“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[Each of] you will create the attributes of reality that interest you and work with them in your own way. [...]

[...] And yet each of you, in your own identity, has the right to do precisely as you wish, and to form your own reality….

(So far we’ve been dealing with the idea of counterparts in our own physical reality. [...] (Before that, from Session 712:) To some extent or another, there are counterparts of all realities within your psyche.

6. Perhaps I should have briefly discussed it in Volume 1, but ever since Seth originally gave his “Joe, Jane, Jim, and Bob” material (as I call it) in the 683rd session, I’ve wondered about possible connections between the probabilities described in that session and our own reality: How much of our species’ distorted, intuitive knowledge of those probable realities may appear as myth and oddity in our camouflage universe? [...]

The structure of reality, including all physical phenomena, is composed of mental energy, expanding in terms of psychological value fulfillment. In this sort of reality there can be no closed systems.

[...] A closed system is, in other words, the result of the limitations of the outward senses, whose nature it is to distinguish as a meaningful reality only one portion of an open infinite system.

The distinctions formed by the outer senses therefore actually limit perception as a whole, while intensifying it into a small but vivid, seemingly enclosed radius of reality. [...]

[...] I will not at this time discuss the deeper issue of one infinite and open system, although this is reality which has indeed theoretically no limitations. [...]

[...] The list I just gave you is important because if you do not value your abilities or approve of yourself, then you cut yourself off from using your own abilities. You deny yourself their help and aid because you do not recognize your own abilities as such in the true sense of the word.

[...] The Christmas tree and all the decorations have been dismantled; the house is cleaned to some extent, and the copyedited version of Volume 2 of “Unknown” Reality has been returned to Prentice-Hall. [...]

[...] Naturally this is brought about by my own reactions to whatever the trigger happens to be, but still “Unknown,” and other creative endeavors have often been involved, when conflicts between what I think of as useful creative work run into doing things like shoveling snow, or other household items that I seem to think of as “chores.” [...]

[...] She is making her own list of things to do for 1979, including the point of power. [...]

[...] A person may become so frightened of using his or her own power of choice or action that the construction of an artificial superbeing is created — a seemingly sublime personage who gives orders to the individual involved.

Before we continue, I would like to remind the reader that in the middle of these or any of the other problems we have been discussing, there may be a period of depression, or the feeling that one’s own problem has no solution after all.

[...] All of these procedures will serve to quiet your mind and body, and build up your own reserves.

Conflicting beliefs about the nature of reality can bring about dilemmas in almost any form, for the individual will always try to make sense out of his or her surroundings, and try to at least see the world as a cohesive whole.

[...] I said our craving for such “entertainment” must reflect our basic social beliefs beneath our veneer of respectability — the conscious, negative fears of the unknown, meaning that we’ve created such a division in ourselves by shutting out our conscious awareness of our own true selves. [...]

^* Maude Cardwell publishes a Seth-oriented newsletter, Reality Change, from her home in Austin, Texas. [...] A most humbling suggestion for my wife and me — we’ve always prided ourselves on making our own way.

[...] This is apart from the fact of tampering, or downright misinformation (long pause) as various factions used the material for their own ends.

[...] This also presents you with an example of the ways in which early man expanded his own knowledge and experience in the dream state. [...]

While we are dealing now with your own species, it should be realized that all consciousness also possesses its own astral identity. [...] They allow the personality to retain its relationship with nonphysical reality, permitting the material self to focus within its earthly environment.

[...] It is closely allied with the entity, and connects a reality that is purely psychic, the reality of the entity, with a reality that is mainly physical, the reality of the physical self.

[...] The various levels of the self create their own dreams, which do have meanings to all layers of the personality. [...]

[...] At various times I have spoken concerning the reality of what you refer to as the astral body. [...]

[...] He was enchanted also by his own subjective reality, the body in which he found himself, and by the differences between himself and others like him, and the other creatures. [...]

[...] The generally explosive predicament in Iran, for example, has been considerably aggravated by Russia’s invasion of Afghanistan over the recent Christmas season: Now the unbending revolutionary government of Iran, following its own fanatical interpretation of the Moslem religion, must contend with at least an implied threat on its eastern border as the godless Russians occupy Afghanistan. Jane and I find it fascinating to think about—to attempt to trace—some of the ways by which the overall consciousness of the United States continually becomes involved with—entwined with—the consciousnesses of adversaries like Russia and Iran: Such consciousnesses, once created, continue to grow and to complicate themselves in new ways within our concept of “time.” [...]

On the one hand, man did indeed feel that he had fallen from a high estate, because he remembered that earlier freedom of dream reality—a reality in which the other creatures were still to some degree (underlined) immersed.³ Man’s mind, incidentally, at that point had all the abilities that you now assign to it: the great capacity for contrast of imagination and intellect, the drive for objectivity and for subjectivity (softly), the full capacity for the development of language—a keen mind that was as brilliant in any caveman, say, as it is in any man on a modern street.

