Jane Roberts Quotes (288 quotes, page 3)

“Part of the unknown reality, then, is hidden beneath language and the enforced pattern of accustomed words-so, for an exercise, look about your environment. Make up new, different 'words' for the objects that you see about you. Pick up any object, for example. Hold it for a few seconds, feel its texture, look at its color, and spontaneously give it a new name by uttering the sounds that come into your mind. See how the sounds bring out certain aspects of the object that you may not have noticed before. The new word will fit as much as the old one did. It may, in fact, fit better. Do this with many objects, following the same procedure. You can instead say the name of any object backwards. In such ways you break up to some extent the automatic patterning of familiar phrases, so that you can perceive the individuality that is within each object.”

Jane Roberts

Session 726, p. 460
The “Unknown” Reality: Volume Two, (1979)

Color , Way , Feeling , Exercises

“To one extent or another, then, you learn to constantly monitor your behavior, so that it conforms to the established criteria set up for sane or rational experience. You are social creatures, as the animals are. Despite many of your cherished, erroneous beliefs, your nations exist as the result of cooperation, not competition, as do all social groupings.”

Jane Roberts

Session 758, Page 23
The Nature of the Psyche: Its Human Expression (1979)

Behavior , Learning , Animals

“I mentioned the caffeine. I should also note that if coffee does not prevent or inhibit sleep, it will stimulate dream projections, and also aid you in bringing the critical faculties into the dream state.”

Jane Roberts

Session 290, Page 70
The Early Sessions: Sessions 1-42, 1997, The Early Sessions: Book 7

Dreams , Coffee , Sleep

“So the concept of God began to change as the ego recognized its reliance upon inner reality, but the drama had to be worked out within the current framework. Muhammadanism was basically so violent precisely because Christianity was basically so gentle. Not that Christianity was not mixed with violence, or that Muhammadanism was devoid of love. But the psyche went through its developments and battled with itself, denying some feelings and characteristics and stressing others, so the historic religious exterior dramas represented and followed these inner aspirations, struggles, and searches.”

Jane Roberts

Source: Seth Speaks (1972), p. 340-341

Love , God , Feeling , Search

“A relatively strong sexual identification is important under those circumstances - but (louder) an over-identification with them, before or afterward, can lead to stereotyped behavior, in which the greater needs and abilities of the individual are not allowed fulfillment.”

Jane Roberts

Session 768, Page 57
The Nature of the Psyche: Its Human Expression (1979)

Behavior , Strong

“This private multidimensional self, or the soul, has… an eternal validity. It is upheld, supported, maintained by the energy, the inconceivable vitality, of All That Is.”

Jane Roberts

Session 234
Seth Speaks (1972)

Soul , Support

“There were three men whose lives became confused in history and merged, and whose composite history became known as the life of Christ... Each was highly gifted psychically, knew of his role, and accepted it willingly. The three men were a part of one entity, gaining physical existence in one time. They were not born on the same date, however. There are reasons why the entity did not return as one person. For one thing, the full consciousness would be too strong for one physical vehicle. For another, the entity wanted a more diversified environment than could otherwise be provided.”

Jane Roberts

Source: The Seth Material (1970), p. 271-272

Life , Men , History , Strong

“I'm afraid that I got put off by the kings, queens, christs, disciples, priests, and priestesses who seemed to parade through the psyches of my contemporaries; and by the reincarnational data given by many psychics. It seems that almost everyone has a distinguished reincarnational family tree, blooming with famous historic personages. I've often thought that these purported past lives of fame and grandeur represent more heroic portions of the psyche, buried beneath prosaic life; I was willing to admit their value in reminding a contemporary personality of its own greater abilities and potentials.”

Jane Roberts

Source: Psychic Politics: An Aspect Psychology Book (1976), p. 51

Life , Family , Tree , Past

“I was... questioning the students when something else caught my attention. First, dimly, then more vividly, I began to sense the presence of an invisible personality beside me. That is, I didn't see him, but felt his emotional reality quite as strongly as physical vision could ever show it. I'd "met" this same person in several previous classes when he told me mentally that he represented a past life of mine. Then, supposedly, I'd been some kind of jealous leader, demanding utmost loyalty. My friend Sue had been one of my followers. Now he wanted to confront her, feeling that she was going her own way this time and not following in her footsteps, as he thought she should have.”

