“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Now you have latched upon this particular preoccupation, but what it is in the end makes no difference. It could have been something else entirely. There are people who feel that existence is meaningless without wealth. Now this sounds idiotic to you. There are people who have committed suicide because they established wealth as a condition of existence. They were unable (underlined) to appreciate a love relationship because of this preoccupation, and you have been unwilling to appreciate the true miracle of your existence because of your preoccupation. (Loudly.)

Ruburt, himself, has long known that you had great vitality, but you have been cutting yourself off from your own abilities, and from helping others to a large degree because of this preoccupation.

There is such a preoccupation with what she has not that she is completely blinded to what she has. Now when you receive her reaction to this session, we will hold another. Know that she is held and loved, and that life itself will sustain her, and let the demands upon life drain away like sand between the fingers.

[...] Your preoccupation with such matters has certainly hampered your creativity.

Your preoccupation with Ruburt’s condition, however, was beneficial for a while, because it upset the status quo, shook him up, and started him more firmly in the proper physical direction. [...]

[...] One of their main preoccupations is to create beauty that impinges itself in as many various dimensions of reality as possible.

[...] The person interested most in herbs and plant life would also find that nightly dreams mirrored that daytime preoccupation, so that nightly dream excursions might find the dreamer examining strange herbs in another location than the native one. [...]

(Long pause.) I mention these ideas of time also now because they fit in so well with your joint personal preoccupation with time—how to use it, and so forth. [...]

[...] The dream reality is simply the nearest reality with which you are concerned outside of your physical preoccupation. [...]

[...] From my viewpoint, you are far more alone than I. (Long pause.) From my viewpoint, it is difficult to understand your intense preoccupation with a system that represents such a small portion of your whole experience. [...]

[...] You wish for the intensified emotional preoccupation that would close your mind to all else but painting.

[...] That is, I can let him know; but overly conscious preoccupation blocks him from knowing.

[...] Indeed, the ego is that portion of the personality which is plunged into a specific and intense preoccupation with a given field of action or dimension.

[...] There seems to be some preoccupation with speed that I do not understand. [...]

[...] There is intensive preoccupation with historical periods. [...]

Ultimately your use of instruments, and your preoccupation with them as tools to study the greater nature of reality, will teach you one important lesson: The instruments are useful only in measuring the level of reality in which they themselves exist.¹ Period.

[...] One of mankind’s weaknesses has always been his impatience and his preoccupation with camouflage patterns on his plane. [...]

You, Joseph, were necessary, but we had to have this particular sort of intuitive intellect that could also deal expertly with words before we could actually begin; and it took Ruburt a long time to achieve this state because his conscious problems, and family relations and preoccupation with them, held him back.

[...] So journeys into unknown realities may be highly intriguing, and represent important sidelights to your current preoccupations. [...]

However, when it is enabled to let go its preoccupation with the camouflage universe, it can receive and be aware of data received by the inner senses. [...]