“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] Often such people are in a very depressed state of mind, so that they have already closed their thoughts to the reasons for living, and only keep reminding themselves of the availability of death.

Such thoughts are bound to cause depression. [...]

The other creative, positive, achieving portions of life are ever present, and thoughts of them alone can bring refreshment and release from tension.

[...] Remind yourself that life implies action and motion, and even the activity of the most despondent thought flows in great bursts of rhythm.

[...] I hadn’t paid more than normal attention to Bill’s death, I thought, beyond feeling sympathy, and speculating with Jane about the money he must have left. [...] I hadn’t thought his death could bother me that much, for certainly I hadn’t dwelled upon it consciously at all.

[...] I thought I was doing something by working hard on that book, to get it underway in an organized fashion, I told Jane as we sat for the session—so what happened? [...] I explained that I had such thoughts when we moved to Pinnacle Road, and could easily revive them and try a different kind of life.

[...] At first I’d thought I was going into a beneficial relaxation episode like that I’d experienced on April 23, 1979. [...]

[...] I thought it much more likely that these sorts of challenges were much more likely to be behind my problems. [...]

He wanted to shout your decision (to leave Artistic) to the skies of course, and thought he was quite reasonable by saying nothing for a while, at your request; yet secretly he thought that your attitude of silence meant that you were not proud of the decision, did not want it known, that you were acting ashamed of it and wanted it kept quiet, rather than as a triumph.

[...] One more problem, I thought, even if only temporary. [...] I thought the material excellent. [...]

[...] I had always thought that method very reliable—and so it was once more. [...]

[...] As far as the idea of doing nothing, I explained to her that I thought saving money would enable us to get our own living quarters eventually, and thus solve some long-range problems. [...]

[...] She hadn’t even gone to the john since getting up around 8 AM—another form of withdrawal, I thought, once I gave it some thought.

(Nor did I say everything I thought, although I said plenty. [...] It’s a thought I’ve had often, but haven’t voiced. [...]

[...] To me, I said, the sinful self is more active and domineering than ever before, and after all we thought we’d learned over the years. [...]

[...] I said I thought both she and Seth had avoided my questions about the sinful self, which I saw as part of the sinful self’s power to cover up issues it didn’t want to face, or considered threatening. [...]

[...] Your thoughts affect your cells, again, and they can change what are thought of as hereditary factors. [...] You form your being by imaginatively considering such-and-such a possibility, and your thoughts affect your body in that regard. [...]

[...] And yet I must contend with modes of thought that are habitual to you, and those modes make it difficult for you to combine various elements of speculation.

[...] Your body is changed biologically by your thoughts.

[...] I thought you would like that quotation.

Practically, at this stage of the game some system of time is a good policy, even while within it full freedom of thought, and day-dreaming, must be allowed. This should not be thought of as a bargaining with the self, or as an obsession, but instead as a practical method of dealing with a present set of conditions. [...]

[...] The restrictions were thought to be ways of protecting creativity and ability.

[...] This afternoon, and at various times, he has been able to isolate certain series of thoughts and feelings, and identify them as restrictive. [...]

Each of you trusted the same kind of characteristics in the other, to keep you where you thought you should be. [...]

Thoughts have their own kind of structure, as cells do, and they seek their own fulfillment. They move toward like thoughts, and you have as a species an inner mass body of thought. Privately your thoughts are expressions of your idealizations; and while expressing those inner patterns they also modify and creatively change them. Each cell in your body is to some extent altered with each thought that you think. [...] As the cells respond at certain levels to ever-changing streams of probabilities, so do your thoughts. [...]

[...] “The thought of adding rooms makes me shudder,” I laughed—“not that we might not do it....” Jane laughed too, while agreeing she’s thought of alterations often. [...]

[...] This period of time is leading you both away from black or white patterns of thought to some degree, so that you can consider the aspects of your lives, bothered less by absolutes. [...]

[...] Absolute thinking can often lead to dead-ended thoughts or plans. [...]

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. [...]

Before you can be allowed into systems of reality that are more extensive and open, you must first learn to handle energy, and see, through physical materializations, the concrete result of thought and emotion. As a child forms mud pies from dirt, so you form your civilization out of thoughts and emotions, and then see what you have created, and you must deal with it on its terms.

[...] It dealt with the peccadilloes of Congress, and various unflattering attitudes of the population at large, as reflected in Gallop and Harris polls; the results of these polls were not publicized, and made quite cynical reading, I thought.

[...] Thoughts and emotions form the basis. [...]

[...] In other more advanced systems, thoughts and emotions are automatically and immediately translated into action, into camouflage, into whatever approximation of matter there exists. [...]

