“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] What he accepted as a temporary condition he fears to be a permanent one—that is, the temporary positions. [...]

It may be advantageous, though this is a small point, to change the living room furniture to a position that it has not been in since his illness, you see. [...]

[...] When we’d described those to Dr. K. at the house her reaction had been “Do you mean cramps?” —meaning that she saw nothing positive or healing in all of that muscular activity, only something meaning more trouble. [...]

[...] I’d added that if we didn’t learn to think positively and have faith—even blind faith—we’d be truly lost. [...]

[...] I considered your position dangerous, more so as time passed. [...]

[...] As I wrote these notes she half lay on her own chair with her head in my lap—a position she hadn’t taken for years. [...]

In your terms, the person at birth is affected by multidimensional conditions, and the collective position of the planets is but one very minute indication of the other realities involved. [...]

[...] If their paths cannot be charted, and can indeed constantly surprise you, then why do you think that your course can be mapped out ahead of time by reading the positions of the stars at your birth?

[...] It is possible for the ego to realize its position as but one part of the whole personality, while it still behaves in a directive manner toward physical manipulation.

[...] Such suggestions made by the ego can indeed be caught, and positive or constructive suggestions given to replace them.

(My own position may be too simple, but I do not believe a body can be coaxed to good health by others, or sessions, or whatever. [...]

[...] Jane then came out of trance and instructed the students to stand in various areas of the room, in answer to significant feelings she had about these positions. [...]

[...] She looked very poor — gaunt from eating far too little — like an aged fetus, I thought, in her drawn-up position.

“If you think, ‘I have a headache,’ and if you do not replace this suggestion by a positive one, then you are automatically suggesting that the body set up those conditions that will result in the continuation of the malady. [...]

[...] Then have him imagine plucking out the resentment by the roots and replacing it with a positive feeling. [...]

“This is the difference between repression and positive action. [...]

[...] If we were truly spontaneous, Seth says, we wouldn’t need to worry about positive suggestions because our health would be normally maintained.

[...] (Pause.) The schools of “positive thinking” try to remedy the situation, but often do more harm than good because they attempt to force beliefs upon you that you would like to hold, but do not in your present state of confusion.

You deliberately make great effort, in fact, to restrain the communicative elements of aggression while ignoring its many positive values, until its natural power becomes dammed up, finally exploding into violence. [...]

(Then Bill went ahead, his body curled up into a ball, much like a fetal position. I saw him coast over the edge of the fall. [...]

(I later thought of the pillarlike rock as a phallic symbol; and of the warm water and the fetuslike position of my brother as reincarnational information.

[...] In some cases this may cause inconvenience and considerable psychological difficulties, but when such an instance occurs it is because the ego structure that is being deposed was not carrying out the main aims or goals of the identity which originally gave it that envied position of dominance.

[...] Her position did not change; since she sat with her left hand still to her eyes, she laid the envelope in her lap with her right hand.)

When it attempts to hold the upper position indefinitely, there is frozen motion and built-up pressures, but there will be the inevitable tumbling under. [...]

(At 9:47, Jane took the envelope double for the 84th experiment from me, her eyes closed, and held it to her forehead in a horizontal position.)

[...] At just about all times one or more of us was talking to the table, exhorting it to go on, to better its performance, in most positive tones.

(Even so, when all present withdraw their hands from the table, no matter what its antics have been, as soon as all contact is withdrawn the table falls back into normal floor position.

[...] I think a strong part of you is now so against the whole psychic thing that you’ve ended up in an awful position physically because of the conflicts involved—pulling you this way and that. [...]

[...] I think it’s very dangerous to take too hard a position at this time on anything we think we’ve learned, for I can’t imagine that in future millennia we’ll ever cling to very much of what we think is ‘true’ today—especially about things like illness. [...]

([Arnold:] “The analogy that I get is an electromagnetic wave, a carrier wave and it is rectified and the on moments are the positive pulses and the unmoments are the negative pulses.”)

([Joel:] “Would a noninterval be a positive interval to another aspect of our existence?”)

[...] The idea being that positive thought within these broad outlines would pay rich dividends.)

[...] Both your positive and negative attitudes toward it seemingly were justified, because the exterior conditions mimicked perfectly your inner attitudes.

[...] You were aware of it but you did not understand, generally speaking, that your relationship must be actively and positively enjoyable on a daily basis, if both of you are to produce the work that you want.

[...] The tests from this standpoint were highly explosive, for he did not understand the situation, and found himself in a position highly ambiguous. [...]

[...] In your terms it is the build up of natural anger; in animals, say, it would lead to a face-to-face encounter, of battle stances in which each creature’s body language, motion, and ritual would serve to communicate a dangerous position. [...]

[...] This type of animal encounter occurs infrequently, for the animals involved would have had to ignore or short-circuit many lesser preliminary anger or initiation encounters, each meant to make positions clear and to ward off violence.

[...] Your plane could be likened to a small position between four very spindly and thin wires, and my plane could be likened to the small position in the neighboring wires on the other side. [...]