“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] In Framework 2, “Unknown” is completely finished, of course, and whenever you have any difficulty with a note or an appendix, take a moment and tell yourself that the final, completed, quite excellent version of that note will come to you. [...]

[...] Remind yourself, again, of “Unknown’s” completed form, and if you do so its pattern will transpose itself upon your thoughts as you work, so that you will be tuning into its model in that respect.

Your country, far more than others, has been a country of individualists, do-it-yourselfers—a country of enthusiasts—and of course some fanatics, but a country of pioneers in one fashion or another. [...] Spiritualism exists with such fervor in your country because Americans like the idea of a communication with the dead on an individual basis, minus the intervention of priests, and hence the pioneering spirit was early tuned to do-it-yourself séances and the like. [...]

[...] When you sleep at night and awaken, you do not suppose yourself a new personality, or imagine that you have died during the night. [...]

[...] This involves a capacity and ability to throw yourself whole-heartedly into a reality enveloping situation, and yet to be aware of the self who is then so lost or enveloped. [...]

[...] The physical world seems objective and outside of yourself, however. [...] You are used to projecting all destinations outside of yourself. [...]

[...] You have to learn how to distinguish your psychological state from the reality in which you find yourself, if you want to maintain your alertness and explore that environment. [...]

If you can, find a photograph of yourself as a member of a class — a graduation picture, perhaps, or a photograph of club members. [...]

[...] You are the creator of yourself in space and time. [...]

[...] In so doing you not only help yourself but others as well, for they perceive your safety, and look for the reasons. [...]

[...] You are not less yourself. You accept parents and grandparents, and see them as individuals, while you yourself are also you as an individual, and yet sprung from the same biological seeds.

[...] You are utterly yourself. [...]

[...] So you may leap from one to the other, shouting emancipation and feeling yourself quite free of old limiting ideas.

[...] You will try to rid yourself of very natural emotions, and so be cheated of their great spiritual and physical motion. [...]

[...] The idea of the trouble you gave yourself with the rib was connected with the guys coming to work here, to give you an excuse to do your thing and be isolated so they wouldn’t ask you to help, or strain yourself physically because you were already hurt. [...]

(Long pause at 4:16.) The more unusual and original your gift, the more you must protect yourself from the distrust of others. [...]

(Long pause.) The effect of those old negative beliefs, however, was stronger in Ruburt than in yourself, for he certainly thought at one time that if he curtailed physical motion people would not attack him for his amazing psychic and mental motion. [...]

[...] You would not spend time wondering what your purpose was, for it would make itself known to you, as you perceived the direction in which your natural impulses led, and felt yourself exert power in the world through such actions. [...]

When you find yourself with good motives, you distrust them. [...]

[...] You used the incident of the optometrist’s notice to give yourself a very fine lesson, for in the back of your mind you did indeed worry and wonder that your eyes were becoming tired. [...]

“They [your eyes] have improved because you are indeed learning to relax about yourself more, and the improvement occurs first of all in that area of your main interest—your work—but it represents what is an overall time of regeneration. [...]

Living each day at a time, you respond to the present, and you need not in one day protect yourself from a lifetime of projected distractions or threats to your time that must, in your day, be imaginary, since they are probable events from the future.

(10:54.) It is highly advantageous to consider yourself a writer or an artist, and pursue those goals. [...]

[...] But you would keep good work to yourself and not sell it. [...]

Were you not selling your paintings to spite him or yourself or your mother? [...]

[...] And until you divest yourself of such psychological behavior, it will always seem to you that good and evil are opposites, and you will treat them as such in your feelings and in your concepts and in your myths. [...]

[...] I need you to understand the faulty quality in your own logic, and that must come from yourself and not from me. [...]

Your main sense of identity is involved with your physical body, so that it is, for example, extremely difficult for you to imagine yourself without it, or outside it, or in any way disconnected from it. [...]

Other portions of yourself, therefore, of which you are not consciously aware, do inhabit what you could call a supersystem of reality in which consciousness learns to handle and perceive much stronger concentrations of energy, and to construct “forms” of a different nature indeed.

[...] If you do not want to remember a particular dream, you yourself censor the memory on levels quite close to consciousness. Often you can even catch yourself in the act of purposely dropping the memory of a dream. [...]

[...] You must out-think the enemy nation before you yourself are destroyed. [...]

[...] When you see evil everywhere in man’s intent — in your own actions and those of others — then you set yourself up against your own existence, and that of your kind. [...]

[...] You will also be able to see your own performance in probable universes, that coexist with these, and from all of these you will learn as you watch yourself in this variety of roles.

[...] It simply means that presently you perceive but a small portion of yourself, and in limited terms. [...]

Your experience of yourself marks the seeming boundaries of yourself. [...]

[...] It seems to you that you are outside of the psyche, so you think of someone as yourself operating this radio from that external position. [...]

[...] Studying yourself and the nature of your own consciousness, then, will automatically lead you to some extent to an understanding of the “unknown” reality. [...]