“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] When such thoughts come to mind, instead tell yourself that that trend of thought will not help your painting, but hinder it, and that it is constricting. [...]

[...] I thought the remarks would bring forth some response from Seth, but since a shorter session had been announced I didn’t think such a lengthy response would materialize.

[...] I thought the data excellent.)

[...] The negative thought that you have only afternoons (underline only), also tends to limit the value of the time that you do have, and restrict it.

This characteristic of materializing thoughts and emotions into physical realities is an attribute of the soul. Now in your reality, these thoughts are made physical. [...] So your soul, that which you are, constructs your physical daily reality for you from the nature of your thoughts and expectations.

[...] This is an extremely simple explanation; but the thought creates the reality. Then the creator of the thought perceives the object, and he does not understand the connection between him and this seemingly separate thing.

[...] When you do not understand the nature of the soul, and do not realize that your thoughts and feelings form physical reality, then you feel powerless to change it. [...]

[...] The creative artist can be in somewhat of a quandary, according to his beliefs, for he wants to preserve the precious moment, the fleeting thought, the daffodils, the perceived insights. At the same time he often feels the need to stand apart from life, from the fleeting thoughts, the daffodils or the insight, so that he will not be lost completely in the moment, but able to form almost a second self with a larger viewpoint, who can then more clearly examine and understand the thought, the moment, or the insight.

[...] Jane said the first thing she thought of when she read the article was that the stranger might have been on his way to see her for help. I thought this a very meaningful projection, reflecting her exaggerated feelings of responsibility to the world because of her psychic abilities. [...]

[...] He must allow himself greater freedom creatively, in a playful manner, forgetting all thoughts “at the time” of time.

[...] Such dreams provide (pause) the subjective understanding from which thoughts are developed, and in those terms complete thoughts are possible before the brain itself is fully formed. [...]

Such thoughts are like, now (underline “like, now”), electrical patterns that form their own magnets. [...] The precise orientation of that conceptualizing, and the precise orientation of the thinking patterns, wait for certain physical triggers received from the parents and the environment after birth, but the processes of conceptualization and of thought are already established. [...]

[...] Thought must come before language. Language is thought’s handmaiden.

[...] Incredible, Jane and I thought, that 1980 was already four months old. [...]

Beside this you thought sometimes that Ruburt thought of nothing but himself, and you were saying “Look at me, I am no superman,” and so actually you were looking for communications that it seemed you did not want in the early part of the cycle.

[...] You thought you might be able to understand something of Ruburt’s problem, and you were willing to take a day or two out to feel badly.

[...] You might be angry at him, in which case there was a definite emotional response, or disgusted; he thought in the past, the dim past, disgusted enough to leave him—but you could not ignore him.

[...] He can imagine himself up ahead of you, as he thought of, surprising you with your breakfast already prepared. [...]

([Jane:] “It was sort of sad because I thought as I watched you all gravitate, I thought, they look at me as uncritically.”

([Bette:] “If you kept it up, I was just going to forget the thought and then get up and grab it.”

“But I know, if I looked at each of you and the selves you think you are, with just the little experience I’ve got of the self I thought I was and find I’m not, that you have all kinds of potentialities right now, not that you necessarily have to wait for or work for or anything, but that you have now. [...]

[...] Joel looked at me, I thought, maybe something will happen.”

[...] All of the questions, we thought, had a timeless quality.

[...] As the time passed, Jane said she thought she was somewhat uptight because of the questions; she had read them after supper. [...]

I was speaking specifically of what you would term an ancient Speaker’s manuscript, and I thought that was what you were referring to.

[...] In the meantime I thought of another Speaker query, which I wrote down. [...]

(Maybe, I thought, the experience was a delayed reaction to the projection suggestions. [...] Usually I get excellent results with the pendulum; I learned now that the visual-interference effects had been caused by my unsuccessful attempts to perceive a thought-form sent out by a survival personality. [...]

[...] He realizes they are thought-forms, for example, and his own; but again, thought-forms do possess a certain reality and consciousness. [...]

(Not long after these sessions began, several years ago, Seth told Jane and me that the three of us had experienced lives in Denmark in the 1600’s. Ever since then I’ve thought my interest in the art of Western Europe for that same period, embracing the work of Rembrandt and Vermeer, Van Dyke, and Rubens, et al., more than coincidental. [...]

The other actors, however, are thought-forms, unless a few contemporaries join in the affair together.

[...] And I thought that years ago, [and with my own unwitting cooperation] Jane had given over control of her life in certain large ways to the Sinful Self through the symptoms—and yes, abjectly allowed it to exert such power and influence that now she finally found herself in the grip of a strong force, or set of beliefs. [...] A little suffering in life—okay, I thought, considering the session last night—but this? [...]

[...] Particularly apparent, I thought, would be effects from last night’s session, which I regard as excellent. [...]

[...] I didn’t really mean it, since we’d thought sessions were over for the week on Thursday. [...]

