“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] Your imagination can be of great value, allowing you to open yourself to such courses; you can then use it to help you bring these into being.

A certain portion of physical growth, in terms of a series of moments, is, therefore, necessary for value fulfillment to show itself within a physical organism. But in the dream world, ‘growth’ is a matter of value fulfillment which is achieved through perspectives of action — through traveling within any given action, and following it and changing with it.

[...] The images appear and disappear much more quickly because value fulfillment is allowed greater reign.

[...] In the dream world, the slower physical growth process is replaced by psychic and mental value fulfillment which does not necessitate any long-range imprisonment of molecules within a pattern. [...]

Your daily experience is intimately connected with your ideas of worth and personal value.

[...] These value judgments are extremely important, for they will be reflected in your own experience with any illness or disease.

[...] Value fulfillment seeks out pleasure. [...] Value fulfillment even with the animals insists upon a qualitative enjoyment of life’s existence—one that automatically fosters a loving cooperation with the rest of nature as the individual follows impulses toward various kinds of pleasures. [...]

They follow the law of value fulfillment, which on your plane is thought of as growth. [...]

[...] But psychic gestalts develop in terms of value fulfillment, and it is known at the first appearance of a physical pattern how long the particular to-be-built-up gestalt will be maintained.

([Ron:] “What system of values do you use to choose in your moral decisions?”)

[...] And so that despite you and your concepts of value, creativity always emerges triumphant, and those that are killed in one war come back to fight against war the next time, and hopefully, you teach yourselves some lessons. [...]

(There followed a discussion about the place of protest and violence in the world today—this violence as a means to correct injustice and to get people to accept all other people and their “thing” without prejudice or the judgment of someone else’s values. [...]

Behind all of those instances we have been discussing, however, there is again the need for value fulfillment, that has been blocked largely by conflicting or even opposing beliefs.

[...] He is very enthusiastic about his value tests, and his enthusiasm is what is important. The nature of the subjective mind, however, will never open itself to such tests, which represent, more than anything else, a kind of mechanical psychology, as if you could break down human values to a kind of logical alphabet of psychic atoms and molecules. [...]

[...] It ignores the reality of experience, the evidence of being, and in so doing it denies rather than reinforces life’s values.”

There are intellectual values and emotional ones, and sometimes there are needs of an emotional nature that must be met regardless of intellectual judgments. The church provided a cosmic drama in which even the life of the sinner had value, even if only to show God’s compassion. [...]

[...] The individual must make his or her own way through a barrage of different value systems, making decisions that were largely unthought of when a son followed his father’s trade automatically, for example, or when marriages were made largely for economic reasons.

In regard to your dream: The shakiness represented values and ideas from your mother, primarily about work — beliefs you always felt were shaky. [...]

[...] How could I be sure that our sight wasn’t also distorted; that our “sin” was in not accepting sin as a value? Perhaps sin itself contained some value that escaped beyond our calculations, still undiscovered.

All of that work—and more—accounts for the long delay in the completion of Dreams, “Evolution,” and Value Fulfillment. Actually, with the exception of one session held in November 1980, I let my work on the book go for over 13 months, from early June 1980 to mid-July 1981.

He will, then, continue to improve, because he has allowed himself some room for motion, for change of value fulfillment. [...]

So in a fashion [Jane’s] physical symptoms became a psychological disclaimer, so that in some court of larger values we could not be “sued” for leading others astray from entrenched beliefs that we were still discarding, while not having any completed structure that would allow easy access or safe passage from one “life raft” to the new one that we were trying to provide….

[...] He did not simply accept “mediumship” at its face value, so to speak. [...]

[...] They will make such interpretations on the basis of their own development and understanding, interpreting it through their own systems of value. [...]

The paperbacks are important, regardless of sales values, because they appear in the ordinary marketplace, out of esoteric cubbyholes. [...]

[...] Prentice wanted to set up a paperback mass connection, for to them this means that a book is good and has value financially. [...]

The vibrator is of definite value, but would be useless, you see, without his own decision and understanding. [...]

[...] As you know in the case of man, memory, experience and value fulfillment is not lost as the inwardness disregards one form. This would deny value fulfillment itself.

[...] Yesterday she asked me again to sell her the painting, and I did even though it had sentimental value for Jane and I.

[...] There is a sound value, then, as apart from a meaning value.

[...] As we mentioned earlier, each smallest atom or cell contains its own impetus toward growth and value fulfillment. [...]

As soon as I realized that Dreams, “Evolution,” and Value Fulfillment was going to be so long that it would require publication in two volumes, I began to think about how I was going to summarize here all of the material that Jane, Seth, and I had contributed to Volume 1. I developed the hilarious notion that if I did the job the way I really wanted to, this introduction would be as long as that first volume is itself! [...]

Value fulfillment is the largest issue here, both with Seth’s book and my own experience, and if I really understood what Seth was saying in this book, I would not have needed to undergo such an uncomfortable drama in my daily life.