“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

The conscious mind can direct bodily activity (long pause), but the body consciousness alone can perform those activites that bring forth life and motion.

There is actually a quite natural and most effective manner of psychic refreshment, and most particularly when the conscious mind is somewhat diverted, as by music and so forth. [...]

A discrimination, preferably a spontaneous and subconscious discrimination, is necessary, but it may be consciously diverted if undue conscious direction is not allowed to rule with a heavy hand. You may consciously give the suggestion to yourself, that you will constructively use such energy, for example, but then the matter should be forgotten and left alone.

[...] The chemical percentages are important here; that is, the chemical percentages vary from those found in the body during what you call normal states of consciousness.

Ruburt picked up energy in this way this afternoon, quite spontaneously, and without conscious consideration.

[...] and you will know when we have the session, you—will intuitively realize, that what we say is true—and there is no need to fight what you are fighting—and the secret that you try so hard to hide from your conscious mind is not that terrible a secret. [...]

[...] You experience what you expect to experience at a subconscious and a conscious level. [...] As our friend here went beyond the point (referring to Theodore), looked at the portraits and consciously—for you did not make an original, intuitive, judgment—but consciously looked at these portraits in terms of nationality, age and all the requirements that you thought of. [...]

Know that within your physical atoms now the origins of all consciousness still sings and that all the human characteristics by which you know yourselves, still exist within the eye of all our consciousness, never diminished, but always present. [...]

[...] We want you to realize that there is consciousness without form, that there is consciousness with will and vitality that comes to you from beyond even those places that your Seth knows. [...]

These steps seem very obvious, and perhaps too easy — but they will bring an immediate sense of ease and a peace of mind while your inner reserves are being released and activated. I have mentioned these steps many times, because they are so vital in clearing the conscious mind, and bringing some sense of relief to the frightened ego.

[...] Do not wonder how or why or when the ideal solution will come, but see it in your mind’s eye as accomplished. [...]

[...] With your resolve in mind, almost any subject matter you begin with will start to lead in the proper direction. [...]

It is true that the conscious mind must be relaxed to some extent, and that a state of apparent dissociation is necessary. [...]

The entity itself does not have to keep constant check on its personalities, because in each personality there is an inner self-conscious part that knows its origin. This part, for now, I will call the self-conscious beyond the subconscious. [...] It is the part, and the self-conscious part, that receives all inner data.

When such abilities as telepathy occur, this telepathic function is carried on continually by this other self-conscious part of you, but as a rule you act upon such data without the knowledge of the conscious self with which you are familiar. [...]

There is also a corresponding, but lesser, self-consciousness that connects your present personalities with the dream world, which is aware of its origin and communicates data from you to it. Again you are no more aware of your dream creations, and no less aware than your entity is of you, but in the last analysis you are aware and connected with your entity through this self-conscious part of you that faces another plane.

[...] I don’t mind noting that I wish she had.² She might have been able to offer insights about it that I couldn’t come up with, especially concerning the seemingly endless abilities of the psyche — call it personalized energy, consciousness, or what-have-you — to travel through its own space and time.

6. My ruminations in notes 3 and 4 should indicate how difficult it can be for the conscious mind to interpret psychic data arising from other “layers” of itself. [...]

[...] I can still summon it to my mind’s eye when I want to. [...]

[...] I kept this second image in mind for some time before allowing myself to realize that the victim fell amid a group of his fellows. [...]

[...] The intellect is, again, the result of highly spontaneous processes of which it itself knows nothing, and the intuitions that are considered so undisciplined and unreasonable are based upon calculations far more spectacular than those of which the conscious mind can conceive. [...]

[...] A goodly number of those mistaken decisions, or “poor moves,” often represent self-corrective actions, decisions taken on knowledge not consciously perceived, but this escapes your consciousness.

(“Seth, of course, not only dictates his magical material — the session — but must keep the whole session in mind while doing so, so that each sentence as he delivers it makes sense compared to its predecessors, and those to follow. [...]

“I was not conscious of my age, 61, in the dream, nor do I remember anything about being committed to draw a daily strip also. [...]

[...] Sleep for the conscious mind results when neural activity in the reticular activating system (the RAS), which screens the sensory information reaching consciousness, falls below a minimum level.

[...] The meeting of body consciousness and your main consciousness requires an intense focus, in which the greatest manipulations are necessary. [...] Cellular comprehension is not tuned into by the normally conscious self, which is equally unaware of its own free-wheeling nature at “higher” levels. [...] The consciousness then leaves the body. The body consciousness stays with it.

This frequently happens in the dream state, although such a performance can be achieved in varying altered states of consciousness. At such times consciousness simply puts itself in a different relationship with time and space. [...] It is by altering its own relationship with the physical universe that consciousness can best understand its own properties, and glimpse from another vantage point that physical universe, where it will be seen in a different light. Operating outside the body, consciousness can better perceive the properties of matter. [...]

(9:48.) Such a traveling consciousness may journey within physical reality, colon: While not relating to that system in the usual manner, it may still be allied with it. [...] On the other hand, an out-of-body consciousness may also enter other physically attuned realities: those operating “at different frequencies than your own.” The basically independent nature of consciousness allows for such disentanglement.⁵ The body consciousness maintains its own equilibrium, and acts somewhat like a maintenance station.

[...] Such beliefs clutter up your conscious mind with negative suggestions that can only frighten the exterior ego and impede the great strength and vitality that is your heritage from lending you the fullest possible strength and support.

