“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

The action involved in these sessions, for example, changes us all, yet truly none of us perceive the nature of the entire action of which we are a part. I, for example, cannot perceive the entire future consequences of any one action. I may perceive the entire consequences of any given action within your system or my own, but it is impossible for me to perceive a given action’s consequences as it is felt within all systems, for each action occurs within all systems simultaneously.

The previous overviolent response was caused by a difficulty, among other things, in handling chemical changes, both in the atmosphere and in the physical body. The difficulty, however, was caused by a psychological tension, and an inability to utilize added energies.

The distortions are then creative. The nature of action itself is such that tension is one of its positive characteristics, and the tension is the element that causes action to seek expansion in terms of an attempt to duplicate itself.

Your idea of consequences is derived from this fact. Nevertheless your idea of consequences takes into consideration only one small element of any given action. You perceive, in other words, only that part of an action which is projected into your own physical field, and this element you call the natural consequence of the original act.

[...] The knot of energies is indeed caused by fear, and it can be dissolved. [...]

[...] The knot of energy, among other things, quite a few other things, is caused by the temporary inability to change the focus of interests from outward to inward methods of communication.

These mass killings are your nation’s way of pinpointing an extremely dangerous inner trend, that otherwise could have far more severe worldwide consequences. Obviously serious consequences result from these particular recent murders.

The consequences however for the nation and the world would be far more disastrous had these hates and aggressions not found these therapeutic, almost surgical, unfortunately necessary, outlets.

[...] This does not mean that good intentions caused these situations.

The question has to do with the so-called creation of your universe, the introduction of entities upon it, and of course with the cause or causes behind such creation. [...]

To kill for nothing more serious than convenience or to kill for the sake of killing involves rather dire consequences on your plane, and the emotion or emotional value behind such killing is often as important as what is killed. That is the lust for killing is also a matter that brings dire consequences regardless of, in many cases, the particular living thing or things that is killed. [...]

At the same time the camouflage consciousness cannot be aware of the actual originator, and therefore must look for causes from the outside. [...]

[...] I used the front page of the newspaper as an analogy, saying that it exhibited far worse behavior and beliefs than any we were responsible for, yet the news and world events seemed to be made by individuals who behaved much more badly than we did, and that further the people involved seemed not to suffer any consequences of note, beyond say losing a job or an election, etc. [...]

This does not mean that they will not face consequences, but their self-approval provides a sturdy rudder that holds them often aloft, where most men might perhaps be drowning in the same circumstances. [...]

[...] The contention is one caused by riches, creative riches, and abundance.

I shall never cause you any difficulty. [...]

[...] An event of which Philip has not told you, that involved him, or could have involved him in a change of important consequence. [...]

[...] The neck difficulty (John B.’s) caused by inner conflict, resulting in a slight misalignment of the 4th vertebra. [...]

[...] He felt that in a way he was doing this for both of you: that despite what you said, if you wanted to paint for a living, or rather, simply to paint and thereby live, you would take those chances that he was taking, and whatever consequences that followed.

When you found what those consequences were, for Ruburt at least, you wanted no part of them. [...]

You have working for you the fact that the beliefs causing the condition are quickly vanishing. [...]

You yourself were also not willing to face consciously certain possible consequences directly, for example—of television appearances; possibilities of fame, etc., and you were ambiguous in that regard. [...]

[...] He is not one to compromise, and compromise has caused the physical condition. [...]

[...] Such drug experiments could have dire consequences. [...] The consequences would be completely disastrous in such a circumstance.

[...] Religion has been the cause of much prejudice and cruelty, but the bomb over Hiroshima was not caused by the Catholic Saint Theresa showering down any roses. [...]

[...] On your plane mental enzymes cause many chemical reactions. [...]

[...] I told her I was floored to learn that she’d let something like that go for so long before trying to learn anything about it’s causes, etc. [...]

[...] He felt therefore that he caused your illness, that in a way you were punishing him for the frivolousness that made him suggest you leave a conventional background and your parents, and go with his father in Florida.

[...] He knew you were not a Sunday painter, but he felt you were greatly repressed in your work, and that any breakthrough could only come when you focused upon it, your work, regardless of other consequences.

[...] But the main problem is the dilemma caused by the difference between the ideal and a feared, opposing actuality.

[...] The conflict causes tensions. [...]

(Louder for the next several paragraphs:) Your joy, your challenge, should be in the expression of the ideal as you see it, whether or not you can in your terms count upon the consequences, or the impediments—whether or not the expression comes to fulfillment in your terms—and even if it seems to fall on ground on which it will not grow.

[...] You are afraid of the consequences.

Your attitudes are entirely wrong, and causing much of the difficulty. [...]

[...] All combinations of particles are voluntary, and based upon principles of value fulfillment, which operates within and causes those acts or motions which are conducive to the formation of more complicated gestalts.

[...] This caused the irritation and the subsequent nodule.

[...] And in an unwary, emotionally upset personality, particularly if under stress, such a suggestion could cause a harmless and protective nodule to be changed by the strong powers of adverse expectation, or rather expectation poorly used, into the form of what is feared; as a slight but harmless irregularity of heartbeat, with the unthinking suggestion of a doctor, can become through the patient’s fears an actual functional disorder, so could suggestion turn a relatively harmless formation like Ruburt’s into an arthritic condition.

[...] While you live with these things you must deal with them and bear their consequences. If you kill, and believe that you kill, you will bear those consequences at this level of your development, but to think that you can destroy a consciousness would make the gods laugh. [...]

[...] The ignorance will cause them sorrow until they learn to rid themselves of it. [...]

[...] The spontaneous elements of his nature, as you know, frightened him, since others gave him dire warnings as to possible consequences.

The Prentice letter caused him to react with a burst of spontaneous pleasure. [...]

It was, then, the burst of spontaneity caused by the letter that also freed him for the next natural development in our sessions. [...]

He is indeed too careful of his motions out of habit and fear of the consequences. [...]

Your own symptoms have been caused also by an inner indecision, a refusal to come to terms with yourself and your work.

To kill for convenience … or for the sake of killing involves rather dire consequences, and the emotional value behind such killing is often as important as what is killed. That is, the lust [for] killing is also a matter that brings dire consequences, regardless of the particular living thing that is killed. [...]

It was Miss Cunningham’s discovery that she needed operations on both eyes that caused this deeper decision. [...]

[...] For now, suffice it to say that to kill for self-protection or food on your plane does not involve you in what we may call for the first time, I believe, karmic consequences.

This situation can be serious in varying degrees, according to the impetus and intensity of the original propelling cause behind the impeding action. [...]

[...] It seeks other outlets, and these outlets are caused by fear.

[...] When action is allowed to flow freely, then neurotic rejections of action will not occur; and it is neurotic rejections of action that often cause unnecessary illnesses.

[...] Therefore, regardless of present consequences, one portion has been kept down in order to avoid any serious, that is disastrous, cleavage.

[...] This was a biological activity he felt he could safely suspend, and in doing so avoid further conflict, the conflict caused by enjoyment in sex, when he did not feel worthy of being loved.

[...] But this causes you to avoid goals that you have a good possibility of achieving. If a goal is attainable and you fail to attain it, you see, then you feel you would have to blame yourself—and again, you do not want to accept the consequences of your own action.

[...] But these defeats are always caused by inner spiritual or psychic problems that have not been faced or solved.