“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] The conscious art of creating, understanding, and using dreams has been largely lost; and the intimate relationship between daily life, world events, and dreams almost completely ignored. [...] The members of some ancient civilizations, including the Egyptians, knew how to be the conscious directors of dream activity, how to delve into various levels of dream reality to the founts of creativity, and they were able to use that source material in their physical world.²

[...] ⁴ No system of reality is closed. [...] In the waking state the conscious mind must focus rather exclusively upon that one particular point of concentration that you call reality, simply so that it can direct your activities properly in temporal life. It is quite equipped, however, also to direct you to some extent in other levels of reality when it is not needed for specific survival duties.

[...] We have said that to some degree even atoms and molecules have consciousness, and each one of those minute consciousnesses forms its own dreams, even as on the other hand each one forms its own physical image. Now, as in the physical field individual atoms combine for their own benefit into more complicated structure gestalts, so do they also combine to form such gestalts, though of a somewhat different nature, in the dream world.

[...] I had two questions prepared, both growing out of material in “Unknown” Reality, but had to lay them aside until next time.)

The physical body as an object is, among other things, a symbolic representation of your own emotional reality. [...] While they are all amazingly different, the basic symbol within your system is universally accepted as a reality.

[...] In some of them you spread your own root assumptions outward, creating dream images based upon these assumptions. [...]

[...] I identify first of all with the emotional realities, for these are the only basic realities to me. [...]

I mentioned that objects are symbols to express a basic reality, the reality of direct experience. [...]

These are quite legitimate realities that continue in their own fashion, even though you are no longer concerned with them. They remain connected to you, that is to the personality, however, and are a part of the overall reality of the self. [...]

[...] It is as if the personality in sleep projected out of himself bits of himself, of his own physical matter, thinned out, stretched into an amazing plasticity; plastic properties that can change instantly from one form to another. He goes out with these portions of himself, but because of the nature of reality projections cannot be recalled.

Distractions, or fear of distractions, have their own reality, and set up strongly positive electrical charges which can be detrimental, although other conditions, chemical and electrical conditions, must also be considered. [...]

Dream images are indeed, in density, between the tangible nature of physical objects and the intangible reality that is entirely independent of physical matter. The dream reality cannot be entirely disconnected from the material universe because of its connections with human personality. [...]

[...] From the transcript of the class tape [received a week later]: “Now, reality has no beginning and no end. [...] You create your own reality. [...]

[...] This reality of fluctuation in no way bothers your own feeling of consistency, however. [...] The very sensations of one kind of life then automatically set up barriers against other such “world-schemes” (hyphen) that do not correlate with their own.

If you understood to begin with that you are a spirit, and therefore free of space and time yourself, then you could at least consider the possibility that some such messages were coming to you from other portions of your own reality. [...]

You cannot separate your beliefs about reality from the reality that you experience. That is, your beliefs about reality form it. [...]

(I must have reached the point where I truly don’t think she wants anything but what she’s got — for after all, doesn’t each of us create our own reality? [...] Without doubt, my own frustrations and resentments were surfacing probably for my own safety.

[...] The session does automatically add its own sense of infinite devotedness by gathering together the healing abilities, which have their own soothing effect.

The entire situation not only is temporary, but already has made its own turnabout, restoring the body and mind to an important degree.

[...] Probably my own attitude and mood today, of course — yet the session could have been any one of a similar kind that Jane had given in the last ten years. [...]

[...] As you become more aware of your own subjective reality you will therefore, become familiar with greater portions of your own soul. [...]

[...] Reincarnation, in its own way, is also a parable. It seems very difficult for you to understand that you live in many realities — and many centuries — at one time….” [...]

[...] Using the analogy of adulthood again, it is as if the child within you is a part of your own memory and experience, and yet in another way has left you, gone apart from you as if you are only one adult that the child “turned into.” So the people that I have been have gone their own way, and yet are a part of me and I of them.

You are also using your own abilities, however, for your own characteristics largely determine the amount of help you receive. [...]

[...] Here you will find, undistorted, uncamouflaged, the innate knowledge of the creation of the camouflage universe, the mechanics involved, much of the material that I have given you, the method and ways by which the inner self as a basic inhabitant of the inner universe, existing in the climate of psychological reality, helps create the various planes of existence, constructs outer senses to project and perceive the various apparent realities or camouflages, how the inner self reincarnates on the various planes. Here you will find your answers as to how the inner self transforms energy for his own purposes, changes his form, adopts other apparent realities, and all this free for the investigation.

I can and will give you further proofs, not only of my identity but of your own. [...] Your paintings at their best, and Ruburt’s writings at their best, will also reflect the inner realities that even your scientists will come to see.

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. To get outside your own universe, you must travel inward, and this represents the only perspective free of distortive elements, from which valid experimentation can be carried on. [...]

[...] As long as you keep the pattern in mind, you create it, and it is there. [...] Your camouflage and your world is created by conscious focusing and unconscious concentration. [...]

