“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] In dreaming, the conscious mind itself is far more lenient and playful. [...]

(9:15.) The earth-tuned consciousness must deal within the space-time context, for only inside this framework can it clearly perceive events. In the dream state consciousness ignores space-time relationships to a large degree, and yet it is still firmly based upon the body’s corporeal mechanism. [...]

Beyond this there are experiences but seldom recalled, in which the usual identification of your consciousness with physical-life orientation is gone. [...] In those conditions you come close to an understanding of what your consciousness is when it is not physically oriented at all.

New paragraph: In somewhat the same manner, your physical brain is a doorway that triggers activity in your mind. Your beliefs then are largely responsible for the areas of the brain that you activate, and for the resulting nonphysical action of the mind.

[...] I mentioned to you that there is a plane given to the dream world, and this plane also represents actual constructions with which your conscious mind is not usually familiar.

[...] There is always an inner comprehension of such constructions, but the conscious mind has its purpose of dealing with the world of physical construction, is itself a physical construction, and unaware of other realities.

We should most probably here substitute brain for mind, since I believe that is the terminology upon which I decided to settle. Using again the arbitrary divisions, brain for the physical construction, and mind as the intangible, then to set the record straight brain would not sense the inner planes, while mind would deal with them.

[...] They do not however have to be picked up directly from one mind, that is, there does not have to be direct communication.

[...] The only reason the whole self is not much more conscious and accessible is your own stubborn refusal to admit it. [...] The camouflage pattern world is formed by the mind, and I am using this now in its true term as a part of the inner world. Energy is received by the mind through the inner senses and transformed by use of mental enzymes into camouflage patterns.

[...] It is in some ways convenient that you are not consciously aware of each breath that you take. [...] I have said that the mind is a part of the inner world, but you have access to your own minds which you ignore, and this access would lead you inevitably to the truths about the physical world. [...]

As breathing is carried on in a manner that seems automatic to the conscious mind, so this important function of transforming the vitality of the universe into pattern units also seems to be carried on automatically. [...]

[...] He realized, I believe, from the beginning that the conscious critical mind had little to do with the initial conception.

Yes, but the conscious mind should know what the unconscious is doing. Consciousness is after all the goal.

[...] The sum of all should be excellent consciousness. Jane, the individual consciousness is all-important. [...]

[...] Now why do we sometimes feel that we know someone we are introduced to, when consciously we know we’ve never met them before?”)

[...] You made the blueprint yourself, and your various incarnated selves are not consciously aware of the blueprint. [...]

I have said that the mind cannot be detected by your instruments at present. The mind does not take up space, and yet the mind is the value that gives power to the brain. The mind expands continuously, both in individual terms and in terms of the species as a whole, and yet (with amusement) the mind takes up neither more nor less space, whether it be the mind of a flea or a man.

[...] All of these qualities are manifestations of All That Is, or consciousness, or energy, or whatever. Probabilities aside, when Seth talks about cells [or their components] recombining as parts of plant or animal forms, as he does in the 705th session, Jane and I don’t take that to mean the evolution, or alteration, of one species into another — but that a unity of consciousness pervades all elements in our environment, whether “alive” or “dead.” With the concept of probabilities in mind, however, much of the “thrust for development and change” that Seth also mentions as existing inside all organisms, could just as well take place in those other realities. [...]

18. See the information on “the true mental physicist” in Session 701 for Volume 1. Seth discussed how in our future such a scientist will be able to allow “his consciousness to flow into the many open doors (or inner realities) that can be found with no instrument, but with the mind.” And Seth commented in the same session: “Ruburt has at times been able to throw his consciousness into small physical instruments (computer components, for instance), and to perceive their inner activity at the level of, say, electrons.”

Nevertheless the dream world, the mind, and the basic inner universe do exist … in what we will call the value climate of psychological reality. [...] It is a quality which makes all existences and consciousness possible. [...]

Your conscious mind is meant to give your body an assessment of what I will call cultural conditions, for there are sophistications and specifications that in your terms consciousness alone can assess. [...]

[...] But the body depends on the conscious mind to give it a clear assessment of precise conditions of the space and time it occupies. [...]

[...] Your conscious mind should assimilate it. [...]

(10:20.) Now: Make a distinction in your mind between man and man’s works. [...] Collect pages and reams of such material if it suits your fancy — and I am speaking not only to you, or to Ruburt, but to anyone who hopes to find a hint of truth, peace of mind, or creativity.

