“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] Here let me mention that in those terms you hypnotize yourself constantly with your own conscious thoughts and suggestions. The term hypnosis merely applies to a quite normal state in which you concentrate your attention, narrowing your focus to a particular area of thought or belief.

[...] It is somewhat fashionable to place feelings above conscious thoughts, the idea being that emotions are more basic and natural than conscious reasoning is. [...]

If emotion could be trusted above conscious reasoning then there would be little point in aware thought at all. [...]

[...] These lie latent, ready to be focused upon and used; any of them can be brought to the fore when a conscious thought acts as a stimulus.

[...] Your thoughts, feelings and expectations are like the living brush strokes with which you paint your corner of life’s landscape. [...] Your thoughts are as real as snowflakes or raindrops or clouds. They mix and merge with the thoughts of others, to form man’s livingscape, providing the vast mental elements from which physical events will be formed.

[...] Consciously, you are usually aware only of your own thoughts, but those thoughts merge with the thoughts of all others in the world. [...]

Your thoughts and beliefs and desires form the events that you view on television. If you want to change your world, you must first change your thoughts, expectations, and beliefs. [...]

There is no event upon the face of the earth in which each of you has not played some part, however minute, because of the nature of your thoughts, beliefs, and expectations.

(A curved line may be a complicated thought, a crooked or incomplete one—and a straight line may be a more simple, direct action or thought. [...]

(A juncture represents a flowering of thought through action. [...] would be thought translated into more positive action.

(Each line is one thought, one recorded or frozen bit of action; representing or capable of representing many things. But a collection of lines, with the same or similar thoughts behind them, assembles itself into a recognizable whole.

(Jane dictates:) I thought you were going to ask me about her recitation of the fifth dimension, which came across unusually well and quite undistorted. [...]

Framework 1 thoughts, but despite the restrictions they entailed, they still represented an important turn for the better. On several occasions he simply imagined the two of you in Florida, in the trailer as before, with no thought for how you got there.

The first thoughts, with their emphasis on detail, were still important, convincing him that such a trip was possible, even under present conditions. [...] There was a creative use of suggestion—the second, of course, far better than the first group of thoughts.

[...] I thought it interesting that Nebene’s land, Jerusalem, say, was geographically next door to Egypt, and not great in physical distance, as far as miles go.

[...] It directed your thoughts and expectations again in an overall manner.

Normal aggressiveness flows with strong patterns of energy, giving motive power to all of your thoughts whether you consciously regard them as positive or negative, good or bad. [...] When you consider a thought good you usually do not question it. [...] Usually if you regard a thought as bad or beneath you, or if you are ashamed of it, then you try to deny it, stop its motion and hold it back. [...]

[...] One person may find sexually stimulating thoughts delightful and a most enjoyable kind of diversion. [...]

[...] The same thoughts may fill another man with intense terror and grave feelings of guilt. [...]

You will each have to discover for yourself those areas in which you strongly repress your thoughts, for many energy blockages will be found there. [...]

[...] Or the individual might send you a thought-form at the same time that he telepathically communicates with you. Your rooms are full now of thought-forms that you do not perceive; and again, you are as much a ghostly phenomenon now as you will be after death. [...]

In the same way in the midst of life, you dwell with so-called ghosts and apparitions, and for that matter you yourselves appear as apparitions to others, particularly when you send strong thought-forms of yourself from the sleep state, or even when unconsciously you travel out of your physical body.

[...] Some apparitions are thought-forms sent by survival personalities out of lingering deep anxiety. [...]

(The combination of) thought, emotion, and desire creates form, possesses energy, (and) is made of energy. [...]

[...] Young people may even repress their own thought processes, since they fear their own inclinations, and are afraid to act upon their thoughts. To escape the conflict between thought and action, such young people may only allow their thoughts to stray in conventionalized standard directions. [...]

