“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] The natural person is of course the natural dreamer, and it is for that reason all the more unfortunate that psychology managed to divorce the world of dreaming from natural healthy psychology. [...]

[...] The exterior interest, the physical manipulations, also stand for, and reflect, inner manipulations with psychic growth, and serve as symbols of a united psychological approach. [...]

[...] If anything, these provide humanity with a great rich structure of psychological activity from which all of the later cultural, religious, or scientific elements emerge. [...]

[...] It is much easier to pretend that all such experiences are symbolic and not literal, to evolve complicated psychological theories, for example, to explain flying dreams.

The dreaming self as you conceive of it, however, is but a shadow of its own reality, for the dreaming self is a psychological point of reference and, in your terms, [of] continuity, that brings together all portions of your identity. [...]

Now, no psychological structure is easy to describe in words. [...]

[...] In other words, you should be as flexible mentally, psychologically, and spiritually as possible, open to new ideas, creative, and not overly dependent upon organizations or dogma.

[...] Basically, however, there are no clear, set, human, psychological characteristics that belong to one sex or the other. [...]

Your psychological tests show you only the current picture of males and females, brought up from infancy with particular sexual beliefs. [...]

[...] The psychological connotations, however, are not those assigned to them by adults.

The beliefs involving the son’s inherent rivalry with the father, and his need to overthrow him, follow instead patterns of culture and tradition, economic and social, rather than biological or psychological. [...]

(Trying psychological time for fifteen minutes on Tuesday, November 17, and Wednesday, November 18, Jane achieved an excellent state on each day.

Nor have I forgotten any of the psychological time incidences. [...]

I am afraid that I will have Ruburt continue with the shorter psychological time period again until our next session. [...]

(Both of us have kept strict records of our psychological time studies, for example, with the hope that Seth will eventually discuss them. [...]

Psychologically, when you are filled up, you have physical difficulty, and it is a psychological reaction that activates the physical structure. [...]

[...] The psychological insights are valid in that material although you do not always understand their true validity. [...]

The psychological understanding of yourself is hidden within the reincarnational data that you have. [...]

When you are working alone in psychological time experiments, you do not so fear emergence of the subconscious, and you trust your material more. [...]

[...] The overall emotional coloration and vitality of all of the creatures, say, within any given arbitrary environment is highly complicated, so that there is of course a psychological climate to which you react, as there is a physical one. If it rains you can stay inside, run naked between the raindrops, wear galoshes and carry an umbrella, take a cab, or be so involved in your own activities that you are not even aware that it is raining at all, and the same applies to inclement psychological climates. [...]

[...] That is a simplified version, certainly, of the psychological actions that occurred. [...]

[...] The psychological reality, the psychic reality, always forms it own environment. [...]

Believing in a physical hell can cause quite unnecessary psychological torment, with hallucinatory images. [...]

[...] It will be published, but Ruburt will also work with it in the psychological workshop of the classes.

[...] Dreams also involve a kind of psychological perspective with which you have no physical equivalent—and therefore such issues are most difficult to discuss.

[...] A psychological filing system, if you prefer.

[...] Because she has to deliver it linearly in words, which take “time,” she cannot produce her material almost at once, as the mathematical prodigy can his or her answers, but in their own way her communications with Seth are as psychologically clear and direct as the calculator’s objective products are with numbers, or the musician’s are with notes. [...]

[...] This psychological growth, and the many challenges involved, set her work apart from the mental calculator’s numbers or the musician’s notes, which are ever the same: Those friendly columns of figures, for instance, add up to identical sums in any language. [...]

In early February, Rob wrote to Dr. Ian Stevenson, who was connected with the Department of Neurology and Psychology at the University of Virginia. [...]

[...] This involves the construction of a “psychological bridge” that will be explained later in this book. [...]

[...] Even so, Seth said that my strong ego was an asset to our work when I didn’t overdo it, since it kept my whole personality on an even keel and allowed me the psychological strength to handle and develop my abilities.

[...] He has given us excellent, psychologically sound advice, but he never tried to give us orders.

[...] It is a kind of creative (underlined) psychological face that you use for the purposes of your life’s drama. This psychological face of our analogy has certain formal, ceremonial features, so that you mentally and psychologically tend to perceive only those data that are available within the play’s formal structure. [...]

To some extent that emotional reality is also expressed at other levels—as your own is—in periods of dreaming, in which animals, like men, participate in a vast cooperative venture that helps to form the psychological atmosphere in which your lives must first of all exist.

Even in modern terms, our psychological and medical knowledge of mind and brain have added more complications to the doctrine of free will, yet it survives and grows. [...]

The remarks are these—We will and we have, to a very small extent here, begun a study of multidimensional psychology...and it will be the psychology of the future for it will regard personality in its true and entire light. [...]