[...] I said I thought she’d broken that off because she was afraid it wouldn’t work — although I’d thought it showed signs that it was working. I also thought she’d stopped free associating because it had collided with those deeply held beliefs that had led to her physical immobility. [...]

[...] I thought she carried off the little session very well.)

[...] She hadn’t thought of that. [...]

[...] You cannot see your thoughts, so you do not realize that they have shape and form, even as, say, clouds do. There are currents of thought as there are currents of air, and the mental patterns of men’s feelings and thoughts rise up like flames from a fire, or steam from hot water, to fall like ashes or like rain.

[...] In the same way ideas or thoughts form general patterns, bringing forth in your world certain kinds of events. In this respect your thoughts and feelings “seed” physical reality, bringing forth materializations.

[...] “Seth thought it was great,” she said. [...]

[...] There are, however, far more vigorous invisible mental patterns, into which the thoughts and feelings of mankind are organized — or, naturally, organize themselves.

Your thoughts are also as natural as your cells. Your thoughts propel you toward survival and growth also, and in the same way that your cells do. If you find yourself in physical difficulties healthwise, you cannot say: “Why doesn’t my body stop me and assert its own wisdom?” because in the truest sense there is no division between your thoughts and your body. [...] Your thoughts multiply even as your cells do. [...]

[...] Your thoughts are as active as your cells, and as important in maintaining your physical being.

[...] Your thoughts and your body cells are reflected one in the other.

[...] This sleepy effect was already more pronounced, I thought, than it had been at any time during the last session. [...]

[...] Some of the effect I thought was due to an effort at concentration; the rest seemed to be reflecting the presence of another personality.)

[...] I thought Ruburt might like to get some information directly from someone who had a greater interest in such matters than I, and I paged our good friend.

(We thought the session was now over but this was not the case. [...]

[...] Old patterns of thought can at times rearouse feelings of hopelessness and failure. [...]

[...] You can break those habits of thought. [...]

Those thoughts bring you precisely what you say neither of you want. [...]

[...] From some of these viewpoints, your physical matter has little or no permanency, while to others your own thoughts have a shape and form, perceived by observers but not by yourselves.

[...] Already I was wondering whether we should ask questions we thought others were interested in, or just those we spontaneously came up with ourselves.

[...] For some reason I felt uneasy now; perhaps I thought it might not be a good idea to interrupt the flow of the book in such a manner.

An effort should be made to help the client understand that errors of thought and belief are responsible for the condition — and that the removal of those erroneous beliefs can relieve the situation. [...]

According to the particular case in point, the therapist should then try to point out the errors of thought and belief involved, and also to explain their more or less habitual cast.

[...] The therapist should also assure the client that on many subjects and topics of thought and conversation, the client operates quite well. [...]

(Jane now recalled that just before she began speaking, she received the gently chiding thought—addressed to her from she knew not what source—that since “we” were going to so much trouble to get this material through to “you” [meaning Jane], that she shouldn’t be concerned about explaining it to others. [...] There was no disembodied internal voice speaking to Jane here; but a distinct thought, not angry or impatient, addressed to her in terms of “we” and “you.”

[...] I thought the above paragraph very well expressed.)

(Jane thought this was another break, but it proved to be the end of the session. [...]

(At 10:20 Jane said she got a few bits and pieces of things, then said she thought the session was over—she “slid down.” [...]

(Pause at 9:48.) The images that you see in this circumstance represent the thoughts and feelings experienced just before you closed your eyes, or those that were paramount in your mind somewhat previously. The minute your eyes are closed, the thoughts and feelings express themselves through this symbolism. Because the images may seem to have no direct connection logically to these thoughts and feelings, you do not recognize them either as your own, nor are you able to tie them up with what they represent.

[...] Nowhere would the thought of the potential loss of a job enter in. [...]

[...] The thought unspoken has a “sound” that you do not hear, but that is very audible at another level of reality and perception.

[...] While in there, the sum of $20,000 popped into my head as I idly thought very briefly about our friend, Maude Cardwell. [...]

(Third: At 6:10, as I began feeding Jane, the thought of Steve and Tracy Blumenthal crossed my mind quite definitely, without being terribly intrusive. [...]

[...] Diana, an RN, came in to see Jane’s hair, which she’d thought had been cut. [...]

[...] For now, often that recognition alone can clear your thoughts and mind.

[...] Thoughts are not given the same validity as rocks or trees or beer cans (two of which sat on the coffee table between us at the moment) or automobiles. [...] You do not understand the great mobility of thought, nor grasp its practical nature. You make your world, and in an important manner your thoughts are indeed the immediate personal blueprints for it. [...] The manipulation of thoughts is far more practical. [...]

[...] In your terms they are regulated by emotions, desires, and thoughts. [...]

[...] Form is thought to be an expression of frequency. [...]