“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] “But what makes me so furious,” I said to Jane Sunday, “is that the species has the ability to accomplish something like that, but then makes such a mess of things back home on the planet. [...]

[...] As Seth says, we each do create our own reality.

[...] You make your own reality. [...]

[...] That worry persisted, regardless of what kind of status he assigned to me. [...]

[...] In dreams many females will have what you would call male reactions. Some males in dreams will have what you would call female reactions. [...]

(Jane had no idea of what Seth would discuss during the session. [...]

[...] What are now your five senses were once sense mechanisms or possibilities, existing through the entire surface of any individual cell.

[...] They are electromagnetic realities and part of your identity. [...]

[...] The body copes with inner and exterior reality, and performs a marvelous job of maintaining multitudinous balances. [...]

[...] Such announcements actually teach people to fear what might be happening within the body. [...]

[...] You worried about time and your painting and “Unknown” Reality, and you would not relax. [...]

[...] You understood what Ruburt had been working through—at a much lighter level, of course, and at least to some degree Ruburt could feel that he was helping you physically. [...]

[...] But the children wondered: What about those other feelings that stirred in their consciousnesses? What about those purposes they sensed? [...]

1. Seth cited the same famous autosuggestion from the work of the French psychotherapist, Emile Coué (1857–1926), in Chapter 4 of Personal Reality, and then as now, he was correct except for the first two words. [...] In a note for Personal Reality I wrote that “Coué was a pioneer in the study of suggestion, and wrote a book on the subject in the 1920s. [...]

[...] The villains consisted of the following ideas: that the world is unsafe, and growing deadly; that the species itself is tainted by a deadly intent; that the individual has no power over his or her reality; that society or social conditions exist as things in themselves, and that their purposes run directly counter to the fulfillment of the individual; and lastly, that the end justifies the means, and that the action of any kind of god is powerless in the world.

[...] The self is indeed multidimensional, and the driving force behind the self does not reside in the ego or in what you refer to as the subconscious.

[...] The more of reality that is perceived the larger the dimensions of the self, or identity.

[...] Reality is on the one hand the product of perception. [...]

[...] If such past memories are consciously recovered, as they have been, the closed mind of the academic psychologist will not see what he has, but will suppose the overworked imagination responsible. [...]

Now: the conscious mind legitimizes physical reality. [...] It does so according to your beliefs, and the mass mold of your beliefs is formed as you learn from parents and teachers what to expect in the nature of events. [...]

[...] I don’t know what I’m doing here instead of being in bed. [...]

[...] The connection between black and white thinking and creativity is legitimate, but it exists the other way around: as a rule the artist or creative person is (underlined) creative to the extent that he or she escapes black and white thinking, for the creative person deals with syntheses, original versions of reality and the consideration of different groups of probabilities—groups that appear otherwise very unlikely together from the standpoint of black and white thinking. [...]

[...] The main point also is to be relieved of comparison with a super image, with thoughts of what he should be, and an acknowledgement of his own (underlined) feelings about any event or situation. [...]

[...] You do, yet you think at what expense did Emir come—what restrictions of physical activity—and had you been somewhat different, would it all have been necessary?

[...] The tension between the two couples, and yet the latent sympathies, are what unites you—that is, are what unites you and the Gallaghers. [...]

Because of the nature of your society, a large number of people cultivate what I will call an outside-attuned consciousness. [...]

When you were both children, to some degree each of you felt that you were different because of your intense subjective activity—and to some extent, and different for both of you—you felt that you had to “fight for” the freedom to pursue subjective reality.

(I tried hard to focus on what she was telling me, so that I could write it down at once, but as she continued I saw that I’d inevitably lose a lot of it. [...] Neither of us had expected a spontaneous Seth session, but that’s what developed. [...] The first paragraph below substantially repeats what she first told me. [...]

[...] In the kitchen, she began to quote to me the first paragraph of what she was getting.

[...] They act as symbols of inner reality, so it’s only natural that whether he’s aware of it or not, man perceives objects in such a fashion that they also stand for symbols that first originate in his dreams. [...]

(I might as well use this opportunity to point up what I think is an obvious connection between the nuclear mishaps at Three Mile Island, and the mass suicide at Guyana [Jonestown] earlier this year. [...]

Before Seth began a discussion of dreams, and as a preliminary, he explained the natural mobility of human consciousness and outlined the main features of the “interior universe” that could be glimpsed in both waking and dream states and which underlie physical reality. [...] The first portion of this book will therefore deal with this material and with our first explorations into that inner reality.

But what initiated the “Idea Construction” experience? [...]

[...] The rest of our lives depends upon what happens. [...]

I’m including in this chapter a few poems as notes of a subjective autobiography, to show what events triggered this first release of unconscious material on my part, opening the doors to the interior universe; for now I believe that certain personal conditions are characteristic prerequisites for such developments, that the channels of intuitive knowledge are opened according to the intensity of individual need. [...]