[...] You must realize that you do create your own reality because of your beliefs about it. [...]

(Yesterday I received in the mail a copy of a long article that Sam Menahem, a psychologist in Fort Lee, New Jersey, has written for a summer issue of Reality Change. [...]

Each life, regardless of its nature, possesses it own unique vantage point, and an individual may sometimes take an obscure or a long-lasting disease simply to present himself or herself with experience that most others would shun. [...]

You can discover what your own reasons are for choosing the dilemma or illness by being very honest with yourself. [...]

[...] Christ as you think of him was simply saying that you form your own reality. [...]

[...] Unfortunately, no one examines the nature of mental reality from such a viewpoint. [...]

[...] If you are bound and determined that “GOD” (in capitals and quotes) creates only “good,” then any physical deficiency, illness or deformity becomes an affront to your belief, threatens it, and makes you angry and resentful. [...]

[...] Under such conditions you can even seek out illness to prove to yourself the strength of your own spirituality — and to impress it upon others. [...]

[...] Yet the conflict that developed between her writing self and her mystical self, as explained by Seth in Personal Reality, was only one facet of her intuitive drive toward that expression: As Jane matured, she realized that there were other challenges for her to contend with too. Among them were the resolution of some old family relationships — and nowhere in this note am I talking about past lives or probable lives, but just the working out of hard questions rooted in this present physical reality. [...] Should she do so, it would certainly be a history of one person’s long efforts to grapple as fully as possible — and not always successfully — with her own human qualities. [...] She fully accepts the idea that she creates her own reality.

[...] Since I believe that each of us creates our own reality in the most precise terms, it can hardly be a coincidence that at this time of decision my friend introduced Jane and me — for she was just as devoted to writing as I was to painting.

[...] Jane had begun delivering the Seth material late in 1963, and soon afterwards Seth started developing his ideas on probabilities.¹ Many times while looking at the snapshots since then I’d found myself speculating about the probable realities surrounding their two young subjects. [...] By now, did those photographs actually depict the immature images of us, the Jane and Rob we knew and had always been, or from our standpoint did they show a probable Jane, a probable Rob — two individuals who long ago had set out upon their own journeys through other realities? [...]

(I reminded her that I hoped Seth would comment on the old photograph of her in connection with probable realities, although now I could see that it would take him longer to develop answers than I’d thought it would. I didn’t think we’d get any material on my own picture tonight.

Both represent systems of belief quite different from our own material in many respects. [...] They each see “reality” from a different angle, and thus create a different view. [...]

[...] (Long pause.) It will be useful if Ruburt remembers this when he views other systems of reality. You make your own reality in “a thousand times.” [...]

[...] The existence of physical objects could be a highly debatable subject in other realities than your own, for example. [...]

[...] Kubler-Ross’s hassles —at least some of them—remind us of our own. [...]

[...] Idea construction teaches the ‘I’ what it is, by showing it its own products in a physical manner. We learn by viewing our own creations, in other words. We learn the power and effects of ideas by changing them into physical realities; and we learn responsibility in the use of creative energy. [...]

[...] They turned all my ideas of reality upside down. That morning and each morning until that time, I’d been sure of one thing: you could trust physical reality. [...] You could change your ideas toward it if you chose, but this would in no way change what reality was. [...]

[...] The mouth creates words. The ears create sound. [...]

It was as if the physical world were really tissue-paper thin, hiding infinite dimensions of reality, and I was suddenly flung through the tissue paper with a huge ripping sound. [...]

[...] Faith, however, is not believing in a unreality, it is believing in realities that you cannot, at this point physically, perceive. It is banking on those portions of your own personality that you feel but cannot see in the ordinary mirror. It is banking on the invisible self that, as yet you have not been able to actualize in physical reality. Now each of you in your own way, particularly in the dream state, are intimately acquainted with this invisible portion of yourselves. [...]

Now unless you come to terms with your own doubts about yourselves then you will have no idea what faith is and when I use the word faith, I am not speaking in religious terms. When you look at your physical reality and see what it is this does not take faith, it is a simple matter of physical perception. When, however, you begin to have glimpses about the nature of reality and realize that you are more than you know that you are now, then it takes faith to bring that inner image close to some actuality, in your terms. [...]

But each of the others of you in your own way, still cling to the old methods. [...] The props are beautiful, they are yours and you have created them. And do not ask me what I mean by props for each of you secretly know well what I mean, in your own lives. [...]

Your criterion for physical reality is physical materialization. [...] You are driven to find the reality of yourselves beneath the reality that you know and to do this you must work through the reality that you know and a self that you know. [...]

Give us a moment… Your sense perception, physically speaking, is a result of behavior on the part of organs that seem to you to have no reality outside of their relationship with you. Those organs are themselves composed of atoms and molecules with their own consciousnesses. They have, then, their own states of sensation and cognition. They work for you, allowing you to perceive physical reality.

[...] The physical matter of the planet is also composed of literally infinite hordes of consciousnesses — each experiencing its own reality while adding to the overall cooperative venture.

