“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] In other words, psychic energy gestalts, of which we will speak much later. They are important however; and from what you now know you realize that these energy forms represent mental enclosure units, operating in the same manner as our earlier ones of which we spoke when discussing the early development of energy within the physical field.

[...] It was equal over all the body.

According to your intent, your desire, and your beliefs, your ideas intersect with the reality that you know, with physical space and physical time — they become real, in historic terms. [...]

[...] In the discussion of “primitive” and “civilized” man that followed, Warren presented his opinion that some civilizations, such as those of Babylonia, Egypt, the Incas, and so forth, had been founded by initiate groups from Atlantis⁴ … that while “primitive” man may have had a kind of gestalt consciousness, he had no individual consciousness. [...]

[...] But hear also the voices of acknowledgment of your living cells as they grope and grow in the sacred continents of your own physical beings. [...]

[...] Seth discussed many of his basic concepts, the wedding of the intellect and the intuitions, his reality and our camouflage physical one, Seth Two, language, myth, and so forth. [...]

Ruburt used his body as a symbol of the entire situation, and the symptoms as a way of maintaining privacy, and lack of distraction on both of your parts—again, inhibiting sexual freedom, spontaneous outings that threatened both of your ideas. [...] You were both happy when he showed some improvement, because neither of you wanted physical disability carried too far, but as soon as he showed signs of being free enough so that he could really take a trip, or dance, you both clamped down. [...]

He had no sportsman-like background; on the contrary, a lack of ordinary physical orientation and interaction. His identification with the importance of the mind, then, and his focus as a writer, allowed him to inhibit physical motion in a way you would not have done. [...]

[...] When he is obviously not in the best of physical condition and then wants to dance, this to you is showing his weakness to the world. [...]

[...] The love of the sportsman for motion can instead be used to encourage him toward physical performance. [...]

You must reach him on the one level that you have been frightened of, through honest expressed emotional feeling, and again as I have told you often, through physical touch. [...] The emotions and the physical body are so iterrelated that one automatically affects the other. Ruburt needs to be reassured on an emotional and physical level.

[...] The muscles themselves cry out to be soothed, and the physical touch, the relaxation of muscle, brings about an emotional release. [...]

Therefore there was little consistent attempt made to reassure Ruburt’s emotional nature, or reach it on an emotional or physical level. [...]

[...] They are portions of your consciousness, your gestalt of being. [...]

As these changes come about, new areas will be activated in the brain to physically take care of them. Physically then, brain mappings will be possible in which past-life memories are evoked. All of these alterations are spiritual changes in which the meaning of religion will escape organizational bounds, become a living part of individual existence, and where psychic frameworks rather than physical ones form the foundations for civilization. [...]

[...] The three men were a part of one entity, gaining physical existence in one time. [...] For one thing, the full consciousness of an entity would be too strong for one physical vehicle. [...]

His was the portion that was to deal with physical reality and manipulation, and so these qualities were strong in him. [...] When the historical Christ “died,” Paul was to implement the spiritual ideas in physical terms, to carry on. [...]

Ideas of good and evil, gods and devils, salvation and damnation, are merely symbols of deeper religious values; cosmic values if you will, that cannot be translated into physical terms.

[...] However the ego instantly stiffens its control when it feels that any physical law is being disobeyed, because the ego is concerned with your physical universe, and your existence upon your plane is definitely determined by your recognition and obedience to camouflage necessities.

[...] The inexperienced diver cannot really control his body or his movements by willing to control them. [...]

[...] You are merely allowing yourself a momentary release from the limitations of camouflage ideas, and release of these ideas brings a corresponding release from the physical camouflage patterns themselves. [...]

[...] The ego, for example, did not have to worry about Ruburt’s physical survival as he lay in bed and “saw” (in quotes) the clock in the other room. [...]

[...] This is not to deny the human aspects of the ego, for the ego is also somewhat like a light carried in front of the inner self, a light that gives meaning to the physical universe and to its objects. It enables the inner self to manipulate within physical reality. [...]

[...] Action is motion, but not necessarily motion that is perceived in physical terms.

[...] And time, therefore, physical clock time, is much more alien to the intuitive self than it is to the intellectual self.

[...] The self may of course be considered as a gestalt of action, perceived in a different manner by various levels of itself.

