“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

You must understand, again, that your ideas and thoughts do not exist as phantoms or shadow images without substance. [...]

[...] I am discussing it here because it so beautifully illustrates the nature and power of beliefs, and the conflicts that can arise when an individual does not accept responsibility for his own thoughts. [...]

[...] You have what I will call for now “a body of thought,” and it is that “body” that constantly springs into action at your intent.

[...] At least I thought I was.” [...]

But my mind felt crowded out of itself,
By thoughts not its own,
As if someone were settling down in my skull
That I hadn’t invited in.

[...] The old ways of thought were bringing appalling fruits. [...]

[...] They didn’t like their babies dying, but they just thought that … that was life. [...]

[...] But they thought that drinking water was unhealthy. [...]

[...] But then a doctor held up two infants and I thought with a laugh, “Oh, no! [...]

At the time, I had just begun two books — an initial draft outlining the ideas in the Seth Material and a manuscript on dreams that I thought of as my “dream book.” [...]

[...] Then I experienced a false awakening: I thought I was awake, and about to get up to write down the dream. [...]

Then I recalled my previous experiments with dream states and knew that I wasn’t normally awake as I thought, but was wandering out in the living room, in an out-of-body state and hallucinating. [...]

[...] There are more than your own thought forms, in other words. Your own thought-forms can be definite aids when you are in the proper mental condition, and they can impede your progress if you are not. [...]

[...] I thought this was a fine time to do something, anything while I was at it — a visit someplace else, a trip down the street. [...]

[...] It flashed a bright red color which I thought strange and unaccountable. [...]

[...] Once I went back in my body, got up and thought I did so physically and was in a normal state, but then I saw my body on the bed …

[...] When I picked up a cap to blacken in the flame I thought this would focus Jane’s conscious attention on this particular one, but she told me at break tonight that she hadn’t noticed my heating the cap, or else had forgotten it.

[...] Jane and Marilyn were also very surprised, and Jane later told me that after the first shock of seeing the north end of the table rise, seemingly of its own volition, she thought Bill, Don and I actually succeeded in accomplishing this.

(We thought an apt connection with scale would be the “balancing” of the table on its two south legs as the male and female trios sat before it. [...]

[...] Jane said she didn’t speak the initials aloud because she thought they might refer to my father, and that this was a distortion. [...]

(Back home and ready to being typing, I found it so windy and noisy I thought it best to close the windows. [...]

(After the session, Jane said that along with this answer she also received the thought from Seth, which she did not give voice to, that even though Miss Callahan did not pass away by April 15th the date would still be a significant one for her, a time of change; but whether for the better or worse Jane did not know.

[...] I will give these matters some thought. [...]

(Jane also received a thought concept from Seth concerning his method of thinking. [...]

(Before the session, Jane said she felt rather nervous; she thought Seth would start his own book this evening. [...]

[...] You have been given perhaps the most awesome gift of all: the ability to project your thoughts outward into physical form.

[...] “For ages in the past,” she said, “whenever I thought Seth wanted to start the book, I was afraid to let him do it.”

(I thought the substitution of the names was more interesting than if it hadn’t happened, I told Jane. [...] I thought the idea fascinating, and commented on the unexpected opening up of a new field of inquiry that ought to be most rewarding to follow—if we had the time. On second thought, I said, there may be few if any similarities in the interpretations through the two names, although each analysis could still be good.

The splendid biological acceptance of life could not be thrust or forced upon his emerging consciousness, so to be effective, efficient, to emerge in the new focus of awareness, grace had to expand from the life of the tissue to that of the feelings, thoughts and mental processes. [...]

[...] If you can sense your thoughts steadily replacing themselves then you can also feel your own elegance.

Your beliefs, thoughts and feelings are instantly materialized physically. [...]

[...] In such a case you must realize that you make your own loneliness, and resolve to change through both thought and action. Action is thought in physical motion, outwardly perceived.

[...] In one way or another, through your conscious thought you attracted such an event, and drew it from probability into actuality. [...]

[...] I thought this strange.

[...] Several times in Florida she thought I was going to leave her. [...]

[...] We thought of games involving the French book, or even crossword puzzles. [...]

Here now once more, let me repeat that thoughts are definite electromagnetic realities. [...]

(Actually my writing hand was tiring, but I thought Jane was in an exceptionally good mood, and that she might want to continue. [...]

[...] Consciously I had not wanted to have the session, since I thought our guests hadn’t had enough time to study related material.

[...] The ego however was terrified at the thought. [...]

[...] It is not so much, you see, as he thought, that nothing has meaning. [...]

(In answer to a question Jane said she wasn’t projecting while giving the above data, but “almost thought I was trying to.” [...]

My tentative inquiries led me to ask Jane if she thought the axioms of Euclidean geometry, say, are innately valid in describing the mind’s inner reaches, or whether, in ordinary terms, those propositions represent conscious acquired interpretations of our visual experience. She hadn’t thought about it. [...]

The session had been one of those in which Jane thought a great deal of time was passing. [...]

He did not leave you with no thought. He left you what he thought was the best he had to give you, a need for creativity that he could not express in physical terms. [...]

[...] I thought Jane had been in a deep trance. [...]

[...] Even then the question arises of public response to trance messages when they contradict official thought—and your questions about how the material might be misused as you explained in God of Jane very well, and—How “responsible” is the conscious mind for trance messages?—How responsible are you for Seth’s messages? [...]

(At noon today Jane told me she thought Seth would give us a short session, because of the extraordinary one of Monday, 7/6. This was to help me get caught up on all the typing.

(During this break Jane and I checked one point we had thought of since the last session, and this was the amount of light available in the room during the time Bill Macdonnel and I had noted the change in Jane’s features as she stood in the bathroom doorway.

[...] Jane said that after careful thought she felt the closet light was also on during the break at 9:56. [...]

I would suggest a simple method for a while, of simply lying down, relaxing, and letting his thoughts stray where they will. [...]

(Since Jane looked at Roger’s list just before the usual session time we thought Seth might consider the questions. [...]

(We thought this data preliminary to the regular session, since Jane will get flashes like this sometimes just before Seth speaks. [...]

[...] She doesn’t recall hearing about psi factors, but I had, and thought she had also at various times, without knowing what the term applied to; the same with cohesives, conciliatory fashion, etc., although these would be much less common to us.

[...] You thought 7 gobbled it up. [...]

[...] He died once simply as a result of acting without thought, forethought, on the impulse of the moment.

[...] Ruburt thought of him as being on his side, and there was no hint of accusation in Bernard’s attitude.

[...] The remarks are again harmless ones, usually a line or two of pointless conversation, chatter meant to cover up a thought that has briefly come into consciousness, and been repressed.

[...] Such thoughts automatically tense the muscles. [...]