“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Thoughts of plenty will bring you plenty in material and financial terms, and in other terms. Thoughts of want will produce want. [...] When you think in terms of want, and then see physical materializations of want, you are tempted to think that your fears were justified, and therefore those thoughts are reinforced. But the thoughts caused the want, and I am simply trying to help you stop that cycle. Now, if you and Ruburt could agree on the sort of home you would like, and if you dreamed of it and thought about it specifically, you would have it.

[...] Then switch your thoughts to ideas of plenty. [...] You must feel that this is legitimate and practical, because the thoughts of plenty will automatically begin to attract plenty. [...]

You do not need to banish the thought of money for you have not been concerned with money, but with the lack of money. You have thought of your dwindling bank account, and I tell you that this is why your bank account is dwindling. [...]

Your subjective life has been somewhat permeated by thoughts of want, and literally poverty, until you have indeed exaggerated your own situation. [...]

[...] You have thoughts as you have eggs for breakfast. You are not the eggs and you are not your thoughts. You are as independent of your thoughts and your emotions as you are of the bacon and the eggs. You use the bacon and the eggs in your physical composition; and you use your emotions and your thoughts in your mental composition. [...] Then, do not identify with your emotions or your thoughts. [...] But the bacon goes through your physical system and the thoughts of emotion, left alone, will pass through your psychic system. [...] When you set up barriers and doors, then you enclose these thoughts within you—as if you stored up tons of bacon in your refrigerator and wonder why there was not enough room for anything else. [...]

[...] You are not physical matter; you are not your thoughts; you are not your emotions. You have emotions; you have thoughts; you have a physical body—but you are far more than these. Use the thoughts. [...]

lord let me remember how it was
when i nuzzled the air in the morning
and thought i could wiggle a distant leaf
just as i moved my own ears and toes.
i thought that i caused rain to fall
just as the tears from my own eyes
wet my cheeks,
and that my thoughts turned into clouds
that circled the top of my head.

lord let me remember how it was
when i nudged my skin
against the touch of each new morning
and bounded through
the thick thought-forests
that stretched between dawn and noon,
when like magic my lunch was put before me.
lord let me remember how it was
when i was so new
that i thought i was part of the morning.

[...] Amazing!” Such was my first thought when I found this poem. [...]

[...] I see now that given the lifetime challenges she’s chosen, such thoughts will continue to play a prominent role in the reality Jane is creating for herself:)

The flow of thoughts during the day, the background current of thoughts, is highly connected to dream activity. Sometimes they spring to the surface of the mind, but often they are in the background, beneath the thoughts to which you are currently giving attention.

Nevertheless, you react to those background thoughts, and often they serve as a springboard for those in the front of your mind. I say thoughts, though they may often be images. [...] Yet in this period certain thoughts or images will be experienced in the background area. [...]

(3:36 p.m. Jane asked me to read the session to her, and tell her what I thought of it. [...] Jane wasn’t so sure about the recovery, but I said I thought I’d seen signs of that the last few days, and now felt it would happen. [...] I told Jane I realized it would be tougher for her to realize these things, but that I thought events would prove them out.

(She did agree to try for a session, however, even though I thought she didn’t feel up to it. I’d mentioned her doing so, so as to help her use her creative abilities, since they are so much a part of her, whereas in times before I’d thought of asking her not to use those same abilities because I felt they were making her worse. [...]

[...] I thought Jane might get confused, being bombarded with so many ideas and suggestions from so many angles.

(Jane lay so quietly, eyes closed, head tipping toward her left on her pillow, mouth open, that I thought she’d fallen asleep.)

Thoughts of such magnificent vigor began to think their own thoughts—and their thoughts thought thoughts. As if in divine astonishment and surprise, All That Is began to listen, and began to respond to these “generations” of thoughts and dreams, for the thoughts and dreams related to each other also. [...] In the meantime, then, in your terms, All That Is spontaneously thought new thoughts and dreamed new dreams, and became involved in new imaginings—and all of these also related to those now-infinite generations of interweaving and interrelating thoughts and dreams that “already” existed (with many gestures and much emphasis).

[...] It was engrossed with its own subjective experiences, even divinely astonished as its own thoughts and imaginings attained their own vitality, and inherited the creativity of their subjective creator. [Those thoughts and imaginings] began to have a dialogue with their “Maker” (all very emphatically).