[...] He was gifted with strong clear instincts that were meant to lead him toward his own greatest development, to his own greatest fulfillment, in such a way that he also helped to bring about the highest potentials of all of the other species of consciousness (intently). His natural impulses were meant to provide inner directives that would guide him in just such a direction, so that he sought what was the best for himself and for others.

[...] According to the physical validity or the extent of physical reality to be achieved, the physical body of the originator then lends, or transposes or transfers, portions of its own chemical structure. [...]

[...] They were hysterical productions born of your own desperation and given instant physical validity. [...] They had no independent personality consciousness of their own.

(At 8:45 tonight Jane said that Seth was going to talk about the York Beach apparitions we created at that resort in the summer of 1963, while on vacation there, in Maine. [...]

[...] There was a protein loss on your own parts.

[...] You are, in your terms, in their reality while being “ahead” of them in terms of certain kinds of development. [...] You are not involved in a specific kind of emotional reality others are pursuing. Those realities are not beneath your own in any way. [...]

[...] You both possessed such strong creative abilities, however, that once expressed they were bound to create attention. There are many variations on the same thing that the artist, the revolutionary thinker, the genius, would be punished by his fellow men, or even be betrayed by his own abilities. Many such ideas have been held by those relatively innocent of any great creative ideas themselves, in order to rationalize their own deficiencies.

[...] The land that you own is important, but the visible land that you do not own is also, and you should be in sight of a mountain or some open area, while still having a private “secret” area also.

[...] Instead a look at the private unknown reality as it becomes somewhat visible.

[...] They are doing subconsciously what came naturally, attempting to form, as always, their own physical construction. However it is impossible for them to create a consistent solid image in your terms, for while they are still focused within your system the inner self knows well that the individual is finished with a given life situation, is out of alignment so to speak, and is therefore denied full use of its own energy.

[...] He will work out the best way of doing this, for it will be a natural development, an alchemy, resulting from the nature of his own writing talents, which are considerable, his own intuitions, and the material. [...]

[...] It is obviously beneficial to learn now to change your own direction of attention away from your physical system. [...]

You can glimpse other realities, and this knowledge and confidence will automatically be of benefit to you when the transition takes place. [...]

(Long pause at 3:52.) The electrons themselves have their own subjective lives. [...] Nevertheless again, subjective continuity itself never falters, in that it is always a part of the world that it perceives, so that you and the world create each other, in these terms.

Your own focus is so precisely and finely tuned that despite all of that activity, objects appear solid. [...] They are highly dependent upon your own subjective focus. [...]

[...] Your intent has also an electronic reality, therefore. [...]

[...] She wants a turning-off point from which to construct other realities, so it is not so much that the latest-present is deteriorating as much as the fact that she is purposely letting her attention wander, and allowing the latest-presents (with the hyphen) to diminish in strength and vitality. [...]

“All That Is creates its reality as it goes along. Each world has its own impetus, yet all are ultimately connected. [...] Each is a reality in itself, with its own potentials, and with no individual consciousness, however minute, ever lost.”)

Last month, in the opening notes for Session 931, in Chapter 9, I recorded that on July 8 Jane spontaneously wrote “a complete outline for a book on Seth’s magical approach to reality.” Actually, we’ve been quite aware of the potential of such an idea ever since Seth began that material a year ago.³ After supper this evening we went over the loose-leaf notebook of information Jane has accumulated for The Magical Approach to Reality: A Seth Book, and discussed how she could follow her outline in putting all of that material—on our dreams, psychic events and insights, her poetry and our essays—together with Seth’s private sessions on the magical approach. [...] Jane seemed to pick up on my own enthusiasm.

[...] I explained that I think Seth’s and our own endeavors on her behalf had been negated each time because we’d alerted her sinful self’s fears—making it try harder to protect her according to its own very restrictive orientation.

[...] [The most powerful one, the Mujahedin-e Khalq, for example, is a Marxist-based guerrilla organization of “People’s Crusaders” that espouses its own brand of radical Islamic republicanism.] The mass killing resulted in an immediate increase in the government’s campaign to eliminate opponents of clerical [Shiite] rule in Iran. [...]

[...] She makes each person question the nature of their own beliefs concerning sexuality. [...] And each person who views her on television must look into their own beliefs. [...] You form your own reality. [...]

[...] The sun shines, the writer writes, the artist paints, the thinker thinks, the dreamer dreams, and each of you, whether you know it or not, naturally follow your own natures. [...] Now if you listen without listening too hard, in any intimate moment you can hear your molecules shout, if you will forgive me, with their own optimism. Each molecule is its own world. Each molecule is its own world. [...] To express the joyful creature nature that is your own. [...] When you feel your own vitalities fully then that will be understood by your students. And when each person feels and releases their own creativity, (to Sue) there will be no need for books about Seth classes, but now there is such a need.

[...] You would, without repressing anything, experience your own reality without impediments. [...]

The City simply represents, in your terms, an idealized version of a reality that can be physical. [...] And if it is, it will be created in your terms now, through your dreams, your love, your desire and your intent. [...]

