“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] Yet you cannot really put your finger on “the government,” though you might mention the White House as the seat of its power. The government is composed of many people, of course, and really extends all the way down the line, even to its least citizen, but the government can direct the use of energies, of goods, commerce, power, and so forth.

[...] If the people in power are paranoid, then they overestimate the dangers of any given world situation. [...] The reasoning mind acts in the same fashion when paranoid beliefs are in power. [...]

I want it understood (pause) that the accomplishment (pause) is breathtaking in its grandeur — more so because man formed from his psyche such a multidimensional spiritual drama that its light struck upon this or that person, this or that place, and formed a story (pause) more powerful than any physical event could be — hence its power (emphatically).

[...] The power, devotion, and energy, the organizational expertise of Christianity, cannot be disputed. [...]

[...] (repeated at my question) his religions, and in the power of the creative abilities themselves that bring them into birth (all quite intently). [...]

It is not that we become initiators of some all-powerful movement or organization. [...]

[...] So is the man who wrote the book (Powers of Mind)—Adam Smith—interpreting in the only way he could for others who will later be led to read other books—that is, he helps awaken hunger.

(Seth mentioned Powers of Mind here, I think, because I got mad just before the session when I found a full-page ad for it in yesterday’s [Sunday’s] New York Times Book Section. [...]

[...] If you cannot trust the self, then you will see social and civic organizations primarily as ways of directing the self in certain areas, prohibiting its full power. [...]

The subconscious, as you call it, represents a tremendous raw power that triggers forth into construction according to the expectations which you form from the emotions. The intellect should help you understand this power plant, so that you can switch your power where it is needed. [...]

[...] Emotional power behind your expectations powers your expectations into physical reality.

(Of course we could still have obtained the house through a bank loan, which was offered to us, but we declined, feeling our ideas had changed in some way as yet unclear to us; yet we felt it was tied up with the material, meager as yet, that Seth has been giving us concerning the power of expectation.

[...] If these aggressions are not handled with some degree of success, they will form themselves into expectations, where they will then let forth their power in the formation of unfortunate constructions.

[...] In that time you were very concerned with the idea of power, and it is one that you are still deliberating with. Not political power but personal power and as to how far you should go to convince others of ideas in which you believe and how far you should go in propagating ideas in which you no longer believe. And in dealing with the sense of power that you also realize you experience in both instances. [...]

[...] You were terrified of it because you are terrified of the idea that evil is more powerful than good, and that one stray violent thought of yours was more important and more powerful than the vitality of good. [...]

[...] And all of this because you were afraid that one stray aggressive thought of yours was more powerful than the vitality that resides in each of you. [...]

[...] Now by this analogy, you see, the soft voice is the holy voice and the loud voice is the wicked voice and the firm step is the bad voice and the soft step is the good voice and a strong desire is the bad desire and a weak one the good one so that you become afraid of projecting ideas outward or desires outward, for in the back of your mind you think that what is powerful is evil and what is weak is good and must be protected and coddled and prayed for and begged for. [...]

[...] These ideas usually ride along with feelings that power is desirable but dangerous. To abstain from sexuality then means to store up one’s own power. [...]

All of this can be avoided through the realization that your point of power is in the present, as stated earlier (in the 657th session in Chapter Fifteen). [...]

[...] Ideas of retirement fall generally into the same pattern, for hidden within them is the belief that at one time or another, at a specific age, your powers will begin to fail. [...]

In your society particularly, given over so thoroughly to the pursuit of money, such beliefs bring about the most humiliating situations, especially for the male, who has often been told to equate his virility with his earning power. [...]

The point of power is in the present. [...]

[...] The personality fragment in this sense can learn to develop what it has, rather than seek new powers. There are no new powers. [...]

At the time, one of the reasons for the two split personality fragments was the power of the struggle going on at that time. The images were formed by the culminating energy of your destructive powers. [...]

[...] You are lucky that the images themselves did not rise up and fight back, since the image fragments have all the powers of their parents, though they may be latent.

[...] They had no power to leave the place where they were born, unless you gave it to them. [...]

Comment: now: for all of the fanatic’s display of energy, he feels basically powerless. To your not-so-silent gallery group in New York, for example, you have the power, which may surprise you in some of your querulous moods—but you have the format, the attention, that such people envy and resent.

The more narrow and strict your conceptions of the good become, the larger and more threatening the “powers of evil” seem to grow.

[...] The ensuing guilt is the power that turns such a person into a fanatic. [...]

Remember the point of power. [...]

