“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Some of the errors concern the misinterpretation of physical events. The individual — convinced he or she is being pursued by some secretive organization — again, may hear the sirens on a very real police car. The error is the assumption that the vehicle is pursuing the individual rather than some other party. The therapist can help the client learn to question his or her personal interpretation of such events.

An effort should be made to help the client understand that errors of thought and belief are responsible for the condition — and that the removal of those erroneous beliefs can relieve the situation. The therapist should make it clear that he understands that the client is not lying, in ordinary terms, when he reports hearing voices from the devil.

According to the particular case in point, the therapist should then try to point out the errors of thought and belief involved, and also to explain their more or less habitual cast.

[...] However—give us a moment—errors can also be used as challenges and those of you who are afraid to commit errors, or who are too afraid to face challenges, and therefore, never look upon an error as a deep or dark thing forever beyond repair, for from it challenges spring. And oftentimes, if an error is committed, it is the same thing as a physical symptom might be. [...]

[...] You may instead, however, commit an error so that you are suddenly brought up short as you say, “Why did I do this thing which is so unlike myself?” In that case, the error or the action is the same thing as a symptom for it makes you question your own motives and look into your own spirit. [...]

Now, the inner self knows the answers and often- times the inner self brings you to this error, this action, or this symptom, so that you will look inward. [...]

[...] However it does not serve any good purpose for me to knock Ruburt’s knuckles when an error of this kind is made. For one thing such errors are not numerous, nor really were these particular errors harmful. [...]

We have uncovered an error on someone’s part, my dear Joseph—

[...] The error is in one word; not fluent but “inner.” [...]

[...] Your creative endeavors have brought you good rewards (long pause) in more areas than you realize, but part of your account was in an ordinary savings structure so that you were, in those areas, somewhat restricted—and restricted by Framework 1’s largely trial-and-error framework. [...]

Now: You still have some money in a regular savings account, and that is handy for simple day-to-day expenses, so of course you always have some effort to expend in Framework 1, and some experience with its normal trial-and-error tactics. [...]

[...] He does this by mentally changing over his account (emphatically) from Framework 1, where he is indeed improving through effort, trial and error and determination—but improving at a far slower rate than he would like. [...]

This error may become habitual, coloring all other psychological structures, and resulting in unfortunate and dangerous physical constructions. They are extremely destructive errors, and have many causes. [...]

I have hinted at the reasons for such errors. Habitual errors become part of the psychological perspective. [...]

[...] The error is in the original inability to perceive the correct inner data, the basic underlying psychological structure of consciousness survival.

(“and that an error might have been somehow responsible.” My own idea is that the error here mentioned refers to my error in my license number, as explained on page 9. Seth also says “might have.” I think an error can enter into the car adventure, possibly, in that at the time I felt the mechanic servicing the car did not go about the job properly, and nearly delayed our leaving on vacation by several days as a result.

(“Connection with an error.” An error is prominent here. [...]

Connection with an error. [...]

[...] These can exist whether or not the course itself seems advantageous, and can even overshadow the benefits [that] a successful course might have given, in those terms … Though it would seem, then, that you have made errors, the errors in themselves are creative, and have brought about unforeseen probabilities that now enrich — and also change — your original course.

[...] Instead, a distinction should be made: the child made an error — he lied — but he himself is not the error or the lie. [...]

[...] I told you also that these sessions exist on many other levels of activity, so the sessions are translated directly into the body itself, correcting old errors, for example, and helping the body thus to clear itself of old debris. [...]

I am not comparing the body to a computer—but in a fashion it is as if Ruburt were reprogramming himself, with help from higher echelons of his being, so that a kind of new and more effective and beneficial organization is being activated, in which old errors were cancelled, and new knowledge is inserted. [...]

[...] You bring into action, physically speaking, those greater powers of your being, and trust certain chores to be taken care of at that vast unconscious level, instead of, as mentioned this evening (in the session proper) working at a trial-and-error basis,

[...] (Pause.) I was trying to correct certain errors. They are not egotistical errors and so I bypassed the ego.

(I was about to ask Seth what the errors were when the phone rang, interrupting the session. [...]

[...] He did not learn (pause) through trial and error to think clear thoughts. [...] He did learn through trial and error various ways of best translating those thoughts into physical action. [...]

[...] They did not learn how to form dams through trial and error (humorously). They did not for untold centuries build faulty dams, for example. [...]

(Long pause at 10:34.) Man did not have to learn by trial and error what plants were beneficial to eat, and what herbs were good for healing. [...]

Those of you who believe in reincarnation in more or less conventional terms, can make the error of using or blaming “past” lives, organizing them through your current beliefs. It is bad enough to believe that you are at the mercy of one past, but to consider yourself helpless before innumerable previous errors from other lives puts you in an impossible situation; the conscious will is robbed of its power to act. [...]

It is as if you were reading a history book that was devoted only to the failures, cruelties and errors of the race, ignoring all of its accomplishments. [...]

[...] It is only natural to contrast what you want with what you have, and it is very easy to become discouraged in so doing, but looking for errors in the past will not help you. [...]

[...] Any errors of construction have their origin not in the inner self, but in either the personal subconscious or in the ego.

As errors and mistakes creep into the physical organic system, bringing forth mutant genes and distortions, so also these mutant genes and distortions are, on a smaller scale, the result of inner distortions within the consciousness of the individual genes.

[...] There are various manners in which these inner suggestions are translated from inner pure energy form into the electrical and chemical systems which compose the physical organisms, and it is possible for errors of translation to occur along these lines.

[...] He who does not move can make no errors; and he felt he had made a severe error in allowing Fell to publish the book. [...]

[...] The spontaneous self is remarkably resilient, and bounces back from its own errors when it makes any.

[...] He will be afraid of making errors; and fears that you may blame him for them.

[...] Since the learning process is involved, there are errors. [...]

[...] The very mechanism of the body however is so constructed that it can bear the brunt of many errors, and free itself from them, though this may not seem to be the case at times. [...]

[...] A trial-and-error system is (underlined) involved; but inner processes are reflected rather quickly in these cases upon the physical condition.

Such leeway left room for many probabilities and for many “errors,” but the developing consciousness had to be free to make its own judgments. [...]

[...] Generally speaking, science chooses not to accept the discoveries mentioned here, for were any of them to be officially recognized then several learned disciplines — among them geology and biology — would be shown to be very much in error in important ways.

[...] See that you do not make any errors or I will tap you on the shoulder. [...]

[...] But your errors and your mistakes luckily enough are not real and do not affect reality. [...]

[...] Do not be afraid of making errors in your paintings, but trust your inner self. [...]

[...] Trust yourself to plunge fully into large endeavors in your work, and do not be afraid of making errors.

[...] It can correct errors made, by other portions of the personality. [...]