Jane Roberts: Trending quotes (page 9)

“Every action changes every other action. We return to our ABC's. Therefore every action in the present affects those actions which you call the past. Ripples from a thrown stone go to in all directions.”

Jane Roberts

Session 214
The Early Sessions: Sessions 1-42, 1997, The Early Sessions: Book 5

Change , Past

“An individual who has survived physical death can if he wishes recreate any portion of his own past as it was. He can recreate any portion of his own past in any way he wishes, changing his own actions within it if he so chooses, combining and reforming the entire composition. Such a procedure is usually a dead-end enterprise. The others involved are vivid hallucinations, and he may not realize this.”

Jane Roberts

Session 396, Page 197
The Early Sessions: Sessions 1-42, 1997, The Early Sessions: Book 8

Death , Way , Change , Past

“Eggs and asparagus are helpful as far as diet is concerned. I am obviously not suggesting a whole diet of eggs and asparagus. These plus fish oils are beneficial, however, but not when taken with acid foods.”

Jane Roberts

Source: Seth, Dreams & Projections of Consciousness, (1986), p. 345-346, quoting from Session 274

Food , Fish , Help

“You cannot love someone you do not know -- not unless you water down the definition of love so much that it becomes meaningless.”

Jane Roberts

Source: The Nature of the Psyche: Its Human Expression (1979), p. 105

Love , Water

“I have memories of being Ruburt - but the Ruburt I was is not the Ruburt that Ruburt is in his reality.”

Jane Roberts

Session 728, Page 513
The “Unknown” Reality: Volume Two, (1979)

Reality , Memory

“In dreams you are so 'dumb' that you believe there is a commerce between the living and the dead. You are so 'irrational' as to imagine that you sometimes speak to parents who are dead. You are so 'unrealistic' that it seems to you that you visit old houses, long ago torn down, or that you travel in exotic foreign cities that you have actually never visited. In dreams you are so 'insane' you do not feel yourself locked in a closet of time and space, but feel instead as if all infinity but waited your beckoning.”

Jane Roberts

Session 758, Page 25
The Nature of the Psyche: Its Human Expression (1979)

Dreams , Travel , Feeling , Imagination

“So I had to face the fact that I was blessed with abilities that were considered symptoms of emotional abnormality or mental derangement by psychology, often thought of as demonic by religion, and whose very existence was denied altogether by science. So in my darker moments I used to think that my psychic initiation and subsequent experiences were a mixed bag, to say the least. But the fact is that I was very sensitive to criticism for the very good reason that often I shared many of the beliefs that stimulated it.”

Jane Roberts

Source: The God of Jane: A Psychic Manifesto (1981), p. 48

Religion , Thinking , Science

“The fact is that science itself must change, as it discovers that its net of evidence is equipped only to catch certain kinds of fish, and that it is constructed of webs of assumptions that can only hold certain varieties of reality, while others escape its bet entirely.”

Jane Roberts

Source: The God of Jane: A Psychic Manifesto (1981), p. 137

Reality , Fish , Science , Change

“Jehovah and the Christian version of God brought about a direct conflict between the so-called forces of good and the so-called forces of evil by largely cutting out all of the intermediary gods, and therefore destroying the subtle psychological give-and-take that occurred between them -- among them -- and polarizing man’s own view of his inner psychological reality.”

Jane Roberts

Session 921, Page 400
Dreams, Evolution and Value Fulfillment, Volume Two (1986)

God , Reality , Evil

“In following Seth's dream recall instructions, we found ourselves collecting some excellent examples of precognitive dreams. Some were clear-cut and almost exactly matched the foreseen future event. Others were partially disguised in symbolism. Still others were so interwoven with other dream material that we marked them as indicative of precognition and let it go at that. Sometimes dreams that seemed nonsense contained one clear, important image that shortly -- within a few days -- would appear in a different context entirely. In several cases, two or more future events would be condensed into one dream.”

Jane Roberts

Source: Seth, Dreams & Projections of Consciousness, (1986), p. 249

Dreams , Appearance , Future

“The personality when it leaves your plane for good will have developed its potentials as far as it possibly can.”

