“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

With some variations, the same kind of “sudden conversion” can occur when a person who has berated religious concepts and beliefs suddenly does a double-take of a different kind, ending up as a twice-born Christian.

(I used the pendulum again this morning, as soon as I was out of bed, and received the same answer. Last night it hadn’t seemed to do any good. This time, though, almost as soon as I’d finished giving myself some gentle positive suggestions, I suddenly began to feel better. All at once I knew I’d be able to eat breakfast — maybe not in comfort, but at least eat. I felt the swelling begin to subside as though a balloon had been pricked.

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 can propel him or her into a rather severe schizophrenic reaction, in which the scientist now defends most fanatically the same ideas that he rejected most fanatically only a short time before.

Both mechanisms suddenly line up the belief systems in one particular manner, knocking aside all doubts but accepting instead a strict obedience to the new belief system, and a new reorganization of life itself beneath that new cause.

[...] You may meet with some misunderstanding when you suddenly decide to change your reality by changing your beliefs — according to the circumstances, you may be going in a completely different direction than the group to which you belong. [...]

In the group, you may suddenly cease to provide for the others a need that you satisfied earlier. [...]

[...] I will say more about this later in the book, but it explains for example why a diet-watcher, suddenly determined to lose weight, may meet with veiled or even open resistance from family or friends; why the person who makes new resolutions may find himself baffled by associates’ ridicule; why the alcoholic trying not to drink finds others tempting him quite openly, or teasing him into indulgence by hidden tactics.

When someone who has been ill starts on the road to recovery through changing his beliefs, he may be quite surprised to find even his dearest allies suddenly upset, reminding him of the “reality” of his dire state for the same reasons.

[...] Suddenly I became aware of a mental image, with sound that I couldn’t hear; like a silent movie. [...]

[...] I was suddenly aware of a crazy feeling in .... [...]

Veins and arteries must become gradually accustomed, by growing elastic, to new circulation, and not suddenly be expected to do more work without being themselves suitably prepared.

[...] Then it seems that an improvement operationally suddenly happens.

[...] You noticed of course Ruburt’s energy suddenly materializing upon his return.

[...] When we reached Troy, Pennsylvania, yesterday afternoon, some twenty-four miles south of Elmira, Jane told me she felt revitalized suddenly.)

Afternoon: A strange moment suddenly comes; we’ve just finished lunch. Frank Longwell just went out back again, to finish working; the huge yellow back-hoe moves outside the kitchen window; the air suddenly turns dark; the sun disappears; an odd cast of light covers everything; stormy, evocative. [...]

At this point, I am suddenly hit with the the knowledge that this is the dream state of another probability system involving Jane and Rob’s probable selves here. I suddenly say to them, ‘My name is Sue Watkins, and my husband’s name is Carl.’ They give me a rather nasty ‘so-what’ look.

[...] As I did this, suddenly a concise clear stream of words came through my head: “Great as these things are, there is a totality of experience and sensation that includes them all, a vortex that contains and transforms these infinite parts.”

[...] Suddenly, the sound of traffic also bothered me. [...]

Suddenly I am yanked away from this scene, and Carl [Sue’s husband] and I are sitting in a large room with Jane as Seth. [...]

[...] He does not need to fear the sudden release of the spontaneous self. [...] But he has been afraid of releasing it suddenly, for fear it would engulf him. [...] It is why the few sudden releases, as with the Prentice letter, have in the past been followed by poorer days for a while.

[...] Now, he has not been aware of his fear of being suddenly released completely. [...]

You can also help by reminding him that his safety does lie in spontaneity, and that joy will result from any complete and sudden release. [...]

“… One morning last weekend (Saturday) Ruburt [Jane] found himself suddenly and vividly thinking about some married friends. [...] Ruburt found himself wishing that the friends lived closer, and he was suddenly filled with a desire to see them. [...]

Wednesday night after the Seth session, before bed, I suddenly began to wonder if the paintings Rob had sold to Lib’s Supper Club, back in the 60s, were still there.

[...] One letter in particular caught my eyes because it was from an old friend, Ed, the man who had introduced Rob and I to begin with; a man who we had lost touch with until two years ago when he’d suddenly written from Alaska.

[...] That might have been the reference that suddenly gave me small shivers.

But man looked out and felt himself suddenly separate and amazed at the aloneness. [...] Some lost ancient legends emphasized in a clearer fashion this sudden sexual division. [...]

[...] He sees himself suddenly, in a leap of comprehension, as existing for the first time not only apart from the environment, but apart from all of earth’s other creatures.

(9:35.) But if man felt suddenly alone and isolated, he was immediately struck by the grand variety of the world and its creatures. [...]

