“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

I have often stated that the mind-body relationship is one system. The thoughts are as necessary to the whole system as the body’s cells are. Ruburt correctly interpreted an analogy I gave him in which I compared thoughts to individual cells, and belief systems to the physical organs, which are composed of cells. [...]

Belief systems are as necessary and natural as physical organs are. [...] Left alone, your thoughts will come and go through your belief systems just as naturally; and ideally, they will balance out, maintaining their own health and directing your body so that its innate therapies take place.

Your systems of belief will of course attract certain kinds of thoughts, with their trails of emotional experience. [...]

[...] Such habitual, unhappy thoughts will bring about the same kind of physical experience, but it is your own system of beliefs that you must examine.

[...] The twin who was in the military found his sense of identity as a soldier within the system, but he had great faith in the system... [...] and at that time you envied him that security and that sense of identity within the system in which he believed. [...]

[...] A strong inclination to go ahead independently with his ideas, balanced by the desire to find security within the system, and the fear to leave it. [...]

[...] The belief system may in fact be negatively attuned while still providing that overall value. [...] Some cultures provide symbols, or symbolic steps within the system itself, that allow for a steady “progression,” in which a young person’s curiosity and accelerated adolescent rebellion is subtly directed from within the society itself. [...]

[...] It has so many variations now in the world culture that it allows many individuals to move from one belief system to another while still safely cloaked in religious garb. If you move from sinner to saint or saint to sinner, from Buddhism to fundamentalism of the Christian kind, or from one sect to another, seemingly with a diverse belief system, your growth and transformations are still being provided for by a religious structure.

(Long pause.) The original ideas connected with the Sinful Self’s beliefs were at one time, for example, not as obviously unfortunate, since the system itself also provided for salvation, methods of appeasement and so forth—all of which were thoroughly accepted through many centuries. [...]

One of the church’s most powerful allies was to that extent its understanding of human psychology, for if you left the church or its system, it knew that you still carried many of its beliefs nevertheless—only now you had something like an itch that you could not scratch. [...]

It is of vital importance, however, for overall clarification that a belief system recognizes itself as such. Otherwise it becomes another closed system of thought, bathed in absolutism, and doomed to the weightiness of dogma. [...]

The Castaneda system accepts the power of evil, for example (long pause), presenting a framework in which those people who do accept such power can confront it, along with a system of exercises and beliefs meant to minimize evil’s effects. [...]

Both represent systems of belief quite different from our own material in many respects. [...]

The system does not practically approach any lively sympathy for the masses of mankind, or any particular understanding of the more mundane events that mark man’s daily ways. [...]

You had a brief life as twins—some definite clear-cut divisions within yourself, have to do with this life when you were one of two—one going one way, and one going the other—one twin had a strong leaning toward military things—a soldier—the organization of the church now serves the same purpose, I believe—security within the organization—the twin who was in the military found his sense of identity as a soldier within the system, but he had great faith in the system—in what he was doing—the other twin was more given to a statesman-like sort of thing—and was in fact an orator, although he had another profession—it included oration to people—the two of you had a very strong telepathic relationship—and this time the church has provided the same kind of organization—you sort of resented the fact that this twin brother of yours had this organization in which he found support and in which he felt so a part because he was absolutely certain of the aims and goals of the organization and he was a good soldier within it—and at that time you envied him that security and that sense of identity within the system in which he believed. [...]

[...] A strong inclination to go ahead independently with his ideas, balanced by the desire to find security within the system, and the fear to leave it. [...]

In other words, I may teach the same lesson in many different ways, according to the abilities and assumptions that are inherent in any given system in which I must operate. [...] In other systems of reality, this particular Seth personality that I, the larger Seth identity adopt here, would not be understood.

[...] There is not just one dimension in which nonphysical consciousness resides, any more than there is only one country on your planet or planet within your solar system.

[...] I “travel” to many other levels of existence in order to fulfill my duties, which are primarily those of a teacher and educator, and I use whatever aids and techniques serve me best within those systems.

All systems of reality are not physically oriented, you see, and some are entirely unacquainted with physical form. [...]

