“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

But energy forms depend upon strong, very powerful concentrations of energy whether thought or emotion is involved. [...] They are usually the result of, in your terms, a long term build up of energy although the same effect can be reached by one extremely powerful image or thought. [...]

[...] There are other portions of your reality also formed by your thoughts and emotions however, that are not so obvious to you. [...]

(Sue used the term thought forms in explaining to Jane what Seth had said.)

They are energy forms rather than thought forms. [...]

[...] We are much more aware of our own thoughts than you are. We realize our freedom to choose our thoughts, and we choose them with some discrimination and finesse.

(Pause at 9:49.) The power of our thoughts has been made clear to us, through trial and error in other existences. [...] This does not mean that we are not spontaneous, or that we must deliberate between one thought or another, in anxious concern that one might be negative or destructive. [...]

[...] This, I am sure, seems an invasion of privacy to you, and yet I assure you that even now none of your thoughts are hidden, but are known quite clearly to your family and friends — and I may add, unfortunately, to those you consider enemies as well. [...]

We do not feel the need to hide our emotions or thoughts from others, because all of us by now well recognize the cooperative nature of all consciousness and reality, and our part in it. [...]

[...] In a way he was rewarded for conventional thought, and punished for unconventional thought. [...]

[...] The thoughts were considered extremely dangerous. [...]

[...] In the past any intuitive thoughts he felt but could not prove were put into his fiction. [...]

This was because he had for one thing watched what he thought of as the two faces of Father Doran, who conned others in his preaching then showed quite opposing characteristics afterward. [...]

[...] Your thoughts are far more important than any physical act in terms of changing a situation, for only your thoughts will allow you to do so.

I would like Ruburt to make a red star each time during the day he finds himself thinking pleasant or optimistic thoughts, and a large one each day or time he feels a strong surge of faith or exuberance. [...] He is not to count the negative thoughts, for that is not the kind of concentration we want.

Associations are highly personal, bringing together in thought and in dreams highly individualistic constructs in which actual events and fantasized ones come together. [...]

[...] There, your thoughts are as actual as physical events, for the physical events could not occur without that inner activity. [...]

(Now that idea, I thought as I went into the kitchen to get Jane some wine for the session, made sense—it could account for the perpetuation of her symptoms on a daily, present-life basis, and made a lot more sense than thinking she was suffering now because of something that happened to her when she was perhaps eight years old or whatever. [...] I thought I was onto something from a fresh viewpoint, and at the same time was afraid that we’d heard it all before and that the idea meant little. [...]

[...] There was something new here, though, I thought, when one postulated that Seth as we knew him was acceptable because of the symptoms. [...] Strange, I thought, if it turned out that personal work would be one of the most creative of all the uses to which the Seth material could be put, rather than grandiose pronouncements coming down from on high, dispensed by one who was in a position of superiority.

(Jane surprised me after I said most of what I had to say by adding that she thought our attitudes about children also had something to do with the symptoms —a connection that I could say had never occurred to me. [...] For some time now I’d thought, often, that it could be that she wanted to be sick —that that was the role she’d chosen for this life, that in many ways all of our efforts to get out from under the symptoms were really beside the point. [...]

[...] She revealed that she’d thought of having a session for the three visitors. [...] [She’d also thought of having a session before their arrival, so that Seth could continue the material he’d started Monday; she hadn’t told me this.]

[...] In a way, then, each thought bears the same relation to its materialization in fact as the sperm bears to its possible materialization as a person. [...] The thought has to find its physical nest. When you are in a creative state knowingly, you help form the nest that you want to collect the thoughts that you want to materialize. [...]

[...] You are not your ideas, nor even your thoughts. [...] If you think that limiting thoughts are a portion of you, permanently attached therefore, you will not think of washing them off. [...]

Often you quite consciously decide to bury a thought or an idea that might cause you to alter your behavior, because it does not seem to fit in with limiting ideas that you already hold. Listen to your own train of thought as you go about your days. [...]

