What Jane Roberts thinks about agency
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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5 dated positions, c. 1963–1970 to c. 1967–1975, in their own words. Our reading of what Jane Roberts has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Our readingYou form your reality, and no one is put in a position they did not first accept as a challenge
Their wordsYou form your history. You form your reality, and no one is thrust into a position which first was not accepted as a challenge.
↗Conversations with Seth, Volume Two (Susan M. Watkins' record of Jane Roberts' ESP classes, with Seth speaking through Roberts; Prentice-Hall, 1981)archive.org All 7 from this book
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Their wordsYou 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)archive.org All 21 from this book
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Our readingWe form our own reality, now and after death
Their wordsI 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)archive.org All 14 from this book
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Their wordsYou 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)archive.org All 14 from this book
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Their wordsIn 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)archive.org All 14 from this book