“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] (Pause.) Its own nature regulates its intensity, rather than any rules inherent in the nature of intensity itself. [...]

[...] So as a rule we automatically wait until our signals are clear.

[...] From infinite probable acts, comma, only one can be physically experienced as a rule, period.

[...] The rules apply to everyone. You can use this for your own benefit and change your conditions, once you realize what the rules are.

[...] These rules work for you as well as for everyone else. [...]

[...] You do indeed have to change all of your assumptions—and while living in a world that seems to work by different rules than yours—nor can you as yet make all of your own rules work, so to speak. [...]

[...] As a rule however the conditions are poor.

As a rule body temperature, after certain preliminary stages, is lowered during Ruburt’s trance state. [...]

Yet even these camouflage patterns must follow the basic rules of the inner universe, and reflect them, even if in a distortive manner. [...]

[...] These are simply rules that you have adapted, the rules of the game that you have set up in this planet. [...]

[...] I get you here once a week, as a rule, but I also get you in other dimensions of reality. [...]

[...] Many of the Sumari choose to be born in the springtime,³ but all those born in the spring are not Sumari, and no general rule applies there. They also have a liking for certain races, but again no specific rules apply. [...]

[...] The Sumari are extremely independent, for instance, and as a rule you will not find them born into countries with dictatorships. [...]

When you speak a sentence you do not stop to consider all of the rules of grammar. [...] When you experience an event, you do not usually stop either to examine the rules of perception or to wonder what these are. [...]

(Long pause.) In form two, you will not as a rule encounter any subconscious phantoms, and usually you make the change to form two from the state in which form one is used. [...]

[...] They exist in another dimension, but as a rule you cannot perceive it. [...]

A slide rule. [...]

[...] The slide rule may have been used somehow in a demonstration.

[...] As a rule, however, they enjoy people as people are. [...]

[...] You avoid “the wild psychic world” of cults, semicults, and so forth, and above all you are individualists who do not play according to game rules.

Those rules are extremely important to others. [...]

[...] Those who bang at your doors are the antisocial, the drifters, the troubled, or those so enthusiastic that they also ignore all social rules, in which case you two rise up in arms.

[...] They perform a very creative service as a rule, for social and political organizations can often become stagnant, and no longer serve the purposes of the large masses of people involved. [...] As a rule, however, they have one purpose in mind: to change the status quo in whatever the area of primary interest.

[...] These persons, for instance, may be utterly unknown, and usually are, for as a rule they care not a bit about explaining their interior activities to others — nor, for that matter, even to themselves. [...]

[...] You are only familiar as a rule with this impetus, or these directions, in rather shallow manners, for the ego prefers not to perceive them. [...]

There is indeed no hard and fast rule to tell you which actions are basically impeding actions, and which are not. [...]

[...] The ego simply cannot judge, as a rule, whether an action is a constructive or an impeding one, for the personality as a whole.

[...] In your world and experience, where your interests are paramount, and do rule, they form your reality.

The basic rules of the universe as I have said appear differently on different planes. [...] There are basis rules in the universe. The inner senses use these rules consistently and well.

[...] If you look at the observable physical world in this life, you can, it is true, learn something about the basic rules of the universe, if you take into consideration camouflage distortion. [...]

[...] They want shelter, a definite set of rules. [...]

[...] There are people who follow a cult that is purely private, with rules and regulations as rigorous as any sent down to a group of frightened followers by a despot of whatever kind. [...]

[...] It was because Hitler was so convinced of the existence of evil in the individual psyche, that he set up all of his rules and regulations to build up and preserve “Aryan purity.” The Jews’ idea was also a dark one, in which their own rules and regulations were set to preserve the soul’s purity against the forces of evil. [...]

[...] There are rules; Seth calls them root-assumptions that operate in all realities, our own included. [...] If we follow certain “rules” given to us by Seth, we will get more or less predictable results in the dream state — an indication that an “objective” dream dimension exists quite independently of us or our dreams, a dream dimension in which my dreams and yours have their being.

[...] Yet the fact remains that there is a dream reality with a “structure,” “landscape” and images that appear to be made of matter — but matter that obeys different rules than those with which we are familiar.

All layers of the personality are ‘conscious.’ They simply operate like compartments, so that often one portion of the self is not aware of other portions. As a rule, when you are awake you do not know your sleeping self; you know your neighbor far better, so your sleeping self seems mysterious indeed. [...]

[...] In one study of eight hundred of my own dreams, I was really surprised to find that only seventy of them took place in my old hometown, and even here, as a rule, the action involved the present rather than the past. [...]

[...] All of these—you may call them rules if you prefer—all of these rules then are for your own benefit, and are personalized, formed by me taking into consideration your own needs, strong points and weaknesses. [...]

[...] The rules that I have given you are an absolute necessity if that state is to be achieved. [...]