Jane Roberts

Session 23, Page 163
The Early Sessions: Sessions 1-42, 1997, The Early Sessions: Book 1

Personality

“But I thought: Of course -- Lyman was representing my own ideas about something else too; the overly gullible people who parade as skeptics. All many of them need is a word they've been some big shot in a past life, or known some famous person, and presto, they're confirmed "believers." People like that -- like the boy on the phone -- never trust their own vision.”

Jane Roberts

Source: Psychic Politics: An Aspect Psychology Book (1976), p. 13

Life , People , Boy , Idea

“In daily practical experience, try to concentrate for a while upon seemingly subordinate abilities, ones that you think of as latent. If you do so consistently, using your imagination and will, then those abilities will become prominent in your present. The current beliefs will reprogram and alter past experience. It is not simply that past, forgotten, unconsciously perceived events will be put together in a new way and organized under a new heading, but in that past (now not perceivable), the entire bodily response to seemingly past events will change.”

Jane Roberts

Source: The Nature of Personal Reality (1974), p. 359

Way , Imagination , Thinking , Change

“When I speak of All That Is, you must understand my position within it. All That Is knows no other. This does not mean that there may not be more to know. It does not mean, and here words quite fail us, it does not mean that All That Is, in any terms we can conceive of, may not be limited. It knows of no other.”

Jane Roberts

Session 426, Page 25
The Early Sessions: Sessions 1-42, 1997, The Early Sessions: Book 9

Understanding

“Many men, labelled homosexual by themselves and others, want to be fathers. Their beliefs and those of your society leads them to imagine that they must always be heterosexual or homosexual. Many feel a desire toward women that is also inhibited. Your male or female orientation limits you in ways that you do not understand. For example, in many cases the gentle "homosexual" father has a better innate idea of manliness than a heterosexual male who believes that men must be cruel, insensitive, and competitive.”

Jane Roberts

Source: The Nature of the Psyche: Its Human Expression (1979), p. 89

Women , Men , Way , Feeling

“The fact is that your plane originated because enough entities needed certain types of experience to warrant such a creation, and they set about forming it through the process of evolution.”

Jane Roberts

Session 31, Page 236
The Early Sessions: Sessions 1-42, 1997, The Early Sessions: Book 1

“The spirits of people and creatures and plants don't take up any room at all. But their bodies do. Bodies are like houses our spirits live in, only they're far nicer, of course. There's only room for so many bodies in the kingdom, whether they're plant bodies or creature bodies or people bodies. After a while, we have to leave our body-houses to make room for new things.”

Jane Roberts

Source: Emir's Education In The Proper Use of Magical Powers (1979), p. 96-97

People , Housing

“Your impulses are your closest communication with your inner self, because in the waking state they are the spontaneous urgings towards action, rising from that deep inner knowledge of yourself that you have in dreams.”

Jane Roberts

Session 871
The Individual and the Nature of Mass Events, (1981)

Dreams , Communication , Knowledge

“Joseph was correct when he spoke of entities creating stages upon which to act out their problems. The point is that once the play begins, the actors are so completely engrossed in their roles that they forget that they themselves wrote the play, constructed the sets or are even acting. The reason is rather apparent: If you know that a situation is 'imaginary,' you are not going to come to grips with it.”

Jane Roberts

Source: Seth, Dreams & Projections of Consciousness, (1986), p. 184, quoting from Seth Session 31

Problem , Forgetting

“He said, for example: "Many people working with the Ouija board or automatic writing receive messages that seem, or purport, to come from historic personages. Often, however, the material is vastly inferior to that which could have been produced by the person in question during his or her earthly existence. Any comparison with the material received to the written books or accounts already existing would immediately show glaring discrepancies. Yet in many instances, the Ouija board operator or the automatic writer is to some extent or other tuning in to a world view, struggling to open roads of perception free enough to perceive an altered version of reality, but not equipped enough through training and temperament, perhaps to express it....”

Jane Roberts

Source: Psychic Politics: An Aspect Psychology Book (1976), p. 85

People , Books , World , Question