“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

All systems of reality are created, or constructed, by those who perceive the system. Those who do not construct a system cannot perceive it. [...]

[...] Many of these apparitions exist in their own system whether or not you perceive them. [...] All apparitions however, to appear as or within the physical system, must be constructed by the perceiver in the same manner that all physical objects are constructed.

[...] When you use terms like arthritis you are using a belief system where names are given to states of mind, exteriorized. While you believe in the system you can find some help in it, but it is temporary, not permanent, and further binds you to a limiting system. [...]

Changing beliefs will automatically correct any imbalance in the system, and certain foods for example will no longer “cause” a given condition. In most cases however it is the belief in the system that works, not the elimination of the foods.

He is warm physically now; again the energy available during the session is being largely utilized by his psychic and physical system. [...] The system filling itself up, so to speak, and replenishing itself.

[...] The energy pouring through her last session seemed to clear out her physical system; she felt a “mysterious muscular release.”

He is now soaking up energy, so to speak, within his physical system as a sponge soaks up water. [...]

The task upon which Ruburt will embark will be performed with zest, for the physical system will be replenished and adequately supplied. [...]

[...] (Long pause.) Dreams serve as backup systems also, for example, in the important communications between various peoples or nations—and, particularly when physical communication is cut off between such groups, dreams provide the continuation of information’s flow from one part of the species to another.

[...] These include a kind of horizontal psychological extension, the translation of one kind of dream into another kind—the transference of information from one system to another, in which the symbols themselves come alive.

[...] It is retained in latent form within a kind of backup system, so that in terms of probabilities each species carries within its own genetic patterns the blueprints and specializations of each other’s genetic sequence.

(We held the session in Jane’s study so that she could sit before the double microphones of her new recording system. [...]

[...] They see themselves as leftovers, dim vestiges of better selves, and in their own system of value judgment they condemn themselves through the very fact of their continued existence in time. [...]

In this value system the black races are feared, as, basically, the aged are feared. [...]

[...] In other “underground” systems of belief, however, black is seen as a symbol of great knowledge, power and strength. [...]

The hardest part, however, is over, for the sensation of freedom has been physically introduced through the arm into the system—and that message echoes throughout the system. [...]

In that system he saw you nearly ten years older than he, and in those terms unsatisfied; so he must work all the harder against time, and cut out everything else. In that system, as he developed it, there was no time for leisurely meals, showers, shopping trips or mundane enjoyments—only the work was important. [...]

[...] Now we are dealing with an old belief system once shared to a large extent by you both.

I will try in your future to explain basic systems of co-ordinates so that you will have some conception of how all creative and inspirational ideas always appear within your system; for only one portion of you appears isolated within it.

[...] Inspiration always springs from beyond your system, and not within it. [...]

[...] These coordinates leave traces within your physical system. [...]

[...] (One minute pause; voice unchanged.) These are projected into your system and opened. [...]

[...] Now these units, while appearing within your system, may also have a reality outside it, propelling the emotional energy units through the world of matter entirely. [...] They can, however, lose or gain power, fall back into intensities beneath matter, or go through matter, appearing as matter as they do so and projecting through your system.

Its intensity, however, can vary to amazing degrees, so that it could, relatively speaking, be too weak or fall back, not strong enough to form the basis for matter, but to project into another system, perhaps, where less intensity is required for “materialization.”

These units may also gain so in intensity and strength that they form relatively permanent structures within your system because of the astonishing energy behind them. [...]

[...] Now, it is true that within your physical system—for I know this will come next from our friend Florence—you can measure your couch. [...] However, within your physical system the instruments themselves are distorted and, of course, they will agree with what they measure. [...]

[...] But when you leave your physical system, and when physical perception is no longer the rule—then you must learn new root assumptions. Root assumptions are those meaning laws upon which you agree in any system of reality. [...]

[...] Now it is true that within your physical system — for I know this will come next — you can measure your couch. [...]

However, within your physical system the instruments themselves are distorted, and of course they will agree with what they measure. [...]

[...] But when you leave your physical system and when physical perception is no longer the rule, then you must learn new root assumptions.

