“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Straight-laced people have often frowned upon the use of the imagination, considering it most disruptive. (Pause.) From the beginning Ruburt has questioned whether or not our material gave a true explanation of reality—or at least presented one that was as approximately true as possible. Or were only creative hypotheses being offered? Was the material true or false?

(9:34.) The same kind of recognizable standards that are normally applied to the true-or-false category do not work for such knowledge, since that knowledge is basically, automatically large enough to contain the entire true-or-false realm itself—that is, revelatory information puts true and false designations side by side, and ends up with a system large enough to contain both, in which each are seen as valid constructs that are only part of a larger view of psychological events.

You have a true or false world in that regard, and a relatively very flat psychological view of identity. Within that framework, however, you do have the creative abilities, and these stand out in their own fashions, since they “play with the facts.” They often do not honor conceptual conventions. They do not fit the true-or-false category. The imagination can of course conceive of many events, whether or not those events actually exist.

The idea of the Sinful Self came into play here, for if the material was not true, then in that framework it must necessarily be false—or at the least very misleading. This led to many questions. Is creativity itself involved in a kind of mischievous lying? All of those questions make sense in a framework in which the dictums of one belief system—Christianity—are accepted as true, and everything that does not agree with them is accepted as falsehood.

[...] They also liberate your intellect so that its powers are not limited by concepts it has been taught are true. Instead, such concepts are relatively true — operationally true. [...] They are true, relatively speaking. [...]

In larger terms it is futile to question whether or not dreams are true, for they simply are. You do consider a dream true, however, if its events later occur in fact.

[...] Your language tells you that certain things are true, or facts, and that certain things are not. [...]

What is imaginary is not true: You are taught this as children. [...]

[...] More often than not, true awareness of the situation often becomes almost conscious, and just beneath awareness the individual knows the source of his authentic material.

[...] It is true that the anima allows itself to be acted upon, but the motive behind this is the desire and the necessity to tune into other forces that are supremely powerful. [...]

[...] In simple terms the whole self contains male and female characteristics, finely tuned together, blended so that true identity can then arise — for it cannot, when one group of characteristics must be emphasized over the other group, as it must be during your present physical existence.

[...] The same is true of the woman’s projection of the animus upon male relatives and friends. [...]

(9:53.) The true art of dreaming is a science long forgotten by your world.¹ Such an art, pursued, trains the mind in a new kind of consciousness — one that is equally at home in either existence, well-grounded and secure in each. Almost anyone can become a satisfied and productive amateur in this art-science; but its true fulfillment takes years of training, a strong sense of purpose, and a dedication — as does any true vocation.

(10:35.) Give us a moment … The true scientist understands that he must probe the interior and not the exterior universe; he will comprehend that he cannot isolate himself from a reality of which he is necessarily a part, and that to do so presents at best a distorted picture. In quite true terms, your dreams and the trees outside of your windows have a common denominator: they both spring from the withinness of consciousness.⁵

[...] They met with varying degrees of success in their attempts to understand the nature of reality, and it is true that their overall goals were different than yours. [...]

To some extent, a natural talent is a prerequisite for such a true dream-art scientist. [...]

[...] Again, it behooves you to deny your true feelings in order to be spiritual — which is not true spirituality — and you say again, “God bless you, may you go in peace.”

[...] You forget that consciousness is the only true vehicle. [...]

[...] You must become consciously aware of what you tell yourself is true every moment of the day, for that is the reality that you project outward.

(Bert C.: “My true feelings, despite what I might project consciously?”)

It is only from this viewpoint that the true nature of physical matter can be understood. It is only by comprehending the nature of this constant translation of thoughts and desires — not into words now, but into physical objects — that you can realize your true independence from circumstance, time, and environment.

[...] The true information is not in the objects any more than the thought is in the letters or in words. [...]

I am pleased with the beginning of my chapter, for I think I have hit upon an analogy, and a true one, that will release the reader from the artificial bondage of physical form. [...]

(Pause, one of many.) Light can be defined as a wave or as a particle,² and the same is true in many other instances. Consciousness, for example, can be defined as a wave or as a particle, for it can operate as either, and appear as either, even though its true definition would have to include the creative capacity to shape itself into such forms.

Any event that you perceive is only a portion of the true dimensionality of that event. [...]

