“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

If you will remember the three creative dilemmas discussed in our past session, you will see that we have here the reason for our self-perpetuating universe, the reason for termination within it, and the inherent necessity for change. If one thought were held forever, no other thoughts would follow, no action would follow, and no identity. In your own intimate psychological experience, in the intimate psychological experience of every individual within your race, you will find recognition of the thought.

Thought cannot be seen or touched. Thought is action. A thought within your field must vanish, be terminated, disappear, before it can be replaced by another. The identical thought will not return. A very similar thought may return, but the two thoughts will not be identical, although you may perceive them as identical. This is an error of perception.

Now. I have just told you that one thought must terminate before another thought can appear. Although this might sound as if I am speaking in terms of continuity, I am not. The action of our imaginary sphere upon and within itself is simultaneous, and in all directions. All actions occur basically within the spacious present, but all action cannot be aware of itself except as it attempts further action, i.e., materializations.

Separate: A fine-arts academy in an area of churches, with a large federal building nearby and a bus stop or terminal.

[...] Every action is a termination, as we discussed earlier. And yet without the termination, identity would cease to exist, for consciousness without action would cease to be conscious.

[...] All individuality that seems to be swept away because one action seems to terminate another, such individuality is indeed the result of the dimensions of action.

[...] It may, here, sound like a contradiction; but to remain an identity, an identity must completely renew itself, and each renewal is indeed a termination. Yet without the termination no new action on the part of the identity would be possible. [...]

[...] If instead the consciousness has been kept alive despite its own intents through medical procedures, it will terminate its own physical life in one way or another.

[...] Bill told us that he would have to leave for a few minutes to pick up an advertisement at the bus terminal and take it to the newspaper office, the Star-Gazette, where he works. [...]

(While Bill Gallagher was putting on his hat and coat at 10 PM tonight, preparatory to leaving our apartment for the bus terminal, I wrote down two impressions of headlines. [...]

[...] Here I referred to the wrapping of the ad when Bill picked it up at the bus terminal. [...]

They walk through a large building, most likely a terminal, for there are counters of a sort to the right. Our friend’s ulcer may show a slight twinge here, as he passes through the terminal. [...]

[...] There are certain conditions, however, that promote suicidal activity, and the termination of one’s own life has been held in great disrepute by many religions and societies, though not in all.

Separate: A fine-arts academy in an area of churches, with a large federal building nearby, and a bus stop or terminal. [...]

There are methods of course where the trance can be terminated gradually. It is not good to terminate that kind of trance too quickly. [...]

[...] Death on your plane is a termination but does not involve a new immediately-critical adjustment, since there is a time for rest and a time to catch up, so to speak.

[...] The termination is always easier, believe it or not, than a beginning under such pressing circumstances as survival on a strange camouflage plane.

[...] Death merely represents the termination of your own perception, that is, the termination of your understanding. [...]

[...] Physicians often wonder whether they should tell terminal patients of their impending deaths. [...]

[...] Whenever you find yourself in any potentially dangerous dream situation during a projection, immediately terminate the dream. [...]

[...] To us those other actions seem terminated … but that’s only because usually we can’t follow them.

[...] Once the experience of the illness had been gained, it seemed to me, it made better sense for the inner self to terminate the particular experience and move on to others. [...]

[...] In a terminal illness, the personality consciousness, the I as you know it, bears down in panic upon the body consciousness when it does not understand the state of affairs.

All in all, it is just as well that the relationship between Ruburt and Mrs. Masters be terminated. [...]

[...] Every action is a termination, as we discussed earlier. And yet without the termination, identity would cease to exist, for consciousness without action would cease to be conscious.

[...] (Long pause, eyes closed.) She and Ruburt chose a relationship that would terminate, so the two would go their separate ways. [...]