# The Individual and the Nature of Mass Events - Author: [Jane Roberts](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jane-roberts.md) - Quotes: 11 - Book page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/jane-roberts/the-individual-and-the-nature-of-mass-events ## Quotes > For an exercise, then, imagine for a while that the subjective world of your thoughts, feelings, inner images and fantasies represent the 'rockbed reality' from which individual physical events emerge. Look at the world for a change from the inside out, so to speak. Imagine that physical experience is somehow the materialization of your own subjective reality. Forget what you have learned about reactions and stimuli. Ignore for a time everything you have believed and see your thoughts as the real events. Try to view normal physical occurrences as the concrete physical reactions in space and time to your own feelings and beliefs. For indeed your subjective world causes your physical experience. p. 148 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jane-roberts/the-individual-and-the-nature-of-mass-events/for-an-exercise.md) > People die when they are ready to die, for reasons that are their own. No person dies without a reason. You are not taught that, however, so people do not recognize their own reasons for dying, and they are not taught to recognize their own reasons for living — because you are told that life itself is an accident in a cosmic game of chance. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jane-roberts/the-individual-and-the-nature-of-mass-events/people-die-when.md) > Without exception, all of the horrors connected with Christianity’s name came from following the letter rather than the spirit of the law, or by insistence upon literal interpretations -- while the spiritual, imaginative concepts beneath were ignored. p. 140 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jane-roberts/the-individual-and-the-nature-of-mass-events/without-exception-all.md) > 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. p. 76 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jane-roberts/the-individual-and-the-nature-of-mass-events/there-is-no-such.md) > 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. p. 148 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jane-roberts/the-individual-and-the-nature-of-mass-events/you-usually-think.md) > If you believe in the sinfulness of the world, for instance, then you will search out from normal sense data those facts that confirm your belief. But beyond that, at other levels you also organize your mental world in such a way that attracts to yourself events that - again - will confirm your beliefs. p. 163 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jane-roberts/the-individual-and-the-nature-of-mass-events/if-you-believe.md) > The species is in a state of transition, one of many. This one began, generally speaking, when the species tried to step apart from nature in order to develop the unique kind of consciousness that is presently your own. That consciousness is not a finished product, however, but one meant to change, [to] evolve and develop. Certain artificial divisions were made along the way that must now be dispensed with. You must return, wiser creatures, to the nature that spawned you - not only as loving caretakers but as partners with the other species of the earth. You must discover once again the spirituality of your biological heritage. p. 45 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jane-roberts/the-individual-and-the-nature-of-mass-events/the-species-is.md) > Your impulses are your closest communication with your inner self, because in the waking state they are the spontaneous urgings towards action, rising from that deep inner knowledge of yourself that you have in dreams. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jane-roberts/the-individual-and-the-nature-of-mass-events/your-impulses-are.md) > Framework 2 is not neutral, but automatically inclined toward what we will here term good or constructive developments. It is a growth medium. Constructive or positive feelings or thoughts are more easily materialized than negative ones, because they are in keeping with Framework 2’s characteristics. p. 126 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jane-roberts/the-individual-and-the-nature-of-mass-events/framework-2-is-not.md) > 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. p. 99 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jane-roberts/the-individual-and-the-nature-of-mass-events/those-involved-in-such.md) > Do not personally give any more conscious consideration . . . to events that you do not want to happen. Any such concentration, to whatever degree, ties you in with those probabilities, so concentrate upon what you want. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jane-roberts/the-individual-and-the-nature-of-mass-events/do-not-personally.md)