“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

The inner portions of your own identity and reality are not known to you, for you cannot objectify them and therefore you do not perceive them. So much of your energy is used in these productions that you cannot afford to perceive any reality except your own. [...]

[...] In that respect at least you are no different than I. Consciousness is the force behind matter, and it forms many other realities beside the physical one. It is only because your own viewpoint is presently so limited that it seems to you that physical reality is the rule and the mode and the purpose of existence.

[...] You have chosen your own illusion, and so you must accept it, and from its viewpoint must you try to understand the realities that exist beyond it.

In dreams you continue to create pseudo-objects; even in your travels into experiences in other fields of reality, you continue to insist upon the paraphernalia of objectivity until it imprisons you, and you cannot see beyond it.

[...] You do quite literally form your own reality and there is no symbolism in that statement. If you do not like the reality that you are forming then you can change it, and honesty is extremely important in this regard. [...]

[...] Because their idea of reality is limited, why should you limit yours? [...] That is what you are doing when you limit your own idea of reality. [...]

[...] You each have a hand in the creation of reality as it is known. [...] It is up to you to expand the nature of your own consciousness so that you understand me. [...]

[...] Now, you have a lot to do now, but consciously you are not aware of what you do, and little by little you must learn to accept greater and greater portions of your own reality in this life and future lives. [...]

[...] “Once again,” I said, “whatever it is, I know you’ll accept it, since it’s the reality you’re creating. And once again, I’m the one who’s pushing you to use your own abilities to save yourself, meaning at least trying to learn what’s going on through the sessions, for example. [...]

[...] Their own nature stresses the idea of disability, say, over constructive work. [...] It is almost, at least, as if you decide to take so many hours a day and struggle with a physical condition, through whose unique cast you would view your private reality and that world. [...]

[...] I couldn’t understand why she wasn’t calling upon her creative powers to her help out of the tragic situation she’s created for herself, and me. Even if I’d helped her create such a lifestyle in the past, unwittingly, I was certainly dead-set against it now, and had been for several years. [...]

(However, I was pleased that Seth had insisted upon Jane’s inner positive responses, for it could signal something far more constructive than my own negative projections of late. [...]

[...] Biologically I wasn’t keyed into it in my ‘now’, I was in it and not in it, between focused realities … traveling in or through these fluctuations of consciousness Seth talked about in the last session. [...] Was I trying to develop one of those here in my own physical reality? [...]

Give us a moment … In some adventures you do visit other probable realities in which you have a body structure quite as real as “your own.” Your own psychological makeup, for that matter, achieves its marvelous complexity because it draws from the rich bank of your greater probable existences. [...]

[...] The source-reality out of which all else springs is never predetermined — that is, predestined, or even set. The universe in any terms is always being created. [...]

[...] While the material that composes it changes constantly, the pattern maintains its own integrity. [...]

“I can envision Seth’s material expanding almost endlessly just on a day-to-day basis, as he deals with events in the lives of Jane and me—and this idea conveys nothing about news of his reactions to and interactions with events on various levels of his own reality, plus other realities he may be able to reach. [...]

[...] Jane’s difficulties certainly inspired them, but their creativity also goes beyond our own needs. [...] The title of the new book would be automatic: The Magical Approach to Reality: A Seth Book.

“Important misunderstandings involving time have been in a large measure responsible for many of Ruburt’s difficulties, and also of your own, though of a lesser nature. All of this involves relating to reality in a more natural, and therefore magical, fashion. [...]

“There is much material here that I will give you, because it is important that you understand the different ways of relating to reality, and how those ways create the experienced events.

Because of its own nature it must act, yet no action can ever complete itself. [...] Therefore each action would create a new reality. [...]

(While speaking tonight, Jane said she has within a definite “feeling of a pulsation”; it might be likened to the perpetual opening and closing of a fist, she said, with each opening and each closing creating a new reality, and thus moving itself perpetually on.

