Jane Roberts
Author of the Seth books (1929 to 1984), which she spoke in trance as a personality calling himself Seth while her husband Robert F. Butts wrote them down; they made her a central figure of the idea that you create your own reality.
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Thoughts turn into events: think the world is evil and you will meet events that seem evil
Your thoughts blossom into events. If you think the world is evil, you will meet with events that seem evil.
archive.orgSaid c. 1972–1973This on korrents
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We form our own reality, now and after death
I believe that we form our own reality—now, and after death.
archive.orgSaid c. 1963–1970This on korrents
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Thoughts turn into events: think the world is evil and you will meet events that seem evil
Your thoughts blossom into events. If you think the world is evil, you will meet with events that seem evil.
The Nature of Personal Reality (Seth, speaking through Jane Roberts; notes by Robert F. Butts; New World Library 1994 edition) Said c. 1972–1973
There are no accidents; beliefs grow into events as surely as flowers grow
There are no accidents in cosmic terms, or in terms of the world as you know it. Your beliefs grow as surely in time and space as flowers do.
The Nature of Personal Reality (Seth, speaking through Jane Roberts; notes by Robert F. Butts; New World Library 1994 edition) Said c. 1972–1973
No one is at the mercy of unconscious drives unless they consciously go along with them
You are not at the mercy of unconscious drives unless you consciously acquiesce to them.
The Nature of Personal Reality (Seth, speaking through Jane Roberts; notes by Robert F. Butts; New World Library 1994 edition) Said c. 1972–1973
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Being alive is itself evidence that health is within you
Search your life for proofs of your health. Your very life itself is hard evidence that health is within you!
The Nature of Personal Reality (Seth, speaking through Jane Roberts; notes by Robert F. Butts; New World Library 1994 edition) Said c. 1972–1973
People take their beliefs about reality as truth and rarely question them
You take your beliefs about reality as truth, and often do not question them.
The Nature of Personal Reality (Seth, speaking through Jane Roberts; notes by Robert F. Butts; New World Library 1994 edition) Said c. 1972–1973
Imagination and emotion are the most concentrated forms of energy a person has
Imagination and emotions are the most concentrated forms of energy that you possess as physical creatures.
The Nature of Personal Reality (Seth, speaking through Jane Roberts; notes by Robert F. Butts; New World Library 1994 edition) Said c. 1972–1973
What you desire and what you believe can contradict each other, as when you want health but believe in your illness
You may desire health, but believe implicitly in your state of poor health.
The Nature of Personal Reality (Seth, speaking through Jane Roberts; notes by Robert F. Butts; New World Library 1994 edition) Said c. 1972–1973
Guilt is the other side of compassion
Guilt is the other side of compassion.
The Nature of Personal Reality (Seth, speaking through Jane Roberts; notes by Robert F. Butts; New World Library 1994 edition) Said c. 1972–1973
Violence happens only when natural aggression has been short-circuited
Violence occurs only when the natural expression of aggression has been short-circuited.
The Nature of Personal Reality (Seth, speaking through Jane Roberts; notes by Robert F. Butts; New World Library 1994 edition) Said c. 1972–1973
The body constantly heals itself, which is the soul in the flesh healing itself
The body constantly heals itself, which means that the soul in the flesh heals itself.
The Nature of Personal Reality (Seth, speaking through Jane Roberts; notes by Robert F. Butts; New World Library 1994 edition) Said c. 1972–1973
You live, quite literally, in the body of your beliefs
Quite literally, you live in the body of your beliefs.
The Nature of Personal Reality (Seth, speaking through Jane Roberts; notes by Robert F. Butts; New World Library 1994 edition) Said c. 1972–1973
Love does not demand sacrifice, and fearing to affirm your own life means fearing to let others live theirs
Love does not demand sacrifice. Those who fear to affirm their own being also fear to let others live for themselves.
The Nature of Personal Reality (Seth, speaking through Jane Roberts; notes by Robert F. Butts; New World Library 1994 edition) Said c. 1972–1973
The inner self keeps the physical body alive, as it formed it
The inner self keeps the physical body alive even as it formed it.
The Nature of Personal Reality (Seth, speaking through Jane Roberts; notes by Robert F. Butts; New World Library 1994 edition) Said c. 1972–1973
The conscious mind is like a camera, with the ego directing the view and the focus
The conscious mind is like a gigantic camera with the ego directing the view and the focus.
The Nature of Personal Reality (Seth, speaking through Jane Roberts; notes by Robert F. Butts; New World Library 1994 edition) Said c. 1972–1973
No one dies who is not prepared to die
Again, there are no accidents. No one dies under any circumstances who is not prepared to die.
The Nature of Personal Reality (Seth, speaking through Jane Roberts; notes by Robert F. Butts; New World Library 1994 edition) Said c. 1972–1973
Emotions follow beliefs, not the other way around
Your emotions follow your beliefs. It is not the other way around.
The Nature of Personal Reality (Seth, speaking through Jane Roberts; notes by Robert F. Butts; New World Library 1994 edition) Said c. 1972–1973
You get what you concentrate on, and that is the main rule
You get what you concentrate upon. There is no other main rule.