Jane Roberts

Source: Adventures In Consciousness: An Introduction to Aspect Psychology (1975), p. 8

Life , Way , Feeling , Question

“Projections actually involve a change of atomic structure. Consciousness simply changes its form. When projection is first accomplished, there is a strong charge of sexual hormones which are also utilized in projection. After projection is accomplished, however, there is a marked decline in chemical activity and hormone action, a drop in body temperature and a drop in blood pressure. The rapid eye movements noted by dream investigators cease entirely.”

Jane Roberts

Source: Seth, Dreams & Projections of Consciousness, (1986), p. 347, quoting from Session 276

Dreams , Strong , Change

“Yet none of this is meant to deny the individual, for it is the individual upon whom all else rests, and it is from the basis of the individual that all entities have their existence. Nor are the memories or emotions of an individual ever taken from him. They are always at his disposal.”

Jane Roberts

Source: Seth, Dreams & Projections of Consciousness, (1986), p. 314, quoting from Session 438

Memory

“Ruburt’s life as he knows it is not in my memory -- because I did different things when I was Ruburt. And he is not bound by that reality that was mine.”

Jane Roberts

Session 728, Page 530
The “Unknown” Reality: Volume Two, (1979)

Life , Reality , Memory

“You usually think... 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… You are… literally hypnotized into believing that your feelings arise in response to events. Your feelings, however, cause the events you perceive. Secondarily, you do of course then react to those events.”

Jane Roberts

Source: The Individual and the Nature of Mass Events, (1981), p. 148-149

Way , Feeling , Thinking

“An illness is a failure to solve a mental or psychological problem in the correct manner... The energy that would be used to solve the problem instead is spent maintaining the illness. It is therefore necessary that an attempt be made as soon as possible to solve the problem, which of course must first be discovered by the ego, which has avoided it.”

Jane Roberts

Session 159, Page 68
The Early Sessions: Sessions 1-42, 1997, The Early Sessions: Book 4

Failure , Problem

“Simply stated, this is one of the thumbnail passages that explain Seth's concept of God: "He is not human in your terms, though he passed through human stages; and here the Buddhist myth comes closest to approximating reality. He is not one individual, but an energy gestalt. If you remember what I said about the way in which the universe expands, that it has nothing to do with space, then you may perhaps dimly perceive the existence of a psychic pyramid of interrelated, ever-expanding consciousness that creates, simultaneously and instantaneously, universes and individuals that are given -- through the gifts of personal perspective -- duration, psychic comprehension, intelligence, and eternal validity.”

Jane Roberts

Source: The Seth Material (1970), p. 261

God , Way , Intelligence , Reality

“Q. Can you give us more information concerning the name Ruburt?
A. That was Jane's name long ago as yours was Joseph. Both represented high points for your entities, images in the mental genes, blueprints for the spirit to follow. Joseph and Ruburt represent the full scope of your earthly personalities, towards which you must grow. But in another sense, you are already Joseph and Ruburt, since the blueprint exists. Through each life the individual tries to follow his. The pattern is not imposed, but is the entity's own outline.”

Jane Roberts

Source: How To Develop Your ESP Power (1966), p. 19

Life , Sense , Personality

“Quite deliberately you use your conscious mind playfully, creating a game as children do, in which for a time you completely ignore what seems to be in physical terms and 'pretend' that what you really want is real. If you are poor, you purposely pretend that you have all you need financially. Imagine how you will spend your money. If you are ill, imagine playfully that you are cured. See yourself doing what you would do. If you cannot communicate with others, imagine yourself doing so easily. If you feel your days dark and pointless, then imagine them filled and joyful. Now this may sound impractical, yet in your daily life you use your imagination and your emotions often at the service of far less worthy beliefs; and the results are quite clear - and let me add, unfortunately practical.”

Jane Roberts

Session 622, Page 63
The Nature of Personal Reality (1974)

Life , Money , Children , Feeling

“When you awaken -- or seem to awaken -- in the middle of the night, try to get out of the body and go into another room. This is a pleasant and easy method. With some experience you will discover that you can maintain control, walk out of the apartment and outside. You may then attempt to normal locomotion or levitate.”

Jane Roberts

Source: Seth, Dreams & Projections of Consciousness, (1986), p. 341, quoting from Session 298

Night

“Intellectual truth alone will not make you free, though it is certainly a necessary preliminary. If this were the case your walls would fall away, since intellectually you understand their rather dubious nature. Since feeling is so often the cohesive with which mind builds, it is feeling itself which must be changed if you would find freedom from your particular plane of existence at your particular time.”

