“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Neither should the ego react so violently that it remembers and reacts to past storms in the midst of clear and sunny weather. [...]

[...] The tree lives through its inner senses, experiencing many sensations and reacting to many stimuli of which you are unaware. [...]

When man’s ego turns instead into a shell — when instead of interpreting outside conditions, it reacts too violently against them, then it hardens and becomes an imprisoning form that begins to snuff out important data and to keep enlarging information from the inner self. [...]

[...] This is what the ego does when it reacts too violently to purely physical data. [...]

“Therefore, it is possible to react in the past to an event that has not yet occurred, to be influenced by your own future. It is also possible for an individual to react in the past to an event in the future which may never occur in your terms.

[...] You perceived that portion of the probable future and reacted to it, and the possible transformation of yourselves into those images did not occur. Because past, present, and future exist simultaneously, there is no reason why you cannot react to an event whether or not it happens to fall within the small field of reality in which you usually observe and participate.

[...] On occasion the past can become more ‘real’ than the present, and in such cases past actions are reacted to in what you call the present. [...]

“On a subconscious level, you react to many events that have not yet occurred as far as your egotistical awareness is concerned. [...]

[...] On basic levels your convictions will be quite similar, but one will see himself as the victim and one as the aggressor — that is, each of you will react differently to the same set of beliefs. [...]

[...] You are changing the messages while the body is used to reacting smoothly, unquestioningly, to a certain set of beliefs.

You do not understand the communications between your selves and pets, for example, where in their own way they interpret and react to your beliefs.¹ They mirror your ideas, then, and so become vulnerable as they would not be in their natural circumstances. [...]

[...] We discussed various scenarios over the weekend, considering the ways in which we could choose to react to the whole business.

[...] In the meantime, of course, your nervous systems reacted to the implied threat against your work, a threat that now existed in the past, present, and future.

[...] It was not a conclusion based upon fact, but a conclusion based upon a reason that applied to one probability only, one series of probable acts — or based upon the probable act of a disclaimer being used to begin with.¹ So again, what we are dealing with is an overall lesson in the way in which the reasoning mind has been taught to react. [...]

[...] Will you feel threatened, how will you react? [...]

[...] “Emotions flow through you like storm clouds or blue skies, and you should be open to them and react to them,” Seth said. [...] Your nervous system knows how to react. It reacts spontaneously when you allow it to. [...]

[...] Each individual reacts to suggestion. [...]

“You should tell yourself frequently, ‘I will only react to constructive suggestions,’ for this gives you some protection against your own negative thoughts and those of others. [...]

[...] People react to negative suggestions only when their own frame of mind is negative. [...]

[...] Because your private beliefs are shared with others, because there is interaction, then any determined change of direction on your part is felt by others, and they will react in their own fashion.

(10:01.) See them reacting to you in the new way. [...]

[...] Every individual reacts to suggestion. [...]

For our guest: you should tell yourself frequently, “I will only react to constructive suggestions,” for this gives you some protection against your own negative thoughts and those of others. [...]

[...] People react, as per your letters, emotionally. [...]

(Very long pause.) People often react to their beliefs about the kinds of persons they should be, and to imagined events. [...] A person may see himself or herself, say, as a daring explorer, an inventor, an opera star or whatever, and react against such images. [...]

Your Ella, then, reacted against the repressed violence which has always been a part of that family structure as it is composed of its various personalities. She reacted vehemently against this repressed violence. [...]

[...] She deeply reacted against violence, and was overly sensitive.

[...] At the same time, because of the child’s defect, she managed to produce a child who was relatively free of those pressures against which she reacted. [...]

[...] These seem so real that you find yourself in the position of reacting to them constantly.

While you go about your daily chores and endeavors, beneath normal waking consciousness you are constantly focused in other realities also, reacting to stimuli of which your physical conscious self is not aware, perceiving conditions through the inner senses, and experiencing events that are not even registered within the physical brain. [...]

[...] Beneath this, there are other communications, not consciously recorded, so that the body reacts to temperature, air pressure, and so forth, and reacts accordingly.

[...] What you read, however, is in one way or another translated into other terms, so that for example your stomach reacts in its way to your reading matter, as the visual information is translated into other terms. [...]

[...] When you think that you are in such a position, you react in threatened fashions, of course, and give them power that they do not naturally possess. [...]

[...] It’s the latter that she reacts to the most, it seems from my viewpoint. [...]

[...] It is peculiarly suited, of course, to react to cultural information. [...]

When you brooded about past errors, criticizing Prentice in your mind for past and future errors, you were reacting to implied threats of a kind. The refreshment of prime data, the return to natural stimulation, allows you to react appropriately to any realistic “threat,” without exaggeration.

[...] Secondarily, you do of course then react to those events.

[...] You react by setting up defenses….”)

(9:27.) The cells [with their] genetic packages, like all cells, react to stimuli. [...]

Your genetic structure reacts to each thought that you have, to the state of your emotions, to your psychological climate. [...]

Nor do I think that establishment science will soon be interested in Seth’s ideas that exchanges take place involving our genetic systems, the environment, and cultural events like politics and economics; or that our genetic systems react to our thoughts and emotions—let alone that there’s any genetic planning for future probabilities! [...]

[...] On occasion you increased your own noncontact behavior when he did not react when you thought he should.

[...] You ran into the invisible danger points and reacted in the old ways.

He of course reacted to the annoyance on your part. [...]

As living cells have a structure, react to stimuli and organize according to their own classification, so do thoughts. [...]

[...] As mentioned (in the 628th session in Chapter Six), there was a time before his condition developed when his “good-self thoughts” and his “bad-self thoughts” vied for his attention, and the body tried desperately to react to constant, alternating and often contradictory concepts.

[...] The body behaves as you think it must behave, so Augustus and Augustus Two, with their alternating patterns of behavior, caused the body to react in quite different ways.