Root assumptions are those laws upon which you agree in any system of reality. [...]

[...] They are the children of our dreams and so, also, do you seed other realities and other systems. [...] Therefore, also do we remember you and your system. Consciousness releases its abilities in ways that you do not understand and yet from your own mind, springing from your own dreams, other systems of reality emerge as you have emerged from our dreams. Your system can be likened to a probability system that was latent always within our own capabilities but was not actualized within our experience. [...]

[...] Some of you do help persons who have immediately left this system to acclimate to the new conditions. [...]

[...] In such a case the illness actually represents a new unifying system. Now, if the old unifying system of the personality has broken down, the illness, serving as a makeshift, temporary emergency measure, may hold the integrity of the personality intact until a new constructive unifying principle replaces the original.

[...] The energies appear concentrated and turn inward, affecting the whole system. [...]

[...] It is obvious therefore that less energy is available to the personality for actions more beneficial to the personality system as a whole.

[...] The impeding action, as seen in an illness for example, is quite literally accepted by the personality structure, and by all corresponding systems, as a portion of the self. [...]

[...] It has left your system entirely. We do at times visit you, your system, by sending projections of ourselves in such innocent manners.

I want to make this clear: no postulated new force theory will answer their questions until it is realized that no system is closed, and that the physical universe is not the origin of, but the result of, the energy that they seek. [...]

[...] None of this is meant to deny the reality of your own physical system for you. [...]

[...] I will be able to activate certain abilities of Ruburt’s (pause,eyes closed), by helping him alter certain coordinates within his own inner system.

[...] While the body’s integrity must lie in a constant reiteration in one probability, and maintain within that probable system a certain “constant,” and while physically perception is largely directed there, the basic integrity of the body system and consciousness comes from outside the system into it. [...]

Scientifically, with all of your instruments, you are thus far able to perceive the atom’s presence only in the field of your own system of probability. [...]

The atoms, while behaving properly within the system, and seeming to adhere to its rules and assumptions, nevertheless actually straddle probabilities. [...]

Looking into your system, into your physical system, to us is like looking through one (pause), of innumerable windows.

[...] In your terms some of the windows would contain probable realities within your physical system. [...]

While the speaker, or speaker-system, necessarily loses many meanings, the very distortions that do occur make the messages decipherable. [...]

[...] (Long pause, eyes closed.) This portion, while still within the three-dimensional system, is closely allied with other portions of the self that are free of that system.

[...] The very concept of the immunity system suggests, at least, the disease invader against which the body’s immunity system must or should surely defend itself.

[...] Those opportunities involved emotional understanding, a very close and emotional contact with a particular belief system, and a firsthand view of a certain kind of reality structure. [...]

[...] Where did that kind of belief system end up? [...]

[...] On the other hand, for the time being he had a very secure belief system against which for quite a full number of years he could test his own mental, emotional and spiritual vigor. [...]

(Long pause.) In that background Ruburt saw firsthand an example of many of the most unfortunate issues with which we have been presently concerned, to at least some extent, as he followed his mother’s adventures through the medical system, for example, through the welfare process. [...]

(9:50.) Now, there are no closed systems in reality. In your physical system the nature of your perceptions limits your idea of reality to some extent, because you purposely decide to focus within a given “locale.” But basically speaking, consciousness can never be a closed system, and all barriers of such a nature are illusion. Therefore the soul itself is not a closed system. [...]

There are many matters here very difficult to express in words, for you are so afraid for your sense of identity that you resist the idea that the soul, for example, is an open spiritual system, a powerhouse of creativity that shoots out in all directions — and yet this is indeed the case.

[...] It is not possible (pause) to thoroughly understand a time sequence without some participation in the system involved. Portions of the overall Seth entity have participated in your system, as you know.

[...] Instead of projecting them outward, as you did into such images, they are directed to a specific area in the body; or in other cases allowed to wander, so to speak, traveling troublemakers, through the entire physical system.

[...] It is something that will take its place with the other elements of his personality, merge with it, add its strength, and set up its own system of balances with other groupings of characteristics. [...]

(“What does the new personality, the larger Seth, think of our time system? [...]