[...] And maybe that stand was a good one, I thought, since it was definite. [...] I told Jane I thought the whole thing was one more piece of the puzzle falling into place—that above all I didn’t want her to worry, to just forget it. [...]

[...] I’d thought A. Fife mistaken yesterday, but he’d repeated the same thing to Pete, and gave him file and form numbers. [...]

(I also think Pete found out that Kathy Hagen is not the ultimate supervisor at Syracuse, as I’d thought from what Andy Fife said, but that she too has supervisors. [...]

[...] Anyhow I got the following thoughts at once: that when we were in Oswego so many years ago visiting Instream at the university I discovered that.... my experiences put me outside the pale; on the other side of the fence from, say, the academic circles that I’d so respected; that my experience with other people was going to be vastly different; I thought I was looking for truth, but I’d be one of those under suspicion because of the kind of person into which I’d developed.... [...] I’d thought such things before but this was full of emotion.... [...]

[...] You do not understand the multiple reality of your own thoughts or thought forms, and you are not able to follow them out of your own mental home. [...]

[...] You plant thought forms in other systems, and you tend them. [...] Your world is like a thought form in my experience. [...]

[...] There are diversities within each system as there are diversities within your own, that are chemical universes where thoughts are patterned in ways that would be incomprehensible to you.

And when you sleep you are in accelerated periods of creativity and concentration, making with thoughts and images the world you know, forming from inner experience the physical story that will unfold, the events that you will encounter physically.

[...] She looked very poor — gaunt from eating far too little — like an aged fetus, I thought, in her drawn-up position.

[...] I must be more negative than I thought after all this time, for I didn’t believe her when she said she wasn’t going to die now. [...]

(When she finally asked me what I thought of the session, I had trouble expressing any hope, versus those negative feelings I’ve been aware of for so long now. [...]

[...] I’ve even thought of dying to let you go free.”

Your space is filled with these subordinate points, and as you will see later, these are important in allowing you to transform thoughts and emotions into physical matter. When a thought or emotion attains a certain intensity, it automatically attracts the power of one of these subordinate points, and is therefore highly charged, and in one way magnified, though not in size.

Each thought or emotion therefore exists as an electromagnetic energy unit or as a combination of these under certain conditions, and often with the help of coordinate points, they emerge into the building blocks of physical matter. This emergence into matter occurs as a neutral “result” regardless of the nature of any given thought or emotion. [...]

[...] Greater energy will therefore be added to the original thought or feeling, and its projection into physical matter accelerated. [...]

These points are like invisible power plants, in other words, activated when any emotional feeling or thought of sufficient intensity comes into contact. [...]

Now you cannot hold too many thoughts in your head, in quotes “at the same time,” and many of your own thoughts escape you consciously. Entities are aware of all of their personalities, and keep track of them far better than you keep track of your own thoughts.

Time could be thought of as the tissues of the entity. [...]

[...] What I am trying to tell you is that a thought or a feeling, with all its varieties of intensities, is more like time, like the true nature of time, than all of your minutes or hours.

A thought can be intense, then partially fade and grow intense again. [...]

(Additional thought re the notes just above: I suppose that if we enjoyed clear channels of communication between all parts of ourselves, we wouldn’t have returned to this spot—or if we had, no charges would be involved. I pulled in here after we had passed it; it was at the end of a day of driving, I was tired, and thought of the place. [...]

(Then she wrote: Feeling I’ve been so afraid of my personal thoughts and feelings—thought they were so bad that I don’t know myself. [...]

[...] It was based on the three previous sessions held here, and my thoughts growing out of them. [...]

[...] I thought this not surprising under the circumstance. [...]

[...] The rules are that this universe is created by the thoughts that exist within each of your minds... and that these thoughts are materialized outward. [...] and when thoughts of resentment and hatred are materialized, you end up with wars. [...] the condition of your physical world is the result of your mass inner thoughts and desires. And your physical world is the result of your mass inner thoughts and desires. And your physical environments, your personal physical environments, are the results of your inner materialized thoughts. [...]

