“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

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[...] You end up, then, with a consensus, generally speaking, as to what a reasonable picture of agreed-upon reality is. [...]

(8:54.) The intellect, then, helps your species translate its own natural purposes and intents — the purposes and intents of the natural person — into their “proper” cultural context, so that those abilities the natural person possesses can benefit the civilization of its time. [...]

[...] (Pause.) Your own relationship, your private beliefs about the sort of persons you wanted individually for mates, brought about incalculable actions that led finally to your meeting — yet it all happened “quite naturally,” of course. [...]

[...] Yet the full picture of our moving should include not only the myriad probabilities growing out of our own actions, but all of the probable developments involving that house next door: Whatever happenings take place there — which we’ll help create — are bound to have their effects upon us.

[...] There are more intertwinings here [including some art elements] than it’s necessary to describe; but studying just this one complex house connection, then seeing how it combines with some of the others we’ve become conscious of; leaves Jane and me more than a little bemused by this interlocking reality we’re creating.²

[...] I’ve deleted certain portions of his material about us while leaving other parts for presentation here, since they do extend his recent work for “Unknown” Reality.)

[...] Jane and I were involved in it, and Seth discussed our experiences in Personal Reality; see Chapter 1, for instance.

[...] You will not be nearly so startled by the nature of your own reactions (reactone) if you understand beforehand for example that your consciousness not only is not imprisoned by your physical body, but (bud) can create other portions at will. Those who “overidentify” their consciousness with their body can suffer self-created torment (tortment) for no reason, lingering about the body. [...]

[...] Many of the characteristics of consciousness, however, are not so apparent, since presently you largely use your own consciousness in such a way that its perceptions appear in quite other than “natural” guises. You are aware of your own consciousness, in other words, through the medium of your own physical mechanism. You are not nearly as aware of your own consciousness when it is not operating primarily through the mediumship of the body, as it does in out-of-body states and some dissociated conditions.

[...] Jane told me that Joseph, representing my own entity, smiled broadly at her in a way the painting actually doesn’t. The expression in the eyes changed first, the smile spreading from them down to the mouth. [...]

[...] It was something like coming out of a deep sleep and immediately making a strong effort to focus in physical reality.)

[...] (I’m correcting the page proofs for Volume 7 now.) We had never called those sessions in Volume 7 deleted, though, and I’m happy now to trust that they may help readers gain insight into some of their own challenges. We deeply appreciated Seth’s insights and suggestions about Jane’s and my visible and invisible psyches, the challenges we had chosen to create for ourselves in our present lifetimes. [...]

[...] Of course, I can always indulge my secret desire and write my own book about Jane and me. [...] The book would include Jane’s simplistically beautiful and brilliantly colored art; also my own quite different art—especially those drawings and paintings of and from my dreams that began to blossom as Seth discussed his dream material. [...]

For the most part over the six years and 510 sessions covered in The Early Sessions, from December 2, 1963 to January19, 1970, Jane spoke for Seth in her own creative yet also objective manner. [...]

For some years Jane and I devoted much work to learning the processes detailed in all of those early unpublished sessions, which were followed by her series of published books like The Seth Material, Seth Speaks, The Nature of Personal Reality, and so on. [...]

[...] To convert to trailer living meant that we’d have to dispose of most of what we owned, including paintings and manuscripts, furniture, files, books, and many written records — something we probably couldn’t have brought ourselves to do. [...] Jane was much more willing to attempt the move than I was, but I think we knew all along that beneath our questions and feelings the idea of moving was more like a shared dream, or a probable reality we chose not to explore during our current physical lives. [...]

[...] If you magnify your limitations you create your own prisons. [...]

[...] “You get what you concentrate upon.”¹ Your mental images bring about their own fulfillment. [...]

I may for a while stress the ways in which individually, and as a civilization, you have undermined your own feelings of safety; yet I will also give you methods to reinforce those necessary feelings of biological integrity and spiritual comprehension that can vastly increase your spiritual and physical existence.

[...] the books themselves—mine as well as his—are themselves indications of achievements (pause) that are not easily broken off, since they represent the natural, creative development of his own abilities and growth. [...] That is, they provide you with that larger framework of understanding, for the old frameworks of understanding force you to continue to explore your reality for larger definitions. [...]

[...] Any hope we have in all of this is that our new stance will allow us to focus on the good things we have in life, and to create a synthesis of old and new ideas that will result in Jane returning to normal mobility. [...] He also stated that our old frameworks of understanding force us to continue to explore reality for larger definitions. [...]