[...] You cannot touch the action, now, of your own arm as you write. [...]

[...] In your own intimate psychological experience, in the intimate psychological experience of every individual within your race, you will find recognition of the thought.

[...] At still other levels of reality, activities that you now consciously claim as your own have — in those same terms and from another viewpoint — become unconscious, providing a psychic history from which other identities emerge, as it seems that your own identities emerge from unconscious bodily activity.

[...] Different languages use sounds in their own peculiar manners, with their own rhythms, one emphasizing what another ignores. Other probabilities, therefore, emphasize events that are only implied (as pauses) in your reality, so that your physical events become the implied probable ones upon which other worlds reside.

[...] These keep you in constant touch with the other portions of your own psyche. You are so a part of the world that your slightest action contributes to its reality. [...]

[...] They can mix and merge, move through each other while still maintaining their own focus. [...] It carries a stamp — a divine mark — of its own integrity. It follows its own focus, and knows itself as itself, even while its own existence as itself may be but a portion of another “identity.”

You may think of your soul or entity — though only briefly and for the sake of this analogy — as some conscious and living, divinely inspired computer who programs its own existences and lifetimes. But this computer is so highly endowed with creativity that each of the various personalities it programs spring into consciousness and song, and in turn create realities that may have been undreamed of by the computer itself.

Each personality has within it the ability not only to gain a new type of existence in the environment — in your case in physical reality — but to add creatively to the very quality of its own consciousness, and in so doing to work its way through the specialized system, breaking the barriers of reality as it knows it.

Root assumptions are those built-in ideas of reality of which I spoke — those agreements upon which you base your ideas of existence. [...] Each system of reality has its own set of such agreements. [...]

When I enter your system, I intrude into three-dimensional reality, and you must interpret what happens in the light of your own root assumptions. Now whether or not you realize it, each of you intrudes into other systems of reality in your dream states without the full participation of your normally conscious self. [...]

(A note: My own hunch is that there’s a good connection between Seth’s reincarnational points of power, cellular memory, and the coordinate points he discusses in Chapter Five of Seth Speaks: “These coordinate points act as channels through which energy flows, and as warps or invisible paths from one reality to another. [...]

[...] (See the 653rd session in Chapter Thirteen.) So through your current beliefs you can, in your own space and time, attract tendencies toward certain experiences shared by these others. There is a constant interaction in this multidimensional point of power, therefore, so that in your terms one incarnated self draws from all of the others what abilities it wants, according to its own specific, localized beliefs.

In other words I am telling you that your present beliefs, in a manner of speaking, are like the directions given to the entire personality, simultaneously organizing and reorganizing past experience according to your current concepts of reality.

[...] Such practices can lead you to use your own “history” so that it gives a very distorted picture of who and what you are — a picture that then paints your present circumstances.

[...] The three of you each create your own glass. You each create your own glass in your own personal perspective. [...]

[...] As he sits in his chair, constantly he creates his own image physically, using his own psychic energy, and using particular atoms and molecules for the construction of his body.

[...] But each individual creates his own space continuum.

He creates an entirely different object, which his own outer senses then perceive. [...]

[...] (Very forcefully:) In that picture man himself did not help create that inner world, or have any hand in its beauty. [...] In such a version of inner-outer reality the back-and-forth mobility, the give-and-take between inner and outer, is ignored. Man, being a part of that inner world by reason of the nature of his own psyche, automatically has a hand in the creation of those blueprints which at another level he uses as guides.

[...] Through various exercises in this book, I hope to acquaint each of you with the inherent oneness of the inside and outside realities, to give you a glimpse of your own infinite nature even within the bounds of your creaturehood — to help you see the god-stuff in the man-stuff. [...]

Now: Dictation … Each probability system has its own set of “blueprints,” clearly defining its freedoms and boundaries, and setting forth the most favorable structures capable of fulfillment.

