“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] A division of responsibility for your relationship was far less satisfactory. [...]

For a while then you were willing, comparatively speaking, to let Ruburt express the spontaneous, strongly spontaneous, elements of both of your personalities; with the joys and perils involved, and denying him the responsibility of learning how to temper and use spontaneity. [...]

[...] “I’m glad they’re being changed,” Jane said the other day, in a strangely possessive response. [...]

[...] In the 565th session at 9:30, for Chapter 16, he used the example of one’s possible responses to a telephone call to show how all “probable actions are equally valid,” no matter which one of them is physically actualized.

(Jane had engaged in her spontaneous actions re 458 in response to Seth’s suggestions in the last session—that she imagine others complementing her on how well she was doing, and so forth. [...]

[...] I wanted to know what part beliefs played in such diets, that worked, and I wanted to know about the wide variance in human responses. [...]

[...] Now, my dear friend Joseph, it is partially because of this that some paintings, you see, generate strong emotional response, and outlast the artist.

He projected his resentment into the future, and against all other publishers for awhile, anticipating the same sort of response as he felt the ESP book had received. [...]

[...] You must understand that I am not saying that you are passive, fleeting dreamers, lost in some divine mind, but that you are the unique creative manifestations of a divine intelligence whose creativity is responsible for all realities, which are themselves endowed with creative abilities of their own, with the potential and desire for fulfillment—inheritors indeed of the divine processes themselves. [...]

The same ideas are so dead-ended, however, that they often trigger a different kind of response entirely, in which a scientist who has held to those beliefs most stubbornly, suddenly does a complete double-take. [...]

This same originality and independence that made him an extraordinary salesman, will operate even more effectively if he is in a higher position of responsibility. [...]

What they fear is that the responsibilities of independence will be thrust upon them. [...]

Actually some of the responses to Personal Reality have helped him considerably, as he sees that so-called authorities are greedy for these ideas, and need them desperately. [...]

[...] People do their own thing, and point to others as authorities to take their responsibility for them. [...]

Which might help account, I told Jane, for her response to David’s illness, including the book she’s making for him. [...]

[...] Questions abound involving amniocentesis (examination of the fluid in the womb to detect genetic defects in the fetus); therapeutic abortion; artificial insemination; reproduction by in vitro fertilization; embryo transfer (surrogate motherhood); the responsibilities of the legal, medical and religious communities; whether mentally retarded, genetically defective people should receive life-prolonging medical treatment, and so forth. [...]

[...] Actually, our forces hadn’t come close to reaching the prisoners: Responsible were mechanical failures and two dust storms that the American helicopters had to struggle through before joining a group of transport planes at a remote airfield, code-named Desert One, in central Iran. [...]

[...] The survival of the species is far more dependent upon your subjective activities than your physical ones—for it is your subjective behavior that is responsible for your physical acts. [...]

[...] I told you that as a result of the sessions both your and Ruburt’s creative energies would be enhanced, so to some extent that acceleration was responsible for what you “saw.” [...]

[...] Increased circulation in the head and shoulder area is also responsible for the improvement of his vision. [...]

[...] My main point was that by displacing the cause of their troubles outside themselves, the patient freed himself or herself of guilt and responsibility for their own welfare. [...]

(Aside from her sympathetic response, Jane found the letter evocative of some of her own psychic experiences, and asked me to put it in our Seth notebook for an answer — we felt that Seth’s reply would be of interest to many. [...]

[...] Touching them as you did releases the stress — and Ruburt felt lighter-headed in response. [...]

[...] They are ready to deal with the joy and responsibility that others may not as yet understand, so it is easy enough to make errors. [...]

This was the extent of what you felt to be your responsibility.

[...] You should both have creative breakthroughs of your own in response to these sessions—and again, this session continues at other levels of your being. [...]