[...] He would (pause), had I not emerged, written books of his own in any case. [...] He would have had no unusual difficulty, however, in say, standing up for his own ideas—holding his own, so to speak, in any arguments or philosophies. [...]

[...] I said that she would have probably used her psychic gifts in some fashion in her writing, but that the Seth books might very well have not come into existence except for my own interest—hence my mental insight this morning that Jane did the Seth books to please me. [...] This upset includes her work on her own latest, The God of Jane. [...]

[...] Ruburt allowed this to add to latent (underlined) characteristics of his own. [...] You never thought that moving could be fun—and that is your reality. No one else created it.

[...] You have been also highly ambiguous in your own attitudes about your dwelling. [...] He did nothing about it on his own, except finally to rent the other apartment, but he has been holding his breath quite literally, for some time.

Some of the small, seemingly silly issues forever put off: a private backyard, shielding trees outside, a front and back door of your own, for Ruburt a dog, both of you a unit of your own; that is, a house over which you had control.

In many ways you are as stubborn as he is—and regardless of what you thought, you complained quite constantly, both about the job, your own work, and your dwelling. [...]

It appears that you create the action. For all intents and purposes you create the action, but actually you are really utilizing action and merely constructing it into terms that the outer senses can perceive.

[...] Remember that the subconscious is at the outer end of the inner senses, and the inner senses create physical constructions. Once you learn how to handle and communicate with your subconscious, then you will be able to create more constructive constructions—

[...] The information on matter is a necessary preliminary to the understanding of other inner-sense information, and some of this will be given when I discuss your own experiences.

[...] It is only the outer senses which cannot perceive what does not fall into their own domain. [...]

[...] Here aggressive and destructive energies were unconsciously projected outward, given a pseudo-reality and temporary physical validity. [...] According to the extent of physical reality to be achieved, the physical body of the originator transfers or transposes portions of its own chemical structure. [...]

[...] The image that your friend saw was a personality fragment of his own. [...] This type of personality fragment is of different origin than your friend, who is himself a fragment of his own entity. [...]

“An individual may send a personality fragment image into another level of existence entirely, even without his own conscious knowledge. [...] Sometimes the individual is not capable of assimilating this knowledge, or even of recognizing his own returning personality image. [...]

[...] He soon began to develop his own system of symbols and abbreviations, however.

[...] (See the 262nd session.) The other was Ruburt’s dream form of you, created by himself in the dream state. When you appeared in form two he was conscious enough, you see, to recognize your arrival, and then to point out to you the dream image which he had already created. And you were able to see it because of your own state.

(The session due Monday, May 30, was not held due to my own indisposition. [...]

[...] Also perhaps some difficulty about neighbors who wouldn’t keep up their own land.

Now your own dream, Joseph, also involved projection, but with less intent behind it, and some less control, though very little control occurred in either case. [...]

[...] He also on his own speaks loudly in class, and automatically accepts his own composure, status as teacher, and his abilities, without question.

He felt threatened however then when you voiced your own fears. [...]

[...] The intellectualization of the fears can be a trick to avoid facing their emotional reality, so beware of that.

On the other hand feelings create the physical state. [...]

It seems to you that you have, perhaps, but one chance as a species to solve your problems, or be destroyed by your own aggression, by your own lack of understanding and spirituality. [...]

[...] They well understood the evils of violence in earthly terms, but they would have denied the individual’s right to learn this his own way, and thus prevented the individual from using his own methods, creatively, to turn the violence into constructive areas. [...]

[...] He has a responsibility to and for the civilization in which he has each existence, for he helps form it through his own thoughts, emotions, and actions.

[...] However, they also continued on the reincarnational level as long as they inhabited physical reality. [...]

I am pacing these sessions now, granting the four or so a week, according to his own experiences, so that the material can also be assimilated along the way. [...] It is quite earnest in its own desire to “be good,” or to feel a sense of grace in its being, so it does understand that kind of purpose. [...]

(9:01.) Ruburt’s intuitions, his nature, his creative abilities, and his intellect, have led him into a study of the nature of reality, as, again, he sought to find a larger framework of reference. [...]

(Pause.) With the God of Jane Ruburt beautifully and expertly described his own experiences with beliefs, and at least hinted of his background. [...]