[...] Many people are afraid of their own thoughts. [...]

[...] Seth-Jane, deep in thought, paused.) Much has been written about the nature and importance of suggestion. [...]

He was frightened at the amount of negative thought that he encountered in himself, and recognized. Now you are not actively to seek out negative thoughts, but to find positive ones. [...]

In other words negative thoughts can be recognized and plucked out with no more rancor than you would pluck out weeds in a garden. [...] Your job now is simply to remove them, and as you remove each one, easily, to drop in a seed of positive thought to replace it.

[...] A negative thought gains in power to the extent that you fear it, and you had better underline that whole sentence. A better attitude is “Well, there is a negative thought, let’s get rid of it.” [...]

The negative thoughts can and should be recognized and plucked up as they are encountered, but you do not need a shovel to pluck up one weed at a time, nor hit yourself over the head with a sledgehammer for finding a weed in your garden. [...]

[...] She also thought the church’s teachings about motherhood were ambiguous. [...] She thought the church meant that a woman should be either a nun or a mother.

[...] I’d had the idea of starting right in trying to hypnotize her, but thought better of it. [...]

[...] “It’s pretty dumb, because I sure as hell don’t get any privacy this way,” she exclaimed — and I thought she was clearing a road, as Seth had suggested last session.

[...] I thought her expressions of anger very beneficial, though. [...]

[...] Up beyond the damper, I could easily hear our raccoon guests busily chattering away: perhaps it was feeding time, their noise was loud, now—a sure sign of growing things, I thought. I thought the racket might disturb Jane going into trance, but such wasn’t the case.)

[...] But then, I thought, it must be getting in and out by itself all along, for at least three weeks now, and I was sure that late at night I could hear more than one voice chattering above the damper. [...]

[...] We thought this added feeling of sensation might be the result of the last couple of sessions especially. [...]

[...] (I’d thought of that at the time. [...]

(We’d thought that Seth might refer to them in the session for last Monday, but none was held because once again Jane was so relaxed on the couch after supper. [...]

[...] The repressive nature of Christian thought in the Middle Ages, for example, is well known. [...]

[...] But there is a long history of the conflicts between creative thought, heresy, excommunication, or worse, death. [...]

There are, however, classic connections between creative thought and heresy, between established belief and the danger of revelatory material as being disruptive—first of church and then of state. [...]

There are more than your thought forms in other words. Your thought forms however can be used as definite aids when you are in the proper mental condition, and they can impede your progress if you are not. [...]

The amount of conscious thought given to any construction obviously reinforces it. Ruburt became a writer because he thought of being a writer constantly. [...]

[...] Impress yourself with the thought that you want to get up and retrieve it.

[...] Your thoughts instantly attain a form that you can then perceive. [...]

When he learned to write, he thought of writing to express such thoughts, and was always tempted to use writing as an expression of those subjective feelings he felt were forbidden—not just directed toward his father, but feelings of which he felt his father would disapprove. [...]

The writing became a symbol for the expression of thoughts that could not be verbalized in childhood. [...]

[...] He thought, as you did, that artistic abilities were like alien flowers in an unfriendly land, that had to be force-fed and protected at all costs.

The scientific framework of reference has become equated with the term “rational thinking,” to such an extent that any other slant of thought automatically seems to be irrational. Thought has become, in that regard, too specialized, prejudiced, and inflexible.

Now there are styles of thought. [...] Science has so dominated the world of thought, however, that many nuances and areas once considered quite “rational” have become quite unrespectable. [...]

STYLES OF THOUGHT.

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There is no separate field that combines all of that information, or applies the facts of one discipline to the facts of another discipline, so overall, science, with its brand of rational thought, can offer no even, suggestive, hypothetical, comprehensive ideas of what reality is. [...]