Once psychology realizes that the personality is also alert and conscious in the dream state, then indeed its precepts and its bases must change. [...]

[...] You are afraid for example that in psychological time—granted you find the physical time for it—you will take needed energy away from your physical pursuits. [...]

Try your psychological time experiments. [...]

[...] Now when you are quieted and when you are in the dream state or when you are doing psychological time then you free yourself from the three-dimensional system and allow your consciousness to recognize other portions of its own reality. [...]

Now, we will see to it that you live very adventurous nights, and those of you who do psychological time and take the physical time necessary to do the experiments, will find the mobility of consciousness—I am using that term because Ruburt likes it so well—that is necessary. [...]

(To Mary Ellen.) You are taking a psychology course like none he is taking and you are learning more about the nature of human personality. [...]

[...] Psychological time is the lowest common denominator, so to speak, from your viewpoint. [...] Psychological time represents on your plane the closest you can come to the experience of timelessness as far as your physical laws are concerned.

[...] Had you had the opportunity to do more work with psychological time you would have been able to attain greater perception than you did. [...]

[...] As I have mentioned you can in a dream or daydream or through conscious use of psychological time experience many hours in a few clock minutes. [...]

[...] Try and use psychological time as I have told you. [...]

(Jane has not yet resumed her study of psychological time, even though Seth said it was all right for her to begin again on a daily fifteen-minute basis. [...]

(Before the session Jane had been reading a book on abnormal psychology. [...]

If the major religions have been touched, then there have also been numberless smaller cults and sects throughout history into the present that bear that same stamp of great psychological power and energy, coupled with an inborn leaning toward self destruction and vengeance.

There are many other deep psychological connections beneath schizophrenic behavior, but since this book is also devoted to other subjects, we will go on to other ways in which conflicting beliefs bring about mental or physical dilemmas.

Individual psychological mechanisms are activated, sometimes, in terms of neurosis or other mental problems; these bring out into the open inner challenges or dilemmas that otherwise would be worked out more easily through an open give-and-take of conscious and unconscious reality —

[...] They emerged as you began to categorize experience more and more, to see yourselves as separate from the spring or fountainhead of your own psychological reality. [...]

[...] Such wake-sleep patterns as I have suggested would acquaint you with the great creative and energetic portions of psychological behavior — that are not undifferentiated at all, but simply distinct from your usual concepts of consciousness; and these operate throughout your life.

(End at 11:24 p.m. Seth referred to some writing Jane did today on her long-range theoretical project, Aspect Psychology. [...]

One of the church’s most powerful allies was to that extent its understanding of human psychology, for if you left the church or its system, it knew that you still carried many of its beliefs nevertheless—only now you had something like an itch that you could not scratch. [...]

[...] They may then count the more negative aspects of their backgrounds in a rather concentrated manner, for the system no longer serves to provide its psychological support. [...]

(8:57.) In Ruburt’s case, the Sinful Self was the remnant, psychologically speaking, and the same applies to many within your society. [...]

The short paper he wrote today, and my last session, should help here, for we are speaking of the transformation of the Sinful Self, sympathetically, as it is seen as a psychological structure of growth and change—a stage through which the self traveled—one that is no longer necessary and can now instead turn to a new state of innocence. [...]

[...] In a manner of speaking, your conscious mind, as you think of it, is a psychological convention. [...]

The boy was filled with guilt, but a guilt that had no name, no label—a psychological guilt that was the result of his upbringing, and that perhaps involved the existence of a brother. [...]

[...] A true realistic exploration of the nature of experience would automatically study that kind of emotional interrelationship, but while your society delineates the inner particles of matter, it avoids the inner psychological “particles” that form the most intimate experiences of your lives.

[...] The insights that could result, Jane and I agreed, could have excellent psychological and social implications toward understanding of such seemingly senseless accidents. [...]

(Again Tam said Seth knew him well psychologically. Tan had questions concerning his father and his girl, Eve and told us he felt he’d had extended psychological connections with both. [...]

[...] At midnight, on September 5th, Jane gave a series of impressions for Tam, speaking as herself; Tam verified the psychological content of most of them. [...]

[...] Tam Mossman said: “Seth was certainly into my imaginative life; also, he has me pegged psychologically.” [...]

[...] Tam again verified the psychological content of the material, concerning all involved. [...]

2. For those who are interested: As soon as Seth mentioned the “psychological activity” of atoms and molecules, I was intuitively and strongly aware of connections between his statement and at least two principles of modern physics. [...]

I doubt if physicists in the 1920s were concerned about the psychological activity of atoms, molecules, or particles, although it seems that Heisenberg came close to Seth’s idea when he considered the free behavior of an electron emitted by a light ray. [...]