[...] From your own perspective, from your own space perspective, through the methods which I have given you, you create your own version of a particular object, and you do it by using energy in a personal manner.

The negative universe is, therefore, composed of what we may refer to as a beforeimage and an afterimage of your own. As you may have surmised however, each of these is composed of what you may call, for your own purposes, seemingly exactly like your own universe and following your own time perspective.

This antimatter therefore, by inference, exists in duration on your terms for as long as your own universe of positive matter has existed. It might seem to you that the universe of antimatter is a twin of your own. [...] By this I mean that I herein include two universes very closely connected with your own.

However, the personalities that inhabit these seemingly twin bodies to your own are not the same. Your scientists have already discovered the theory of antimatter, but assume that it is completely separate from your own universe, I believe the latest theory being that a universe of antimatter may possibly be found at the furthest reaches of your known universe.

All of your physical experience must, of course, be pivoted in the corporeal reality of the body. [...] Through your own thoughts you direct the body’s expression, and it can be of health or of illness. Out of a knowledge of the contents of your own conscious mind you can definitely heal most maladies of the body, within conditions to be given later.

[...] The individuals who seek out treatment fear the nature of their own identity more than anything else. [...] (Pause, then smiling:) Your thoughts and beliefs form your reality. There is, as Joseph (Seth’s name for me) said in our break, no magic therapy — only an understanding of your own great creativity, and the knowledge that you yourself make your world.

(Now here are excerpts from the account she wrote for me of her experiences involving the rain-puddle creature and the light on the evening of February 2. Jane’s narrative and poetry supplement Seth’s own words, and show how she became consciously aware of the unique transformation of her original poetic ideas into visual reality — and how she then carried the creative process another step by converting her new perceptions into more poetry. We think these bleed-throughs between realities are common, if largely automatic in most cases, in any area of “life.” [...]

Ideas form reality, so the body is used to reacting to some “imaginary” situations in which, for example, the mind conjures up dire circumstances which do not physically exist; but these still force the organism into an over-activation, setting up a state of stress. In massive drug therapy the body feels in greatest threat, for it is forced to use all of its resources while its own signals tell it that the messages it is getting do not have a correlation — and yet they are of the most urgent nature.

The beliefs that you receive, therefore, are your parents’ conceptions of the nature of reality. [...] You pick up their ideas of your own reality.

Underneath all of this, you carry indelibly within you your own knowledge of your identity, meaning and purpose, but in the early stages of development great care is taken to see that you relate in physical terms. [...] Cushioned with these beliefs the child can be safe and satisfy its own curiosity, develop its abilities, and throw its full energy in clearly stated areas of activity.

[...] At the same time you consciously assure yourself that the unsatisfactory belief is an idea about reality and not an aspect of reality itself.

(9:27.) This provides leeway until the conscious mind is able to reason for itself and provide its own value judgments. [...]

The paintings you saw are realities, already created by you in other dimensions, and existing as potential forms in this dimension.

You are being given directions and suggestions. (Pause.) You are of course amiable to inner visual stimuli, and used to interpreting reality in highly specialized forms, through visual data.

[...] He forgets himself, uses his body, and at least creates the climate in which muscular relaxation can occur.

[...] Some exercises where he can see his own progress. [...]

Ruburt found great comfort in the church as a young person, for if it created within its members the image of a Sinful Self, it also of course provided a steady system of treatment—a series of rituals that gave the individual some sense of hope the Sinful Self could be redeemed, as in most of Christianity’s framework through adherence to certain segments of Christian dogma. [...]

(Long pause at 9:20.) Ruburt’s creative nature early began to perceive at least that man’s existence contained other realities that were deeper. [...]

He began to search actually from childhood in a natural fashion toward some larger framework that would offer an explanation for reality that bore at least some resemblance to the natural vision of his best poetry. [...]

In that regard, Ruburt’s creativity kept struggling for its own growth and value fulfillment. [...]

In either case when conditions are right, you should feel a sense of recognition, a sense of grasping a portion of the center of your own reality. [...] When you have achieved this oneness with your own center, then you automatically free additional energy and vitality into your life.

There will be a core within your own paintings, from which the whole composition springs, and it is here that you can find rapport with the center of your self. [...] Of this, in your work, you create a new dimension.

[...] The painting spirals outward from your inner reality, and it brings forth energy and previous connections and interpretations. [...]

[...] Now you can grab a hold of the original inspiration for a painting, and ride it outward, or you can look at your own completed painting and ride it inward to its source. [...]

[...] But, in one manner of speaking, it cannot be told for you must have your own experience and recognize it. Very briefly this evening some of you dealt with the reality of symbols, and this is extremely important for the physical body that you know is a materialization of symbols that you have created. [...]

When you know what it is, you will be on your own. [...] It will be your own and in your own way. [...]

[...] Automatically in daily life you translate symbols into what you call reality. [...] You form appearances from symbols but you are so lost in the world of appearances that you forget the symbols upon which you have formed the reality. [...]

[...] When you are working with your consciousness, as you did this evening, you become aware of the inner symbols in your own mind. [...]