Imagine if you can, the reality that exists within and beneath and supporting your most single thought. What is that thought that flashed so momentarily and clearly and then to drop away, upon what is it dependent. [...]

To answer the questions you need to feel your reality at any given moment, to follow your own thoughts, but not only your thoughts, but your physical sensations, the sensations of physical life. [...]

[...] Every breath that you take is revelant, and every thought is revelant and what seems to you to be waste is not waste. [...]

[...] It is this force within you that gives you your life and vitality that keeps you alive and that allows you all to think these fine and weighty thoughts. [...]

[...] If I thought you were a sheep then I would try to lead you. [...] If I thought you had no abilities of your own, and this applies to all of you, if I did not know that you were multidimensional personalities with all kinds of abilities at your disposal, then I would not tell you to think and feel for yourselves. [...]

[...] through your most intimate desires and thoughts and fears. You change the exterior circumstances by changing your thoughts and your desires and by forgetting your fears. [...]

[...] But, in the same way, many of you do not connect the fact of thought and desire with the fact of birth in the physical universe. You do not realize that your thought is literally the parent of the physical reality that you know. [...]

[...] If you realize that you create your physical reality through your own thoughts and desires, then you have learned the most important aspects of reality. [...]

(I also said that I thought today’s material was the result of Jane’s reading that intro after breakfast yesterday, which had triggered her day-long black mood of despair. I thought the intro had triggered Jane’s material about her mother—for here Jane was, creating—or at least mimicking—her mother’s situation on her own. [...]

I guess I thought that I’d keep up some level of communication if I talked as I am now, and Robbie took the words down. [...]

But I thought, “My God, I should be able to forgive my mother anything, being in that state, with a child beside.” [...]

[...] I honestly thought I’d put most of that behind me—yet my early novels all dealt with the relationship between my mother and others, in various guises, and I know I was afraid that somehow she’d end up turning me into her. [...]

[...] You have thoughts as you have eggs for breakfast, but you are not the eggs, and you are not your emotions. You are as independent of your thoughts and emotions as you are of the bacon and eggs. You use the bacon and eggs in your physical composition, and you use your thoughts and emotions in your mental composition. [...] Then do not identify with your thoughts and emotions. [...]

“You should tell yourself frequently, ‘I will only react to constructive suggestions,’ for this gives you some protection against your own negative thoughts and those of others. A negative thought if not erased will almost certainly result in a negative condition: a momentary despondency, a headache, according to the intensity of the thought.

Repression has been one of my own habits, particularly after I learned how destructive negative thoughts can be. [...] I’d catch myself thinking a resentful thought about a particular person or situation and I’d almost recoil, “Wow, that’s a terrible thing to think,” I’d say to myself.

[...] We have put his concepts to work in our own lives, and sometimes both of us wonder how we managed daily life before we understood the close relationship between thoughts, emotions, and health.

(Jane described a dream she’d had last night, a very positive one, she thought, in which she’d looked at her face in a mirror for the first time in a long while. She saw her features with their old familiar contours, was pleased, and thought that with a little makeup she’d look fine. [...] “The last time I did—some months ago—I thought I looked terrible, with a double chin and my face bloated all out of shape....” [...]

[...] Earlier today I’d suggested that she visualize herself sitting at her desk in the breezeway, writing—and without giving a thought as to how she got there. [...]

[...] Just what we need, I thought. [...]

[...] Some of this has to do, again, with the fact that you thought your concern automatically expressed your love. [...] Part of it was his projection because he felt you thought he was so stupid for having anything wrong at all, so the more he saw you frown the stupider he felt, and the more guilty. [...]

When the two of you could work together, he thought, all that would change. [...]

[...] And that while they appreciated his other work, his main value in their eyes lay precisely in the field that he thought would mean nothing to them.

[...] You typed my book, and I appreciate the work and the reasons, but Ruburt felt it was also because you did not trust Prentice, and always that you thought another publisher would do a better job overall.