You must be free enough to explore the nature and experience of every living thing within your own system knowing that it is yourself and then leave your system. [...]

([Gene]: “But I can’t leave the system because I am in all systems simultaneously.”)

[...] First there must be a period, and then it has passed, when you are completely immersed in a given system as if no other existed. [...] This does not mean you are not dwelling in other systems simultaneously. [...]

[...] Even in physical terms, in very limited physical terms, you are still dealing with other systems.

[...] But the bacon goes through your physical system and the thoughts of emotion, left alone, will pass through your psychic system. [...]

In the spontaneous working of your nervous system, what do we find? [...] And yet all of this rests upon the spontaneous workings of the inner self and the nervous system of which the intellect knows little. [...]

[...] Your nervous system knows how to react. [...]

[...] And yet they come in your system within a highly ritualized and disciplined manner. [...]

[...] These are basic principles concerning the nature of action, principles that are carried through within any system. They are valid therefore within your own system, within the electrical system, within the dream system, and among all others.

[...] I may perceive the entire consequences of any given action within your system or my own, but it is impossible for me to perceive a given action’s consequences as it is felt within all systems, for each action occurs within all systems simultaneously.

[...] Your time system is indeed the result of tension as it is distorted within your own system, yet the distortion itself, as you see, creates a new reality. [...]

[...] It may pass beyond or through the system in which it originated, but its existence will not cease.

[...] Because you are born physically into your system, you take it for granted without thinking of it that you are born in the same manner into other systems. This may or may not apply, but it is definitely not applicable to the system of probabilities as a whole.

[...] These ‘separate’ probable systems do not operate isolated from each other, then, but are intimately connected. All systems are open. [...]

[...] I think then that this must be the astral system of my own probability system and that I have returned safely. [...]

[...] First of all, it is apparent that there is communication between various systems of probabilities and that actions in one system can and do affect the other.

[...] The inner will always be projected outward within your system. If, for example, a letter comes to you bearing good news, and you react to the letter with high spirits, then you should understand that the high spirits existed first, and created the materialization of the letter within the physical systems, through the multilayered and complicated reactions that bind together the physical system.

If an annoying letter arrives and you react to it negatively, the negative quality preceded the letter and caused it to materialize in your system. [...]

[...] The physical being simply uses the physical system as a checking board.

[...] He is on the last reincarnation within this system.”)

[...] Any faulty constructions however are used by the inner self in a feedback system and as a part of the learning process. Your system is not the most elementary, but it is one of the most elementary, and it is a way that the inner self acquaints itself with certain basic facts.

Concentration in any given area predisposes certain elements within the nervous system toward that particular kind of focus or concentration, as many footfalls hollow out a pathway. [...]

[...] Very definite portions of the nervous system that you do not understand are the receptors of impulses that go outward from you to form events.

The inner self therefore uses the physical system to express its own inclinations and ideas of reality. [...]

The child at such a time for one thing is not in the situation to do conflict with belief systems—it is too young and dependent. The belief systems can be like blocks, which are used and then later changed or replaced, but there is a kind of (underlined) bonding of the childhood self with those ideas it takes from its parents. [...]

[...] The church itself, again, had an elaborate system within which the Sinful Self could be at least momentarily redeemed, sins confessed and so forth—so within that system the pressures set up by the entire concept were at least momentarily lessened through such releases. [...]

[...] The child or infant is highly suggestible to parental belief systems, so that it can early be provided with a conceptual framework that is complementary to its surroundings, to the group or environment. [...]

[...] When Ruburt left that system intellectually some of the old bonding power remained, the emotional glue, but he no longer believed in the indulgences, the sacraments and so forth, so the Sinful Self was left fairly isolated, still believing to some extent that to “be good” it must be bad, but without the releases of guilt once provided by churchly help and belief. [...]

(Pause at 9:50.) Since it is the beliefs of the conscious mind that regulate the involuntary bodily motions and the entire physical system, then contradictory beliefs obviously set up adverse physical reactions and imbalances. Before Augustus’s opposing beliefs lined themselves up into separate camps, so to speak, the body was in continual turmoil; contradictory messages were constantly sent to the muscular system and the heart. The hormonal system teetered. [...]