Jane Roberts

Session 13, Page 72
The Early Sessions: Sessions 1-42, 1997, The Early Sessions: Book 1

Truth , Feeling , Understanding , Nature

“I do not want this material to be considered any sort of mumbo jumbo. It is not a cult in the terms people often consider material that seems to come from a source beyond the individual who gives it. The designations spirit, and medium, and so forth, are ridiculous to begin with. You are simply using your inner senses. These senses are not magical, they certainly are not religious in any sense of the word, and I am not some degenerated secondary personality of Ruburt's. Nor will I be compared with some long-bearded, beady-eyed spirit sitting on cloud nine.”

Jane Roberts

Source: The Early Sessions: Sessions 1-42, 1997, The Early Sessions: Book 1, p. 143

People , Sense , Personality

“Those involved in such disasters - the survivors - often use such larger-than-life circumstances in order to participate in affairs that seem to have greater import than those possessed by previous humdrum existences. They seek the excitement, whatever its consequences. They become a part of history to whatever extent. For once their private lives are identified with a greater source - and from it many derive new strength and vitality. Social barriers are dropped, economic positions forgotten. The range of private emotions is given greater, fuller, sweep.”

Jane Roberts

Session 821, Page 99
The Individual and the Nature of Mass Events, (1981)

Life , History , Parting

“Your own inner capabilities and potentials are more varied and powerful than you realize. The purpose of this book is to enable you to recognize and use them in daily life. You use them now, but in a subdued and inefficient manner. They work in spite of you.”

Jane Roberts

Source: How To Develop Your ESP Power (1966), p. xvii

Life , Books

“These classic models are everywhere mirrored in all universal systems, and in each they are the ideals from which all varieties and versions of themselves constantly emerge. They are, then, the source of all phenomenal life and represent the inner structure behind all life forms. They do not produce copies of themselves, however, but new creative eccentricities which, in turn, alter the models. They also appear as the biological working models of the genes and chromosomes, and they can be affected and changed at any time through mental experience. they are, in fact, instantly responsive to mental and psychic events, through the natural interchange between the psychological model accepted by the focus personality, and the reflections of that model through the entire body structure.”

Jane Roberts

Source: Psychic Politics: An Aspect Psychology Book (1976), p. 57-58

Life , Nature , Universe , Appearance

“There is no such thing as a chance encounter. No death occurs by chance, nor any birth. In the creative atmosphere of Framework 2, intents are known. In a manner of speaking, no act is private.”

Jane Roberts

Session 815, Page 76
The Individual and the Nature of Mass Events, (1981)

Death , Birth , Chance

“If we are to end our wars, we have to dispense with a threatening, vengeful, bloodthirsty God. If we're to have any kind of world brotherhood, we have to dispense with a God who reserves his favors for a chosen few. Life is given to all. The sun shines freely on each of us. Would a God be less kindly? More than this, we must also dispense with our species God, and extend our ideas of divinity outward to the rest of nature which couches us and our religious theorizing with such a gracious and steady support.”

Jane Roberts

Source: The God of Jane: A Psychic Manifesto (1981), p. 63

Life , God , War , World

“Many people feel duty-bound to express skepticism as if it were an automatic badge of honor and intellectual superiority. I'd done the same thing in the past, so I could understand the attitude.”

Jane Roberts

Source: Seth, Dreams & Projections of Consciousness, (1986), p. 1

People , Feeling , Understanding , Past

“If you would have some idea of what the probable universe is like, then examine your own dreams, looking for those events which do not have any strong resemblances to the physical events of waking existence. Look for dream individuals with whom you are not acquainted in normally conscious life. Look for landscapes that appear bizarre or alien, for all of these exist somewhere. You have perceived them. They do not exist in the space you know but neither are they non-existant (sic), mere imaginative toys of the dreaming mind, without substance.”

Jane Roberts

Source: Seth, Dreams & Projections of Consciousness, (1986), p. 305-306, quoting from Session 235

Life , Dreams , Imagination , Idea

“I have told you that upon physical death the ego becomes the subconscious in the next existence, and that its conscious knowing is retained electromagnetically.”

Jane Roberts

Session 218, Page 142
The Early Sessions: Sessions 1-42, 1997, The Early Sessions: Book 5

Death

“Who needs poetry? All of us do. Poetry has always been the voice of the inner self, the carrier of revelations, dreams, and visions that often defy expression in ordinary prose.”

Jane Roberts

Source: Dialogues of the Soul and Mortal Self in Time (1975), p. v

Dreams

“You will discover definite correlations that exist between the incidence of precognitive dreams and data having to do with the temperature and weather.”