[...] All That Is possessed (pause) a creativity of such magnificence that its slightest imaginings, dreams, thoughts, feelings or moods attained a kind of reality, a vividness, an intensity, that almost demanded freedom. [...]

[...] Each thought, feeling, dream, or mood was itself indelibly marked with all of the attributes of this infinite subjectivity. [...]

[...] If Rob hadn’t come in at that point, I wouldn’t have known that my thought about cameras had anything to do with his thoughts or activities at the same time. So how often do our thoughts relate in one way or another to the thoughts of others?³

[...] I thought about doing another painting of the scene; I hadn’t done any painting in months. Then I thought of asking Rob to take a snapshot of the table area, so that I could paint it later. [...]

Suddenly I had a whole bunch of thoughts that I wanted to write up regarding this … “magical orientation” Rob was speaking of. Seth’s “Framework 2” would be this magical area, of course, I thought. [...]

3. See Appendix A for Jane’s material on how some of her own thoughts “relate in one way or another to the thoughts of others.” [...]

The same applies in the dream state; but there, the shadows of your thoughts may be projected outward into scenes of darkest desolation. [...] No matter how dark your mood on any given sunny day, your individual thoughts alone will not suddenly turn the blue skies into rainy ones. [...] In the dream world, however, such thoughts will definitely form your environment.

(Pause.) In your daily world objects have shadows, and thoughts or feelings do not, so in your dream travels simply remember that there “objects” do not possess shadows, but thoughts and feelings do.

Now, using an analogy only, let me explain that your thoughts and feelings also give off shadows (intently) that we will here call hallucinations.² They are quite valid. [...]

[...] It was cast originally by your own thought or feeling, and when you withdraw that source, then its “shadow” is automatically gone.

[...] Your thoughts and emotions begin their journey into physical actualization at the moment of conception. If you happen to live in an area where the coordinate environment is strong, one of those areas I have spoken of as unusually conducive, then it will seem that you are deluged by illnesses or disasters, if these are the nature of your thoughts, because all thought is so fertile in this environment. [...]

[...] If you are also of a highly pessimistic nature, given to thoughts and feelings of potential disaster, then these thoughts will be quite faithfully reproduced in experience.

The intensity of a feeling or thought or mental image is, therefore, the important element in determining its subsequent physical materialization.

[...] I want it known, however, that thoughts and emotions are formed into physical matter by very definite methods and through laws quite valid, though they may be presently unknown.

You do not understand the dimensions into which your own thoughts drop, for they continue their own existence, and others look up to them and view them like stars. I am telling you that your own thoughts and mental actions appear to the inhabitants of other systems like the stars and planets within your own; and those inhabitants do not perceive what lies within and behind the stars in their own heavens. [...] They will only perceive the shape and form that your own mental acts—thoughts and dreams—take within their own system.

[...] The whole cosmic structure, however, was the materialization of one original thought, for the thought, the basic reality, must always exist before its representation. [...]

[...] The void, in other terms, can therefore be compared to a mind, and who can predict what images or thoughts will be given birth there? [...]

Now: again, each thought forms its own electromagnetic reality and is composed of energy which can never be dissipated, but only transformed. [...]

[...] In the same manner do thoughts and emotions have the electric reality of which I have spoken. Therefore, within the electric system, dreams, thoughts and emotions exist as actualities, and in what you may call a tangible form, though not in the form of matter as you are familiar with it.

[...] A man’s thoughts, then, are far more reaching than he knows. [...] Thoughts then appear in many guises within many systems, and once created cannot be withdrawn, and once set into motion cannot be stopped. [...]

[...] The particular brain is the physical mechanism that translates the thoughts of the mind. [...] Thoughts are initially psychoelectric patterns in pure form, productions of the inner self that must be translated in order to be used by the physical self.

Thoughts are psychoelectric patterns, set up by the mind, and transformed to human codes by the brain.

[...] Thought is incipient action. The reaction is a response from your subconscious mind which corresponds with the nature of your thought. [...] Every thought is a cause and every condition an effect.”

(“Whatever thoughts, beliefs, opinions, theories, or dogmas you write, engrave, or impress on your subconscious mind... [...]

[...] But in many of your discussions, there has only been surface thought and surface feelings... [...]

