Showing posts with label Jane Roberts. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jane Roberts. Show all posts
Seth On Environmental Questions
"Environmental questions are being raised about man's effects upon the world in which he lives. There is, however, an inner environment that connects all consciousnesses that dwell upon your planet, in whatever form. This mental or psychic--or in any case non-physical--environment is ever in a state of flux and motion. That activity provides you with all exterior phenomena."
- Seth
(Channeled through Jane Roberts) from The Individual and the Nature of Mass Events
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(Channeled through Jane Roberts) from The Individual and the Nature of Mass EventsSeth on Reincarnation
"Reincarnational experiences are a part of the framework of the self, a facet of the multidimensional reality of the living psyche. These experiences will, therefore, be reflected not only in the dream state, but on other layers of activity."
"The fabric of the present self is interwoven with these reincarnational "pasts" and from them the present self draws unconsciously from its own bank of personality characteristics, activities, and insights. Often past-life memories come to the surface but are not recognized as such, since they appear in fantasy form, or are projected into art creations."
"Many writers of historical pieces, for example, are writing out of direct experience with those times. Such instances represent an excellent working rapport between the present self and the unconscious, which brings these memories to the surface in such a way that current life is enriched. 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."
- Seth
(channeled through Jane Roberts) Session #555 from Seth Speaks
.Seth on Aggression
"Sometimes you think of suicide as ignominious and passive, but of war as aggressive and powerful. Both are equally the result of passivity and distorted aggression, and of natural pathways of communication not used or understood. You think of flowers in terms of gentleness, beauty and "goodness," and yet every time a new bud opens there is a great thrust of joyful aggression that is hardly passive, and a daring and courage that reaches actively outward. Without aggression your body would be denied its growth, the cells within it caught in inertia. Aggressiveness is at the base of the magnificent bursting of creativity."
- Seth (channeled through Jane Roberts) Session #643 from The Nature of Personal Reality
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(channeled through Jane Roberts) Session #643 from The Nature of Personal Reality.Seth on Personality and Time
"The past exists as a series of elctromagnetic connections held in the phsyical brain and in the nonphysical mind. these electromagnetic connections can be changed...
"The future consists of a series of electromagnetic connections in the mind and brain also, and this is the only reality that you are justified in giving the present.
"In other words, the past and present are real to the same extent. On occasion the past can become more 'real' than the present, and in such cases past actions are reacted to in what you call the present. You take it for granted that present action can change the future, but present actions can also change the past.
"The past is no more objective or independent from the perceiver than is the present. These electromagnetic connections that compose the past were largely made by the individual perceiver and the perceiver is always a participator.
"The connections, therefore, can be changed, and such changes are far from uncommon. They happen spontaneously on a subconscious basis. The past is seldom what you remember it to be, for you have already rearranged it from the instant of any given event. The past is being constantly re-created by each individual as attitudes and associations change. This is an actual re-creation, not a symbolic one. The child is indeed still within the man, but he is not the child that 'was.' For even the child within the man constantly changes.
"Difficulties arise, in fact, when such alterations do not occur automatically. Severe neurosis is often caused precisely because the individual has not changed his past. Once more, the only reality that can be assigned to the past is that granted to the symbols and associations and images that exist electromagnetically within the physical brain and nonphysical mind.
"I am speaking in your terms now, and this should be understood, as I am simplifying conditions considerably. A change of attitude, a new association, or any of innumerable other actions will automatically set up new electromagnetic connections and break others.
"Every action changes every other action--we go back to our ABC's. Therefore, every action in your present affects those actions you call past. Ripples from a thrown stone go out in all directions, and I am going out rather far on the limb myself right here. Remembering what you know of the nature of time, you realize that the apparent boundaries between past, present, and future are only illusions caused by the amount of action you can physically perceive.
"Therefore it is possible to react in the past to an event that has not yet occured, to be influenced by your own future. It is also possible for an individual to react in the past to an event in the future which may never occur in your terms."
