“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

You are each a center and a focus point and an individuality, and around you are circling realities and you have an existence in each of these. The inner self is aware, but the conscious self is not aware. It seems to you as you read the session that you are small and tiny, with reality spinning about you that you can neither see nor understand, but this is not the case, for a part of you does know. You are a part of these encircling realities and your dreams and thoughts and wishes affect those realities even though you are not consciously aware of this. And when you pluck a finger into the air, then you disturb and change and alter other realities that you cannot see nor touch, and other realities in which a finger, as a finger, does not exist. One thought sends out ripples that change and alter. One of your own dreams rising out from you as its center, it touches and changes these other realities. There is no feeling that you have, there is no word that you utter, there is no thought hidden in the deepest environment of your brain that does not have a reality different than the one you know. That does not reach out and change and grow and alter worlds of which you have no knowledge.

So do not feel that you are powerless, do not feel that you are at the mercy of events, for you form events not only in this reality, but in these other realities which you do not consciously understand. Each move that you make is not multiplied a million times, not simply multiplied, but it reaches out and changes and alters and affects these other realities and it becomes a new action. It becomes a new action as it approaches and reaches other realities, and it in turn initiates action. For it will meet with responses, and these responses will be different. There is nothing that goes on in this room when you are here that goes on in this room alone. These meetings occur in this room, but they also occur in other realities, and when you come here to this class you are also attending a class on another level, and you are not aware of those classes, though I am aware of them. I am very aware of them, for while our friend Ruburt gives this class, I have been giving other classes and you have all been there. Education takes place on many levels.

In your terms, you are hanging out in space with nothing to support you and our friend here would be terrified of falling. You know that the physical floor does not support you, but you must pretend that the physical floor supports you or you would be dizzier than you are. So also at this moment in other realities do you sit, replicas of yourselves in other rooms and in other classes. And each moment as you know it, with this activity as you know it, exists in other realities, and you are a portion of these realities and you affect them. As you go out and speak to others now, and change them, so on other levels do you do the same, and so indeed are you also changed and affected.

You can compare these to simple earth spirits, but they are aware. They will in turn inhabit other forms, and even the most minute consciousness that resides within the smallest portion of matter, even that consciousness can grow and mature and change, for there is no limitation set upon consciousness. Even then, the smallest consciousness within its own terms of value fulfillment can emerge, can change, can alter, can develop. It can then gain and gather about it the potentiality to hold and control more and more energy. It can broaden the apparent boundaries of its own existence, for all boundaries are only apparent. They are illusions. Even the boundaries that you set about your own identities are illusions. They are not solid. You can go beyond them. It is difficult to portray to you the complexity of the realities themselves. For the difficult realm [sic] cannot understand the concepts that are involved.

[...] You may meet with some misunderstanding when you suddenly decide to change your reality by changing your beliefs — according to the circumstances, you may be going in a completely different direction than the group to which you belong. [...] Each individual has his or her own ideas about reality for reasons that seem valid. [...] When you abruptly change your beliefs, then in the group you no longer have the same position — you are not playing that game any longer.

New paragraph: Because beliefs form reality — the structure of experience — any change in beliefs altering that structure initiates change to some extent, of course. [...] Because your private beliefs are shared with others, because there is interaction, then any determined change of direction on your part is felt by others, and they will react in their own fashion.

When someone who has been ill starts on the road to recovery through changing his beliefs, he may be quite surprised to find even his dearest allies suddenly upset, reminding him of the “reality” of his dire state for the same reasons.

You are setting out to experience the most fulfilled reality that you can. [...] You may want others to change. [...]

[...] You do not realize that your thought is literally the parent of the physical reality that you know. You must change your innermost reality if you will change physical reality. [...]

You form the physical reality that you know! [...] For it follows, as the night follows the day, you form your reality. This also means that you can change it! [...]

[...] All you have to do is realize that you are free, that you form reality as you know it... [...] You change the exterior circumstances by changing your thoughts and your desires and by forgetting your fears. [...]

[...] You are being changed in this class and through your own experiences in that you are learning and you are expanding your idea of reality and of consciousness. [...]

[...] That you do create your reality, that you do have the freedom and the joy and the responsibility of forming the physical reality in which you live. Then you can change the reality. [...] Everyone else forms their own physical reality but not me—my reality is caused by heredity or environment. [...]

