trip, and have Ruburt get rid of some of the worries connected with it, so that the positive elements can have greater sway. [...]

(Pause, one of many.) With Ruburt’s limited vocabulary, this is rather difficult to explain, but it would be as if the positions of your north and south poles changed constantly while maintaining the same relative distance from each other, and by their change in polarity upsetting the stability (pause) of the planet—except that because of the greater comparative strength (pause) at the poles of the units (gestures, attempts to draw diagrams in the air), a newer stability is almost immediately achieved after each shifting. [...]

[...] (Gestures.) The “nucleus,” in quotes—now using a cell analogy—if these units were cells, which they are not, then it would be as if the nucleus were constantly changing position, flying off in all directions, dragging the rest of the cell along with it. [...]

The three-sided effect, instantly formed, leads to an effect that is something like friction, but the effect causes (gestures) the three sides to change position, so that you end up with a triangular effect, closed, with the initial point inside the triangle. [...]

[...] Certain intensities and certain positions of polarity between and among the units, and great groupings of the units, compress energy into solid form.

[...] Her eyes were closed; she maintained this position until break.)

[...] She had maintained her original position—eyes closed, head resting on her left upraised hand, for the whole delivery. [...]

(Jane resumed in the same manner and in the same position, with pauses, at 9:39.)

[...] Once again she sat in the same position for the entire delivery—her head lowered, her left hand raised to her closed eyes. [...]

[...] It is most essential that negative suggestions be drained away from her, and replaced by positive suggestions (long pause), and a massive effort to do so is required.

[...] This is why I stress strongly that all effort be made to achieve a more positive inner atmosphere.

The simple exercise given you will immediately bring more positive aspects into the picture, then relief from secondary harmful suggestions, and harmful emotional climates. [...]

[...] Seth was especially concerned about the positive suggestion ideas being followed.

[...] The first very important change has been occurring; for he has progressed to a point where the knees’ positions have altered. [...]

He felt this today in certain positions, but that period is just about over, of discomfort.

While mountains generally maintain a more or less permanent position, in your terms, the vegetation that grows on the different levels changes. [...] You may always find a patch of violets in the same general position in the foothills each year, for example; yet they are not the same violets that grew last season, or that will appear next season.

You are only aware of your own position within time, or your own place on the “platform,” or the ledge as you understand it.¹ Not only do these ledges or platforms of time exist simultaneously, but each one brings forth its own batches of personalities in its own different seasons. [...]

[...] That is a truer picture of your position.

Cells retain their shape and integrity, and their position more or less within your organs, although the atoms and molecules within them change. [...]

[...] When you abruptly change your beliefs, then in the group you no longer have the same position — you are not playing that game any longer.

[...] You are broadcasting your altered position.

[...] In the meantime you will often be in the position of telling yourself that something is true in the face of physical data that seems completely contradictory. [...]

[...] If, using that example, you suddenly begin to realize your position and begin to express your love to your children directly, you may find them quite surprised, delighted but confused. [...]

[...] In such a way, you reward positive behavior, and may indeed begin a chain of positive activity instead of continuing a chain of negative reactions.

[...] Comments such as these: “You look tired,” or: “What’s the matter, don’t you feel well?” and other such remarks often simply reinforce the individual’s earlier sense of dejection, until finally this same kind of give-and-take leads to a situation in which the individual and his fellows begin to intermix in a negative rather than a positive manner.

The records would show one reign of one pope; but one, two, or even three different men may have filled the position. [...]

[...] Their positions simply gave them greater leeway.

[...] This concerned the position of “the Virgin” within the dogma of the church.

[...] Otherwise, my position is this —and here I repeat—because overall changes in position and balance are necessitated in order for normal walking to occur, one portion of the body at this point is not going to right itself so that, for example, Ruburt’s arms are suddenly straight while his knees are bent. [...]

[...] There are times, according to the changes occurring, when naturally it would not walk, say, for a good part of the day, and often left alone, it might suddenly want to exercise new positions. [...]

After breakfast, use the pendulum to insert positive suggestions of a specific nature—not about the world, but psychological supports and directions for the specific day. [...]

The set of the day in the morning, however, should consist of positive suggestions that automatically reassure the subconscious of its energy, strength, and safety—for those reassurances automatically help alter beliefs that have been built upon countering feelings. [...]

[...] It will not be to any place that there is an opening now, that is, you will not fill the position or the particular position will be reopened. It will be a better position than you anticipate and in a leapfrog development, so to speak.

[...] You will get a position without going through another position that is usually a prerequisite, you see. [...]