(10:17.) In man, again, generally speaking, reason and emotion become separated so that man can think about his emotions, or emotionally feel his reasoning thoughts. [...] Fears as emotions are not reasonably considered, and thoughts are not emotionally tinged.

[...] I’d thought I had fairly well put the problem of taxes in its place after a number of hassles over them in recent years; that is, I thought I’d learned something there.... [...]

[...] I also said I thought the whole thing was in my head. [...]

[...] We thought the session was over at this point, but Seth did return a minute later for a little more material related to the body of tonight’s session. [...]

[...] Thought is incipient action. The reaction is a response from your subconscious mind which corresponds with the nature of your thought. [...] Every thought is a cause and every condition an effect. [...]

(Whatever thoughts, beliefs, opinions, theories or dogma you write, engrave or impress on your subconscious mind—you will experience them as the objective manifestation of circumstances, conditions and events; what you write on the inside, you experience on the outside. [...]

[...] But in many of your discussions, there has only been surface thought and surface feelings—and we do not walk on the surface in this class. [...]

Your physical universe represents one thought in changing aspects of becoming, with all possibilities inherent within the thought unfolding into existence. The thought also exists in other systems, being materialized according to other camouflage patterns, and entirely different possibilities arising because of the differences.

[...] Thoughts take electromagnetic patterns that have their own materializations as universal systems. [...]

[...] You form the reality, the shape, of thoughts, for they have shape, in much the same way that you breathe; and you have as little control of them, once you have created them, as you have of your breath.

Thoughts have what you may term color and shape, as well as electromagnetic structure and intensity. [...]

[...] In the silence of your own thoughts, listen. [...] Between sounds, between objects, not in your thoughts but between your thoughts, and there you will find answers but not to questions that you postulate in a demanding manner. [...]

[...] Your thoughts, all of your thoughts at this moment, to you seem to come and go without a trace and yet they leave traces that you do not see, nor perceive, nor even sense, and yet if you quietly examine your experience, if you listen to the universe, you can begin to perceive some of these realities and that is what I want you to do. [...]

[...] Concepts that you have not thought of are there for you. [...]

[...] As our friend over here began to experience what happens when Ruburt leaves trance, so your thoughts leave their own pattern, and your emotions impress the physical reality that you know with all kinds of effects of which you are unaware. [...]

[...] The environment has gone down; the garden apartment here that he once thought of no longer exists. He thought of this place as highly desirable once in social terms—the best place you had ever lived in together. [...]

[...] You felt your territory threatened as soon as the parking lot was thought of, and earlier when Spaziani first thought of selling the place.

(Jane was so wrought up that at first she thought a session might not develop. [...]

[...] It was thought of in terms of social transition, or your place in society, and transition in terms of your work, particularly here on Ruburt’s side—on his part. [...]

[...] Certainly my learning was deficient, I thought. [...] With the writing I sought to make sense of everything at least intellectually, but for the moment at least, I thought, this left untouched what seemed to be the more powerful emotional tangle of beliefs. [...]

[...] As it happened I woke up with a start, feeling at first what I thought was a spasm in my chest, but quickly realized it was a part of my dream reaction. Mixed in here somehow were thoughts I’d been entertaining today about glazing the underpainting for a head I’d done in green a couple of weeks ago. [...]

I do not want you to bury such negative thoughts. [...] That knowledge will take the brunt off the negative thoughts.

[...] Leonard lives alone, however, and though he has brothers and sisters, you thought of him as alone. [...]

[...] I thought that by now we’d have a good financial backlog built up, and freedom of action. I didn’t realize last year of course that she was so dissatisfied with the psychic image and the books; I blithely assumed that she felt she was doing good work, and that she accepted it, which doesn’t mean that I had any thoughts of ever saying she shouldn’t do any other kind of writing, ever. [...]

[...] Ruburt never learned how to handle normal aggressive thoughts.

[...] I am speaking now of habitual ways of handling conscious angry thoughts. [...]

[...] I have always taken these differences for granted, and evidently assumed too much when I thought she understood them.

[...] Then I thought—or another part of me thought: at last, the inner evidence I’ve wanted so badly, the definite sensations . [...] The thoughts were mine, yet mine at a completely different level of thought that I don’t think I’ve ever identified (or identified with) before. [...]