“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Remind him once again that the conscious mind cannot know of all of the body’s interior actions. And remind him once again of the material I gave him concerning the roles of the conscious and unconscious minds. Remind him also that the so-called unconscious mind is indeed highly conscious—but in a different area of activity—and it knows what it is doing. [...]

Of course, the conscious mind cannot be aware of such critical inner decisions. [...]

[...] That afternoon it was difficult to keep my mind on my work. [...] Was their consciousness born anew, and was it really something quite independent of the images they wore?

All kinds of thoughts flooded to my mind. Consciousness was independent of the body — Seth was right — and if that was true, then there was no reason why he couldn’t be what he said he was: an independent personality, out of the flesh. [...]

[...] One day I went into the bedroom where it was quiet, closed my eyes, lay down and began clearing my mind of thoughts for my psy-time exercise. Several times Miss Cunningham came to mind: I wanted to ask her doctor about her condition but hesitated because I wasn’t a member of her family.

It is indeed, but what you do not understand is that your so-called subconscious is highly conscious, you simply are not aware of it consciously. Therefore, you must expand the consciousness that you know so that it is aware of this other portion of your own identity. You do not really have a conscious state and an unconscious state, they are the same. You have a consciousness. [...] That portion of you is also conscious; there is an artificial division created. [...]

[...] This is not in his conscious mind and therefore anything else is accepted with relief. [...]

[...] In the back of your mind also you wonder if you haven’t done enough penance, and so you worry and stew. [...]

[...] It is up to you to expand the nature of your own consciousness so that you understand me. [...]

[...] Everyone was overly nice to the dog, so no one would know consciously, what they knew subconsciously—that you considered the dog the symbol of failure. It was a closely guarded secret by all, hidden, but not entirely, from the conscious minds of those involved. [...]

[...] In your spare moments, see yourself in your mind’s eye easily performing normal physical pursuits as you did before. Remember the feelings that you had, but see this in your mind’s eye as present. [...] See yourself in your mind as clearly as possible square dancing, and enjoying yourself. [...]

For some time you had consciously considered various roads that you could take, but subconsciously you became more and more alarmed, and felt severely hampered in your progress.

[...] When you bought the dog, and particularly since your wife was so for the idea, you feared that she also took this as a sign that you had made your mind up to the fact, or faced the fact, that you would be where you are for some time.

His conscious mind, when he is not writing, should be anchored on something. There is too much unrecognized free brooding, when he sits doing nothing consciously, waiting perhaps for inspiration but not in a positive way. [...] His mind, his conscious mind, is the type that should be anchored in such a way, for it is overactive, otherwise, and when he is not at his best it will leap to brooding. [...]

Since he had temporarily put you in the role of a controlling factor, this was also in the back of his mind. [...] The issues were not identical, you see, but similar enough in his mind.

[...] Ruburt’s mother, as mentioned earlier, had often told him that if he kept on as he was going he would lose his mind; and contacts with psychologists, when he feels they are testing him, brings up this old issue.

[...] He also wanted to understand the effect of mind on matter. [...]

It could not be accomplished by the conscious mind — though the conscious mind can indeed will the process to occur. [...]

The idea of using animals for experimentation has far more drawbacks than advantages; there is the matter of one kind of consciousness definitely taking advantage of another kind, and thus going counter to nature’s cooperative predisposition.

[...] Instead, they united in a cooperative venture, in which animals and man both understood that no consciousness truly died but only changed its form.

[...] The creatures are treated as if they possessed no feeling or consciousness of their own — and such attitudes show a most unfortunate misreading of natural events. [...]

Now: The unconscious accepts those orders given to it by the conscious mind.

[...] Unfortunately, because of the pattern considered necessary, it is thought that the conscious mind is lulled and its activity suspended. [...]

[...] When disease is seen as an invader, forced upon the integrity of the self for no reason, then the individual seems powerless and the conscious mind an adjunct. [...]

[...] Your conscious thoughts and concentrations bring about results with which you are pleased. It is only in those compartments of your life that confound you that you suddenly begin to wonder what is happening — but here also, natural hypnosis is at work just as easily and naturally, and your conscious ideas are automatically coming to physical fruition. [...]

Now you give yourself conscious direction by taking it for granted that you paint well, by trying to see the completed painting in your mind. This is the function of the conscious self, to use the emotions and expectations to bring about a desired result.

