“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] It is quite necessary that all of these questions be answered, for the inner self is composed of energy, and in other fields of activity thoughts and emotions are instantaneously translated, their results instantly seen. [...]

Old negative patterns of thought, always present beneath an exterior optimism, had gone unrecognized by him, and were like a thorn in his side. [...]

[...] The best thing the father can do for now is to be simply kind to the boy, but relieve the child of his heavy-handed thoughts mentally. [...]

[...] He has a responsibility to and for the civilization in which he has each existence, for he helps form it through his own thoughts, emotions, and actions.

[...] In a way, they could be thought of now as earth gods.

[...] These, however, were particularly enamored of earthly life, and also thought that they could improve upon the last experiment in which they had been involved, though they were free to move on to other layers of existence.

[...] She asked a friend of JP’s to have him send her tear sheets of his last two articles, which I thought an excellent idea. [...] I said I thought it better that she did follow the impulse, though, since anything, any action, was probably better than sitting immobile.

[...] I thought it all a very good sign that some of our new thinking was beginning to take hold. [...]

[...] At the same time he thought himself liberal-minded, he repeatedly couched Seth’s ideas in the terms used by the respected, well-known members of his profession. [...]

(By way of reactions, we thought of improving our behavior in any such future encounters, insistently if necessary, and of preparing for them by informing would-be visitors that they’d have to read a selected list of books beforehand. [...]

Your friend—Professor “Crazies”—thought himself on the one hand very avant-garde to come here, and on the other he felt the need to protect himself, to maintain the stance of a professor. [...]

[...] You will not need to see thoughts materialized in physical matter, for you will have long since learned that the thoughts and not the matter are the basic reality. [...]

[...] I thought Jane might benefit from the data. [...]

[...] He is beginning to understand that bringing greater freedom to habitual physical thought patterns forms strands of consciousness that you can then follow.

[...] He has become more determined than ever to change his mode of thought and to rid himself of the physical symptoms.

As he began to understand to some degree that he need not be expected to do tours and so forth, he thought of the radio shows as alternate ways of fulfilling his responsibility. [...] In response, he thought about a gadget that would automatically allow him to speak without holding the phone for so long—this in response to Prentice’s latest project. [...]

(One of the obvious reasons, I thought, was that the portions of the personality that were acting up became so powerful that they prevented or subverted a simple thing like asking for help to deal with a problem or challenge. [...]

Ruburt began to feel a pressure as the books became better known to carry out a kind of responsibility, not simply to sell books, for example, but to get the message out into the world, to help others—all considerations that seemed to be—he thought—the acceptance of adult behavior on his part: actions that would be more or less expected of him. [...]

If you examine your thoughts for five minutes at various times during the day for several times a month, you will indeed receive a correct impression of the kind of life you have so far arranged for yourself in the next existence. If you are not pleased with what you discover, then you had better begin changing the nature of your thoughts and feelings.

[...] The thoughts you think today will in one way or another become the fabric of your next existence. [...]

(9:58.) Your thoughts and everyday experience contain the answers. [...]

[...] It is because the man thinks differently that he has the ulcer, for the ulcer is the result of his characteristic method of thought. [...] The ulcer is formed intimately from the electrical reality that composes his thoughts. [...]

(Bill Gallagher voiced the thought that during delivery there is always a change in Jane’s face, but that he couldn’t articulate it. [...]

[...] She said she had no visual data during the material on the test; just the thought of the toothbrush and of herself. [...]

[...] From the framework of psychological time you will see that clock time is as dreamlike and fleeting as you once thought inner time was. And you will discover that inner time is as much a reality as you once thought outer time was. [...]

[...] It bothers Ruburt, as he has said in my hearing, that often-times just before we begin our session formally he does not have a thought in his head. [...]

[...] The inside senses led him to a reality he could not manipulate as easily as he could a camouflage world, and he feared what he thought of as a loss of mastery.

[...] Since we were both tired now we had little thought of continuing. [...]

[...] First Seth gave a page or so of impressions, names, initials, events, and so forth, that he said he “derived from a certain portion of the girl’s consciousness—disjointed memories, thoughts, and ideas.

(Later we thought that this last statement had extremely provocative implications for cases in which visions of religious figures are reported. [...]

During our break, Rob mentioned several questions that he thought Jon would like answered, or that might come to his mind as he read the session. [...]

Suddenly Seth came through, saying: “And I thought you were on your good behavior because I was here! [...]

[...] But tonight, since it was getting late and I had doubts about being able to keep up with the dictation, I thought it better that we pass up the chance. I also thought Jane would be too tired, after the exhausting time she’d had last night. [...]

[...] I intended to write questions down as I thought of them, but I never got the chance to do it. [...]

“You’re just running yourself down when you think thoughts like that,” Rob said, when I told him.

[...] Several times, flashes of concepts came to me while I was house-cleaning — sudden intrusive patterns of thought accompanied by a feeling of intellectual and emotional illumination. [...]

That is, I thought it could all happen so easily and naturally and painlessly that there would be no one point where you could say, “Now she lives and now she doesn’t.”

[...] Let people talk around me, I thought: I no longer cared. [...]

[...] And right away she described several occasions when she thought her thyroid gland had rather seriously misbehaved. [...]

[...] I thought this might be relatively easy for her to do, since she’s often voiced her suspicion that she’s one of those born “lefties” who at a very early age were forced to begin writing with their right hand. [...]

[...] He had none and I offered him a pair of mine, saying I thought they’d fit well enough. [...]

[...] She thought it was a clairvoyant one, but I said no. [...]

[...] I’d thought of going over some of the earlier material with Jane today, but what with my having to go after the car and so forth, events seemed too crowded together. [...]

[...] A very good sign, I thought. [...]

[...] (With many pauses:) When I speak of the dream world, I am not referring to some imaginary realm, but to the kind of world of ideas, of thoughts, of mental actions, out of which all form as you think of it emerges. [...]

At first we thought of keeping the collection closed until after our deaths, as donors usually request to be done, but we’ve decided to make everything accessible as soon as we can, both for scholarship and for study by the public. [...]

(Before the session tonight Jane told me she thought Seth was getting ready to start another book of his own soon. [...]

(“I thought I would, yes. [...]

[...] You thought we were a bunch of savages and you wouldn’t be friends with us or talk to us. [...] You held yourselves up and thought you were so great and inadvertently or intentionally you began to destroy us at first and then it became more of a pattern because then you sensed that your survival was hinging on it too. [...]