“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] [Earlier Monday night, before the session, I’d asked Jane how one could “be a child again,” while retaining the valuable elements from the subsequent events in life, but keeping that original clarity and simplicity of vision.] I’d been thinking primarily of painting. [...]

[...] It seems that in recent years one of my main goals in life has been to pare down—or eliminate outright—a number of ideas and obligations and hassles that I’d finally realized weren’t worth the time to retain. [...]

[...] She said she felt as though she was listening to someone else speak, but could not retain what she heard, nor did she know what was coming next.

Yet on a deeper level he still retains hold upon other existences, so much so that he even yearns subconsciously for those past realities, which mean safety, since their problems have already been solved. [...]

[...] He wanted to retain what was said, and sought for methods. [...]

[...] I mean did I consciously retain memory of the projections?”)

[...] Then this afternoon she picked up from Seth that in a new chapter he’d explain how physical deformities are, among other things, manifestations of the great range of abilities encompassed within our species’ genetic pool, and that we retain such flexibility in case wide changes are ever needed. [...]

In many philosophies this sort of idea is retained — the soul being returned to a primal giver, or being dissolved in a nebulous state somewhere between being and nonbeing. [...]

[...] Once this is understood it becomes at least theoretically possible to re-create the material of the past, in so far as the patterns for the material have been retained.

[...] I retained conscious memory of one of them for just a moment before it irrevocably faded. [...]

Because you identify your experience with the regular line of consciousness with which you are familiar, you are rarely able to “bring in” any “other-self” material and hold it while retaining your own sense of identity. [...]

The units so charged with intensive emotional energy formed patterns for matter that retained their strength. [...]

[...] Some may even cause themselves to have severe accidents, in which they sacrifice portions of their bodies to retain a sense of —

[...] In many instances, however, this simple consciousness will be retained for some time, in your terms. [...]

[...] As you know, the physical body is itself never the same, and the atoms that compose it appear and disappear constantly while the appearance of permanency is retained. [...]

[...] If so, it will be one in which identities are completely retained, and there is no question of a dominancy, but of a smooth-working organization.

[...] In the most important dream work, done in the deep protected sleep periods, the symbols are powerful enough and yet condensed enough so that they can be broken down, used in a series of seemingly unrelated dreams as connectives, retain their original strength and still appear in different guises, becoming in each succeeding dream layer more and more specific.

[...] Ruburt’s consciousness merged, while still retaining its own individuality, with the consciousness of the leaves outside his window, and with the nail in the windowsill, and traveled outward and inward at the same time, so that like a mental wind his consciousness traveled through other psychological neighborhoods.

[...] Soon he will retain conscious knowledge of them.

[...] You grow out of identities, and into others, all the while retaining an indestructible portion that does the changing. [...]

[...] There is then a natural reaction at times, as those tendencies in the personality that adopted the symptoms actually struggle to retain them.

[...] Nor, however, will it be lost to you; your memories, for example, will be retained. [...]

[...] As a rule, conscious memory of these is not retained. [...]

[...] Jane was dissociated as usual; that is, she retained a very general idea of what she had been speaking about. [...]