“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] I realize only too well that what I say can often appear very simplistic. Generally, underlined four times, suicides do not appreciate, for example, for whatever reasons, the quality of life, but set up demands as to what life should be. [...]

[...] To some extent you have taken his progress, recognizing it for what it is, as an “opportunity,” or rather as an opportune time to tackle some of your own problems. [...]

(10:59.) Your joys and challenges, and his, jointly form your realities. [...]

[...] Whenever you concentrate upon “what can happen” negatively, you literally cut down your options, inhibit your own and life’s abundance. [...]

An ordinary, reputable publisher does not know what to do with a Jane Roberts who produces a Seth of another reality—books on her own also, and books moreover of quality.

[...] You would not want to handle the phone calls, the interviews, so do not blame Prentice for not giving you what you do not want. If that was what you really wanted, you would have had it yesterday.

[...] He holds himself clearly apart from the reality he explores. [...]

[...] What I have said however applies now to Bantam, as it did to Prentice in the beginning. [...]

[...] Desire, wish and expectation rule all actions, and are the basis for all realities.

[...] Yet it is doubtful that without this “period” in quotes, of contracted yearning, that All That Is could concentrate its energy sufficiently enough to create the realities that existed in probable suspension within it.

The agony itself and the stupendous desire to create represented its proof of its own reality. [...]

At first, in your terms, all of probable reality existed as nebulous dreams within consciousness of All That Is. [...]

[...] You believed that reality had more to it than the senses showed. You believed that together you could achieve what had not been achieved earlier—that you could somehow or other offer meaningful and real solutions to the world’s problems.

(Tonight John himself told Jane that the success of Personal Reality is “phenomenal,” meaning that it has sold close to 40,000 copies hardcover its first year out.)

What beliefs do you have to change?

(9:40.) You have built up the idea of free time being wrong, sinful, no matter what you tell yourself about wanting more of it. [...]

[...] The books prove their merit in that reality, because they are fought over to whatever degree.

In those areas in which you are dissatisfied, you feel that you are powerless, or that your will is paralyzed, or that conditions continue despite what you think of as your intent. [...] You may say, horrified, “What can I do? [...] Your beliefs become reality.

[...] This can only cause you to contrast what you have with what you want. [...]

[...] It is only in those compartments of your life that confound you that you suddenly begin to wonder what is happening — but here also, natural hypnosis is at work just as easily and naturally, and your conscious ideas are automatically coming to physical fruition. [...]

[...] If you want to be healthy and continually contrast what you want with the present conviction in your poor health, then the belief itself, set up against the desire, will cause added difficulties. [...]

[...] They are more emotionally charged, more concise than thoughts, and they are directly connected with the mechanics involved in translating inner data to physical reality.

Behind these, so to speak, exist what you may term temperature pictures, in which delicate gradations of heat form ever-shifting emotional patterns that do have a semiphysical outline. [...]

[...] Such thermal pictures are found in what is called the old brain, and to these, the body responds with changes of temperature that sparks various chemical reactions.

[...] Consciousness experiences reality directly, but having formed physical matter into a personal image, it must then creatively translate data to that physical brain. [...]

[...] Her material is excellent; she said she doesn’t know where it comes from, or exactly what state she’s in when doing it. It’s far from finished, but she finally let me see what she had after supper. [...]

[...] It also insisted I didn’t have a hernia or an ulcer, etc., although I told Jane that depending on what Seth said tonight I may seek medical help tomorrow. [...]

[...] I think if I get well I won’t buckle down to work on Mass Reality.

(3. My side hurts because I’m afraid Volume 2 of “Unknown” Reality won’t be appreciated.

[...] You do not know what would happen, pragmatically, if you did not imagine such difficulties, because in one way or another you have always anticipated them from the beginning. [...] But even the sloppy workers will indeed pick up your ideas of excellence, and try to translate them, finding even a new satisfaction in their work—but only if you think of what you want as a product, and not what you fear you will get instead.

[...] She also knew of my questions about counterparts that I’d come up with as a result of my work on The “Unknown” Reality: were Jane and I counterparts; and, to resolve a contradiction—in two different sessions in that book, were George Rhoads and I counterparts, or weren’t we? [...]

[...] What was undone in several hours this evening took a year and a half to set up. [...]

[...] If you thoroughly understood what that means then you do indeed live and experience a safe universe. [...]

[...] Yet in much of my material I have definitely implied what I am saying now, but the implications must have passed you by.

[...] No matter what your version of creativity, or the creation of the world, you are stuck with questions of where such energy came from, for it seems that unimaginable energy was released more or less at one time, and that this energy must then run out.

[...] Because of news reports and my own negative thinking today, I was filled with rage, actually, about what appeared to be the generally chaotic state of the world of man. [...]

[...] Furthermore, I added, since in our “practical” world we generally renounce all belief in anything like reincarnation, or what I consider to be a true religious stance, we place all of life within each individual living “now.” [...]

The beliefs of course will be accepted by you not as beliefs, but as reality. Once you understand that you form your reality, then you must begin to examine these beliefs by letting the conscious mind freely examine its own contents.

[...] It can view outward reality or turn inward, observing its own contents.

