“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] 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. [...]

Now: the favorable remarks made this morning by various members of the staff show that you are indeed changing your realities, and also beginning to change the larger environment. People’s ideas about Ruburt’s condition are changing, and you are receiving favorable results and feedback, of course. You will end up changing your reality, and your reality in other people’s eyes as well, so the affair marks the beginning of that alteration of environment. [...]

[...] And Mary Ann, who changed Jane’s dressings in room 330, said the bedsores look much better in their healing. [...]

[...] Jane had a bladder spasm, even though she’d had her catheter changed recently. [...]

[...] Jane could feel it especially in the joint for the big toe, and I could also see the change in motion there. [...]

(10:55.) The fluctuations also follow seasonal changes. [...] Alternate focus allows you to perceive the many manifestations of any given act, the true multidimensional reality of a given thought. [...]

[...] You can, therefore, change present reality as you understand it from any of these other layers of consciousness.

Alternate focus is merely a state in which you turn your consciousness in other than its habitual direction, in order to perceive quite legitimate realities that exist simultaneously with your own. You must alter your perception to perceive any reality that is not geared practically toward material form. [...]

(9:35.) The symbols or images may change as you do so, so that you perceive little similarity between, say, the initial image and the next one. [...]

[...] To do so he must change his own reality, alter his feeling of relationship with himself, and between himself and others. [...] New sentence: When attempts are made to change that reality, then the reality of family and friends is also changed to some extent. Your dreams and Sue’s allow you, ever so subtly, to change your own views of Ruburt’s behavior. [...] (Pause.) Exterior changes begin on the inside, and appear then physically—and not the other way around.

Now: at one point or another, your private reality becomes to some extent a public one, to one degree or another, as it is viewed by and participated in by others.

[...] I quote in part: “There are ever-changing models for physical reality, transforming themselves constantly in line with new equations instantly set up with each new stabilization…. [...]

No sooner had I described this second adventure to Jane than she surprised me by saying she might use both of the Roman experiences in Politics. She thought she could tie them in with her material on the “ever-changing models for physical reality” that she’d obtained from her psychic library last Friday morning.

The development freed Ruburt from many old limitations, and allowed him to at last have practical experience with the unknown reality in intimate terms. [...] Reality is above all practical, so when you expand your concepts concerning the nature of reality, you are apt then to find yourselves scandalized, appalled, or simply disoriented. [...]

But although for Politics Jane drew upon the same transcendent experience I described in the opening notes for the 715th session, she did so in her own subjective way; in “Unknown” Reality I present my version of the event from an observer’s viewpoint. [...] I think they’re both well worth having on record, since Jane’s experience was a profound one — and, in my opinion, very revealing for what it tells us about how we ordinarily view our mundane physical reality, and about the much more powerful versions, or “models,” for that reality that exist behind it.

Now, putting these two statements together, you see that an individual will perceive basic reality, in the main, only from his own reference point, and through his outer sense apparatus. His perception of basic reality in one way does not change the nature of that reality or of that action, as it exists independently of his field of reference. However, the very distortions that occur in his attempt to perceive this reality results in a new reality. [...]

This however is not their problem, for like all other individuals they perceive a reality that they have created. [...] It is not related to their attitude toward reality as a whole, but it is intimately connected with the reality which they have created. They are indeed relating to that reality very well. The reality, however, is much more distorted than usual, and this is one of the main problems.

Any individual reacts to a reality as he perceives it to be, and he perceives it to be since he has himself created it from basic reality. The very distortions therefore form many of the characteristic differences which for him gives his reality its peculiar nature. Those whose actions set them apart drastically from others within your system, and who seem in one way or another mentally unbalanced, are often told that they must relate themselves more clearly with reality as it exists.

It is only because their realities are so distorted that the difficulty is discovered. [...] Each reality is completely unique for every individual, and through his own actions he attempts therefore to communicate the nature of this reality of his to his fellows.

When you reach adulthood, following our analogy, then you will learn to be successful in manipulating dream reality as you now manipulate objective reality. [...] The dream reality is as real and actual as physical reality, but it can be changed you see by you, as physical reality can be changed.

The Fox experiments are quite valid, with some changes that you will make, I imagine. At one level of the dreaming state it is possible for you to recognize and align yourself with that portion of yourself that is aware of itself within fourth-dimensional reality. [...]

You begin to manipulate the dream state, or rather you begin to manipulate yourself within dream reality, which is something different. [...] In ordinary dreaming, without the awareness of usual waking consciousness, perception of dream reality is limited and instinctive. [...] You are like a child in objective reality. [...]

When you are considering dream reality, it is easier for you to understand that you construct the reality therein. You find it more difficult to understand the same thing about physical reality.

[...] Much of this book will be devoted to various techniques that will help you change your own reality for the better.

2. Seth notes in part, in Chapter Three of Seth Speaks: “Root assumptions are those built-in ideas of reality … those agreements upon which you base your ideas of existence. [...] Each system of reality has its own set of such agreements. [...]

[...] We will clear it up by comparing the same properties, changing the word “soul” to read “oversoul.”

The earlier statement makes perfect sense to me, for each self would call that portion of its greater reality within the whole unit its own soul. [...]

[...] They turned all my ideas of reality upside down. That morning and each morning until that time, I’d been sure of one thing: you could trust physical reality. [...] You could change your ideas toward it if you chose, but this would in no way change what reality was. [...]