(Long pause, eyes closed.) To some extent great artists not only capture a physical picture of Inner Idea, capitalized, but they also have a hand in creating that idea or inner model to begin with.

[...] It may not have occurred, in one place and in one time, and to one called Christ; but because man has created the myth, he created the Crucifixion out of his own need; and this Crucifixion, which historically did not occur, as the myth says it occurred, nevertheless has as much reality, and more, than it would have had, had it occurred in so-called hard fact.

There are those who will say that such a concept represents an escape from reality. [...] They ignore and fear the inner reality, and the inner ideas and dreams which have actually formed the reality of which they are so proud.

Such domination will never be habitual, but conscious awareness of subconscious manipulation of matter may become habitual, and may often of its own accord follow the desires of the conscious mind, if certain conditions are met.

(This car incident discussed by Seth refers to one I had forgotten already, though at the time it affected me strongly; and as I look back upon it, I recall it was the main reason for my own experiment with the car’s oil consumption.

[...] But Jane and I don’t try to bend others to our way of thinking; the reality that our species is creating is too big and varied for that; we believe only that we’ll have to explore questions like those involving genetics and consciousness in our own ways, and with Seth’s help.

The idiot is often able to experience in his or her own reality a freer, more generous, more faithful flow of emotional states, unhampered by reason’s sometimes stern dictates, and it is important that such a moderating tendency does operate genetically.

The reasoning mind, as you have used it thus far, roughly (underlined) since the birth of Christianity, has used—instead of used, confined—has confined its reasoning abilities to a very narrow spectrum of reality. It has seen the value of life largely only as that life conforms to its own standards. [...]

[...] Science could grant Seth’s ideas their own realities outside of the scientific framework, of course, and thus be free of them.

[...] In so doing you try to repudiate the validity of your own experience. If you do not feel your individual reality, then you can never realize that you form it, and so can change it. [...] The body itself cannot understand these blocked messages, and cries out to express its own corporeal knowledge of the moment as it experiences it. [...]

Birth is perhaps the most forceful aggression, in your terms, of which you are capable in your system of reality (emphatically). [...]

In your terms man is an animal, rising out of himself, from himself evolving certain animal capacities to their utmost; not forming new physical specializations of body any longer (again in your terms), but creating from his needs, desires and blessed natural aggressiveness inner structures having to do with values, space and time. [...]

Compassion “rose” from the biological structure up to emotional reality. [...]

So do your dream images exist in the same manner, and you are as unaware of their existence as you are of your own subconscious existence. [...] You know you breathe, and in the same manner that you undertake physiological, biological and mental leaps and functions, so do you also create the reality of the dream world.

This in many instances will be distasteful to many, but all physical constructions are transformations of energy made manifest as idea, and then constructed into physical reality. Without the idea you have no physical reality, and without belief that our aims are possible, there will be no achievement. The achievement gained, however, will then provide its own physical proofs.

[...] These dream images also have their own free will, within limits. I have explained the reality behind all art. [...]

[...] What you do not realize, however, is that these images that you all create, have an existence independent of your knowledge, once you have created them.

[...] The child who gets the mumps with a large number of his classmates, however, knows he has his private reasons for joining into such a mass biological reality, and usually the adult who “falls prey” to a flu epidemic has little conscious awareness of his own reasons for such a situation. He does not understand the mass suggestions involved, or his own reasons for accepting them. He is usually convinced instead that his body has been invaded by a virus despite his own personal approval or disapproval — despite his own personal approval or disapproval (most emphatically). [...]

[...] The disappointments you have faced indeed make such a tale seem to be a direct contradiction to life’s realities. [...] The child in you sensed more, of course: It sensed its own greater reality in another framework entirely, from which it had only lately emerged — yet with which it was intimately connected. It felt itself surrounded, then, by the greater realities of Framework 2.

Children experiment with the creation of joyful and frightening events, trying to ascertain for themselves the nature of their control over their own experience. [...] If they create “bogeymen,” then they can cause them to disappear also. If their thoughts can cause them to become ill, then there is no real reason for them to fear illness, for it is their own creation. [...]