It is easy for you to see that seeds bring forth the fruit of the earth, each [of] their own kind. [...] In this respect your thoughts and feelings “seed” physical reality, bringing forth materializations.

[...] Each physical body in its own way is like the world. It has its own defenses and abilities, and each portion of it strives for a quality of existence that will bring to the smallest parts of it the spiritual and biological fulfillment of its own nature.

The medium perceives so clearly the reality of the surviving personality that the medium to some extent directly perceives that reality. [...] To experience the reality of another does not necessarily mean that the medium negates her own personality—only that momentarily she allows it to perceive as directly as possible the experience of what it is to be the other. This involves a high degree of cooperation from the other person who does not exist in your physical terms, an opening of his reality to the medium rather than an invasion of the medium.

[...] In your system of reality you are learning what mental energy is, and how to use it. [...] What seems to be a perception, an objective concrete event, independent and apart from you the perceiver, is instead the physical materialization of the perceiver’s own inner emotions, energy and mental environment.

To a large extent you create what you see or perceive. [...] There are many realities of whose existence you are ignorant, but they nevertheless exist. [...]

[...] You are receiving data that is not basically physical, and translating it into terms meaningful to your own physical organism.

As I mentioned earlier (in the 616th session), you are also sending your own telepathic thoughts outward. Others will react to those according to their own ideas of reality. [...]

[...] Reading this book, you may be able to point at friends or acquaintances and see clearly that their ideas are invisible beliefs which limit their experience — and yet be blind to your own invisible beliefs, which you take so readily as truth or characteristics of reality.

You make your own reality. [...]

[...] You will also react clairvoyantly and telepathically to inner information at an unconscious level that is, once more, “collected” under the organization of your quite conscious concepts concerning existence in general, and your own in particular. So you are locked into physical situations that are corroborated by the great evidence of sense data — and of course it is convincing because it reflects so beautifully, so creatively, and so actively, your own ideas and beliefs, whether they are positive or negative.

Shortly we will begin to discuss the formation of a better kind of mass reality — a reality that can happen as more and more individuals begin to come in contact with the true nature of the self. [...]

“The therapy of value fulfillment will attempt to put individuals in touch with their basic instincts, to allow them to sense the impulsive shapes of their lives, to define their own versions of the ideal through the recognition of it as it exists in their own impulses and feelings and abilities, and to help them find acceptable and practical methods of exerting their natural power in the practical actualization of those ideals.”

[...] On the 14th we received from Prentice-Hall our complimentary copies, just off the press, of Seth’s Psyche; then on the 18th we received Volume 2 of “Unknown” Reality.

[...] Naturally we’d been involved in a number of other projects at the same time, as I’ve indicated in my notes for Mass Events, yet for me especially the publication of the two volumes of “Unknown” Reality meant that we had arrived at a certain point in the development and presentation of the Seth material: In those books, through correlating them in a modest way with our previous works, I’d attempted to show the reader just what the three of us had managed to achieve before Seth led us into Psyche — and, as it developed, Mass Events.

[...] As the idea is in the process of being constructed onto the physical plane, it prepares the material world for its own actuality and creates the prerequisite conditions.

This new dimension enabled the species to manipulate and recognize its own constructions and freed it to focus greater energy in projecting some ideas over others. [...] Somewhere along the line, however, man began to divorce himself almost completely and artifically from his own constructions. Hence his groping, his sense of alienation from nature, his search for a Cause or Creator of a creation he no longer recognized as his own.

[...] We only see our own constructions. So-called empty space is full of constructions not our own that we cannot perceive. [...]

[...] The third was a dream that gave me a startling glimpse into another kind of reality.

You create many of your own difficulties, if not all of them. [...] The inner psychological state is projected outward, gaining physical reality. [...] You can use this for your own benefit and change your conditions, once you realize what the rules are.

[...] If you read our early material, you will see that your environment and the conditions of your life at any given time are the direct result of your own expectations. You form physical materializations of these realities within your own mind.

You cannot escape your own attitudes, for they will form the nature of what you see. Quite literally, you see what you want to see, and you see your own thoughts, your own emotional attitudes, materialized in physical form. [...]

There are obviously ways in which you can mold your own conditions, protect yourself from your own negative suggestions and those given to you by others. [...]

[...] I’ll describe the latest of the many courses of action we’ve found ourselves considering over the years as we work with the Seth material, while trying to keep a balance between the realities we’ve created for ourselves and the possibilities we constantly encounter in the “outside” world.

(The challenges — and fears — created at Three Mile Island will last for years, however. [...]

[...] This year alone, for instance, he’s already given a good amount of excellent information upon a number of nonbook topics — among them the interpretation of dreams; human, animal, and plant consciousness, and the interactions among them; human sexuality; viruses and inoculation; other realities he himself inhabits, and so forth. [...]

[...] It should be obvious to you that your own characteristics, interests, attributes, and directions also are partially responsible for the form the material takes.