All in all, those results are considered by the Sinful Self, now, as regrettable but necessary, as perhaps the use of overly severe discipline, or the use of punishment “for the personality’s own good”—all of which makes perfect sense within the belief structure of the Sinful Self and the larger philosophical structure of Christianity itself. [...]

Yes, I think that in our separate ways each one of us chose to create this probable reality out of the many available.

[...] It is indeed quite possible to do so, for you will be working with material with which you are intimately familiar: your own thoughts, emotions, and beliefs.

Man’s physical world, with all of its civilizations and cultural aspects, and even with its technologies and sciences, basically represents the species’ innate drive to communicate, to move outward, to create, and to objectify sensed inner realities. [...] The most secluded recluse must still depend upon the biological sociability of not only his own body cells, but of the natural world with all of its creatures. [...]

While each individual springs privately into the world at birth, then, each birth also represents quite literally an effort — a triumphant one — on the part of each member of each species, for the delicate balance of life requires for each birth quite precise conditions that no one species can guarantee alone, even to its own kind. [...]

[...] You can express almost any idea that you want in vocal terms, even if you have hardly any conception at all of the way in which your own speech is executed.

[...] The body has within it inherently everything necessary for its own defense. [...]

Now when he does so disconnect his own stream of consciousness in this manner, any correct associations on his part will automatically show themselves in the data through attraction. [...] For I will perceive certain types of information that are basic, and when Ruburt’s abilities, his own abilities as apart from mine, are fully developed, then he will be able to add certain specifics that have direct personal application.

[...] Value fulfillment, or the value climate of psychological reality, is the first basic law of the inner universe; Seth presented it in the 45th session in some detail. [...]

[...] It must be clearly understood however that these other portions of the self are incapable of the ego’s intense focus within physical reality. [...]

Two of these statements may appear at first glance to contradict themselves, but you shall shortly see that they do not, and you are left for now with a pretty question: for does the self, or identity, then form the perceptive dimension in which it exists, or is it created by the dimension?

[...] Existence within any field of reality necessitates intensive focus within that field. [...]

In much the same manner, existence within the physical universe involves the most intense self-hypnotic trance, where attention becomes riveted and focused along certain lines while other realities are of necessity closed out of one’s perception and comprehension for a certain while.

[...] The individual whole self, by its very nature, will not restrain itself indefinitely to the particular set of necessities and perceptions necessary for survival within any one given field of reality.

Yet on a deeper level he still retains hold upon other existences, so much so that he even yearns subconsciously for those past realities, which mean safety, since their problems have already been solved. [...]

[...] Ruburt does not feel that you are amiss because you are not “making money on your own,” but he feels deeply your own discontent in that area, and he feels bewildered—for years ago you said so often that it would be great if you could just paint or write without worrying about money. [...]

(I am merely making these observations here to get them on the record for possible later reference, and to give some background to my own personal problems of recent days. [...]

[...] I would go back to painting, try to sell some, and possibly end up with a part-time job for ready money—anything to break the vicious mental pattern of distrust I seem to keep creating. [...]

[...] I believe my reactions, which were loud and clear, paid off, for Tam called Jane yesterday to find out, in his own way, whether I was mad at him personally. [...]

[...] I hinted at our last discussion that it is indeed within the ability of the human personality to become aware of other realities while still keeping contact with physical reality. Manipulation in the physical universe is of course a necessity, but there are ways by which the human individual can become aware of other quite valid realities, and still maintain balance and control within his own more usual field of activity.

[...] I assure you however that in any discussion with your psychologists on this matter, I shall hold my own. Again, the attention, the energy of all human personalities, as a rule, are severely focused in one scope of reality only. [...]

[...] You have merely turned the focus of your attention into different realities. My attention, and my reality, is mainly focused in another direction.

[...] His attention is momentarily directed toward a different sort of reality. [...] It would be highly difficult to ask a man while he dreamed to prove the physical reality of the bed in which he slept, or the bedside table which was at his head, or to prove the existence of the wooden floor upon which the bed rested. [...]

[...] Dream images are often images which cannot be created for various reasons within physical reality at any particular time. [...]

Since the individual creates his own physical image to begin with, then there is nothing so strange about his creation of a pseudophysical body which is not so closely dependent upon the physical system. [...]

[...] The experience is valuable to Ruburt in that he sees that no invasion is involved; and that when his emotions are stilled there is still an emotional reality, as my emotions come to the foreground.