“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(I thought I heard Teresa [help me, help me], sounding as though through closed doors. [...]

[...] I thought her spell might fit in with Seth’s recent material that her blue periods would gradually vent themselves away. [...]

[...] This made me realize that the episode had been much stronger and longer-lasting than I’d thought. [...]

[...] “I thought Seth would come back,” Jane said, “but it’s getting late.” [...]

I told you that thoughts are translated into this inner sound, but thoughts always attempt to materialize themselves also. [...]

The unharmonious sounds have become a part of that portion of the body as a result of the inner sound of your own thought-beliefs. [...]

[...] They are more mobile than the physical body, and even more susceptible to the changing pattern of your own thought and emotion.

Your thoughts give the general outline of the reality that you physically experience. [...]

[...] But you were so frightened of the thought that you immediately inhibited it. Now let us consider that thought and why were you so terrified of it. You were terrified of it because you are terrified of the idea that evil is more powerful than good, and that one stray violent thought of yours was more important and more powerful than the vitality of good. [...] Now, say the following happened, at least you were aware of the thought, but say, in your terms, you progressed to the point where you were no longer aware of the feeling. [...]

Now three weeks later we have another encounter and our poor ignorant workman falls asleep again at his chore and our good minister comes by and he looks and he sees the idle one upon the floor snoozing and he thinks, I would like to kick you in the you know where, but he thinks, oh no, I cannot think such an unChristian thought and violence is wrong, so before he even admits to himself what he feels and hiding from himself any acknowledgment of aggression. [...] In the meantime, the muscles have contracted ten times because they could not be put into activity before, as the thought behind them was denied. [...]

[...] The worst thing that could happen would be that, once again, you restrain the acknowledgment of your feelings and the pent up and unacknowledged and perfectly natural aggression in the beginning that has now built up, is ready to explode and now you send out a thought form out of all proportion to any of the event that causes your friend severe harm. And all of this because you were afraid that one stray aggressive thought of yours was more powerful than the vitality that resides in each of you. [...]

[...] The thought existed but not strong enough to bring about the physical reaction even if you had fully admitted the thought. [...]

(The irony of the whole affair is that during the visit I thought he’d helped Jane by advocating doing nothing about the finger at the time—which was what we wanted also. [...]

(During the visit, after he examined the finger, Dr. S. seemed to me at least a bit surprised that Dr. Wilworth had ruled out the possibility of a blood clot; because of its sudden onset I gathered Dr. S. thought this was a possibility. [...]

[...] Again, I thought the visit at least preserved the status quo for us, since I could see that more and more Jane was turning against the idea of preventative drug treatment for vasculitis, say, or anything else. [...]

[...] It wasn’t until we returned home Friday afternoon that I began to see how upset Jane had become by thoughts of arthritis, vasculitis, angiograms, clots, drugs, operations, etc. [...]

[...] I thought it excellent, I told her. [...] Later I thought that I should have asked Seth what kind of interpretation of the dream a conventional psychologist would have given. [...]

I referred to that, I thought, in my preliminary statement about time references—that you recognize yourself in a dream even if the other references do not agree with known reality. [...]

[...] I glanced out the window and saw the ground bare of snow, and thought that I wouldn’t have to shovel snow. [...]

[...] Your thoughts actually are quite as physical as your body is, and your body is quite as nonphysical as it seems to you your thoughts are. [...]

[...] I’d turned the heat back on, though — it was working again now, somewhat mysteriously, I thought, since no one has looked at it. [...]

[...] The same applies to your thoughts. [...]

[...] Half humorously:) Before my comments for Ruburt: I thought that my risqué remark about “no holds barred” was quite in keeping with the content of the material, (on human sexuality). [...]

[...] This resulted in conscious conflict before avoided, and a series of conflicting thoughts and impulses.

He thought he should write, and he wanted to. [...]

[...] If he had written instead, he thought, then he would have been denying the body impulses. [...]

(We watched In Search Of from 2:30 to 3:00, and the program reminded me of a number of questions I’d thought of at various times. [...]

(Jane told me she was a little surprised that Maude Cardwell hadn’t answered my letter of a couple of weeks ago by now — but I said I thought things were proceeding as all of us wanted them to, really. [...]

[...] The strange ringing was most distracting, and I thought it would never stop, yet Jane remained in trance, and continued dictation around a few pauses.)

[...] Even in births that are thought of (underlined) as not “normal,” there is on the infant’s part a sense of discovery and joy.

“Because you cannot follow a thought, you wonder where it has gone; has it fallen off some invisible cliff in your mind? But because you can no longer hold that thought in consciousness does not mean it no longer exists, that it does not have a reality of its own, for it does indeed. And if a world escapes you — if you cannot follow it and think it has been destroyed — then the same thing applies to the world as to the thought. [...]

[...] It does not mean that you must meditate for hours, or study your own thought processes with such vigor that you ignore other activities. It simply means that you are aware of your own life as clearly as possible — in touch with your thought processes, aware of them but without overdue concern or overanalysis. [...]

[...] You are meant to realize that it is a materialization of your thoughts and feelings and images, that the inner self forms that world. In your terms, you cannot be allowed to go into other dimensions until you have learned the great power of your thoughts and subjective feelings. [...]

