“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] When the body becomes too tense reactions are exaggerated in certain fashions, bringing forth dejection or depression. When necessary, such reactions are meant to show the personality that changes are due. [...]

[...] The sensation was your own reaction to the psychological presence of your friend Ferd. [...]

([Pete:] “Well Seth, I was extremely bothered by my brother’s reaction to what you said about the August 20th five and ten race—you told Steve not to bet on it. [...]

[...] Our Ruburt’s dreams, or your recent reaction to them, Joseph .

[...] And I will by all means mention your own reaction, which was based on a wrong assumption.

You had the particular reaction because you misinterpreted an element of Ruburt’s dream, of which you knew, but I believe you had forgotten it.

The sneezing was a panic reaction. [...]

[...] One led to a strong serum reaction that incapacitated me for two weeks; the other resulted in a partial paralysis lasting several days. [...] It bears a description of my reactions to at least some vaccines, as well as the most emphatic statement that if I’m found unconscious for any reason — after an accident, say — I must not be given an injection of any kind because I might have a fatal reaction to it. [...]

[...] He came through with the following quotations when Jane began to express a renewed concern about her responsibility for his material, and for the reactions of others to it. [...]

[...] Only when the private nature of reality was emphasized sufficiently would I be ready to show how the magnification of individual reality combines and enlarges to form vast mass reactions — such as, say, the initiation of an obviously new historical and cultural period; the rise or overthrow of governments; the birth of a new religion that sweeps all others before it; mass conversions; mass murders in the form of wars; the sudden sweep of deadly epidemics; the scourge of earthquakes, floods, or other disasters; the inexplicable appearance of periods of great art or architecture or technology.

4. I’m especially interested in Seth’s material on inoculations, since on two separate occasions I underwent severe physical reactions after receiving them. [...]

Emotional outbursts or reactions do cause chemical conditions, and certain chemical conditions can facilitate such communications. However, it is a fact that as a rule the communications cause the chemical reactions rather than the other way around.

[...] It may happen spontaneously, as when a severe emotional reaction is set off; through external circumstances, and what Ruburt has read in the past along these lines is partially correct.

Your own reactions since our last session are excellent. [...]

[...] In the meantime however, because of these issues all meeting, and his reactions as given, his condition worsened. [...]

[...] The whole affair, with his reactions now, still had him at the point where he did not think he could physically recover, and he was caught in a panic that he tried to hide from you.

[...] The reaction to such a mental act is made not only to the act itself; but the reaction is made to the appearance of an initial act, as it is projected into the second system.

(She still has to understand her automatic reactions of panic and fear of lost working time when I suggest going out, as I did today about going to the bank and post office tomorrow. But at least now she’s conscious of her reactions, as she said, and can do something about them from that position. [...]

[...] He is quite open often, say, to making love, as you know now, but earlier you colored your reaction to him often through the pessimistic cast that both of you had allowed to slip over your perceptions.

[...] It was of course apparent to him, but this is an example of the way in which unthinking habits of reaction can inhibit your perception.

[...] These patterns of reaction can be clearly shown. [...]

[...] With strangers the sessions are often personal, however, because their own emotional reactions are so vibrant initially….”

Again, it is important that you realize the initial nonphysical reaction to stimuli that sparks off all physical reactions. [...]

[...] Ruburt however reacted most vehemently against this shutdown of emotional reaction. [...] They would often seem so different from your own actions at a given time that he became highly confused, and distrusted his own reactions.

All of this affected the sessions, and your reactions to the entire experience. [...]

Your body then might say you are safe, and your senses show you that no danger is present — yet you have begun to rely so upon secondary experience that you do not trust your creature reactions.

[...] To whatever degree, the condemning, critical material too often becomes self-prophesying — for those who put merit on it (loudly) allow it to cloud their reactions.

[...] There seems to be no possible reaction. [...]

(?”6th grade important year”—moved from New York to Pleasantville—[no emotional reaction though.]

[...] The destructive tendencies are collected about a particularly emotionally-charged group of reactions, and cut off from the dominant personality.

[...] In terms of intensity alone, both the foot and the hip symptoms were highly charged, representing of course degrees of immobility and withdrawal—learned, you see, from the mother: a memory reaction adopted without conscious thought.

[...] Each reaction of the cells alters your environment. [...]

[...] Even then, however, on other levels your unconscious reaction will follow your own conscious intents. [...]

The panic reaction you sometimes imagine helps remind you of the panic in which many people spend whole portions of their lifetimes. [...]

There is a subconscious domination of father over son, always an implied, always an insidious circle of reaction leading to reaction. [...]

[...] The panic reaction, which is true, the fear of seeing reality as it was when he was a child; but this indeed is only a symptom of a symptom, and not an origin.

Emotions may even cause a color reaction. [...] They have, as you know, a chemical reaction which is sniffed by other animals.

[...] I could see that she was disappointed in my reactions to her day’s work, and she said as much. [...]

[...] Yet I still felt questions and statements going around in my head as we retired—and as is often the case in such situations I wondered if I’d gone too far in my reactions, and needlessly interfered with Jane’s attempts to probe into and understand a most difficult challenge. [...]