“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

In the same way, if your core belief stresses your spirituality to such an extent that it cuts off needed sensual expression, then it has become restrictive and will end up strangling, even, that spiritual experience that it was originally meant to express.

If you consider yourself primarily physical then you may, in line with your beliefs, impede your spiritual or emotional aspects. In that case, working with your beliefs will lead you to greater experience along mental and spiritual paths. [...]

[...] You will, however, emphasize one certain quality above all others — your athletic nature, your spiritual bent, whatever it may be.

[...] Nevertheless, any physical benefits, any predictions that do occur in such sessions, come as a result of initial spiritual and psychic development. To expect the physical benefits first can indeed close off the very spiritual and psychic development.

[...] But these defeats are always caused by inner spiritual or psychic problems that have not been faced or solved.

Gifts from heaven are the results of individual spiritual developments, and if they are not then they only appear to be gifts. [...]

There have been spiritual rebirths and regenerations — and ungodly slaughter as well, as a result of the meaning of Easter. [...]

[...] Without exception, all of the horrors connected with Christianity’s name came from “following the letter rather than the spirit of the law,” or by insistence upon literal interpretations — while the spiritual, imaginative concepts beneath were ignored.

[...] You are having wars between the Jews and the Arabs and the Christians once again, because emphasis is put upon literal interpretations of spiritual truths.

[...] There is no possibility of any spiritual survival as far as most evolutionists are concerned. [...]

[...] Such cross purposes, of course, can lead to mental, spiritual, physical and emotional difficulties.

[...] All of these attitudes can be extremely detrimental, and along with other beliefs are responsible for a goodly number of spiritual, physical, mental, and emotional problems.

[...] You brought it upon yourselves to bring yourselves to a new step of spiritual and psychic evolution. You had to realize that a certain amount of spirituality was necessary if the inner psychic self would grow. [...]

I can imagine a lovely scene where bodiless individuals, spiritual psychologists and I, sit in a dark room all dressed in gowns at another level of reality, and they ask me what is wrong with me and I say—I am obsessed. [...]

[...] But these are not places, they are spiritual states and even in those terms, hell is not eternal. [...]

[...] Any true evolution of your species as such is dependent on evolution of consciousness and spirituality. [...]

The “victims” choose to participate in those conditions at spiritual, psychological, and biological levels. [...]

If the quality of life that is considered spiritually and biologically necessary fails, then adjustments occur. [...]

[...] It has its own defenses and abilities, and each portion of it strives for a quality of existence that will bring to the smallest parts of it the spiritual and biological fulfillment of its own nature.

[...] Inherently, each individual knows that he or she must die physically in order to survive spiritually and psychically…. [...]

I may for a while stress the ways in which individually, and as a civilization, you have undermined your own feelings of safety; yet I will also give you methods to reinforce those necessary feelings of biological integrity and spiritual comprehension that can vastly increase your spiritual and physical existence.

[...] There are many methods and schools of thought here, but a highly suggestive state of mind results, in which spiritual, mental, and physical goals are sought. [...]

[...] Many dedicated doctors use medical technology with spiritual understanding, and they are themselves the victims of the beliefs they hold.

[...] In all such cases the clear spiritual and biological integrity of the individual suffers, and the precious immediacy of your moments is largely lost.

[...] Another contains an excellent description of true spirituality. [...]

[...] Again, it behooves you to deny your true feelings in order to be spiritual — which is not true spirituality — and you say again, “God bless you, may you go in peace.”

[...] At this point of your spiritual progression, you only imagined that you wished him good. [...]

[...] He pats himself upon the back and thinks, “I am growing more spiritual day by day.”

[...] The expansiveness then was also of a spiritual nature. Whatever objects were shown in the painting automatically presupposed the existence of spiritual realities, and other universes, though these presuppositions were highly ritualistic.

In the smallest detail of the smallest still life they managed to suggest the reality of the spiritual universe, of which that detail was a part, and through which the energy of the universe spoke.

[...] The energy is psychic and spiritual. [...]

This is also the reason for his strong reaction concerning spiritualism. [...]

[...] And to a distrust of spiritual matters.

[...] While you are in this reality there is no division between the mental, the spiritual, and the physical. If you think there is, then you do not sufficiently understand the spirituality of the flesh or the physical reality of your thought.

(She wrote down the “Latin” book title as best she could: Enada Inaventum [Deus ?].The E could possibly be either an I or an A. Then at 10:10 she told me the translation of the title would be Spiritual Adventures. At 10:15 she elaborated; the title would be The Spiritual Adventures of a Monk at Large.

[...] “I’m not sure, but maybe the Spiritual Adventures thing is connected with you when you were doing those manuscripts; maybe you wrote it....” [...]

[...] You are the one who is out of contact with your feelings and emotions at that point, however, for at this point of your “spiritual progression” you only imagine that you wish him good. [...] They are contracted because you have not admitted, in this point admittedly of future spiritual progression, that you wanted to wring his neck, so you say nothing but wish him well. [...]

[...] But again, it behooves you to deny your true feelings in order to be spiritual, which is not true spirituality and you say again, God bless you, may you go in peace, and this time the psychic safety valve has had too much. [...]

[...] Instead, he bends down and says, my good man, et cetera, may you live long and hearty and God bless your life and then he pats himself on the back and thinks, I am growing more spiritual day by day. [...]

(11:25.) When you try to be spiritual by cutting off your creaturehood you become less than joyful, fulfilled, satisfied natural creatures, and fall far short of understanding true spirituality. [...]

[...] (Pause.) You cannot appreciate your spirituality unless you appreciate your creaturehood. [...]

You will not attain spirituality or even a happy life by denying the wisdom and experience of the flesh. [...]

(Before the session, in line with our new way of thinking, Jane and I said that we could have six main categories in our lives: work; finances; living quarters; health; mobility; spiritual contentment, which would include helping others. [...]

Now I tell you that if both of you use these methods, you will indeed completely change for the better not only your physical environment and reality, but your inner, creative, psychic and spiritual environment. [...]

But more than this, the fact itself of belief cleanses the psychic and spiritual channels of negative debris. [...]

[...] To do so however increases their spiritual help also, for you see the results and then you have to realize that the truths are real.

(This afternoon Jane wrote a letter to a spiritual healer, Harry Edwards, in England, but has yet to mail it. [...]

In some cases of spiritual healing, belief is not necessary. [...]

[...] They are psychic, spiritual and physical exercises that will let him handle energy more effectively, and release his abilities smoothly. [...]

[...] The yoga exercises simply include rather painlessly, and in one package, techniques that are of greatest benefit in the maintenance of spiritual, mental and physical health.

You attempt then to further banish the characteristic enjoyment of your own creaturehood, denying the lusty spirituality of your flesh and the strong present corporeal leanings of your soul. You will try to rid yourself of very natural emotions, and so be cheated of their great spiritual and physical motion. [...]

There is a belief in illness as being morally wrong, and a countering belief in it as being ennobling, uplifting and spiritually good. [...]

[...] Any biological or spiritual advancement that you might imagine will of course not come from any outside agency, but from within the heritage of consciousness made flesh. [...]

[...] This does not mean that man in the present has fallen from some higher spiritual achievement to his current state.

[...] At its best, however, the change would bring about spiritual alterations. [...]

[...] Your insistence upon separating yourselves from nature automatically prevented you from trusting the biological aspects of the body, and your religious concepts further alienated you from the body’s spirituality.

[...] They are spiritual, mental, emotional and biological beliefs that are innately present in the birth of each creature. [...]

Many people no longer believe in life after death, and so large numbers of the population are philosophically denied a spiritual or a physical future.