Children understand the importance of symbols, and they use them constantly to protect themselves — not from their own reality but from the adult world. [...]

Seth’s books may be the product of another dimensional aspect of my own consciousness not focused in this reality, plus something else that is untranslatable in our terms, with Seth a great psychic creation more real than any “fact.” [...]

As Seth continued dictating The Nature of Personal Reality, I wrote a complete poetry manuscript, Dialogues of the Soul and Mortal Self in Time, in which I worked out many of my own beliefs as per suggestions Seth was giving in his book. [...]

[...] Oversoul Seven, the main character, achieved his own kind of reality. [...]

Seth’s main idea is that we create our personal reality through our conscious beliefs about ourselves, others, and the world. [...]

[...] It is also true that the dream universe is at least as familiar with your own universe as you are familiar with it; and as you tune in on it, so to speak, and while you are necessary for its survival, creating it, so does the dream universe tune in on you. So is your survival dependent upon its survival, and so does it create you as a by-product, if you are looking at your universe from the other side.

[...] An action may occur therefore in the world of matter, and be perceived in both the universe of negative matter and the dream world, but in such a case each universe interprets the action according to, and within, its own framework of reference.

[...] In all such cases the mental action occurs simultaneously in all systems in which it will have a reality; in which it can be used as a reference point in other words.

[...] Such distortive effects, such distortions, are often correlated within a given system, and accepted as a foundation for the nature of reality. [...]

He has had many experiences in which he glimpsed momentarily the rich otherness within physical reality. [...] Never before, however, has he stepped firmly, while awake, into another level of reality, where he allowed himself to sense the continual vivid connection between worlds. He hid his own purpose from himself, as many of you do. At the same time he was pursuing it, of course, as all of you are working toward your own goals.

But although for Politics Jane drew upon the same transcendent experience I described in the opening notes for the 715th session, she did so in her own subjective way; in “Unknown” Reality I present my version of the event from an observer’s viewpoint. [...] I think they’re both well worth having on record, since Jane’s experience was a profound one — and, in my opinion, very revealing for what it tells us about how we ordinarily view our mundane physical reality, and about the much more powerful versions, or “models,” for that reality that exist behind it.

[...] I found two sources in Seth Speaks. In Chapter 7, see the 530th session for May 20, 1970, at 10:02: “There are realities that are ‘relatively more valid’ than your own … your physical table [for example] would appear as shadowy in contrast … You would have a sort of “supertable” in those terms. Yours is not a system of reality formed by the most intense concentration of energy … Other portions of yourself, therefore, of which you are not consciously aware, do inhabit what you could call a super-system of reality in which consciousness learns to handle and perceive much stronger concentrations of energy….”

[...] Before him he saw a wall of books, and the self in the living room suddenly knew that his purpose here in this reality was to re-create some of those books. [...] The unknown and the known realities merged, clicked in, and were seen as the opposite sides of each other.

(Pause at 9:40.) Your consciousness, however, is equipped to create realities in other fields as well. Now in certain dreams and out-of-body experiences, your own consciousness moves faster than the speed of light, and under such conditions you are able to perceive some of these other forms of “mass or matter.”

[...] Some of your own feelings are propelled into a reality within such systems, adopting within that framework their own mass and form. In the creation and maintenance of your normal reality, you focus your daily waking consciousness so that it becomes effective within the ranges necessary. [...]

[...] As mentioned earlier, thoughts, containing their own electromagnetic reality, have form whether or not you perceive it. With each thought, then, you send out from yourself shapes and images that can be quite legitimate realities to those within the system of reality into which they are propelled.

He simply adds some of his energy to that present in the animal, mixing this vitality with the animal’s own. [...] Animals, as any pet owner knows, have their own personalities and characteristics, and individual ways of perceiving the reality available to them. [...]