“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(Jane was left with a page or so of fragmented notes and a couple of possible chapter headings. This is still evocative material, even though she doesn’t know whether Seth will use any of it in his book: “For a ‘Power Chapter’: Each person has his or her own ‘psychic territory of power’ which is not to be relinquished,” she wrote. “…no illness or other condition is allowed to impinge upon this…. It’s far better to think in terms of power than of lacks — the power of life, of motion, of speech, etc. People confuse this with power over their environment, or others, then wonder why power over doesn’t work….

(“Yet each individual must eventually realize that you can’t give up power in one area without … ultimately threatening the inner core or psychic territory of power to some extent…. A belief in powerlessness in any area sets up its possibility in others — it operates as negative suggestion.”

[...] Or territory?

(“What city or territory in Australia is the relative located in?”

(This question was inspired by Bill’s note re city, country, territory, etc. [...]

Each individual has what I will call a psychic territory of power. [...] Other portions of the psyche may be battlegrounds for problems, but the individual will not really feel threatened in a critical way as long as this primary territory is intact.

Now: Dineen carefully chose the territory in which these adventures would take place. [...]

[...] When this happens through natural hypnosis, then even the psychic territory of power can be assailed. [...]

He is in this territory, in a litter of pups, and in one way or another he may try to find you. [...]

[...] By “this territory” Seth meant Elmira, New York.

Basic nonphysical reality, he told us then, was “like some chameleon-like animal, constantly camouflaging its true appearance by taking on the outward manifestations of each neighboring forest territory [or world] …” And so this primal vitality expressed itself physically in our environment.

[...] In each case, also, the nature of the conscious mind sets up its own territory-of-identity (with hyphens) that it regards as its own. [...]

(Pause at 9:57.) Let those who will, laugh at tales of spirits turning into the trees⁵ — a simplistic theory, certainly, yet a symbolic statement in such societies: The dead were buried at home in the same close territory, to form in later times the very composition of the ground upon which religions grew. [...]

[...] The species’ sense of curiosity would not allow it to stay in any home territory for long,⁶ and so the sense of intimacy was purposely broken. [...]

[...] Recently he told us that his territory might be changed, effectively cutting out Elmira and including instead an area of small towns in Pennsylvania. [...]

Instinct is fairly accurate, for example, guiding the beasts to those territories in which proper conditions can be found; and even for them the well-being of the body represents physical evidence of their “being in the proper place at the proper time.” [...]

[...] In a natural situation, this might involve a mass migration from one territory to another. [...]

[...] The species do not compete with each other over a given territory, no matter how frequently that appears to be the case. [...]

[...] With some territorial variation, such creatures reside in many of the world areas on your planet, though their overall population is very small — altogether, perhaps, several thousand. [...]

[...] It is virgin territory, planted by my feelings and thoughts in the present. [...]

[...] Now, so strong is this tendency for vitality to change from one apparent form to another, that what you have here in your flying object is something that is actually, as you view it, not of your plane or of [whatever] plane of its origin … The atoms and molecules that structurally compose the UFO, and which are themselves formed by vitality, are more or less aligned according to the pattern of its own territory. [...]

[...] As far as we knew, this neighborhood had been his home territory.

[...] The body is early forbidden territory, so that the child feels it is wrong to love itself in any fashion.

[...] I can quite honestly compare such distractions with, say, the distracting thought that might take you from a familiar train of thought into another new mental territory. [...]

There is a change of territory involved here, but more than this a change of method. [...]

[...] You are an old feudal lord, and the company is your territory. [...]

Ruburt thinks that way fairly easily, so let him use the same kind of thought with his physical and psychic mobility, mentally imagining that he is opening inner rooms, discovering inner territory that has remained unclaimed or going back into delightful rooms, filled with motion that he had momentarily forgotten. [...]

For unnumbered centuries, you had largely self-contained, unique “sophisticated” civilizations, intensified centers, situated in prime natural territories, but completely unknown one to the other, with thousands of miles of wild earth between, that was explored only by the most daring. [...]

If by chance you blunder (smile, eyes open) into my territory, then I will know it, and seek you out. [...]