Jane Roberts

Source: Seth, Dreams & Projections of Consciousness, (1986), p. 273, quoting from Session 212

Dreams , Weather

“What happens in the case of a constructive psychic energy when it [the inner self] is purposely denied aggressive outlets? It finds out... How strong and potent is the energy that is at its command?… It is quite necessary that all these questions be answered, for the inner self is composed of energy, and in other fields of activity thoughts and emotions are instantaneously translated, their results instantly seen. There is no saving time lag.”

Jane Roberts

Session 280
The Early Sessions: Sessions 1-42, 1997, The Early Sessions: Book 6

Question , Strong , Time

“The expression of joy also makes the ego more resilient, less fearful, less resentful of diverse conditions when they occur. The emotion itself is an automatic signal that unites the conscious and subconscious is shared experience.”

Jane Roberts

Session 152, Page 21
The Early Sessions: Sessions 1-42, 1997, The Early Sessions: Book 4

Fear , Joy

“It's never pleasant to have your integrity questioned, of course, no matter who you are. But when it's questioned by someone who doesn't even know you, someone who doesn't even have the facts straight, yet whose name carries the authority of science -- well, that's not exactly guaranteed to make your day.”

Jane Roberts

Source: The God of Jane: A Psychic Manifesto (1981), p. 127

Question , Science

“Your experience in the world of physical matter flows outward from the center of your psyche. Then you perceive this experience. exterior events, circumstances and conditions are meant as a kind of living feedback. Altering the state of the psyche automatically alters the physical circumstances. There is no other valid way of changing physical events. It might help if you imagine an inner living dimension within yourself in which you create, in miniature psychic form, all the exterior conditions that you know. Simply put, you do exactly this. Your thoughts, feelings and mental pictures can be called incipient exterior events, for in one way or another, each of these is materialized into physical reality.”

Jane Roberts

Source: The Nature of Personal Reality (1974), p. 9-10, Session 613

World , Way , Feeling , Imagination

“The God of All Life was really more like a light than anything else, and the whole divine arena just lit up as if a universal spotlight was turned on from the inside of things, bathing every visible object. Everything Emir saw was lit up as if even the blades of grass had bulbs inside them, though bulbs hadn't been invented yet or spotlights either. Still, a new kind of superlight splashed out over the arena. More than this, the light itself was somehow kindly and alive, as if the God of All Life was everywhere at once, made of light, but with a presence inside that was invisible.”

Jane Roberts

Source: Emir's Education In The Proper Use of Magical Powers (1979), p. 65-66

Life , God , Light , Grass

“Through him I am aware of the nature and condition of your world, and offer from my viewpoint comments meant to help you. Through Ruburt, then, I am permitted to view the earth again in your terms. I exist apart from him, as he exists apart from me, yet we together a part of the same entity - and that simply carries the idea of the psyche further.”

Jane Roberts

Session 711, Page 337
The “Unknown” Reality: Volume Two, (1979)

World , Idea , Nature , Help

“I am not advising my readers to refuse to have their children vaccinated, since you now have to take vaccination into consideration because of the prominence of it in society. It is very possible, however, that science itself will in time discover the unfortunate side effects of many such procedures and begin to reevaluate the entire subject.”

Jane Roberts

Source: The Way Toward Health (1997), p. 196

Children , Science , Time

“Now there are classes indeed where the newly dead are instructed. I used to teach some of these.”

Jane Roberts

Session 331, Page 331
The Early Sessions: Sessions 1-42, 1997, The Early Sessions: Book 7

Dead

“It is unfortunately often - but not always - true that individuals who carry strong religious feeling are often bothered more than usual by poor health and personal dilemmas. The fact is that religions have been the carriers of some of the best ideas that man has entertained - but it has also held most stubbornly to the most troublesome concepts that have plagued mankind.”

Jane Roberts

Source: The Way Toward Health (1997), p. 310

Health , Religion , Feeling , Idea

“All layers of the personality are 'conscious.' They simply operate like compartments, so that often one portion of the self is not aware of other portions.”

Jane Roberts

Source: Seth, Dreams & Projections of Consciousness, (1986), p. 202

Personality

“There was a god or goddess of wind, rain, lightning, thunder, clouds, stars, sun, and of course, the moon goddess, and they all more or less worked under SkyMaker.”

Jane Roberts

Source: Emir's Education In The Proper Use of Magical Powers (1979), p. 50

God , Star , Sun

“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

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