[...] These are your thoughts and mental images and they spring out from you, as the petals spring out from a flower, but you can see the petals of a flower and you are not consciously aware of these other images. [...]

[...] For she speaks also for the hidden fears within each of you—and she makes vocal thoughts that have been in each of your minds at various times. [...]

[...] You were so frightened of the thought that you immediately inhibited it. [...] You are terrified of the idea that evil is more powerful than good, that one stray violent thought of yours was more important and powerful than the vitality of good. At least you were aware of the thought. [...]

[...] The worst thing that could happen would be that once again you restrain the acknowledgement of the pent up, perfectly natural aggression that is now ready to explode — so you send out a thought-form out of all proportion to any of the events that have transpired. The thought-form 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.

[...] To change your world you must change your thoughts. [...]

(Jim H.: “You don’t just automatically think good things about this fellow, and repress the negative thoughts without becoming aware of what you felt.”)

(4:56 p.m. Jane said that as soon as she gave the last sentence from Seth she thought the title of the book would be The Way Toward Health. [...] And I told her that her statement reminded me that the same thought had come to me a couple of times previously after I’d been pretty sure that Seth was giving book work.

[...] She was obviously surprised at the thought, but then, why not? [...]

[...] I thought she was going to pass up having a session, it was getting so late, but finally she decided to have a short one as the time to turn her on her side arrived.)

(Of more importance, it seems on the surface at least, is a reaching-out on Assad’s part toward a dialogue with the Western world — quite an unexpected development, I thought. [...]

[...] I asked the question because I thought we had cracked this wall over the weekend, and was anxious for confirmation. I thought we had made a very important start.)

[...] But the expression of fears was very beneficial, we thought, and surprisingly this was new for both of us.

[...] Because he appeared so talkative, you did not recognize the point where he began to hide his fearful thought or feelings from you. [...]

[...] He gave little expression to his feelings toward your mother, in a mad rush to get to the respectable and responsible attitude he thought he should have.

[...] The speed of your own thoughts takes those thoughts away from you even as you think them—and you can never really examine a thought, but only the thought of a thought (with quiet amusement).

Jane was so much at ease tonight that she thought of skipping the session, but she decided to try for it because she’d picked up material on it from Seth today, and made a few notes. [...]

[...] All such methods, however, are useless if your beliefs hold you back, and so the main thrust of all of my books is to increase your own areas of thought and speculation.

[...] He’d alluded to her notes a little more, but I was disappointed that he hadn’t developed two particular thoughts Jane had picked up from him today. [...]

The reality of such intuitive thoughts as electromagnetic actions has not been understood, and is quite vital to any comprehension of the human system. I have said before that thoughts exist in such a dimension. Constructive thoughts do not simply affect the system for good in some sort of a generalized fashion, nor do destructive thoughts simply happen to affect the system directly.

The effect of any thought is a quite precise and definite one, that is set into motion specifically because of the nature of its own electromagnetic identity. [...] A destructive type of thought, then, is dangerous not only for the present state of the organism, but dangerous in terms of the future.

Poor health is indeed caused mainly by habitual destructive thought patterns which directly affect the physical system, because of the particular range within the electromagnetic system in which they fall; and despite any objections I will stick by this statement. The bad health, for example, does not occur first, resulting in unhealthy thoughts. [...]

[...] So I thought I would see what developed in the session.

[...] She thought the chair was several feet to her own right, closer to our wall-to-ceiling bookcase. “I thought that me, the whole bit where I’m sitting, and me, it seemed to me that I was over there,” she said, pointing to her right side. [...]

(Again, she felt quite disoriented when she finally opened her eyes and saw the position of her chair, compared to where she had thought it was. Also, the pyramid or cone of energy from in back of me had been directed at the spot in the room where she thought she was—not where she really was.

[...] The first was that she was momentarily disoriented when she came out of trance because the chair she was sitting in was not where she thought it was while speaking for Seth.