[...] To plunge into this ocean you also leave the physical body at the shore. [...]

Space travel, in your terms, will develop in a seemingly extravagant and startling fashion, only to be dumped as such when your scientists discover that space as you know it is a distortion, and that journeying from one so-called galaxy to another is done by divesting the physical body from camouflage. [...]

[...] Such use of psychological time is extremely important, since it enables the personality to bypass physical laws to a large extent; and also, and this is important, bypass certain chemical reactions that would ordinarily occur, and tend to overtax the physical structure.

Any investigation of the basic inner universe, which is the only real universe, must be done as much as possible from a point outside your own distortions, but the only way open for you to escape the distortions of your own physical universe is to journey inward. [...]

[...] Now your ego, your exterior self, focuses outward into physical reality. [...] It wants to see inner knowledge projected outward onto the physical reality then, to some extent, it will accept it and so through the eons that you know this inner knowledge, this inner vitality is projected outward onto history and onto historical events as you understand them. [...]

[...] And physical life in its reincarnational self is not some chaos thrust upon you, some evil from which you must shortly hope to escape. [...]

[...] Tell it that it will also gain in its manipulation within physical reality and coax it a bit. [...]

[...] Why can it not be a psychic gestalt? [...]

This would involve manipulations of muscles that would result in a temporary change of shape, a somewhat superficial but real adjustment of the physical body in its relation to space, and a consequent change of focus or direction in so far as the forward low thrust of the body into the hole. [...] It is as if you could actually make your body smaller than the hole you wished to enter, in a much more appreciable fashion.

[...] A few in your country are becoming aware on a very faint theoretical basis, when they consider the possibilities involved in the breaking down of physical components into basic energy forms, such theories being considered I believe along with a future space program. [...]

[...] There is here a gestalt and a delicate balance among us.

[...] Your own bodies are never, as you know, completely the same from one moment to the next. [...]

[...] I could feel the blanket over me and my pillow at neck move in odd fashion as if my physical body was making unaccustomed movements, but thought I was motionless. [...]

[...] According to him the consciousness, the individual consciousness of time one, becomes something else at physical death, and the consciousness that is part of time two in physical life becomes dominant in the next existence. [...] Priestley’s individual, after death, with his dominant time two consciousness, has available to him what was time one during physical life.

(We would think in the last paragraph of his delivery above, Seth hinted at the psychic gestalts of which he has spoken very briefly at various times. We gather that he visualizes a chain of such gestalts, with each link one of greater complexity. [...]

[...] I have told you that upon physical death the ego becomes the subconscious in the next existence, and that its conscious knowledge is retained electromagnetically.

[...] To you this does not necessarily or alone mean they are good for the body or bad for the body, but in themselves you give them moral characteristics as you would people. [...]

[...] The hearing, you see; the state of the hearing, is among other things a symbolic, physical statement of the lack of communication that has existed between you and your husband. [...]

[...] The entire “gestalt of sound” is therefore highly important to you in your “mechanism of survival”. [...]

[...] With some purpose, you see to it that you are not as attractive physically as you know you are. [...]

Now you can do, that is any individual can do, and does, the same with the physical body. [...]

The destructive elements were concentrated, given nice, neat tangible form, and therefore remedied in a physical fashion.

[...] But there was no specific physical or localized trouble. [...]

(I thought Seth was going to say something about my attitudes influencing the actual physical behavior of the car.)

[...] What we will have when this happens is a gestalt, with no lessening of your individualities at all, but a merging that will bring greater abilities.

Your reactions the other night, Joseph, had to do with two things; this sense of unjustified inferiority with your own ability to deal with the outside world, hence your physical immobility and back spasm; and with a superficial, rationalizing and false protective measure that operates intellectually in your case, making you think that outside conditions are so stupid that you refuse to do anything to alleviate them, feeling that the situation is so ridiculous that nothing you could do would change it. [...]

Had you been able to act in the physical world, you could have directed your anger where it belonged, against the stupidity, and because of your calm exterior you could have helped conquer it in a faster and more efficient manner than Ruburt did. [...]

[...] The dangerous psychic explosions that I spoke of as being possible are very real possibilities, and involve even chemical changes in Ruburt’s own body; and I do suggest that you make some changes, either by returning to your regular workroom, Joseph, or by making the porch room into a temporary bedroom. [...]