My Scoop

~ true power

"The true power is in the imagination which dares to speculate upon that which is not yet. The imagination, backed by great expectations, can bring about almost any reality within the range of probabilities."

Dreams, Evolution and Value Fulfillment, Volume 1
Session 891, Page 183

looking down on empty streets, all she can see
are the dreams all made solid
are the dreams all made real

all of the buildings, all of those cars
were once just a dream
in somebody's head

--Peter Gabriel, "Mercy Street"

~ suicide‏

"The desire for suicide is often the last recourse left to frightened people whose natural impulses toward action have been damned up - intensified on the one hand, and yet denied any practical expression."

The Individual and the Nature of Mass Events
Session 857, Page 243

~ possesses a consciousness‏

"The universe is—and you can pick your terms—a spiritual or mental or psychological manifestation, and not, in your usual vocabulary, an objective manifestation.

"There is presently no science, religion or psychology that comes close to even approaching a conceptual framework that could explain, or even indirectly describe, the dimensions of that kind of a universe. Its properties are psychological, following the logic of the psyche, and all of the physical properties that you understand are reflections of those deeper issues. Again, each atom and molecule—and any particle that you can imagine—possesses, and would possess, a consciousness. Unless you accept that statement at least as a theory upon which to build, then much of my material would appear meaningless."

from Session 855, May 21, 1979, 9:15PM, Monday
The Individual and the Nature of Mass Events

~ ideas about your own health‏

"Your ideas about your own health are even more important than those steps you take to promote it."

The Way Toward Health
Session 3/27, Page 158

~ reverse a disease‏

"A sudden or intense belief in health can indeed reverse a disease, but in a very practical way it is a reversal in terms of time. New memories are inserted in place of the old ones, as far as cells are concerned under such conditions."

The Nature of Personal Reality
Session 654, Page 280

~ the pleasures of man‏

"Psychologists speak of the needs of man. Here I would like to speak of the pleasures of man, for one of the distinguishing characteristics of value fulfillment is its pleasurable effect. It is not so much that man or nature seeks to satisfy needs, but to exuberantly, rambunctiously seek pleasure—and through following its pleasure each organism finds and satisfies its needs as well. Far more is involved in the experience of life, however, than the bare satisfaction of needs, for life is everywhere possessed with a desire toward quality—a quality that acknowledges the affirming characteristics of pleasure itself.

In your terms, there is great pleasure to be found in both work and play, in excitement and calm, in exertion and rest (long pause), yet the word "pleasure" itself has often fallen into disrepute, and is frowned at by the virtuous."

Dreams, "Evolution", and Value Fulfillment
Volume II,Chapter 10, session 933. p. 463

~ repressed rage‏

"He should express himself when he feels a diverse opinion, when he feels wronged. It is only when aggressions are unexpressed that they are dangerous, and the repressed rage will hold back the desired psychic development."

The Early Sessions, Book 3
Session 90, Page 31

~ a basic truth

"I have told you time and time again, that you construct your physical universe and your private environment in line with your expectations, for they mirror perfectly the deepest areas of your own inner reality. This is perhaps the closest I can come in handing you anything that approaches a basic truth. All [of this] material follows and flows out of this primary statement."

Seth
Session 253
The Early Sessions, Book 6

~ the world loves itself‏

"The universe actively loves itself and all of its parts. The world loves itself and all of its parts. It is not true that energy is neutral or indifferent.

Energy is active, positive, propelled by what can almost be called an 'instantaneous pleasure' with itself and its characteristics.

Despite all concepts to the contrary, energy is indeed at its basis, love."

—The Way Toward Health

~ I hate‏

A person who says "I hate" is at least stating that he has an "I" capable of hating. The one who says "I have no right to hate" is not facing his own individuality."

The Nature of Personal Reality
Session 672, June 25, 1973, 11:30pm