“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Now there are some physical mechanisms that will help. For example, when you are beginning, unfocus your eyes, let them go. What you are going to see need not be the physical room in which you sit. Unhinge your mind. Think of your mind as a door. Usually it is closed. One portion of it faces physical reality, ordinary working consciousness, and usually it is here that you focus. Unhinge it, let it sag on its hinges and glimpse what is on the other side. Let your muscles go, no one is going to attack you. Be open and receptive. The visual contact, however, is particularly important so that you let the eyes relax. The brain patterns automatically change, let them go. You do not need the electroencephalograph to let you know when you are in Alpha I. If you want, you may imagine a particular kind of pattern as being your waking consciousness, as in a graph with the very quick motions representing delta and then slowing out gently for the Alpha patterns, if you prefer.

What you do in Alpha I, in healing, is already what you do unconsciously without realizing that you do so. You manipulate your own inner organs constantly. Your thoughts form their reality, cause their illness or their health, and in Alpha I you do this at a level of awareness that you can recognize. Until you learn to manipulate the world that you know, and constructively and creatively, you will not be able to manipulate the inner realities in which you already live but instead will be swept merely within them.

(To Joel.) And you are balking at Alpha I. Let us have some fluidity and go easily with it. You are at a deeper level when you are speaking with Bill. You do not need to get that deep for Alpha I.

Now in Alpha I, to some extent, you step aside from the physical moments that you know and in so doing you also relieve your physical system of the pressure of the hours. You take away from your physical system the conscious pressures that you force upon it, and you allow it to rest. You allow the spontaneous self within you some peace and freedom. The part of you that is released in Alpha I can, therefore, be free enough to direct the energies of the physical self that you know.

[...] You were in what our friend, Ruburt, would call or will call next week Alpha II. [...] Now, that clearly will not do when our friend is trying to introduce you to Alpha I.

[...] And I, myself, have some good experiments in mind that you can do in Alpha I. And some more that you can do in Alpha II. [...]

[...] But since you must start somewhere, we will start with Alpha I and not with Alpha II. [...]

(After an explanation and discussion of Alpha I, Jane had the class do it after which Seth came through.)

(The alpha technique is thought to have many medical potentials, although it isn’t really known how the state is produced. [...] Seth comments briefly on alpha at the beginning of the session.

When your consciousness leaves your body, the alpha state maintains its good condition for you. [...] You can fish for it from the alpha state if you prefer.

(Today Patty filled Jane in on her studies in operant conditioning; how, with a simple Yogalike technique, monitored by an electroencephalograph, she learned to “turn on” her alpha brainwaves. [...]

Now: The alpha state is a threshold, a preliminary state between the physically oriented portions of the personality and the inner self. [...]

(Jane read some of Seth’s material on Alpha I.)

[...] You cannot even operate well in Alpha I consciousness unless you are free enough to recognize your own feelings. [...]

[...] At first I wondered whether his A-1 state would merely repeat the alpha data given to us by Patty Middleton, but it soon developed that he was using alpha only as a takeoff point. [...]

(Jane’s interest in these possibilities began to grow after I described the 570th session in Chapter Seventeen to her — it will be remembered that Seth suggested I do this — and my progress was accelerated through Patty Middleton’s visit a week later, with her information about alpha states.)

[...] This state is distinguished by a slower breathing pattern and, unless other directions are given, by a somewhat lowered temperature and longer alpha waves; a slower frequency.

[...] Seth then used her information about alpha as an impetus for his own material on A-1, A-1-a, A-2, etc.)

(Following a discussion of everyone’s experiences during the week.) Now I want you to get used to Alpha II and so I would like you to take your eyes off this charming face and close your eyes. [...] In Alpha I you are used to one short adjacent step away from what you call your consciousness. [...]

Therefore, I want you to imagine in your mind Alpha II and a door that has been closed and that now opens. [...]

(During break a discussion of each one’s experience in Alpha.)

([Gert:] “On this business of the Alpha layers, this again is a changing of focus, it is not?”)

[...] Ruburt told us last week to become aware in the dream state at the Alpha III level, and I did, and I had my tape recorder on next to me, and I gave myself the suggestion that whenever I got something, I would turn it on...”)

([Gert:] “In other words, the Alpha I, II, III...”

[...] Now, in other realities and in the Alpha state, there are certain root assumptions like your objects, but you will perceive these again in your own individual manner, and you must learn to differentiate there as you do here. [...]

[...] This will be in Alpha state, so close your eyes and I will give you a lullaby. [...]

Now imagine anything that you choose but have a line or a platform that represents Alpha I. Have it in your mind as a symbol of adjacent consciousness at the same level, perhaps, as your eyes. [...]

[...] Very simply, delta brain waves are connected with dreamless sleep, theta with creativity and dreams, alpha with a relaxed alertness and changing consciousness; beta — the fastest — with concentration, and with an intense focus upon all of the challenges [and anxieties and stresses, many would say] faced in the ordinary daily world.

(We read that in ordinary terms highly creative people [like Jane] usually generate large amounts of theta and low-alpha waves pretty constantly while doing their thing. [...]

[...] The other patterns (delta, theta, and alpha) are highly important to physical and mental stability, being very interwound with cellular consciousness. [...]

Now these matters are open to you to a much larger degree when you are in Alpha, but I suggest that from now on you learn to utilize Alpha II where the resistances that you so nicely throw up in Alpha I will be to some extent disregarded as far as reincarnational information is concerned. [...]

(Jane had the class go into Alpha to experience their own impressions.)

[...] Alpha I is useful

[...] Then in alpha, easily and naturally, let images play into his mind of health and happiness. [...]

[...] We went into Alpha to see what we could get most of us had that impression of others in the room  and Jane got the words to a chant, which she wrote down. [...]

(Jane’s impressions to Bette of a past life the class had received the previous week in Alpha: “You had seven children. [...]

(An Alpha session for the woman with multiple sclerosis.)

In your terms he would be in the alpha state, fluctuating, sometimes, between several states of consciousness and orientation. [...]

[...] (Leaning forward for emphasis.) The feeling, rather than the thought of confidence, is what he needs now, and his alpha experiences are leading him in that direction.

[...] We went into Alpha to see what we could get—most of us had that impression of other: in the room—and Jane got the words to a chant, which she wrote down. [...]

(Jane asked class to go into Alpha to help a visitor, Juanita, who has ear and eye problems, to help relieve her symptoms. [...]

(The group went into Alpha I and gave their impressions. [...]

[...] Jane had written this chant down during an Alpha experiment in class; when she started to read it to us, she suddenly wailed the words as loudly as I have ever heard even Seth’s voice go: