“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] He has an almost steady impulse toward psychic activity, toward creativity. [...]

[...] His creative and psychic abilities emerge precisely when he is relaxed. [...]

[...] It mimics perfectly your psychic and mental reactions.

There are of course mass constructions, psychic pools whose energy is derived from many individuals, all predisposed because of their own inclinations toward specific areas of activity. [...]

[...] What happens in the case of constructive psychic energy when it is purposely denied aggressive outlets? [...]

There is then a mental, psychic, or emotional lack of sight. [...]

[...] But many people look to those outside themselves — psychics, doctors, psychiatrists, priests, ministers, friends — for the answers to overall life situations, and in so doing they deny their own abilities of self-understanding and growth.

(A note pertaining to the material given just before break: In Chapter Nineteen Seth deals with reincarnation in a general sense, but he’s said little in this book about his psychic “connections” with Jane and me. [...]

(10:49.) Now: In ordinary terms, this book has included no esoteric instructions to help you achieve what you may think of as spiritual development or psychic expertise. [...]

If you are frightened of your emotions and believe them wrong, then when you try “psychic” experiments you may believe that you are possessed. [...]

The psychic work was quite all right as long as it added to or blended with your own creative endeavors.

[...] He often in the beginning resented the psychic work precisely because it took time from your painting for transcripts. [...]

[...] Your effect upon others, even before the psychic work, has been literally invaluable to many people. [...]

[...] You are both responsible for the psychic development, and without your steady devotion so many, Joseph, would not have been helped. [...]

[...] However, they may be psychics, social workers, psychologists, artists, or in the religions. [...]

(A one-minute pause at 9:59.) Give us a moment … The healers might also appear as politicians, however, psychically healing the wounds of the nation. [...]

[...] Yet they are deeply involved in nature, and in that respect they are more highly attuned psychically than most other people are.

[...] He helped explain the psychic attractions Jane and I feel for the house, without implying a commitment toward it [through purchase, for instance] in any way. [...]

[...] The crisis itself was a psychic one mainly, which will of course have physical consequences. [...]

[...] The individual, for example, can to some extent for the purposes of our discussion be considered as elements or energy under psychic centralized control. [...]

[...] This of course occurs nevertheless on a subconscious level, representing a spilling over of emotional and psychic energy from self into what is usually considered notself; and there are, constantly, effects that happen, a flowing back and forth of energy in this way.

[...] The particles of air being themselves composed of molecular structures having, as all molecules do, a generalized subconsciousness, and in condensed form a comprehension of the inner laws of the universe, are also then psychic as well as physical structures, as you should by now understand.

This book will be devoted, then, to those conditions that best promote spiritual, psychic, and physical zest, the biological and psychic components that make a species desire to continue its kind. [...]

Initially there is a psychic contagion: Despair moves faster than a mosquito, or any outward carrier of a given disease. [...]

[...] Epidemics by their public nature speak of public problems — problems that sociologically threaten to sweep the individual to psychic disaster as the physical materialization does biologically.

[...] To some extent, then, the survival of your civilization is quite literally dependent upon the condition of each individual; and that condition is initially a spiritual, psychic state that gives birth to the physical organism. [...]

[...] Psychic matters weren’t stressed, and counterpart ideas weren’t even mentioned. [...] I wondered about the countless times counterparts had unwittingly gathered on similar occasions, and what sort of numberless exchanges had taken place on unconscious levels between those who were psychically related in some fashion.

[...] Peter and I had rather idly speculated that because of our common interests we could have reincarnational ties.² Seth’s naming Norma as being psychically affiliated with me was unexpected, however. [...]

[...] In many cases, a psychic will telepathically pick up from you desires that you have at any given time. And not understanding the nature of their own abilities, the psychic may then give these back to you as advice. [...]

[...] Psychic ability should help you know yourself—and discover your own strengths—and act upon them. [...]

[...] A child discovers many truths in play and so can you—if you allow yourselves the freedom of spontaneous mental and psychic play. [...]

[...] Both of you had psychic abilities to use and develop.

[...] You have only begun to use your own psychic abilities, in line with your painting.

You are so jealous of your own work that you use your psychic abilities most strongly as an aid to your work. [...]

You have begun to appreciate the workings of your psychic self in your paintings, but you are only beginning. [...]

[...] A good Speaker is as effective within one reality as he is within the other, creating psychic frameworks within physical reality as well as within interior environments. Many artists, poets, and musicians are Speakers, translating one world in terms of another, forming psychic structures that exist in both with great vitality — structures that may be perceived from more than one reality at once.

[...] They are highly creative on an unconscious level, constantly forming psychic frameworks beneath normal consciousness that can be used both by themselves and others in dream and trance states. [...]

[...] The particular psychic or story framework may vary. [...]

The emergence of these psychic abilities was indeed resented by his ego, and initiated a necessary overhaul of personality, against which it protested. [...]

The other still-lingering symptoms will quickly vanish also; the pendulum sessions, quite apart from our sessions, should be maintained as a kind of personal psychic hygiene until the habit of communication is thoroughly established. [...]

[...] For him personally the yoga should be a daily physical and psychic health measure. [...]

[...] Ruburt can use it to insure his intuitional psychic and spiritual development.

[...] So you choose your psychic land as well. You can travel from one psychic land to another as you can journey into other parts of the physical world. [...]

Psychically, your world is composed of the contents of its consciousness. [...]

If you could orbit your planet in a different kind of craft, you could view the psychic contents of the world, seeing the world consciousness shining far more brilliantly than any lighted city. [...]

[...] (Long pause.) Ruburt experiences now what he calls a massive quality, a physical and psychic expansion of consciousness in which the dear familiar world seems small — yet twice precious. [...]

[...] This does not mean that for their own purposes they have not joined in psychic mergers that you cannot presently understand. As I am joined in a psychic merger with you now, and am still myself, and you yourself.

[...] It either has less and less control over the organism because it has not solved its problems well enough, because it has already largely decided to leave the system, but does so gradually; or because in some instances there is a psychic block, which prevents full utilization of energy in this important regard.

When psychic gestalts are made and formed they are not static. [...]

[...] That identity that is his has grown, developed, changed its circumstances and its physical components many times, searching for the psychic soil that will best develop his own potentials.

[...] In a manner we will later discuss, psychically it surrounds information, operating psychically almost in the same manner that a simple amoeba physically will surround food.

[...] To the human being it must appear that telepathy is a mental or psychic communication occurring between two or more entirely separate selves. [...]

[...] This particular, more advanced telepathy could not and did not occur in its most complicated form until the development within your plane of psychically developed personalities. [...]

[...] 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.

[...] The term will crop up when she has some kind of related psychic experience occasionally, but that seems to be all. [...]

[...] Obviously you create your psychic and spiritual reality also. [...]

[...] They can communicate with the psychic or spiritual levels of consciousness of living persons. [...]

[...] As you live in an obvious physical universe, sharing in its reality, so each of you exists in a far vaster psychological or psychic universe — surrounded by, supported by, and part of psychic or psychological entities (long pause) infinite in their variety. [...]

[...] The psychic and biological mechanisms were there, permitting the species to know, particularly in time of stress or danger, what normally unperceived events might threaten survival. [...]

[...] In the same way, it does not help to compare your own consciousness to one of starlike psychological or psychic properties. [...]

[...] She referred to a “psychic fair” she’d accidentally tuned in to on television, while waiting for me to come into the living room for the session. [...] She meant that she wouldn’t have become associated with “the cheap psychic field,” not that she’d have given up working with the Seth material. [...] I asked her just how one could go about speaking for a personality like Seth, yet remain aloof from all of the psychic playing going on around us. [...]

[...] The true motion of the species, however, has always been psychological, or psychic if you prefer, involving the exploration of ideas. [...]

1. Jane’s particular mood today, and my own remarks, shouldn’t be taken to mean that we don’t understand why people attend psychic fairs, for example. [...]

He proceeded to make two divisions in his life, one “psychic,” and the other “the writing self.” [...] These beliefs generated their own emotions, of course, so that Ruburt would become angry when thought of as a “psychic” by others.

With the initiation of psychic experience, he found himself wanting to write about what happened to him, and to use the material creatively. [...]

[...] Ruburt also believed in his psychic work, you see, and was fully committed to it. [...]

[...] He realized that the writing and psychic aspects each did want to write, and this was the bridge belief.

[...] nature—psychic nature... [...] So tonight right now I feel I’ve made inner decisions about writing and psychic matters, highly important, that I’m not fully conscious of....