“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] I don’t even know if it was aware of my reaction! [...]

[...] Put simply, your thoughts can be regarded as invisible viruses, carriers, sparks setting off reactions not only within the body but the entire physical system as you know it.

[...] There is a severe panic reaction against restrictions, both from within and without, the immobility of fright. [...]

[...] This should quiet nervous reactions, and give him time to recover.

When you begin to realize that you do indeed live in a safe universe, these patterns of reaction begin to break up. [...]

[...] These are all examples, yet they point out habitual reactions that belong to the unsafe universe, that seem appropriate and realistic there.

(Jane became so excercised by those answers that she scribbled her own notes and doodles [some of which are presented here], then pounded out on her typewriter, misspellings and all, her further reactions before tonight’s session.)

[...] I have been for her success, especially since I began to understand my poor reactions to the publication of her first book—jealousy, etc.

[...] Their reactions and your reactions are made known to the inner self. [...]

(To Ron.) Now to our new student, your reaction, you see, this evening and your lack of reaction also is connected with the ideas that you have received as to the nature of meditation and spiritual knowledge. [...]

[...] Peggy attained a deep enough state to show no reaction when Jane placed our cat, Willy, on her stomach as she lay on the divan. [...]

[...] The hour was late and I was quite aware of possible reactions from neighbors in the house.

[...] This is just about a standard first reaction from witnesses for whom Seth has given such material; offhand Jane and I can think of no one who has reacted differently. [...]

(But individual reactions to a given idea or event can vary tremendously, from the most withdrawn behavior to the most explosive. [...]

[...] I am saying that they will rejoice even in their automatic reaction, because any stimuli and reaction represents sensation, and sensation is a method by which consciousness knows itself.

[...] Now I see that he was trying to impress her with the necessity of changing her attitudes and reactions. [...]

Seth goes on to say that illness can be a “healthy” reaction, though it always involves personality problems: “It must be understood by the personality that the illness is a hardship on the part of the whole structure, and . [...]

Simultaneously all of these inhibited reactions seek release, for the manifestation of aggressive feelings sets up natural balances within the body itself, as well as serving as a communication system with others. [...]

[...] They are meant to elicit reactions from others and to arrive at new points of understanding, a balance of rights. [...]

[...] I have no idea of the reaction, subjectively, of some of the witnesses to what must have seemed a very strange happening indeed. [...]

[...] I thought the session a strong reaction to the evening and the gathering. [...]

Imagine your reactions as if the events were already accomplished physical facts. [...]

You did not want to give of yourself to the world because you felt that this was a natural reaction, picked up from your father. [...]

He then got into the habit of checking the spontaneous self at every point, and setting up opposing muscular reactions and tensions. [...]

You had always counted upon him to be freely spontaneous, and could not understand his reactions. [...]

The initial poor reaction the morning following our little chat was simply the result of a temporary fear of letting go. [...]

[...] (Pause.) There is some reaction with sepia, that can lead to an unpleasantly or undesired purpling effect.

[...] She had me rub those certain spots on her neck that can send her head flying against the pillow—but when I found them there was hardly any reaction at all. [...]

1. We called those three very penetrating sessions private, or deleted, because they grew out of our own reactions to David Yoder’s challenges, to the illness of our cat Billy, to the playful antics of Billy’s littermate Mitzi, and to several other personal matters. [...]

[...] Those not yet tried in the session will automatically take care of some of the initial reactions. [...]

[...] This can propel him or her into a rather severe schizophrenic reaction, in which the scientist now defends most fanatically the same ideas that he rejected most fanatically only a short time before.

[...] Instead we decided that his reaction to stress was at least partially responsible, hence the trip.

[...] Obviously we didn’t—yet our reactions were to color our activities for the next several years, and greatly influence the direction in which I would allow my own psychic abilities to operate.