The Nature of Personal Reality (Seth, speaking through Jane Roberts; notes by Robert F. Butts; New World Library 1994 edition) Said c. 1972–1973
Love, like aggression, is outgoing
Love is outgoing, as aggression is.
The Nature of Personal Reality (Seth, speaking through Jane Roberts; notes by Robert F. Butts; New World Library 1994 edition) Said c. 1972–1973
To change your experience, change your conscious thoughts and expectations
If you do not like your experience, then you must change the nature of your conscious thoughts and expectations.
The Nature of Personal Reality (Seth, speaking through Jane Roberts; notes by Robert F. Butts; New World Library 1994 edition) Said c. 1972–1973
Your own conscious beliefs are the most important suggestions you receive
Your own conscious beliefs are the most important suggestions that you receive.
The Nature of Personal Reality (Seth, speaking through Jane Roberts; notes by Robert F. Butts; New World Library 1994 edition) Said c. 1972–1973
Christ was saying that people form their own reality
Christ as you think of him was simply saying that you form your own reality.
The Nature of Personal Reality (Seth, speaking through Jane Roberts; notes by Robert F. Butts; New World Library 1994 edition) Said c. 1972–1973
We form our own reality, now and after death
I believe that we form our own reality—now, and after death.
The Seth Material (Jane Roberts, with sessions of Seth speaking through her; Bantam edition of the 1970 book) Said c. 1963–1970
Psychic ability is an extension of the creative abilities everyone has, so it is normal rather than supranormal
I believe psychic ability itself is an outcropping or extension of creative abilities, inherent in each of us, and therefore normal rather than supranormal.
The Seth Material (Jane Roberts, with sessions of Seth speaking through her; Bantam edition of the 1970 book) Said c. 1963–1970
Seth's theories are valid and significant, though each reader must judge for themselves
The reader will have to make his own judgments, but personally I do accept his theories as valid and significant.
The Seth Material (Jane Roberts, with sessions of Seth speaking through her; Bantam edition of the 1970 book) Said c. 1963–1970
"Energy essence personality" is as close as anyone can get to saying who or what Seth is
As to who or what Seth is, his term “energy essence personality” seems as close to the answer as anyone can get.
The Seth Material (Jane Roberts, with sessions of Seth speaking through her; Bantam edition of the 1970 book) Said c. 1963–1970
Psychic abilities flow through us as the wind flows through branches
Actually I think that these abilities flow through us as the wind flows through the branches.
The Seth Material (Jane Roberts, with sessions of Seth speaking through her; Bantam edition of the 1970 book) Said c. 1963–1970
Examining our own consciousness will reveal a greater individuality and sense of identity
In doing so, I’m convinced that we will discover a greater individuality, uniqueness, and sense of identity.
The Seth Material (Jane Roberts, with sessions of Seth speaking through her; Bantam edition of the 1970 book) Said c. 1963–1970
There is no static God: whatever you name as God has already become something else
There is no static God. When you say, ‘This is God,’ then God is already something else.
The Seth Material (Jane Roberts, with sessions of Seth speaking through her; Bantam edition of the 1970 book) Said c. 1963–1970
The main difficulty with most ideas of God is that they picture a static God
Most of your God concepts deal with a static God, and here is one of your main theological difficulties.
The Seth Material (Jane Roberts, with sessions of Seth speaking through her; Bantam edition of the 1970 book) Said c. 1963–1970
You create your reality by your beliefs and expectations, so examine them carefully
You create your reality according to your beliefs and expectations, therefore it behooves you to examine them carefully.
The Seth Material (Jane Roberts, with sessions of Seth speaking through her; Bantam edition of the 1970 book) Said c. 1963–1970
Time is an illusion, and to the inner self no time passes
The time you seem to spend within the dream—or within each life—is only an illusion, and to the inner self no time has passed because there is no time.
The Seth Material (Jane Roberts, with sessions of Seth speaking through her; Bantam edition of the 1970 book) Said c. 1963–1970
People who see only evil in the world are projecting their own obsession with it
If an individual sees only evil and desolation in the physical world, it is because he is obsessed with evil and desolation and projects them outward, and closes his eyes to all else.
The Seth Material (Jane Roberts, with sessions of Seth speaking through her; Bantam edition of the 1970 book) Said c. 1963–1970
Physical life teaches that thoughts have reality and create the reality you know
In physical reality you are learning that your thoughts have reality, and that you create the reality that you know.
The Seth Material (Jane Roberts, with sessions of Seth speaking through her; Bantam edition of the 1970 book) Said c. 1963–1970
Health is the natural state of your being
You should desire good health because it is a natural state of your being. You should trust in the innate intelligence of your own being. Health is its natural state.
The Seth Material (Jane Roberts, with sessions of Seth speaking through her; Bantam edition of the 1970 book) Said c. 1963–1970
The personality speaking as Seth is not a secondary personality of Jane Roberts
For my personality is not Ruburt’s, nor is his mine. I am not a secondary personality, for instance.
The Seth Material (Jane Roberts, with sessions of Seth speaking through her; Bantam edition of the 1970 book) Said c. 1963–1970
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