[...] You can change your physical existence as you know it. [...] When you realize and accept the fact that you form your physical reality, you can change it instantly—and that is your freedom. [...]

Remember that you only perceive a portion of your own reality. And remember that you only perceive a portion of my reality. Do you realize the implications if you make no effort to realize your own reality and to probe into it and to explore it and understand it? Then how do you think you can understand the nature of reality if you do not make an attempt to see the truths that are within yourself? [...]

[...] Your faces face this room, your eyes look out upon physical reality. [...] And that these faces look out into other realities quite as varied and quite as real. [...] You can close your physical eyes and focus upon these other realities in which you also have your existence. And you can learn to manipulate in physical reality the better, because you understand your full potential. [...]

[...] I hope to teach you methods that will allow you to understand the nature of your own reality, and to point a way that will let you change that reality in whatever way you choose.

The book will explain how personal reality is formed, with great stress laid upon the ways of changing unfavorable aspects of individual experience.

[...] These together form the reality that you know. You are hardly at the mercy of a reality, therefore, that exists apart from yourself, or is thrust upon you. [...]

[...] You can change your personal world. You do change it without knowing it. [...]

However his painting contains new realities, and distinctive ones, that would be alien to the original landscape. The actual trees, had he really been able to reproduce them, would then undergo their seasonal changes. The trees in his painting, being artificial reproductions, do not undergo the same physical changes, even while the atoms and molecules that compose the canvas itself, and all the pigments, constantly themselves change.

In a like manner for example, the act of dreaming itself changes both the dreamer and the dream. The act of doing anything at all automatically changes the doer. The reality of any action automatically determines that the action will change.

[...] Your time system is indeed the result of tension as it is distorted within your own system, yet the distortion itself, as you see, creates a new reality. And that reality then continues to operate, forming like realities of the sort that can exist within the given conditions already set up by the original distortion.

The painting, therefore, is both a distortion of reality, and the creation of a new reality. Likewise all realities are formed.

Now I tell you that if both of you use these methods, you will indeed completely change for the better not only your physical environment and reality, but your inner, creative, psychic and spiritual environment. [...] The thoughts themselves cause electromagnetic changes, signifying physical changes deep in the tissues.

[...] It is your thoughts you must change, and these will bring about the changes you desire in physical reality. [...]

[...] When one managed an overall psychic change for the better, the other would negate it through discouragement or negative patterns. Now as a unit your separate realities obviously form a larger combined unit in which you operate. [...]

[...] With a few changes in his attitude, which I will try to bring out in our sessions, he can help bring about a definite change for the better in that regard. [...]

[...] Action, by its nature, while part of every reality, necessarily changes that reality and forms from it a new reality. [...]

Discovery of these other electrical realities will explain much that previously could not be explained. All realities with which you will be concerned, and with which mankind is intimately concerned, are built up electrically. A dream is as valid an electrical reality as a lightning bolt, the difference being that the lightning bolt projects itself into your awareness through the outer senses.

[...] It is a by-product of any reality, and a part of all reality. [...]

The chair is an identity, and yet at no given moment is it the same chair, for already the atoms and molecules that compose it have changed, and been replaced by others. [...]

[...] None of you are helpless to change events, to change your health or your reality at this moment. [...] Now, you may have built up poor habits of thought, but you can recognize this and change them. Every time you say, I am helpless, and I am slipping into chaos, whether you get laughs or not, or whether you say it humorously or not, you are indeed pushing yourself further into the chaos you are creating with every breath you take because you make no effort to change the nature of your thoughts and this is what you must do, exert your own control. [...]

As you all know, and this is not new, your pitiful body changes with each thought that you have and with each emotion. [...] There is no other place where you can lay the blame and it is up to you, to each of you individually, to watch the nature of your thoughts for with your thoughts you created the body that you have, the individual realities that you know. [...] If you do not know your own thoughts, and if you cannot change them when you want to, you are not at the mercy of your thoughts. [...]

[...] Thought patterns and emotional patterns, left alone, would change one into the other as stormy weather changes into sunny. [...] I am not telling you to be so frightened of a negative thought that you want to run into a corner or hide under the bed or say “Oh, this is a negative thought, I must change it at once” and half-terrify yourselves to death. I am telling you that when you indulge in such thoughts for a period of time so that they become habitual then you must change them and no one can do this but yourself. [...]