[...] (Pause.) The ego can use the conscious mind almost entirely as a way of perceiving external or internal realities that coincide with its own beliefs. [...]

[...] I would like to make one point here, however — that often psychoanalysis is simply a game of hide-and-seek, in which you continue to relinquish responsibility for your actions and reality and assign the basic cause to some area of the psyche, hidden in a dark forest of the past. [...]

For example, Ruburt’s latest status, and your somewhat natural concern with the temporary walking difficulty—you know what I am referring to—I say to you that the concern is natural; for it certainly seems so to both of you. [...] It would take it for granted that its body knew what it was doing. [...]

[...] Tonight she began reading the appendix material I’ve done on Volume 2 of “Unknown” Reality. [...]

The practical experience of reality is formed through the suggestive psychological idea-shapes that appear in the guise of theories, dogmas, and assumptions. [...]

[...] They operated as suggestion that directed the actions of millions of people, and provided a framework through which they experienced their reality. [...]

Even within the experience of men there are realities that are entirely different from the realities of physical objects. Psychological experience is one such indisputable reality. [...] Secondary effects of such realities may appear in material form, but the original reality of such experiences cannot be captured within physical matter.

These dream locations are realities. [...] As a brief byline here, I mentioned once the Crucifixion, saying that it was an actuality and a reality, although it did not take place in your time. [...] It took place in the same sort of time in which a dream takes place, and its reality was felt undeniably by generations, and was reacted to. Not being a physical reality, it influenced the world of physical matter in a way that no purely physical reality ever could.

They appear to lack the apparent physical durability of, say, a table or a chair, the table and chair being examples of physical realities. And yet their effect is much more durable, and they impress and to some extent manipulate physical realities, in their strong and sometimes explosive emergence into your universe. Such realities do not bow to the artificial time measurements which so often limit you in daily life.

If such experiences appear less real than more obviously material realities, they also have at times a peculiar vividness that cannot be overlooked. Their nature is simply different from the nature of physical realities. [...]

[...] I was somewhat more reluctant than Rob, being so directly involved, but what an opportunity, I thought! We decided to hold at least a few more sessions to see what might develop. Rob had some questions about fragment personalities he wanted to ask: What did Seth mean when he said we could have turned into those images? [...]

[...] (It was Seth, incidentally, who suggested we take a five-to-ten-minute break every half hour or so.) Rob and I didn’t know what to make of this session. [...] For another, we didn’t know how to evaluate what was said.

[...] “What’s the rush? See what else he has to say. [...]

[...] Here aggressive and destructive energies were unconsciously projected outward, given a pseudo-reality and temporary physical validity. [...] According to the extent of physical reality to be achieved, the physical body of the originator transfers or transposes portions of its own chemical structure. [...]

I run ahead of the other girl, and around her, really hunting her down, yelling again dramatically and accusingly: “I ask myself, where are all my friends who were going to write no matter what, to work no matter what happened. [...]

[...] Then rather dramatically but beautifully I tell her that: “Poetry is your characteristic method of expression, your way of translating the data into physical reality and that even its rhythm is the rhythm of your heartbeat.” [...]

[...] A reality of selfhood, an idea not yet materialized in the unformed future, reaches down into the past and brings that future into realization. The cells are imprinted with physical information in terms of space and time,³ but those data came from a reality in which space and time are formed.

(Jane held her last session for “Unknown” Reality three weeks ago. [...]

[...] Now what happens at the top of the mountain affects all that goes on below, and so everything that you do affects those other realms of selfhood, and there is an interchange that occurs constantly. [...]

(“Is ‘life’ the word you want used there?” This is one of the few times I’ve interrupted Seth during his presentation of “Unknown” Reality.)

(3. What do you think about people’s reactions to “Unknown” Reality so far?

[...] You make your own reality, but you cannot ignore the greater reality from which your world springs. [...]

[...] It is an example, however, of what goes on constantly in far less obvious situations with most people.

You wondered, really, if such a reality were possible, and if some people were really so blind—but the inner self provides certain safeguards, and the universe is a caring one, so that even those people are given some inner version. [...]

Now apply what I have said tonight about Ruburt to yourself, in terms of your desire for abundance in all things, and examine yourself to see what negative attitudes you have, that you may not have recognized. [...] It is your paintbrush, with which you form your reality. [...]

[...] If the negative mood persists a while he should not think “Oh now this will be reflected in symptoms, what can I do?” This adds more negative connotations.

One of the gravest errors he makes is in thinking “How far from health I am,” when he compares what he wants to present physical conditions. [...]

[...] This is what I had intended adding to my statements.)

You make your reality from your expectations, and this is one of the greatest truths. [...] You must deal with the realities that you have made, or change them. [...]

[...] They are vital, full of their own energy reality, living composites. [...]

[...] They are the results of interactions, and still they exist in reality whether or not those interactions activate them.

[...] Her eyes opened frequently, her pace was slow, and she had little memory of what she had said.

[...] She doesn’t know what she did. [...]

[...] I read to Jane what she’d just given so far. [...]

[...] Your intent has also an electronic reality, therefore. [...]

[...] I’ve often thought of how weak our current theories are to explain what we see around us, or in the night sky.