The Garden of Eden story in its most basic sense refers to man’s sudden realization that now he must act within time. [...]

[...] Among a larger variety of possible actions, man was suddenly faced with a need to make choices, that within that context had not been made “before.”

[...] The awakening mentioned earlier, then, found man rousing from his initial “dreaming condition,” faced suddenly with the need for action in a world of space and time, a world in which choices became inevitable, a world in which he must choose among probable actions—and from an infinite variety of those choose which events he would physically actualize. [...]

[...] She exclaimed over the sudden changes. [...]

[...] Suddenly, off the bed, Jane’s left foot began rotating at the ankle in a different fashion. [...]

[...] Suddenly her left leg lifted clear of the bed, and Jane cried out and made other noises as the ankle began rotating again, quite flexibly. [...]

[...] At its basic heart there is the assurance that despite all appearances, say, to the contrary with any given issue, the present can suddenly be changed for the better in a remarkable fashion. [...]

[...] Suddenly Jane was out of trance and looking at me. [...]

[...] Framework 1 and 2 relationships will almost instantly become again more prominent, and many aspects of your lives that now seem so troublesome will seem to have magically drifted away—that is, you will suddenly be aware that the change has occurred. [...]

[...] As I stood there, suddenly I “heard” Seth tell me, mentally, that my dream had forseen her condition which would lead to her death.

[...] How do we know it won’t happen to us?” And the comfortable room suddenly seemed a facade. [...]

[...] In a sudden death, however, this can be more upsetting to the personality involved, and since the new materialization is simultaneous, it can lead to confusion. [...]

Suddenly I felt a strong jolt at the top of my skull; the next instant, I found myself standing on the front steps of an ordinary house. [...]

Sat July 16*** right ankle suddenly much improved; more movement; eyes definitely a good deal better after massaging head yesterday.

[...] Suddenly Jane began to rotate her right arm in concert with lifting her head and neck off the bod—seemingly as fast as could be done. [...]

[...] Then I searched for a second spot on the top of her head—and when I found it with my middle finger Jane’s head suddenly began to jerk very rapidly from side to side. [...]

No conventional arthritic (almost scornfully) could move suddenly with such motions. [...]

[...] Any sudden emergence of a completed universe would then imply an unimaginable and a spectacular development of organization—that it did not just appear from nowhere, but as the “completed physical version” of an inner highly concentrated endeavor, the physical manifestation of an inspiration that then suddenly emerges into physical actuality.²

Such effects may (underlined) appear suddenly within time’s context, rather than slowly emerge, say, into that framework. [...]

Your closest approximation will be, again, your experience with time in the dream state—or instances in which complicated problems are suddenly solved for you in dreams or in other states of consciousness, so that the answers appear full-blown before you.

It was as if the physical world were really tissue-paper thin, hiding infinite dimensions of reality, and I was suddenly flung through the tissue paper with a huge ripping sound. [...]

As it was, I didn’t know what had happened, yet even then I felt that my life had suddenly changed. [...]

[...] Now I suddenly felt the fantastic vitality present even in things I’d previously considered inanimate. [...]

I think that this experience and the manuscript were extensions of the creative subconscious processes that are behind each creative act: normal creativity suddenly “turned on” or stepped up to an almost incredible degree. [...]

[...] People who are not writers or artists, or poets or musicians, often suddenly find themselves almost transformed for a brief period of time — suddenly struck by a poem or a song or a snatch of music, or by a sketch — that seems to come from nowhere, that seems to emerge outside of the context of usual thought patterns, and that brings with it an understanding, a joy, a compassion, or an artistic bent that seemingly did not exist a moment earlier. [...] Such individuals feel that they suddenly “know” in a direct manner. [...]

[...] The final trigger for that actualization may come from the waking or dream states, but it will represent the final factor needed — the quickening of inspiration, desire, or purpose — that will suddenly activate the initial psychological organization as a physical occurrence.

Now, seven years later, I realize that this was an excellent example of the ways in which the inner self can suddenly regenerate and revitalize the personality, open up new methods of perception, shatter barriers and flood the personality with energy that sets it right, reorganizing it in more meaningful directions. [...] Such events are like geysers that erupt suddenly, bringing us close to the center of our being. [...]

[...] But on the night of our return to Elmira, I awakened suddenly with the memory of a disquieting dream which bothered me so much that I awakened Rob. [...]

[...] That night I sat down to write poetry for an hour as usual, and, suddenly, the small rift that had opened so slightly with the first dream now yawned wide open.

[...] There was no present, past or future: I knew this, suddenly, irrevocably.