You are afraid, and he is, unconsciously, that you will fall off the edges of the known universe, that the conscious mind won’t function out of the body, and that only chaos will meet you, and this is not the case. There are some differences here between what you consciously tell yourself and what you unconsciously are afraid of and what you unconsciously believe. [...]

(To Mark.) Now over here our friend, you are trying too hard and too consciously. [...] You have it in your mind that there is some dam or wall that you must encounter before you are free to leave your body, and such is not the case. [...]

[...] You are so used to believing that there is a conscious mind that you call the will, and an unconscious mind whose intents are unknown to you, and seemingly not yours, that you, meaning people in general, are unaware of your own will, your own desire, your own intent. You are unaware as a people of your entire consciousness, and I am speaking now in pragmatic terms, not in esoteric ones.

(10:24.) An exercise such as this evening’s simply allows you to unify your will with your body, and bridge the gap of separation artificially formed, to quiet the panic, to unify the so-called conscious and unconscious, and such exercises will release energy, not only for Ruburt’s recovery, but will automatically revive your psychic lives. You are taking conscious control of the magic of words, in order to use them for new intents, and to dramatically change the old ones.

[...] And the secret that you try so hard to hide from your conscious mind is not that terrible a secret. [...]

[...] You experience what you expect to experience at a subconscious and a conscious level. [...] As our friend here went beyond the point (referring to TM), looked at the portraits and consciously... for you did not make an original intuitive judgment...but consciously looked at those portraits in terms of nationality, age, and all the requirements that you thought of. [...]

[...] Can you see it in your mind’s eye?

[...] For if past, present and future exist together (and continue to develop), then I see nostalgia as expressing a legitimate searching by the conscious mind as it seeks to grasp that the past exists now, and is not “dead.” [...] The yearning I feel each time I drive past the apartment house Jane and I lived in for 15 years, just west of the business section of Elmira, represents my conscious reunification of the past with the present, and even a projection of both into the future in ordinary terms.

[...] Before going into our chronology of personal events for those three months, however, I want to continue my brief study of the affairs—really the consciousnesses—involving Three Mile Island, Iran, and the war between Iran and Iraq. [...]

[...] Despite the appearance that the revolution in Iran—made up as it is of all of those diverse consciousnesses—is feeding upon itself in very destructive ways, in ordinary terms, civil war does not appear to be likely. [...]

[...] With the kind of consciousness you possess, an overreliance upon conserving principles could then end up in a reduction of life’s processes.

[...] There is the problem here of my entry also into your conscious minds. [...]

[...] They do not know consciously how to change a river into a forest. This manipulation, as I have explained, is undertaken unknown to the recognized conscious ego.

[...] The wind is the wind irregardless of the branches through which it blows, and I am, irregardless of the subconscious mind in which or through which I appear. [...]

[...] I was not aware through Ruburt’s subconscious mind of the Society when Duke was mentioned earlier in these sessions. [...]

As you become more proficient at using your conscious mind, then of course you examine the beliefs that surround you, even as you question and often move out of your native environment. [...]

[...] That question, often asked unconsciously — if not consciously — brings you back to beliefs in punishment that have nothing to do with the concept of natural guilt, but with those distortions placed upon it. [...]

[...] They are much closer to the conscious mind, and usually consist of a series of seemingly innocuous decisions that you have made through the years. [...]

[...] Jane said she thought that right away Seth was starting to answer my question of yesterday — not the portion about radiation and why that phenomenon is too strong for us to bear, but the part about the consciousness embodied in cancer, say, which is also too much for us much of the time. [...]

[...] Illnesses and various minor and major physical symptoms are often caused as the subconscious tries to speak out, in an effort to make itself heard by the unheeding conscious mind. If the conscious mind consults with the subconscious, such nagging or sometimes explosive efforts will not be needed.

[...] This is a very simplified version, but I must, so to speak, therefore journey through the various areas of Ruburt’s whole self, or inner self, until I reach a point where entry into your consciousness is possible. [...]

[...] The emotion itself is an automatic signal that unites the conscious and subconscious in shared experience.

[...] The conscious mind will be more aware of unconscious material.

[...] An open-ended consciousness will feel its connections with all other living beings. (Pause.) The continuity of consciousness will become apparent. [...]

For example, the main character in a religious historical drama may or may not consciously be aware of the ways in which such information is given to him. [...]

[...] He could not imagine civilization without it, hence many of his later predictions should be read with this in mind.

[...] “Now, when your ordinary, waking, conscious mind is lulled in the sleep state, you travel in other dimensions. [...]

[...] First Seth gave a page or so of impressions, names, initials, events, and so forth, that he said he “derived from a certain portion of the girl’s consciousness—disjointed memories, thoughts, and ideas.

[...] So Sally is rearranging the furniture of her mind. [...]

During our break, Rob mentioned several questions that he thought Jon would like answered, or that might come to his mind as he read the session. [...]

[...] The whole thing seems to me to be a symbolic turning point in world history, full of danger in the terms of Framework 1. To me, all the parties involved in the dispute seem helpless and frightened; it echoes similar conscious-mind threats that I think the species has created for itself throughout recorded history.)

[...] The money did not come by computing the number of hours worked on a project, for example, or the number of hours worked at a job, but instead accumulated because of the quality of creative work and the inquisitiveness of the creative mind. [...]

(9:15.) The changing-over of your accounts physically means that you, Joseph, in particular came to an important constructive change of mind. [...]

[...] At first thought I didn’t know what to make of the session, which I suppose merely reflects my own indecisive state of mind about the hassle with foreign publishers, Prentice-Hall, money, art, writing, and so forth. [...]