[...] It will usually organize ideas in as rational a way as possible, and dispense with those that seem to contradict the overall system of its beliefs.

[...] Over the years two opposing systems of beliefs built up strongly, vying for Augustus’s attention. [...]

[...] The conscious mind, again, tries to obtain overall integrity and unity, lining up its beliefs into some kind of consistent system. [...]

The electricity that is perceivable within your system is merely a projection of a vast electrical system that you cannot perceive. [...] As their physical instruments become more sophisticated, they will be able to glimpse more of this reality, but since they will not be able to explain it within their known system of references, many curious and distorted explanations of reported phenomena will be given.

[...] It carries on according to the possibilities inherent within it, as you carry on according to the possibilities in the physical system. [...] Only a small amount of energy is focused into the physical system during sleep, enough simply to maintain the body within the environment.

These developments are the result of actions that occur in many perspectives at once and not developments that happen as within the physical system through a seeming series of moments. [...] As a result, the ego portion of personality is, to a large extent, dependent for its maturity and development upon the amount of time that the physical image has spent within the system.

[...] Now, in the dream world, and in all such systems, development is achieved not by traveling your single line, but by delving into that point that you call a moment. … Basically the physical universe is at the apex of such a system itself. [...]

There are many probable systems of reality, therefore, in which physical data predominates, but such physical probabilities represent but one small portion. Each of you also exist in nonphysical systems, and I have explained earlier that your slightest thought or emotion is manifested in many other ways than in your own field of existence.

[...] This does not mean that a Christ has appeared within each system of reality. It means that the idea of God has manifested within each system in a way that is comprehensible to the inhabitants.

[...] Often answers were given to questions that literally have no meaning outside of your own system of reality.

[...] In the same manner, God does not exist apart from or separate from physical reality, but exists within it and as a part of it, as he exists within and as a part of all other systems of existence.

[...] Your nervous system is prepared to act when you are annoyed. [...] It is only when you overload the nervous system by such repressed action that it then begins a cycle of overreaction to what seems to be one event.

[...] Soon automatically the system becomes adjusted to normal action, and the process becomes automatic again. [...] Your system is cleared. [...]

[...] When you are pleased or joyful or have a pleasant comment, then these should also be expressed at the time, and in the fullness of those emotions, for such expression satisfies and pleases your own system, and also pleases others.

The system then enjoys its own spontaneous expression, and is flexible and therefore more receptive. [...]

Physical reality is therefore glimpsed by other kinds of personalities in other systems, from their own unique viewpoint. Peering at it from this angle, so to speak, you would not recognize it as your own home system. [...]

[...] Yours is obviously a probable system to other fields also touched by the field of probabilities.

(9:20.) As these systems are adjacent to yours, so is yours adjacent; alternate focus allows personalities from other realities to perceive your own, then, as it can theoretically at least allow you a glimpse into their existence.

You have genetic systems, then, carrying (long pause) information that is literally incalculatable.¹ Now: Through your technologies, through your physical experience, you are also surrounded by an immense array of communication and information of an exterior nature. [...] Those inner biological systems and the exterior ones may seem quite separate. [...]

Again, the genetic system is a far more open one than is usually supposed. [...]

In a way I hope to explain, then, the genetic system also reacts to those beliefs and events that are paramount in any given civilization. [...]

[...] Overanxiety, then, can confuse the genetic system, and in a variety of ways. [...]

[...] Not only does the human system for example become influenced chemically, electronically and psychically by physical weather, but also the human system electronically, electromagnetically, chemically and psychically affects and creates the climate in which existence is possible.

Now I shall tell you that physical weather is also caused in part by psychic energy, rushing through the human system and through the systems of all living creatures, and also by an excess, a chemical excess, beyond that which the individual organism can handle.

There is much to be said concerning the interrelationships that exist between the human system and the weather system, and these shall be, these interrelationships, shall be discussed most completely at a later time. [...]

[...] This is a good time to discuss certain interactions that occur within your system, and we can take your winter storm as an excellent example.