[...] If your conscious mind is to be a foreman he must be one who is easy to get along with, and not so authoritative that he is yelling demands all the time. [...]

It is your contact with All That Is, but it is up to the conscious mind of the present individual as to how much its abilities will be used and in what manner. [...]

[...] In this period let the conscious suggestions be given with emotion and feeling, and then have him forget all about them. He does not need to give himself conscious suggestions every fifteen minutes. [...]

The night and day constitute a framework within which your experience is couched, providing the conscious mind with needed stimuli and relaxation, and allowing for proper assimilation of events. [...]

[...] In each case, also, the nature of the conscious mind sets up its own territory-of-identity (with hyphens) that it regards as its own. [...]

[...] See the notes prefacing the 653rd session for April 4, in Chapter Thirteen, describing how she gave birth to the original long Speaker poem while in an altered state of consciousness. [...]

Dictation: Your neuronal activity structures your conscious experience, then. [...]

[...] Have him read or read to him—the recent passages dealing with the use of the conscious mind and the use of the subconscious mind, when I discussed their various roles. [...]

(I read to her Seth’s opening paragraphs of yesterday’s session; these dealt with the roles of the conscious and subconscious minds. [...]

[...] For a few days, again, have Ruburt read those portions I have given, dealing with the roles of the conscious and subconscious minds. [...]

As far as possible, take your conscious mind away from the condition. [...]

[...] He should in his exercises imagine strenuous exercise, running very fast for example, until in his mind’s eye his muscles are fully relaxed.

[...] He should try jumping rope in his mind, and then perform physically. [...]

[...] To her they are nongoals, for money is the basic one to her, the magic charm which in her mind makes all other benefits or comforts possible. [...]

[...] Now tell yourself that your conscious mind can be alert while you sleep and dream, alert enough to recognize a changed atmosphere.

It makes no difference you see whether you are awake in your terms or asleep in your terms; if your conscious mind is functioning in either state, you will see him.

Consciously you have been unaware of this. Each dream however will serve as a breakthrough into your conscious awareness, a graduation drama of a sort of which you will be fully aware. [...]

Now the suggestion to carry your waking consciousness into the sleep state is of particular value in conscious projections, if you will use it. [...]

[...] For the sake of imagery, you can imagine your normal consciousness as your connection with this home planet — the familiar station that you tune in to every day. When you project your consciousness away from it, then you will encounter various kinds of atmospheric conditions. Once you understand what these are, and what effects can be expected, such journeys can be undertaken consciously, with the conscious mind that you know acting as the astronaut, for example, and the rest of your consciousness acting as the vehicle. [...]

Projecting your consciousness out of your body, therefore, provides at the same time an inner probing of consciousness itself, as well as experience of its manifestations. There are then inner lands of the mind, and other worlds quite as legitimate as your own. [...]

Now all consciousness, including your own, is highly mobile. While you focus your attention primarily in your own world, certain portions of your consciousness are always straying. When you are sleeping, then, your consciousness often ventures into other realities, usually in a wandering fashion without tuning itself in to any precise frequencies. Beneath many seemingly chaotic dreams there are often valid experiences in which your consciousness “lights” in another reality, without being attuned to it with the necessary precision that would allow for clear perception. The information cannot be sifted or used effectively and is translated into dream images, as your consciousness returns toward your own home station. [...]

Your world, again, is the result of a certain focus of consciousness, without which that world cannot be perceived. [...] The range of consciousness involved is obviously physically oriented, yet within it there are great varieties of consciousness, each experiencing that seemingly objective world from a private perspective. [...]

The hows and wherefores cannot be handled by the conscious mind, however, but should be taken care of by the creative intelligence within his subconscious mind. [...]

Tell Ruburt to remember that the conscious mind can state its request that Ruburt’s physical condition constantly improve itself, so that he can finally walk by himself, with some ease and confidence. [...]

(One of the first thoughts that came to mind after I realized what was happening was Jane’s book on Rembrandt. [...]

Our sessions have put you in a receptive state of mind, so that you were alert to the phenomenon with the paintings. [...]

[...] Perfect health is mine, and the Law of Harmony operates in my mind and body. [...] I know my major premise is based on the eternal truths of life, and I know, feel, and believe that my subconscious mind responds according to the nature of my conscious mind thinking.

