“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] Waking, you generally become familiar with your thoughts through words that are mental, automatically translating your thoughts into language. Your thoughts therefore fall, or flow, into prefabricated forms. In the dream state, however, thoughts are often experienced directly, colon: “You live” them out. [...]

[...] From the 624th session, for example: “I told you that thoughts are translated into this inner sound, but thoughts always attempt to materialize themselves also. [...]

[...] In those terms, if you are bilingual you are somewhat better off, for your thoughts have a choice of two paths. [...]

[...] For example, Mr. A in his bedroom telepathically picks up the thought of his brother many miles distant. [...] If he merely picks up his brother’s thought, and the thought is, quote: “I am dying. [...]

[...] They are built up in the same manner whether or not you want to perceive a thought that must be made physical, or the image of a consciousness that must be made physical.

In spite of those thoughts, Jane was still rather upset and out of sorts a day later as session time approached. [...] She also thought of giving me the night off, by way of celebrating a bit because I’ve finished the notes for Mass Events, but I told her I’d rather keep the sessions going as long as both of us feel like it. [...]

[...] Your thoughts are the invisible partners of your words, and the vast unstated subjectivity of All That Is is in the same way behind all stated or manifest phenomena.

I’ve often thought that the repetition in the Seth books, say, is nothing compared to the repeated barrages of suggestion—much of it negative—that our species has chosen to subject itself to daily. [...]

You have disapproved of yourself, thinking yourself not spontaneous, and so your belief has often hampered your natural spontaneity, so that you struggled for notes because you thought you must; that was the kind of person you thought you were.

[...] He disapproved of himself because of his condition, or so he thought, and he has felt that way often. [...]

[...] Again, labels are somewhat implicated, for you each thought you worked well with the pendulum, but that Ruburt did not. [...]

[...] Your thoughts intertwine with those of others. You are responsible for your own thoughts. You need to learn the power of thought and emotion, but this should fill you with the joy of creativity. Once you realize that your thoughts form reality, then you are no longer a slave to events. [...]

[...] I thought her motions might make up for the actual session today. [...]

(“I’ve thought of it.” [...]

[...] “If you keep on improving like you have been, it looks like I’ll be taking the book apart a lot sooner than I thought I would—which, after all, is what we want you to be able to do: read by yourself.” [...]

(So much time passed this afternoon that I thought Jane had passed up a session, but finally, after we’d talked some more, she said she wanted to have a short one. [...]

[...] I thought several times that she might stop speaking in mid-delivery, but she kept going. [...]

[...] If we create our diseases through our thoughts and lifestyles, how about animals? [...]

I bid you a good evening, but I want you to watch your conscious thoughts for a different reason this time. [...] So I would like you to listen inward to your own thoughts with this in mind. [...]

[...] If you honestly listen to your thoughts when you think in these areas and catch yourselves with the limited concepts that you hold. [...]

[...] Blame was projected by him upon other areas, because only when he allowed his thoughts to really surface would he blame you in any way. [...]

He did not think you wanted him to be free of symptoms, because he thought that then you would be faced with problems of emotionalism that you wished to avoid at all costs.

He tried to show you his love, but finally he became ashamed of needing you, and felt even that you thought less of him because of it. [...]

[...] I thought Jane’s trance had been a good one, even though she’d used many pauses, but she told me that she hadn’t been at her best. [...]

(I discussed with Jane the questions I’d thought of when Seth had commented, above, on “… how limiting previous concepts of psychology have been.”: As a discipline, why was psychology so narrowly developed? [...]

[...] “We hadn’t given the idea of a preface a thought. [...]

[...] I can quite honestly compare such distractions with, say, the distracting thought that might take you from a familiar train of thought into another new mental territory. [...]

If he knew later of the plane’s fate, he thought “How lucky for me that my plans were thwarted.” [...]

[...] I explained to Jane some thoughts I’d had in bed last night—that her returning home in reasonably good shape would solve all of our major challenges at this time: her career, income, insurance problems, physical freedom, the ability to travel if we chose—all of them, freeing us to start leading some sort of more-or-less normal lifestyle. [...]

[...] You breathe whether or not you understand how breathing happens—so remind Ruburt that he must get to the point where he realizes that walking is as easy as writing a book, or thinking a thought, or having a session. [...]