[...] Tell him to leave his body alone with his conscious mind in the same way that he leaves a poem alone with his conscious mind when it is forming— to think of his body as a poem. [...]

[...] When this is done, as it was this evening, easily, getting up and down from the floor does the same thing physically, reminding the body and the mind of successful performances in the past. [...] Ruburt does not need his conscious mind to perform as a guardian. [...]

[...] It was rather a displacement of consciousness rather than a projection, for his consciousness was in a trance state, and then displaced to the bookcase area. [...]

I have told him that concentration on his work will dissipate the rest of his symptoms, but he adopted a too-conscious (underlined) deliberation here. [...]

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 be aware, or control its own heartbeat. [...]

[...] No one should sit in who is not of same mind yet.

A board is neutral, messages in own mind are not. [...]

(“Seth, was this image conscious of Bill’s presence?”)

[...] Your own conscious thoughts will give you excellent clues. Often you will find yourself refusing to accept certain thoughts that come to your mind because they conflict with other usually accepted ideas.

Your conscious mind is always trying to give you a clear picture, but you often allow preconceived ideas to block out this intelligence. [...]

(9:54.) They grew up believing that the conscious mind was relatively powerless, that adult experience was set in the days of infancy. [...]

The conscious mind is meant to make clear judgments about your position in physical reality. [...]

In the entire gestalt from cellular to “self” consciousness, there is a vast field of knowledge — much of it now “unconsciously” available — used to maintain the body’s integrity in space and time. With the conscious mind as director, there is no reason why much of this knowledge cannot become normally and naturally available. [...]

[...] A true healing, or health profession, would deal intimately with the powers of the psyche in healing the body, and with the interrelationship among the desires, beliefs, and activities of the conscious mind and its effects upon the cellular behavior.

While this may sound quite sacrilegious scientifically, it is possible to understand the electron’s nature and greater reality by using certain focuses of consciousness: by probing the electron, for example, with a “laser” [beam] of consciousness finely focused and attuned — and more will be said about this later in the book. [...]

[...] And there’s more to come on the three classifications of man that Seth gave in that earlier session … And stuff on the lands of the mind, I think, which leads to our ancient civilizations and how they’re embedded in our minds now …”

Now: Dictation: When you allow your emotions their natural spontaneous flow they will never engulf you, and always return you refreshed to “logical” conscious-mind thought.

[...] It is of the utmost importance, however, that you understand the power and directing nature of your conscious mind, for otherwise you will believe yourself to be forever at the mercy of conditions and situations over which you feel you have no control.

Again, while the conscious mind is meant to direct the flow of your experience through your beliefs, and to materialize them, the actual mechanics are taken care of automatically by other portions of the self. [...]

No man or woman consciously knows for sure which day will be the last for him or her in this particular life, that each calls the present one. [...]

This Introduction represents my only conscious contribution to this entire book, for example. But certainly as Seth often states, even the unconscious portions of our personalities are actually conscious. [...] Not that Seth is just another focus of mine, for it’s quite legitimate to say that I’m a focus of his consciousness in that same context; but that Seth represents that larger portion of the psyche from which our own kind of consciousness emerges. The point of all of this is the exploration of human consciousness, its ranges and scopes. [...]

But however we attempt to define Seth’s reality, I’m convinced of one thing by now: He is delivering to our conscious minds our deepest unconscious knowledge about ourselves, the world, the universe, and the source of Being Itself. [...]

[...] It represents a turning away of consciousness from ordinary reality toward an inner one. [...]

[...] Besides this, of course, my own moods, speculations, joys and sorrows have spun their earthly web through my mind on such days. [...]

[...] The “proper” emotions will be generated, bringing about those body states that exist in your conscious mind.

Often, of course, those who try the hardest to be “good” do so because they fear for their basic worth, and those who speak of having youthful minds and bodies do so because they are so terrified of age. [...] In most instances these opposing beliefs are held quite consciously, but kept apart from each other. [...]

[...] But when you are unaware of the contents of your conscious mind, and not fair with your emotions, you run into difficulty.

[...] I would like to use this instance as an excellent example of the ways in which conscious beliefs affect your feelings and behavior.

[...] With the birth of the conscious mind in man, however, the self who acts needed a way to judge its actions. [...]

NATURAL GRACE, THE FRAMEWORKS OF CREATIVITY, AND THE HEALTH OF YOUR BODY AND MIND.