The point I wanted to make is this—each thought is an electromagnetic reality on its own, a unique electromagnetic reality. [...] You not only attract negative conditions therefore in the physical world that you know, but you open yourselves up to these in the dream reality. [...]

[...] It can now afford to be much more elastic, to include, in other words, more and more of reality within its awareness. [...] It would of course however to some extent change the ego, and any change is resisted by the ego.

[...] The ego must change in this rather basic manner, including other realities within its scope of awareness. [...]

The hope and the possibilities here, as well as some of the dangers, lie in the fact that the ego does indeed change, and is not one specific reality but a series or group of actions, with direction, that have the potentiality for unlimited value fulfillment. [...]

You will recall that the ego, while disliking change, is nevertheless dependent for its identity upon change. [...] Because the ego necessarily changes however, actions or emotions which at one time it chose as acceptable, at a later date so to speak it may attempt to deny.

In one manner or another, each person mirrors the experience of the world, while also adding to that experience in an original way, impressing reality as no other individual could. It is true to say that reality as you understand it changes as each individual changes. Your thoughts then do change the world, whether you act upon your thoughts or not, they have their effect.

[...] It would be highly unusual for Ruburt to have been untouched by the belief systems of his times—particularly if he had set out to change them. (Pause.) You are not simply trying to look at the world differently, for example, or to change a hypothetical reality, but to creatively bring about some version of a creative and artistic vision that results not simply in greater poems or paintings, but in greater renditions of reality (all very intently.

[...] Her bodily changes continue, with some good news about improvements in her legs contributed by Frank Longwell after an examination. [...]

[...] Those connections are worked out at all levels of reality, in the waking state through your communication devices and culture, and through the far more complicated arena of the culture of dreams. [...]

[...] Every thought that you have now changes reality. Not only reality as you know it, but all reality. [...]

[...] If you do not like your experience, then look within yourself and change it. But realize also that you are responsible for your joys and triumphs, and that the energy to create any of these realities comes from the inner self. [...]

[...] You cannot be hounded from one level of reality to another by a fear that you do not understand. [...] Each of your personalities are free to accept and develop, from the miraculous banks of reality, those experiences and emotions that you want, and to reject those you do not want.

[...] You form the reality that you know, not esoterically, not symbolically, not philosophically. [...] You have in the past, collectively and individually, blamed a god or a fate for the nature of your personal realities — those aspects, indeed that you did not like.

Within you is the ability to change your ideas about reality and about yourself, to create a personal living experience that is fulfilling to yourself and others. [...]

[...] These personal ideas about yourself and the nature of reality will affect your thoughts and emotions. You take your beliefs about reality as truth, and often do not question them. [...]

[...] They are not recognized as beliefs about reality, but are instead considered characteristics of reality itself. [...]

Each person experiences a unique reality, different from any other individual’s. This reality springs outward from the inner landscape of thoughts, feelings, expectations and beliefs. [...]

Through our dreams we change physical reality, and our physical daily experience alters our dream experience. [...] Our consciousness is simply directed in a different kind of reality when we dream, a reality as vivid as waking life. We may forget our dreams, but they are always a part of us, even though we may not be aware of their entire reality.

[...] He is saying that though it did not occur historically, it did happen within another reality and emerged into history as an idea rather than a physical event—an idea that changed civilization. [...]

[...] The words ‘May peace be with you’ will get him through any difficulty in other layers of reality—for as he formed that image, others also form images and he could encounter them. To wish them peace will give them some comfort, for they do have a kind of reality. To fear them is to put yourself into their realm of reality, and then you are forced to fight on their terms. [...]

While all of this is of practical interest, Rob and I are even more intrigued by Seth’s explanation of dream reality. Since I’ve had many out-of-body experiences from the dream state, I was rather concerned about the reality of the environments in which I found myself. Seth began his discussions on the nature of dream reality very soon after the sessions began, and they still continue. [...]

[...] Although we speak in terms of separation, all reality is a part of action. When we divide action in order to discuss it, we in no way change the reality of action, nor alter its nature.

For, because you perceive reality in a limited fashion only, this in no way affects the basic nature of reality itself. [...] However, again, the ego’s attempt to stand apart from action in no way changes the basic nature of action itself, and the ego merely limits its own perception.