(Yesterday I received in the mail a copy of a long article that Sam Menahem, a psychologist in Fort Lee, New Jersey, has written for a summer issue of Reality Change. [...]

[...] You must realize that you do create your own reality because of your beliefs about it. [...]

You can discover what your own reasons are for choosing the dilemma or illness by being very honest with yourself. [...]

(Because her teeth were bothering her so, Jane couldn’t eat what we’d ordered for lunch—turkey tetrazzini—so she substituted dry cereal. [...]

(While she waited to see what she’d do next, Jane told me to get my paper and pen ready for a session.)

[...] The dream also says that like a private eye you are on a search, but the private eye also stands for your own private eye, or your own world view, so that you are in a process of enlarging your own private way of viewing reality. [...]

[...] Jane rested and had some ginger ale while she waited to see what would happen next. [...]

[...] What you think of then as the average intelligence is a condition that exists because of the activity of constant variables, minute variations that give you at one end of the scale the idiot, and at the other the genius.

(Long pause.) In physical reality, if you will forgive me, life is the name of the game—and the game is based upon value fulfillment. [...]

The idiot is often able to experience in his or her own reality a freer, more generous, more faithful flow of emotional states, unhampered by reason’s sometimes stern dictates, and it is important that such a moderating tendency does operate genetically.

The reasoning mind, as you have used it thus far, roughly (underlined) since the birth of Christianity, has used—instead of used, confined—has confined its reasoning abilities to a very narrow spectrum of reality. [...]

The units obviously are within the reality of all cells. [...]

[...] Now these intensities of emotional energy, forming the units, end up by transforming all available space into what they are. [...]

[...] Now these units, while appearing within your system, may also have a reality outside it, propelling the emotional energy units through the world of matter entirely. [...]

[...] She didn’t know why it didn’t come out while in trance, since she knows the word and what it stands for.)

(Seth’s phrase, “… you cannot see before or after what you think of as your birth or death….” [...]

[...] The inner self is aware of this integrity of identity, but the ego focused so securely in physical reality cannot afford this luxury.

[...] Not what is wrong but what is right, and how a greater degree of “rightness” can be achieved. [...]

—regardless of what you think of them. [...] You need not deny the physical fact, but if you understand what causes physical facts then you change the direction of your imagination, thought and expectations in order that the following future facts will not be like the ones that so displeased you.

[...] This fear itself should be faced for what it is, and dealt with like any other fear. [...]

(“So what should you do?”

(Jane was blue and uncomfortable this morning: “What a way to live,” she said. [...]

[...] This usually helps cheer up Jane, though she gets nervous if they don’t keep their minds on what they’re doing when they lift her, say.

[...] But she said she was often careful about what she said to me, so that she wasn’t always dumping on me when I came to the hospital. [...]

I am speaking generally here, for remember that your individual beliefs, thoughts, and emotions cause your reality, so no person dies ahead of his or her time. [...]

As you become aware of the larger dimensions of action, so you will become more aware of what personality is. [...] They simply represent realities with which you are not consciously familiar, and they span the distortions of your time elements so that larger portions of the spacious present become apparent.

Communications exist between all portions of the self, and all parts of the personality; or parts of the whole self, rather, operate as what you may call a supraself. [...]

In one way the self represents what you shall be, in your time terms, represents your highest potential. [...]

[...] The author of Ruburt’s new book calls this God, and I am simply telling you what it is. [...]

[...] Nothing in the stream of life is wasted, and everything, whether in your system of reality or not, is in the stream of life. [...]

(9:13.) In deeper terms creativity springs from what could legitimately be called wasteful action (intently). [...]

[...] There is greater economy in what you think of (underlined three times) as waste—a divine economy in which “all” waste is lovingly used and transformed.

[...] Your pendulum help is all important because of what it represents—on emotional levels, and because Ruburt then does not feel so alone in his dilemma. [...]

[...] Trust that you will learn what you want to learn as automatically as you once learned to read or speak, or as automatically as you think. [...]

In your realm of reality, mistakes are a part of the learning process. [...]

[...] In other words, I said, we’d been approaching the problem backwards: Jane wasn’t sick so much because of her past as she was because of what we were doing every day in present reality—reinforcing and/or perpetuating the symptoms because they served a number of beliefs about present-day reality. [...]

(At 8:30 I asked Jane what her plans for the evening were. She said she’d have a session, after I explained that I was interested in Seth giving some information on her hearing, swollen feet, and what seemed to be some reactions she was having to our use of the DMSO. [...]

(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. [...] I didn’t have time to really think about what I’d been saying myself, but I hoped there was something to it, and that discussing it would offer her some help in the form of improved health. [...]

[...] You used this period, however, yourselves, as a time to critically aggravate the symptoms (long pause), almost as if you were looking over a body of work to see what you thought of it, and what you wanted to do next. [...]