“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Now in her (Bette) emotional response and in his (Ned) emotional response, you found a clear answer to the question and the answers were not the same but they were felt and honest and you (Arnold) came close but then you hid within the concepts. [...]

[...] He did not feel this was his responsibility. [...]

[...] Its importance however in his eyes brings about the responsibility to go further. [...]

[...] You are both responsible for the psychic development, and without your steady devotion so many, Joseph, would not have been helped. [...]

[...] You are responsible for your successes and your joys. You can change those areas of your life with which you are less than pleased, but you must take the responsibility for your being.

[...] If the inner portions of the self were supposed to have that responsibility, then you would not need a conscious mind.

[...] Some of you would be only too glad to follow them for you would not have to face your own responsibility and your own responsibility is to look within and to use your own abilities. [...]

[...] It is responsible for the birth of your children. [...]

[...] You will learn to be responsible for life. [...]

(I suppose we don’t know what our response to the legal department missive will be. [...]

[...] This applies throughout the body, and is also responsible for the sensations in the legs and hips. [...]

[...] They move in response to stimuli received from each other, and to stimuli that come from other atoms.

Any physical perception is actually an action response at a psychic level to thoughts and emotions, and these exist independently of their physical counterparts. [...]

[...] The psyche, however, is responsible for bringing facts into existence. [...]

You take dreaming for granted, yet it is the result of a characteristic ability that is responsible for the very subjective feeling that you call conscious life. [...]

Through such methods, and through such group hysteria, the responsibility for separate acts is divorced from the individual, and rests instead upon the group, where it becomes generalized and dispersed. [...]

[...] And there are always fanatics there to stand for ultimate truth, and to lift from the individual the challenge and “burden” of personal achievement and responsibility. [...]

[...] That inner reincarnational psychic structure is also responsible for triggering certain genetic messages while ignoring others, or for triggering certain combinations of genetic messages. [...]

1. These excerpts from the session for April 9 (which we hadn’t requested, by the way) indicate Seth’s response to discussions Jane and I had been having about our personal functions as artists, as well as the use of art generally in our chosen probable reality. [...]

[...] Opposing determinism is the idea that man has always fought for his personal responsibility—that instead of being controlled entirely by his heritage, he’s capable of forming new syntheses of thought and action based upon the complicated patterns of his own history.

[...] He wanted to show that God was not responsible for the world’s cruelties. [...]

Ruburt’s new attitudes and intentions to be responsive are renewing the body. [...]

Ruburt’s return to his writing will again trigger psychic response and creativity. [...]

[...] You are responsible for your own thoughts. You need to learn the power of thought and emotion, but this should fill you with the joy of creativity and the possibility, not frighten you out of (words missing) of responsibility. [...]

[...] You are not, therefore, alone responsible for an event in that usually, others participate in its creation and for their own reasons. [...]

[...] He is saying, you see, “I am quite normal, quite intellectual, and in my way quite responsible and proper. [...]

[...] In his restrained motion he has to some extent (underlined) adopted what he feels to be the more proper, deliberate responsible characteristics connected in his mind with the symbolically masculine, analytical intellectual.

[...] You did this to assure yourselves that these abilities, feminine in both of your minds, would not so get the upper hand that the responsible, and in both of your minds, masculine or dependable aspects of your life would be threatened.

It does no good to say that Prentice-Hall exists also outside of your experience with it—and that the people there have their own reality, for in such a way you put part of the responsibility upon another agency. [...]

[...] This was necessary because the particular kind of physical manipulation of corporal existence required instant physical response to immediately present stimuli.

[...] Within the corporal structure, however, there are indeed messages that leap too quickly or too slowly² from your viewpoint to allow for any physical response. [...]

[...] No immediate physical response he or she can make seems adequate or pertinent on many occasions. [...]

[...] With the developing expansion of space, however, loved ones often dwell far apart, and sudden bodily response cannot be expressed at once, at a particular point of immediate contact.

[...] He need not try to ignore that, but should remember that this is a response of muscles being newly released. [...]

[...] This is not a lack of belief or optimism, but an honest response at a given moment, and one that allows the body a natural release from tension. [...]

[...] The dream state serves as a rich source for the world’s knowledge, and is also therefore responsible for the outgrowth of its technology. [...]

“It should remind you of the true effortlessness that is in a fashion responsible for your very existence. [...]

[...] The entire framework is indeed based upon a distorted idea of the nature of true responsibility. [...]

[...] Again, the material on responsibility is important to your understanding. [...]

[...] You did say, several times, “You’ll be able to make it all right”—and that was also adequate and a good response.

[...] “I will take your hand if necessary,” for example, would have been an adequate response.

The psyche’s basic experience, then, deals with a kind of activity that you cannot directly perceive, yet that existence is responsible for the events that you do perceive, and therefore acts as the medium in which your dreaming and waking events occur.

[...] Creatively, then, you organize your experience in such a fashion, with the conscious mind as you think of it also carrying its own responsibility. [...]