This does not, however, mean that this is the only reality. It is simply the only reality that you perceive with the physical senses. In order to perceive other realities, you must therefore switch from your outer senses to the inner senses, for the inner senses are clearer, and are equipped to perceive action and reality as it exists independently of the distortions given to it by the physical senses.

[...] It is important that these matters be understood when you are concerned with how to change or alter a physical condition, for the change will come from within or it will not come.

[...] It seems as if you are on the outskirts of your own reality. [...] (Pause.) If you did change the focus of your consciousness still further, you might then “bring in” another picture entirely. On the outside this would give you another reality. (Intently:) In it your “old” reality might still be somewhat perceivable as a ghost image,⁶ if you knew what to look for and remembered your former coordinates. On the inside, however, you would be traveling not around or about, but through one portion of the psyche with its reality, into another portion of the psyche with its reality. [...]

[...] He used the particular symbols, however, simply to bring the theory home to him, but it represented the fact that any given object in one dimension has its own reality in another. [...] (Intently:) When you so alter that focus, however, you also change the exterior reality that you then experience.

Give us a moment … The hat on the table, while possessing all of the necessary paraphernalia of reality for that scene, might also, however, serve as a different kind of reference point for one of the other programs simultaneously occurring. In that reality, say program two, the entire configuration of hat and table may be meaningless, while still being interpreted in an entirely different way from a quite different perspective. [...] Objects in your reality have an entirely different aspect in another. Any of the objects shown in the program you are watching, then, may be used as a different kind of reference point in another reality, in which those objects appear as something else.

[...] The will, again, operates according to the personality’s beliefs about reality, so its desires are sometimes tempered as those beliefs change. [...]

[...] Every thought that you have now changes reality. Not only reality as you know it, but all reality. [...]

You form the reality that you know, not esoterically, not symbolically, not philosophically; some great oversoul does not form it for you, you cannot put the burden there either. [...] You form your reality and until you understand this completely you cannot change it, nor can you use your freedoms. [...]

You have in the past, collectively or individually, to blame a God or a fate for the nature of your personal realities, those aspects, indeed, that you did not like. [...] You create from nothing the experience that is your own, and if you do not like your experience then look within yourself and then you can change your experience, but realize also, that you are responsible for your joys and triumphs. And realize also, that the energy to create any of these realities comes from the inner self. [...]

[...] You cannot be hounded from one level of reality to another by a fear that you do not understand. [...] Each of your personalities are free to develop, to accept, from the miraculous bank of reality those experiences and emotions that you want and to reject those that you do not want. [...]

I told you when Tam was here (last week) that the books would change the nature of physical reality, and they will—to whatever degree as they alter beliefs and lead others into new experiences. [...]

[...] Instead, all of those who read the books change themselves to some extent, look upon reality in a different way, and extend the frontiers of the private mind.

The book will stand along with Ruburt’s own Aspect Psychology, serving to give demonstrations in the operation of the psyche itself as different parts of it view the reality that you know, and an inner reality that is sometimes so much more difficult for you to perceive.

[...] In whatever way, racial consciousness is in a time of change. [...]

The paperback Personal Reality will be highly important in the ultimate changes that do take place. [...]

[...] “Unknown” Reality will do far better than even Personal Reality did.

From then on noticeable changes will be fairly automatic and accelerated, but you are now finishing up the groundwork. The mouth and jaw is also in a constant state of change for the same reasons, so that the area will be sometimes comfortable, and sometimes most bothersome.

[...] We are saying that changes can be made from within the culture. [...]

[...] It is much easier if your theories fit reality, but if they do not, then you do not change reality one iota. [...]

You must perceive what you do of reality through your physical senses, but your physical senses distort reality. They present reality to you in their own way. The physical senses can only perceive reality a little bit at a time, and so it seems to you that one moment exists, and is gone forever, and the next moment comes, and like the one before it disappears. [...]

Reality is not limited. [...] These only appear to those who exist within three-dimensional reality. [...] But there is a part of you that is not imprisoned within three-dimensional reality, and that part of you knows that there is no time, that there is only an eternal now; and that part of you that knows is the whole self, the inner personality that knows all of your lives. [...]

All of you were meant to come here and your lives have already been changed. They have been changed in beneficial ways—you have already begun to question your existence. [...]