[...] It senses its quite legitimate identification with nature, exercises its mobility, and feels its own emotional power leap. Your emotions in such a case would be momentarily magnified — raised, say, to a higher power. [...]

[...] They also liberate your intellect so that its powers are not limited by concepts it has been taught are true. [...]

The power to dream springs from that source. [...]

[...] Calling upon this inner power, for it is power, will bring about the fulfillment of many other abilities and strengths that are within you. [...] Do not insist for example that money come to you only through painting or writing, or that this power show itself only in health; and remember always you own relationship with others, so that the energy that flows through you and is used by you to your benefit, is also free to flow through you to others.

[...] As mentioned earlier, he exaggerated the power of aggression, so that the simplest self-protective act frightened him, and resentments built up. [...]

Unless you place limitations these released powers will operate in all channels of your reality. [...]

[...] You have denied your powers. [...]

[...] When you think of power you think of, say, nuclear energy, or solar energy—but power is the creative energy within men’s minds that allows them to use such powers, such energies, such forces.

The true power is in the imagination which dares to speculate upon that which is not yet (intently). The imagination, backed by great expectations, can bring about almost any reality within the range of probabilities. [...]

[...] Therefore they seek to assure themselves that they are indeed powerful through antisocial acts, often of violence.

[...] Since they believe so strongly in the power of others, and in their own relative powerlessness, they feel forced into aggressive actions almost as preventative measures against greater violence that will be done against them.

To “let go” is to trust the spontaneity of your own being, to trust your own energy and power and strength, and to abandon yourself to the energy of your own life. [...] To abandon yourself, then, to the power of your own life, is to rely upon the great forces within and yet beyond nature that gave birth to the universe and to you.

This feeling of abandoning oneself to the power and force of one’s own life does not lead to a mental segregation, but instead allows the self to sense the part that it plays in the creative drama of a universe. [...]

The conscious mind can, for instance, see a rose as a symbol of life or death, or joy or sadness, and under certain conditions its interpretation of a simple flower can trigger deep experiences that call up power and strength from the inner resources of being. [...]

[...] These can be alternative courses to those who believe that there is no other way but to browbeat the ego — either through the use of chemicals or by other methods calculated to strip it of its powers at least momentarily, rather than teaching it to use those great abilities of assimilation that it does possess.

The most rejuvenating idea of all, and the greatest step to any true illumination, is the realization that your exterior life springs from the invisible world of your reality through your conscious thoughts and beliefs, for then you realize the power of your individuality and identity. [...]

[...] These dilemmas condition consciousness to believe its position to be even more precarious than it was before, and its sense of power and effectiveness is greatly reduced.

[...] Not only of nature’s power and its effects upon civilization, but it also provides you with a very small hint of the other side of the picture, for man despite himself has not lost entirely that identification with the elements. People still feel a part of nature’s power. [...]

[...] Man could exult in nature’s energy, power, and splendor, even in the midst of the most fierce storm —in which, indeed, his life might be in danger.

[...] Nature became an exterior power, more of an adversary, even though man has a love for the earth, the fields, and the grain that they yielded.

[...] The most important point is to arouse such a person’s beliefs in his or her strength and power. [...]

Behind the entire problem, however, is the fear of using one’s full power or energy. [...]

[...] Life means energy, power, and expression.

[...] It was not necessary for Ruburt to see the form again—merely to sense the reality of that powerful energy, and realize that it worked on his behalf. In a fashion the form also represented the innocent and powerful inner self, or spontaneous self, or naturally magical self—the terms are synonymous.

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. [...]

[...] The mind’s powers are far greater than those generally assigned to rational thought alone, as per our last (private) sessions. [...]

You will end up with, if all goes well, a kind of “new” illuminated consciousness, an intellect who realizes that the source of its own light is not itself, but comes from the spontaneous power that provides the fuel for its thoughts.

[...] It had to do with the power of suggestion, our reluctance to use it, and so forth. [...]

[...] The sound of an animal’s hoof upon the ground fills it with a sense of power and affirmation. [...]

In your daily lives, then, you use words so easily that you often overlook their power. [...]

[...] The power of those communications rides upon the same kind of symbolism as dream images, in which each image is actually tightly organized.

[...] You listen to the words and that is all, but the power behind the words, and the power behind the voice, is emotional power and emotional energy and it represents, again, energy that is within each of you and there is no need to be afraid of it. [...]

[...] To recognize within yourself the power that exists within you at any given moment of your time, and do not look away from it. [...]

([Gert:] “If, in psy-time, you get a sexual stimulation, is that connected to psychic power?”)