[...] The whole idea of probable realities seems strange or esoteric only because you are not used to following your own thought processes.

[...] Of course you couldn’t. He thought that was understood. [...] He thought your commitment forbid you, too. [...]

[...] He thought that you would not be satisfied to quit unless he had a job, and this he could not do because of his own commitment to his work.

(I long ago gave up on any thought of Jane taking a regular job—perhaps several years ago, etc.)

[...] He withdrew physically, throwing all the more energy, he thought, into this course of trying to produce a book good enough to free you both. [...]

[...] He felt relatively free in his spontaneity in the beginning with you, for he granted you super-human abilities, relying upon what he thought to be almost absolute strength and stability. [...]

You therefore would protect him from the results of his own spontaneity, carried too far, for he never thought in terms of a spontaneity tempered by self-discipline. [...]

[...] Throughout this extra-long delivery I had thought she was in a deep state, and she now confirmed this; she had but a vague memory of what she had said. [...]

[...] Ruburt therefore thought she was spontaneous; for a while he did not see the blind panic behind the words or acts.

[...] You hold in your mind the thought of your individuality, and of its deep source, so that both thoughts are beautifully poised, bringing about an interaction between the two, that results in a kind of energy, an attraction, an electromagnetic recognition, that refreshes the entire being.

Where do your thoughts come from—your thoughts, that is? [...]

[...] All That Is “pulsates” with a truly infinite yearning to particularize all of its attributes, to know itself through individualizing all of its dreams, its slightest thought, its most monumental discovery. [...]

[...] I thought of a hernia—and Loren had been operated on for a hernia this summer—yet I suspected the unease was basically mental. [...]

(In fact, I’d been bothered more and more in recent days—ever since, I thought, the family get-together had been suggested by Betts a couple of weeks ago. [...]

[...] I thought of asking Jane for help, but disliked doing so because I could see that she was doing very well. [...]

[...] Americans have had a fine and often understandable disdain for what was thought of as the European gentleman, or even the literary gentleman, or the man who somehow or other did not have to “rub elbows with the masses.” [...]

Thoughts and images are formed into physical reality and become physical fact. [...] A thought is energy. [...]

[...] Chemicals as you know them, body chemicals, are physical, but they are the propellants of this thought energy, containing within them all the codified data necessary for translating any thought or image into physical actuality. [...]

The initial thought or image exists within the mental enclosure of which I have spoken. [...] All thoughts or images are not completely materialized, however. [...]

[...] The intensity of a thought or image largely determines the immediacy of its physical materialization. [...]

Therefore a thought, surely one of the most intimate possessions of a self, does not remain within the self. The thought belongs to the individual from whose mind it sprang, and yet he does not really possess it. [...]

[...] The thought had come to her that Seth would discuss the self and the notself tonight. [...]

[...] You should know by now that individual thought does not remain within the boundary of the physical individual. [...]

[...] No skin or bones or skeletal cage can keep the thought of the self from going outward.

“Thoughts and images are formed into physical reality and become physical fact. [...] A thought is energy. [...]

[...] As you know them, body chemicals are physical, but they are the propellants of this thought-energy, containing all the codified data necessary for translating any thought or image into physical actuality. [...]

[...] You may not have thought of the question consciously, but each of us has an opinion and we guide our daily actions by it whether we realize it or not. [...]

Seth says that not only do we form our own reality now, but we will continue to do so after physical death, so it is of the utmost importance that we understand the connection between thought and reality.

Every thought in one way or another is constructed by you in physical terms. You cannot escape the result of one thought. Every thought is an actuality. [...]

[...] The beauties that exist in your physical universe are the results of constructive and positive thought. The ugliness is a direct result of negative thought.

[...] For these are your own constructions, formed in faithful replica to your own thoughts. [...]

[...] It existed first in thought. [...]

[...] Jane and I wanted Seth’s assistance in contacting Blanche, without Seth himself speaking, for we thought this would make the session too much like the regular sessions. [...]

[...] I thought this meant Jane had established some kind of contact or feeling with Blanche, or the idea of Blanche, and she verified this later. [...]

[...] I thought this reinforced the fact of contact, yet at the same time reassured Jane, by name, that she could do very well, and that Seth and I were with her as protectors.

(After the session Jane and I together put down what we thought she said; as we talked Jane recalled more and more. [...]

[...] Thoughts are real. Only some thoughts turn into physical actions, of course. Despite distorted versions of that last statement, however, there is still obviously a distinct difference, say, between the thought of adultery and its physical expression.

You cannot treat thoughts and imagination in such a literal manner, nor in a large respect should you try to “guard your thoughts” as if they were herds of animals that you wanted to keep purely bred. Your thoughts do form your reality. [...]

[...] The road not taken then seems to be a non-act, yet every thought is actualized and every possibility explored. [...]

Now, again, these ideas may seem impossibly rich for your mental blood because of your propensity toward serial thought and three-dimensional attitudes.

[...] In a manner of speaking, your slightest thought gives birth to worlds.

[...] Quite spontaneously, again, you often do this in the dream state, and often what seems to you to be an inspiration is a thought experienced but not actualized on the part of another self. [...]