- Seth (channeled through Jane Roberts) from Session #224 The Seth Material
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"The future consists of a series of electromagnetic connections in the mind and brain also, and this is the only reality that you are justified in giving the present.
"In other words, the past and present are real to the same extent. On occasion the past can become more 'real' than the present, and in such cases past actions are reacted to in what you call the present. You take it for granted that present action can change the future, but present actions can also change the past.
"The past is no more objective or independent from the perceiver than is the present. These electromagnetic connections that compose the past were largely made by the individual perceiver and the perceiver is always a participator.
"The connections, therefore, can be changed, and such changes are far from uncommon. They happen spontaneously on a subconscious basis. The past is seldom what you remember it to be, for you have already rearranged it from the instant of any given event. The past is being constantly re-created by each individual as attitudes and associations change. This is an actual re-creation, not a symbolic one. The child is indeed still within the man, but he is not the child that 'was.' For even the child within the man constantly changes.
"Difficulties arise, in fact, when such alterations do not occur automatically. Severe neurosis is often caused precisely because the individual has not changed his past. Once more, the only reality that can be assigned to the past is that granted to the symbols and associations and images that exist electromagnetically within the physical brain and nonphysical mind.
"I am speaking in your terms now, and this should be understood, as I am simplifying conditions considerably. A change of attitude, a new association, or any of innumerable other actions will automatically set up new electromagnetic connections and break others.
"Every action changes every other action--we go back to our ABC's. Therefore, every action in your present affects those actions you call past. Ripples from a thrown stone go out in all directions, and I am going out rather far on the limb myself right here. Remembering what you know of the nature of time, you realize that the apparent boundaries between past, present, and future are only illusions caused by the amount of action you can physically perceive.
"Therefore it is possible to react in the past to an event that has not yet occured, to be influenced by your own future. It is also possible for an individual to react in the past to an event in the future which may never occur in your terms."
- Seth
(channeled through Jane Roberts) from Session #224 The Seth Material.Seth on Physicality and Events
"When you enter time and physical life, you are already aware of its conditions. You are biologically predisposed to grow within that rich environment, to contribute on all levels to the fulfillment of your species--but more than this, to add your own unique viewpoint and experience to the greater patterns of consciousness of which you are a part."
"You are beginning to understand the intimate connections that exist in your physical environment. The psychological connections, however, are far more complicated, so that each individual's dreams and thoughts interweave with every other person's, forming ever-changing patterns of desire and intent. Some of these emerge as physical events and some do not."
- Seth (channeled through Jane Roberts) from The Individual and the Nature of Mass Events.
"You are beginning to understand the intimate connections that exist in your physical environment. The psychological connections, however, are far more complicated, so that each individual's dreams and thoughts interweave with every other person's, forming ever-changing patterns of desire and intent. Some of these emerge as physical events and some do not."
- Seth
(channeled through Jane Roberts) from The Individual and the Nature of Mass Events.Seth on Medical Commercials and Health
"Your 'medical commercials' are equally disease-promoting. Many, meaning to offer you relief through a product, instead actually promote the condition through suggestion, thereby generating a need for the product itself."
- Seth(channeled through Jane Roberts) from The Individual and the Nature of Mass Events.
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(channeled through Jane Roberts) from The Individual and the Nature of Mass Events.Seth on Imagination and Focus
"Your world and everything in it exists first in the imagination...You have been taught to focus all of your attention upon physical events, so that they carry the authenticity of reality for you. Thoughts, feelings, or beliefs appear to be secondary, subjective--or somehow not real--and they seem to rise in response to an already established field of physical data."
"You usually think, for example, that your feelings about a given event are primarily reactions to the event itself. It seldom occurs to you that the feelings themselves might be primary, and that the particular event was somehow a response to your emotions, rather than the other way around. The all-important matter of your focus is largely responsible for your interpretation of any event."