[...] Early man was in that same position, and his inventions—his tools, his artistry, and so forth—came into being from the inner, ever-present realm of the mind, triggered by his unconscious but quite real estimation of his position within the universe at large, and in regard to his own environment.

[...] The form represented (long pause) the personified, accumulated positive energies that were working to his advantage at that time, that provided him protection, but that also automatically worked to the benefit of his life and projects.

Ruburt knew that Helper could be sent out to others, to their advantage, and in that regard the form stood for the great power of natural, positive desire and thought patterns. [...]

[...] Jane got herself back into position across the coffee table from me while I described what I’d learned lately about Cro-Magnon man, who had lived in Europe some 35,000 years ago. [...]

There have been two main areas: the head-jaw area, held in a particular position, more or less, resulting in particular positions of the shoulders and arms. [...]

[...] There is no position, no God from the mountain top, and no dumb or docile medium to be taken advantage of by the spirits or otherwise. [...]

[...] Saleswise, then, you would more or less be in the same position now, whether or not the books had been sold to mass markets. [...]

[...] The tenseness of his jaws held everything else in certain positions. [...]

The north-south position is extremely important in this context, and indeed a necessity for any efficient dream records. The reasoning parts of the brain can work most efficiently along with the intuitive portions of the self when the physical organism is in that position.

The whole organism operates more effectively, generally speaking, in such a position, but more than this, the whole self operates more as a single unit. The intellectual processes are to some extent diminished in other positions. [...]

In other positions it is the ego and intellect that suffer most, and since our purpose is to enlighten them as much as possible, this is not to our advantage.

Energy is most easily utilized in this position, for one thing, and this cuts unnecessary restrictions to a minimum. [...]

[...] Since Marian is a deeply religious person also, Seth tied his ideas on positive thinking and suggestion in with the religious theme, stressing the positive use of faith. [...]

(Should she not be able to master the use of suggestion and positive religious faith quickly enough, Seth reassured Marian that the operation would then take care of the tumor, and that Marian had no worries here. [...]

[...] You have within you a readymade method of achieving desire: positive visualization, positive imagination, and confidence.

[...] Now you are not actively to seek out negative thoughts, but to find positive ones. [...]

[...] Your job now is simply to remove them, and as you remove each one, easily, to drop in a seed of positive thought to replace it.

[...] The arms have dropped down once again from the very uptight position they held at the beginning of your venture. [...]

[...] An animal, say, in Ruburt’s position, feeling as much new activity in the body, new motion in the knees, new elasticity in the ligaments, would quite naturally accept the improvements with physical elation, even if it had more difficulty one day, or two, than it had in days previous. [...]

That small alteration, however, immediately altered the legs’ position, however minutely, placing new challenge upon the entire leg and foot region. [...]

[...] The entire jaw is being realigned to its natural and most ideal position. [...]

[...] Your painting required it, but Ruburt’s position required it still more. [...]

He had for example a strong positive belief in his own abilities, energy and power. [...]

[...] Ruburt therefore put himself in a position—as he knows, now—where he focused most of his spontaneity and attention on his work to insure its fulfillment, while cutting out all other distractions and possibilities of misuse or license.

[...] The blocks to the positive belief disappeared, and the belief reversed itself, and quickly. [...]

[...] There are excess energies now that act as magnets, drawing other positive energy to him in such proportion that the entire gestalt becomes in effect a psychic helper.

[...] Very positive ones, initially set into motion by Ruburt’s desire to help others, and attempts to do so. [...]

[...] His late feelings of joy and release and the refreshment he is finding in nature, released him from private circles of nervousness, and opened channels through which positive energy did accumulate.

[...] Now the change shows in an acceleration also, in attraction toward the creative and positive which very quickly generated the birth of the helper.

(After the gesture Jane switched the envelope to a vertical position as she put it back against her forehead. From now on I watched carefully to see that she held the envelope in the same position until the end of the delivery, so that I could mark the top dimension thus, should it be necessary to our interpretation of the data, and the Wilburs verified that the position of the object itself was thus determined by marking in succession both envelopes as they were opened at break, the two pieces of Bristol, and finally the object itself.)

This way (Jane gestured with the vertical envelope without changing its basic position), the impression of a long line, approximately down the center, or a thin dark object, and a small object in the lower right-hand corner.

[...] (Still holding the envelope in the vertical position and in her right hand, Jane lowered it enough so that she could touch the envelope’s upper left corner with her left hand.)

(As noted on page 242, I asked Jane to hold the envelope in the same position as she came out of trance. [...]