[...] We learn the power and effects of ideas by changing them into physical realities; and we learn responsibility in the use of creative energy. [...]

It was as if the physical world were really tissue-paper thin, hiding infinite dimensions of reality, and I was suddenly flung through the tissue paper with a huge ripping sound. [...]

As it was, I didn’t know what had happened, yet even then I felt that my life had suddenly changed. [...]

[...] You must first recognize the fact honestly, that there are certain portions of your reality that you do not like. Do not pretend, be honest, and then you can change the reality. [...] In learning what you are you will discover what reality is, and again what the nature of God is. [...]

[...] You do quite literally form your own reality and there is no symbolism in that statement. If you do not like the reality that you are forming then you can change it, and honesty is extremely important in this regard. [...]

[...] Because their idea of reality is limited, why should you limit yours? [...] That is what you are doing when you limit your own idea of reality. [...]

[...] You each have a hand in the creation of reality as it is known. [...]

The change, while admittedly advantageous, reflects the fact that people are being helped, and that in our way we are able to help them change their picture of reality for the better, and to enlarge their understanding.

[...] When you changed them your reality began to change.

—so change your habits. [...] Your financial situation is increasing beyond your early dreams, because of a change in belief—so begin acting as if the normal pattern exists. [...]

I have been telling you this all along, if you recall, that your financial situation was changing.

[...] This shifts and changes the emotional reality of you both. [...]

[...] You do not have to fear that this sort of experience will take you away from reality. It will show you a greater reality than you imagine.

[...] You may continue at the same level of communication with your friend Adam, or you may go beyond that level into a still greater reality. [...]

Now: the personality on the other end of the bridge will be the reality behind Adam.

[...] You must learn to release her completely from your own thoughts, the habitual thoughts that you have concerning her you must change, even though at this point your thoughts seem completely legitimate and in line with physical reality as you know it. You must change the situation completely, for the better, in your own mind. See it change, imagine it change. Do not keep checking against the physical reality that you know to see whether or not it has changed, for particularly in the beginning, this can lead you astray or make you feel you are getting nowhere; but if you change the situation in your own mind you will change it in physical reality. [...]

[...] This does not apply to the two of you alone, but to your world at large: you make your own reality through your beliefs. You want to keep your beliefs yet change your reality—I am not referring to you personally here now—but this is impossible.

In your terms and in your probability, your parents’ lives are over, completed, and when in your reality you paint a picture it is finished, completed; and yet even in that context it outlives your completion of it, and endures. [...]

[...] The memories and realities within that portrait are yours to learn from and to use as a model for other such living portraits in time and space.

[...] It means that you make your own reality.

[...] Remember in your painting the relationship of one object to another, not in terms of space necessarily, the interrelationship of the vitality that forms the objects; the vibrating always changing reality within, say, the skin of the apple or the orange, the quite living consciousness within the molecules that make up what seems to be the solid surface of the fruits’ skin.

[...] The inner attitudes must be completely changed, though your methods and styles need not necessarily change one iota. [...]

[...] He sees he has changed his ways, and now wants to do so with a vengeance, you see. [...]

[...] He is on the right track, but now he wants to gallop down it at once, you see (more humor, eyes wide) to show us all that he has changed. [...]

[...] Above all, you are from this point to stop structuring your lives upon the bedrock reality of Ruburt’s condition. For that “condition” is not a permanent thing, but a changing reality, an improving condition.

A third of that energy on either of your parts spent on the realization that the effects are caused by beliefs, and an effort to change the beliefs, will work wonders. [...]

[...] You would each do it a great service if you would simply leave it alone, stop negative projections upon it, if you cannot manage to send it positive help through being willing to change your beliefs about it.

[...] You form your reality. [...]

[...] You see an excellent example of a change in belief and resulting reality.

(10:11.)The Nature of Personal Reality is there for others to follow. [...]

[...] He wants to—a change far more important then you realize. [...]

([Tom:] “But between the time of thinking about it now and the time it becomes a reality, other thoughts can come to bear on that idea and change it before it becomes a reality. [...]

[...] When you understand that completely and fully, you will no longer be within physical reality. [...] In any reality, you create the image that you see. And the reality that follows this one will seem as physical to you as this... [...]

[...] and the impetus is this: you must not journey into inner reality until you feel secure in physical reality.... [...]

[...] And if you travel too quickly and too far, you will not have confidence, for in the back of your mind you will think: if I do not feel secure in physical reality, then why should I feel secure here... [...]

([Theodore:] “But between the time of thinking about it now and the time it becomes a reality, other thoughts can come to bear on that idea and change it before it becomes a reality. [...]

[...] When you understand that completely and fully, you will no longer be within physical reality. [...] In any reality, you create the image that you see. And the reality that follows this one will seem as physical to you as this—and as real. [...]

...to solve your problems and triumph over your challenges—and the impetus is this: You must not journey into inner reality until you feel secure in physical reality—for you cannot live in two worlds at once unless you are secure in one. [...]

[...] For in the back of your mind you will think: If I do not feel secure in physical reality, then why should I feel secure here—and you will not have the daring that is necessary, nor will you have the peace of mind—and the peace of mind is the key to the door. [...]

[...] He has shown himself (Jane held her right arm out; in the last couple of days it has straightened out noticeably) that the body can change—that alternate realities can alter the present that you know, and that new intent can alter a life.