[...] The universe did not, then, begin at some specified point in time, or at any particular location in space—for (louder) it is true to say that all of space and all of time appeared simultaneously, and appear simultaneously.

[...] But to discuss Seth or Seth’s ideas primarily from the true-or-false framework is the same thing as considering the Mona Lisa only from the validity of the physical properties of paint and canvas; very, very limiting. To “just” say that Seth’s ideas are true is to limit him and us.... [...]

[...] I don’t have to “live up” to anything, I don’t have to “make the material work” or prove through my actions that it does because it proves itself in the way that creativity does, by being beyond levels of true-false references. [...]

[...] Is this true? [...] Are you true? [...]

[...] What Ruburt said earlier concerning the songs of the Sumari is indeed true. [...]

Do not think first, “Is this a true word?” Use the word as a launching pad to experience. [...]

[...] It’s true that by then I’m restless and getting tired, but I can always make exceptions. [...] Probably true.

[...] In basic terms, true amnesia does not exist in such cases, though it appears to. [...]

[...] If a hypothesis is “proven true,” then it cannot be proven false — or, of course, it was never true to begin with.

[...] As a rule such theories are proven “true” by the simple process of excluding anything else that seems contradictory, and so generally your scientific theories carry the weight of strong validity within their own frameworks.

[...] Diagramming sentences tells you little about the spoken language, and nothing about those miraculous physical and mental performances that allow you to speak — and so diagramming the species of the world is, in the same way, quite divorced from any true understanding.

The potentials of the true self are so multidimensional that they cannot be expressed in one space or time. [...] That potential needs infinite opportunity; the true self’s reality needs an ever-new, changing situation, for each experience enriches it and, therefore, enhances its own possibilities. En masse, in your terms, the same is true of the race of man. [...]

[...] Any true scientist will ultimately have to learn to enter that realm of reality. [...]

[...] A true doctor cannot be scientifically objective. [...]

[...] I have mentioned the dream-art scientist and the [true] mental physicist (in sessions 700–1). [...]

[...] But a true medical profession would be, literally, a health profession. [...]

[...] The overall ‘true tone’ is muddied. When Ruburt began Politics he experienced his ‘true tone’ mentally and psychically. Though he did not realize it, this gave him something to go by, so that now … he is unconsciously [still] bringing about the physical equivalent of that true tone.”

[...] There are certainly deep connections between Jane’s apprehension of her true tone, and Seth’s statement in that session that each of us possesses certain qualities of feeling uniquely our own, “… that are like deep musical chords.” [...] I also think that Jane’s sensing of her true path reflects her understanding of Seth’s subsequent remark at 10:16 [in that 613th session]: “The feeling-tone is the motion and fiber — and timbre — of your energy devoted to your physical experience.¹¹

[...] Falling with a sound that is its own true tone, struck in different chords.”

[...] I’ve tried to do the same thing, but I suddenly heard my own true tone, which I’m bound to follow … to go beyond the conventionalized postcards … I’m done, Bob.”

[...] Whatever your conscious mind assumes and believes to be true, your subconscious mind will accept and bring to pass. [...] Whatever you feel is true, your subconscious will accept and bring forth into experience.”)

[...] And while this is true, it is also true that the people on your planet need every bit of help and encouragement they can get from each person alive. [...]

It is also true that persons in ordinary good health who often contemplate suicide have already closed themselves away from the world to an important extent. [...]

Now: for Ruburt: a major tension block has begun to release itself—one that physically was largely responsible for the difficulties on the right side, and the lack of true body alignment. [...]

[...] This is the true nature of healing, and in the physical situation, practically speaking, you must allow time for the muscles to readjust themselves, and gain their strength. [...]

[...] Whatever your conscious mind assumes and believes to be true, your subconscious mind will accept and bring to pass. [...] Whatever you feel is true, your subconscious will accept and bring forth into experience.)

[...] As you have a tendency to think that earth is the center of the universe, although you know this is not true, so you have a tendency to think that the ego is the center of the personality, and that other aspects of the personality exist for the use of the ego, that all else revolves about the ego. This is not true.

[...] While it is true that medical technology has many serious defects, it is also true that many people believe in the medical profession to such a degree that it would be nearly impossible for them to survive in good health without it.

[...] It is true, however, that the reason that you exercise is actually more important than the exercises that you do perform. [...]