[...] The body does not follow your logical thought, however. [...]

[...] Think at least in terms of going out together occasionally, for the thoughts are important. [...]

[...] We thought the J B might refer to Jane’s initials, but in this case couldn’t account for the A since Jane has no middle name.

[...] We thought possibly the animal reference concerned our occasional use of pepper acorns, which we used to grind ourselves. [...]

[...] We thought the pepper, or object, itself, since it comes from foreign lands.

[...] At first, we thought these might be attempts to get at the word pepper. [...]

(Jane wanted information from Seth about her struggle last night with what she believed to be a thought form she had created while sleeping. [...]

[...] Fell was asking an exorbitant rate, she thought, for the first book; and Ruburt, she reasoned, would expect special privileges because of her contact with Wollheim, and so she got her back up and made sure no special privileges were given. [...]

[...] She never thought that Ruburt would revise the book. [...]

[...] She was quite sleepy at break, and said Seth was “putting her under” in order to talk about the thought-form and projection experience of last night with the least amount of distortion. [...]

If you have thought that the universe followed a mechanistic model, then you would have to say that each portion of this “cosmic machine” created itself, knowing its position in the entire “future construction.” [...]

[...] “I thought that was what there was tonight. [...]

“The creationists put down other species, as do the evolutionists, taking it as fact that no other species is capable of conceptual thought, where I think that statement is extremely dubious generally, and even specifically in light of the work being done with dolphins, for example. [...]

[...] Perhaps, I thought when putting together the Preface for Dreams, I just wanted to use some of our later material in the new book.

(Jane said she was so passive at the end of the session that she couldn’t assert herself as she usually does; she thought that this assertion on her part helped Seth disengage at the end of a session. I thought this an excellent point, and one not previously mentioned in just such a way.)

[...] Thoughts of expansion will help your work, so that the energy and vision are not imprisoned by form but are within form, even while in the process of change.

[...] I thought the material excellent.)

(I asked the question because of the long pause; I wanted to keep Seth on this track, and thought he might begin talking about another subject. [...]

[...] Each of you has a birthday that you recognize — one birthdate — but there are hidden variables, because of what I am saying here tonight, that do not apply in those charts because you have not thought of them.

[...] How many of you have actually thought of what the unconscious may be? [...]

(“Well,” I said to Jane after class, as we discussed the Chinese-American situation cited by Seth, “I don’t know about counterpart relationships in other kinds of realities, but it’s certainly obvious that at least some physical counterparts can hate each other …” So the larger self, I thought, would be quite capable of seeking experience through its parts in every way imaginable. [...]

(On more “practical” levels, we thought that behavior among nations might be changed for the better if the idea of counterparts were understood, or at least considered — if, for instance, many of the individuals making up a country realized that they could actually be acting against portions of themselves [or of their whole selves] in the persons of the “enemy” country, and so modified the virulence of their feelings. [...]

[...] I’ve thought about it often since last Thursday, then: Is Jane going to have to make known to herself consciously every bit of information about her symptoms before she recovers? [...]

(I thought, then, that much of the time most people simply get well through an unwitting trust in their bodies to heal themselves. [...]

[...] I’ve managed to turn my thoughts away from such worries rather successfully lately, yet when they do return they can’t but help cause concern, so conditioned are we toward anything unusual about the body’s behavior representing a state of illness or unease. [...]

(Long pause.) The more stimuli, thoughts, desires and material of a diverse nature brought into the system—within reason—the greater the amount of material the inner self has to work with and put together in its own creative fashions—but do remember those sessions given that remind Ruburt that his body can indeed recover, that he can indeed trust his body’s processes, and that he should not compare his life with anyone else’s, but trust in the entire fabric of his existence, and you indeed should trust the entire fabric of your own. [...]

[...] Ruburt thought he had to make a choice (louder). If will and power meant relative immobility but purpose—and purpose was what he had—then in the past he chose that above what he thought of as laxness, relaxation, and physical freedom that might mean frittering away ability, a relaxation in which nothing was accomplished.

Your father represented what you thought of as the secret, isolated creative self—more or less at odds with the world, unappreciated by it in family or financial terms; the alone, artistic self you thought unable to communicate, inarticulate and dumb, locked away from close communication with others, and indeed barraged by misunderstandings because of its very creativity—emotionally frozen, afraid to show itself.