- Seth (channeled through Jane Roberts) from The Individual and the Nature of Mass Events
"You usually think, for example, that your feelings about a given event are primarily reactions to the event itself. It seldom occurs to you that the feelings themselves might be primary, and that the particular event was somehow a response to your emotions, rather than the other way around. The all-important matter of your focus is largely responsible for your interpretation of any event."
- Seth
(channeled through Jane Roberts) from The Individual and the Nature of Mass Events 
Seth on Beliefs
"Quite literally, you live in the body of your beliefs. You perceive through the body of your beliefs. Your beliefs can increase your vision or diminish it. They can increase of diminish your hearing, or any sense function.
"If, for example, you believe that after a certain time of life hearing will fade, then so it will. You will begin to use the faculty less and less, unconsciously transfer your attention to the other senses to compensate, and rely less and less upon your ears until the functions themselves do atrophy. Period.
"Functions in this particular regard are habits. You simply forget how to hear properly, following your belief. All of the minute manipulations necessary to hearing are unconsciouly repressed. The actual physical deterioration then does indeed follow. The deterioration however does not occur first, but after."
- Seth(channeled through Jane Roberts) from The Nature of Personal Reality
"If, for example, you believe that after a certain time of life hearing will fade, then so it will. You will begin to use the faculty less and less, unconsciously transfer your attention to the other senses to compensate, and rely less and less upon your ears until the functions themselves do atrophy. Period.
"Functions in this particular regard are habits. You simply forget how to hear properly, following your belief. All of the minute manipulations necessary to hearing are unconsciouly repressed. The actual physical deterioration then does indeed follow. The deterioration however does not occur first, but after."
- Seth
(channeled through Jane Roberts) from The Nature of Personal RealitySeth on Opposites
"The effect of opposites results then, from a lack of perception. Since you must operate in the world as you perceive it, then the opposites will appear to be conditions of existence. These elements have been isolated for a certain reason, however. You are being taught, and you are teaching yourselves to handle energy, to be conscious creators with All That Is, and one of the "stages of development" or learning processes includes dealing with opposites as realities."
"In your terms, the ideas of good and evil help you recognize the sacredness of existence, the responsibility of consciousness. The ideas of opposites also are necessary guidelines for the developing ego. The inner self knows quite well the unity that exists."
- Seth ( as channeled by Jane Roberts)
from Seth Speaks.
"In your terms, the ideas of good and evil help you recognize the sacredness of existence, the responsibility of consciousness. The ideas of opposites also are necessary guidelines for the developing ego. The inner self knows quite well the unity that exists."
- Seth
( as channeled by Jane Roberts)
from Seth Speaks.Seth on "Assembly-Line" Time
"The assembly-line time and the beliefs that go along with it have given you many benefits as a society, but it should not be forgotten that the entire framework was inititally set up to cut down on impulses, creative thought, or any other activities that would lead to anything but the mindless repetition of one act after another. (intently)"
"In other words, that entire framework is meant to give you a standardized, mass-produced version of reality. None of its concepts can (knocking the table) rationally be applied to creative endeavors. The orientation that gives you the creative achievement lies in the opposite direction."
"Creativity itself has its own built-in discipline, the kind that, for example, in a dream can rummage through the days of the future to find precisely the data required to make a specific point."
- Seth (Channeled through Jane Roberts)
from The Magical Approach: Seth Speaks About the Art of Creative Living
"In other words, that entire framework is meant to give you a standardized, mass-produced version of reality. None of its concepts can (knocking the table) rationally be applied to creative endeavors. The orientation that gives you the creative achievement lies in the opposite direction."
"Creativity itself has its own built-in discipline, the kind that, for example, in a dream can rummage through the days of the future to find precisely the data required to make a specific point."
- Seth
(Channeled through Jane Roberts)
from The Magical Approach: Seth Speaks About the Art of Creative Living
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