[...] The healing intelligence of her subconscious mind which created her body is now transforming every cell, nerve, tissue, muscle, and bone of her being according to the perfect pattern of all organs lodged in her subconscious mind.

[...] Each buyer is sent to me by the creative intelligence of my subconscious mind, which makes no mistakes. [...] The deeper currents of my subconscious mind are now in operation bringing the buyers and myself together in divine order. [...]

[...] By using the powers of your subconscious mind correctly, you free your mind of all sense of competition and anxiety in buying and selling.)

The solutions lie in the conscious mind — I cannot emphasize this too strongly — and in those beliefs that you accept about the nature of reality and, specifically, about the nature of your being.

[...] Both are methods to uncover invisible conscious beliefs — that are accepted by you consciously at any given time, say, and deliberately ignored at another given time.

Dictation: Luckily the human mind and body are far more flexible, durable and creative than ever given credit for. [...]

[...] Any search into the mind becomes frightening and dangerous, since it might lead to further such “invasion.”

(Long pause.) It is as if bits and pieces of any and all probable events exist in a jigsaw-like fashion throughout the minds of men, throughout the consciousnesses of plants and all natural things, wanting to be put together—and each individual consciousness has its part to play in directing which of those events occur or do not occur—but the processes involved in the formation of those events are hidden from the conscious mind. [...]

[...] It does take an effort to keep it in mind at times, though. [...]

[...] They may involve a different kind of consciousness and intelligence than your own. [...]

(10:17.) There are certain interior physical events that can happen within Ruburt’s body to help him move more naturally, but he cannot possibly consciously comprehend each change that must occur, and when viewed in that light the entire exercise seems so complicated as to be almost impossible. [...]

[...] The entity operates its fragments in what you would call a subconscious manner, that is, without conscious direction. [...] It’s as impossible for the entity to control fragment personalities as for the conscious mind to control the body’s heartbeat.”

[...] For example: “The subconscious is the threshold of idea’s emergence into the individual conscious mind. [...]

But more: I just didn’t know, for example, that everything had its own consciousness. [...] A nail was sticking in the windowsill, and I experienced ever so briefly the consciousness of the atoms and molecules that composed it.

Certainly such matters were far from my mind. [...]

[...] Ruburt’s mind, believe it or not, is much like my own — though, if you’ll forgive me, in a very limited fashion. [...] The inner senses provided him with much, but nevertheless the ideas contained in it represented an achievement of the conscious mind. [...]

[...] His conscious and unconscious mind had to be acquainted with certain ideas to begin with, in order for the complexity of this material to come through.

[...] Such an art, pursued, trains the mind in a new kind of consciousness — one that is equally at home in either [exterior or interior] existence, well grounded and secure in each.”

[...] She called the chapter “Personal Evaluations — Who or What is Seth?” In it she made a number of excellent points concerning her relationship with Seth and Seth Two; for example: “If physical life evolves [in ordinary terms], why not consciousness itself?” The questions we had at the time can be found throughout the chapter. Indeed, we still have many of them — or, I should note, we’re still intrigued by the latest versions of those “old” questions, for like consciousness itself they’re endless in their ramifications. [...]

“This may just be the conscious mind’s reaction as it tries to glimpse its own source. Perhaps when we try such feats we pause, figuratively speaking, on our conscious platforms, looking upward and downward at the same time. [...]

[...] For all we know in ordinary conscious-mind terms at this “time,” there could be a third volume to the set (as Jane herself speculated in the 730th session, in Section 6), and a fourth and fifth….

[...] And whenever I read about conventional Eastern conceptions of a supreme spirit, I remember what Seth had to say in the 596th session in the Appendix of Seth Speaks: “I have used the term ‘expansion of consciousness’ here rather than the more frequently used ‘cosmic consciousness’ because the latter implies an experience of proportions not available to mankind at this time. Intense expansions of consciousness by contrast to your normal state may appear to be cosmic in nature, but they barely hint at those possibilities of consciousness that are available to you now, much less begin to approach a true cosmic awareness.”

[...] Maybe our idea of identity is like a magic circle we’ve drawn around our minds, so that everything outside seems dark and alien, unselflike. There may be other psychic fires lighting up that inner landscape with a far greater light than ours; other aspects of consciousness to which we’re connected as surely as we’re connected also to the animals in a chain of being we barely comprehend.