“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] A circle of reaction has formed about the family therefore, that so far is self-perpetuating. [...] It is simply that the family has become weary, but the circle of reaction must be broken.

(Jane’s Tuesday paper on her feelings is evidently a very important one, representing some excellent insights on her part about her repressed impulses, her fears about my reactions to various events, her private nature and public appearances, and related topics. [...] They seem to be like small test cases, meaning that our reactions to them, how we handle them, will show rather clearly where we’re at these days, as they say.

(After supper this evening, Jane had a rather strong reaction, a new determination that had arisen from her encounters with the idea of impulse and inspiration. [...] I can’t describe Jane’s reactions too well from the observer’s viewpoint, except to approximate them here. [...]

[...] But you put to excellent use the advice which I gave you, concerning the importance of psychological reactions.

[...] If his reactions cause a generalized overall poor condition, this is much more difficult to treat. [...]

This still leaves you free from ordinary reactions with them, need not close you off from conversation, and yet gives you an immunity from their negative attitudes. [...]

I want to make this clear, for it should help you both to understand your reactions, and to change them accordingly. [...]

You are largely over that kind of reaction — yet it is still apt to return now and then when you fear that you have not done as well as you should have, or when you have momentarily caught yourself behaving in old ways. [...]

Do keep an eye out for that kind of reaction, however, so that you can nip it in the bud.

He is receiving larger doses of energy due to the season, and his own natural reactions to it, but he is not acting or reacting with the spontaneity that is natural to him in early springtime. [...]

He is doing as well as he did a month or so ago in his reactions, but now that is not good enough. [...]

The wonder about your mother’s reaction however is important here. [...]

[...] I still think my reaction here is valid. [...]

(Jane wanted to know about the delayed reaction she experienced to my suggestions last Monday, after our first such episode, following Seth’s instructions. [...] as far as we can tell, her reactions to the first suggestion episode have been the deepest so far. [...]

Now: you had a delayed reaction in the first session to some degree. [...]

Your improvement is noted here more strongly, for you have refused to become very much annoyed, and you have almost automatically adjusted your reaction. The situation is entirely different because of your reaction.

Your reaction has changed the situation for the better. [...] Because of your most sensible reaction, the whole situation is much less bothersome than it would be otherwise. [...]

One note: since much of this session has to do with personal material concerning your landlord, I did not mean earlier to point out to you your own reaction, Joseph, which has been excellent to the situation in general.

The reactions are beautiful examples. First of all Ruburt was worried, somewhat, concerning your own reactions when you found that you now had a new engagement for Friday evening, after already planning to cancel a previous one, in order to have some free time for yourself, and he felt to blame since he had already made a commitment to Mark—rather unwillingly, by the way. [...]

I have a few rather humorous preliminary remarks to make, concerning Ruburt’s recent reactions.

There were several causes for them, and these reactions were triggered by the visit of your friend Mark last evening.

I decided to mention this since he is at the point now—I am speaking of Ruburt—when he will not accept the superficial reasons given by the ego for many reactions, but seeks to discover deeper causes. [...]

[...] I’m afraid that when I opened the letter and saw the check for the $18,000, I felt no reaction at all. [...]

(It appears that the payments will be for 100% of the bill, rather than 80% — but here again I’m waiting to see, suspended in a kind of cocoon of inaction or non-reaction …

[...] All of these reactions are far less than they would have been some months ago, and many areas of the body that would have been affected then are now free, even from such reactions, but he should not allow them to slide by.

[...] In the past the reaction would have been much stronger however. [...]

Say that you are going to try to see Prentice-Hall’s reaction—will they accept the manuscript or not? [...]

[...] Forget what you have learned about reactions and stimuli. [...] Try to view normal physical occurrences as the concrete physical reactions in space and time to your own feelings and beliefs. [...]

You usually think, for example, that your feelings about a given event are primarily reactions to the event itself. [...]

[...] He to some extent (underlined twice) recognizes his projections, is consciously aware of them, and tries to deal with them, but in that particular situation you do not recognize yours, though you understand to some degree your different individual reactions.

[...] He does this particularly since he realizes he cannot count upon his reactions. [...]

[...] Now your class reflects what you are doing, so always look beneath the surface, and examine your class reactions as you examine your dream reactions. [...]

[...] And I’m afraid that history contains numerous examples wherein that very reaction has taken place. [...]

Making a portion of the nighttime hours available in one way or another at least occasionally is also another way of breaking up habitual reactions, and of assuring a certain kind of privacy, using a completely different method entirely. [...]

[...] Again, any changes you insert help break up old reactions. [...]

[...] As it happened I woke up with a start, feeling at first what I thought was a spasm in my chest, but quickly realized it was a part of my dream reaction. [...]

[...] In its moment-to-moment reactions, the body consciousness is, you might say, “literal-minded.” [...]

[...] It is a matter of understanding the process—not of blaming yourself for reactions you do not approve of. [...]

[...] It is not that your thoughts just trigger chemical reactions in the body, but that your thoughts have a chemical reality besides their recognizable mental aspects. [...]

[...] Jane had come up with that one, stressing her personal reactions. [...]

You see, now, more clearly than you have, that your problems are the results of unfortunate personal reactions and interactions, that two are involved here rather than one.

[...] You will change the past, your reaction to it, by vividly imagining happy hours that you refused to focus upon. [...]

[...] She held a hand up.) He was frightened then at your reaction. [...]

[...] Your reaction to the ESP book quite literally terrified him. [...]

Your reactions at such times are not good for yourself, and your reactions are not good at such times for the conditions which bring them about. Such reactions actually worsen the conditions that you would change. [...]

[...] Ruburt’s feelings and lack of action as far as the publishing house was concerned left much to be desired, and in time his lack of action would have caused an unpleasant reaction on his own part. [...]

[...] You felt his reaction to your attitude strongly, and you should have questioned yourself at that point. [...]

Some family members, in fact, may be quite surprised by a barrage of unexpected reactions. They may find themselves furious at the patient for becoming ill, and then develop unfortunate guilt feelings over their own first reactions. [...]