(At noon, as we ate, I asked her what she thought the Sinful Self might make of the Speaker manuscript material she’d been getting in recent days. [...]

[...] (I think I was in my astral body though.) I knew that I was dreaming, thought to myself that it was very difficult to read such material in the dream state but that I would try in any case. [...] They were friends of my mother but strangers to me and I thought that maybe they had read the ESP book.

[...] Thought and planning can be utilized however, when he is not working well. The thought and planning will then show itself even in the intuitional work.

When you replace this with a constructive thought, you are sending that constructive suggestion to which he will also react. [...]

This is caused by the culmination of negative suggestions and of negative thought. [...]

[...] When she was finished with all of this she asked me what I thought. [...] The hell with it, I thought. [...]

(She said all of this in that matter-of-fact voice she’d used the last time, that she’d told me similar things about her death, before Seth had said very recently that she wasn’t going to die now, no matter what she thought or said. [...]

[...] I’d mentioned that thought a few days ago.)

[...] I was concerned because I thought I had given her the wrong answer when Fawcett rejected the book.”)

(Jane did remember it, beginning with the word superego, but she was receiving the answer very quickly at that point; also she thought she might be consciously tinkering with the message by using such a word as superego.

[...] Even thoughts, for instance, are fragments, though on a different plane. [...]

(Jane had the qualifying thought that Seth was more amused in his reply than angry.

Once more, if you become aware of your own conscious thoughts, these themselves will give you clues for they clearly speak your beliefs. If, for example, you have scarcely enough money on which to live, and you examine your thoughts, you may find yourself constantly thinking, “I can never pay this bill, I never have any luck, I’ll always be poor.” [...]

[...] You may follow your thoughts in another area, and find yourself thinking that you are having difficulty because you are too sensitive. Finding the thought you may say, “But it is true; I am. [...]

(11:10.) When you find these thoughts in yourself you may say, and rather indignantly: “But those things are all true. [...]

If you follow your thoughts further you may find yourself thinking, “I am proud of my sensitivity. [...]

(Jane said she felt Seth around by 9:20, but that she thought the session would be a short one. [...]

[...] Still at various times and throughout the period, he used what he thought of as that additional protection: the symptoms kept him inside, where it seemed he could indeed express himself with the least duress. [...]

He thought that immobility kept him at his desk working, free from any impulses to do otherwise, since for many years he believed that the spontaneous self must be harnessed toward creativity, and that left alone it would have too many other interests. [...]

The immobility protected him, so he thought, from encountering any such outside conflicts, and insured his continuing creativity by cutting down other interests and distractions, and by organizing his time in a most economical fashion—or so it seemed. [...]

[...] and your thought may be instantly transposed into reality. Therefore, now you must learn the nature of your thoughts and how to handle energy.

([Tom:] “But between the time of thinking about it now and the time it becomes a reality, other thoughts can come to bear on that idea and change it before it becomes a reality. [...]

[...] In the time lag on this plane, there are other thoughts, projections on the same idea or object; Seth declined to go into their effects on the final idea or object until a later time.

(“By our projecting our thoughts to this finished product, we can influence our health, our future, our position, etc. [...]

[...] I thought she was probably tired from this afternoon’s upset, and also encountering resistance to the session. [...] If only Jane could understand that she had nothing to fear by way of abandonment from me, I thought. [...]

(Elsbeth W. visited this noon, bringing Jane two skirts she’d made for her, plus several blouses she thought Jane could use this winter. [...]

[...] Then she said she thought her fright was connected to her fear of abandonment as a child—and that she would finally make life so miserable for me that I’d leave her. [...]

[...] It all sounded good, but would have little effect, I thought, since it hadn’t in years past. [...]

[...] There will be a time lapse within this system, but in other systems there may be no time lapse—and your thought may be instantly transposed into reality. Therefore, now you must learn the nature of your thoughts and how to handle energy. [...]

([Theodore:] “But between the time of thinking about it now and the time it becomes a reality, other thoughts can come to bear on that idea and change it before it becomes a reality. [...]

[...] In the time lag on this plane, there are other thoughts, projections on the same idea or object; Seth declined to go into their effects on the final idea or object until a later time. [...]

(“By projecting our thoughts to this finished product, we can influence our health, our future, our position, etc. [...]

[...] I am not telling you to examine your thoughts so frequently and with such vigor that you get in your own way, but you are not fully conscious unless you are aware of the contents of your conscious mind. [...]

I am not telling you to inhibit thoughts or feelings. [...]

(While we had a quick snack I asked her if she thought the recent strange behavior of our cat, Willy, could stem from his reactions to our own psychic states. [...]

[...] “How about going back to the book?” I thought doing that would help her control the proliferation of channels until we could learn more about the development. [...]

[...] She’d thought of death, but didn’t want to do that to me. [...]

(Jane has even thought of having Debbie Harris take dictation at night, for another children’s book. [...]

I am speaking generally here, for remember that your individual beliefs, thoughts, and emotions cause your reality, so no person dies ahead of his or her time. [...]

(I thought the session very interesting. [...]