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Chapter Nine: “Natural Grace, the Frameworks of Creativity, and the Health of Your Body and Mind. [...]

Now, in physical terms it may take some time before your conscious mind accepts or recognizes a diagnosis given in a dream. [...]

The enlightened conscious mind is always alert for such messages. [...]

[...] It is quite possible to take your normally conscious “I” into the dream state, to your advantage. [...]

[...] Even the decision to try such a venture is beneficial, since it automatically presupposes a flexibility of attitude on the part of the conscious self.

A remembered dream is a product of several things, but often it is your conscious interpretation of events that initially may have been quite different from your memory of them. To that extent the dream that you remember is a snapshot of a larger event, taken by your conscious mind. [...]

[...] Your conscious mind is the director of that experience.

[...] When you are alive, corporally speaking, what you think of as dreaming becomes subordinate to what you refer to as your conscious waking life. [...] By contrast to waking consciousness it can appear hazy, not precise, or off-focus. [...]

[...] In waking life there are fluctuations in your consciousness, periods when you are more or less alert, in your terms, when your attention wanders from issues at hand; or when, instead, you are certainly brilliantly focused in the moment. So there are gradations of consciousness in the waking state. [...]

The kind of dream Ruburt interpreted for you, about the Cézanne exhibition, is an example of an excellent message dream, important enough to come to consciousness because you were ready. Then, you consciously assimilate the information, and add the strength and power of the conscious mind, and conscious intent, to the power of the dream’s message.

Once you begin consciously working with Framework 2, help, support, solutions, all begin to come, for you line up your conscious faculties with your unconscious ones, in the most beneficial way, and your conscious goals fit in with your unconscious natural goals—the primary ones given you at birth. [...]

[...] Because you are natural, however, your existence is couched in Framework 2, and to some extent you are even saved at times from your own beliefs because additional insights or solutions are directly inserted into your mind in the dream state, or in other moments of the day.

Often such information will be given time and time again, in different ways, until its importance is finally impressed upon your mind. [...]

The conscious mind does not even know, and cannot of itself command, the legs to walk across the floor. Is it any wonder, then, that the conscious mind does not know how it creates the dream universe?

The fact also remains that on other levels but conscious ones, you know and every individual knows that the dream world that the conscious mind believes so foolish and irrational, is indeed constructed by the inner self with utmost care, with a precision known only by the intuitions. [...]

They will then think that there is no real comparison to be made between the two, since each individual dream world would be a conglomeration of diverse individualistic symbols, even if they were projected into a type of universe of which the conscious mind was ignorant.

He projects it in a dimension unperceived by the conscious mind. [...]

(“As you sow in your subconscious mind, so shall you reap in your body and environment. Whatever your conscious mind assumes and believes to be true, your subconscious mind will accept and bring to pass. [...] The subconscious is the seat of the emotions and is a creative mind. [...]

(Notes by Jane from Murphy’s Power of the Subconscious Mind: “The power of your subconscious is enormous. [...] You can discover the miracle-working power of the subconscious by plainly stating to your subconscious mind, prior to sleep, that you wish a certain specific thing accomplished. [...] Your subconscious mind is the source of your ideals, aspirations, and altruistic urges.”

(“It is a universal truth that whatever you impress on your subconscious mind is expressed on the screen of space as condition, experience, and event. [...] The reaction is a response from your subconscious mind which corresponds with the nature of your thought. Your subconscious mind can be likened to the soil which can grow all kinds of seeds, good or bad. [...]

(“Whatever thoughts, beliefs, opinions, theories, or dogmas you write, engrave, or impress on your subconscious mind... [...]

(As you sow in your subconscious mind, so shall you reap in your body and environment. Whatever your conscious mind assumes and believes to be true, your subconscious mind will accept and bring to pass. [...] The subconscious is the seat of the emotions and is a creative mind. [...]

(It is a universal truth that whatever you impress on your subconscious mind is expressed on the screen of space as condition, experience and event. [...] The reaction is a response from your subconscious mind which corresponds with the nature of your thought. Your subconscious mind can be likened to the soil which can grow all kinds of seeds, good or bad. [...]

[...] You can discover the miracle-working power of the subconscious by plainly stating to your subconscious mind, prior to sleep, that you wish a specific thing accomplished. [...] Your subconscious mind is the source of your ideals, aspirations and altruistic urges. [...]

(Notes by Jane from Dr. Joseph Murphy’s The Power of Your Subconscious Mind. [...]