“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

You would not be able to perceive a sufficient amount of data to make any deductions. This is not to say that such planes or fields of actuality cannot in some manner be perceived, but they will escape physical perception or exploration. In dreams, when the self is somewhat free from camouflage, perhaps it is possible for the self then to travel spontaneously into such fields of actuality; but since they are as bizarre to the self as is the dream world itself, then there is no way, usually, for the sleeper to distinguish between the universe of dreams or other actualities.

We will only concern ourselves with a few, those of which I am at least partially familiar. These planes of actuality, of course, all operate within the spacious present, and with a value climate. While portions of them may protrude into physical actuality, they will do so with varying proportion.

Your mistake is in judging existence by its protrusion into matter as you are familiar with matter, and this attitude indeed will persist into any foreseeable future without basic change. This attitude is a defense mechanism, most understandable, since your plane or field of actuality is so involved in its relationship with material construction. There is a freedom, however, in independence from material construction that inhabitants are familiar with in other actualities.

The inner self, which has been called the soul, has connections through the entire physical organism, and is not concentrated in any one portion. More adjustments are made by the physical organism than you know, and when I say that it exists in many fields, I mean that it actually not only appears within them, but is a part of them in an intimate manner, that the physical organism as it is materialized within your universe is actually a coming together and merging that has its existence, and is a blending of data from many planes, that would be considered foreign by the intellect.

[...] Quite spontaneously, again, you often do this in the dream state, and often what seems to you to be an inspiration is a thought experienced but not actualized on the part of another self. You tune in and actualize it instead, you see.

[...] The road not taken then seems to be a non-act, yet every thought is actualized and every possibility explored. [...]

[...] They are all capable of being actualized in physical terms. [...]

The other probable actions, however, are as valid as they ever were, though you have not chosen to actualize them physically. [...]

[...] Nevertheless it must be clearly understood that thoughts and emotions are actualities in themselves, that directly work upon the physical mechanism. [...] Because thoughts and emotions, as electrical actualities, are independent from their subjective point of origin, a given thought or emotion, initiated by an individual, may be rejected by him and cast out. [...] But an idea, thought or emotion so rejected still has independent actuality, and may be attracted to the emotional climate of another.

You are familiar with such a limited portion of the actuality of your own thoughts. [...] If you could fully understand or comprehend directly the reality of a thought in its full actuality, you would be amazed at the power behind it.

[...] That is, they are actualities apart and independent from their point of subjective origin.

[...] The fact that thoughts and emotions have an actuality outside of the subjective sense may appear appalling to some. [...]

[...] It is actually the intangible but actual framework formed by inner energy, about whose lines or, actually, reference points, the physical framework is constructed. [...]

These clues could lead to proper understanding, so that it would be known that the physical body does exist in many fields of actuality, and through the study of various portions of the body many glimmerings could be received concerning the various fields of actuality themselves.

[...] The mind’s capabilities, if studied, would lead man into a realization of these other fields of actuality of which I have spoken. [...] Again, the validity of an actuality is not to be determined by its appearance within matter alone. [...]

I wanted to add here that evidences for those other fields of actuality can be found even within the body itself; that is, within the physical body. [...]

To continue along the lines of the various fields of actuality in which the human body exists, these fields or systems, being open, are also fields with particular identity, within which certain inner and particular laws operate. [...] There are electrical fields of actuality which are fields in which the dominating data is electrical, in the same manner that the dominating force or data within your plane is material.

Emotions are also, then, actualities within the overall electric system, existing not as representations of feeling, but as definite charged action. [...] Your field attains its actuality only as a result of the cooperating merger of many other independent systems.

[...] In this field possibilities and actualities are electrically computed. [...]

This field projects itself, as should be obvious, into your own field of actuality, and as such the personality itself has its existence in both fields; and both systems, being open, are dependent one upon the other, and a failure to survive in one system threatens survival in the other. [...]

We will speak this evening concerning the importance of the existence of planes or fields of actuality which are as yet generally unrecognized within your own field. Due to mankind’s present general insistence upon recognizing no other fields of actuality but his own, the advance of knowledge is curtailed. No efforts will be made to determine the existence or importance of actualities when such actualities are not believed to exist to begin with, particularly when such a discovery would shatter the very foundations of knowledge as it now exists.

Your own universe has its existence within many fields, and exists as an actuality, exerting force, within these fields.

Excess of chemicals within the body are drained off by the subconscious through its ability to act as a channel between fields of actuality. [...]

[...] I cannot stress too strongly the fact that in practical actuality the body exists within many fields, and it cannot be explained or understood when it is considered a product of one field only. [...]

The gradations of intensities are so minute that it would be impossible to measure them, and yet each field contains in coded form the actual living reality of endless eons; contains therefore what you would call the past, present and future of unnumbered universes; contains the actual coded data of any and every consciousness that has been or will be, in any universe; those that have appeared to vanish, and those which seemingly do not yet exist.

The actuality of what I call the past has not gone out of existence, and the future exists in actuality in the past. [...]

[...] Electricity as you perceive it within your field, is merely an echo emanation, or a sort of shadow image of these infinite varieties of pulsations, which give reality and actuality to many phenomena with which you are familiar, but which do not appear as tangible objects within the physical system.

[...] Why has no one suspected that dream locations, for example, have not only a psychological reality, but a definite actuality?

To do so would give them actuality. [...] While he thought of these individuals as his creations, he held them as part of himself and refused their actuality.

Within All That Is, then, the wish, desire and expectation of creativity existed before all other actuality. [...]

[...] They also then yearned to be actual, so there was this final breaking-through that was still necessary.

[...] They clamored to be released into actuality, and All That Is, in unspeakable sympathy, sought within himself for the means.

[...] Dreams have an electric actuality, as I have told you. In this electrical actuality they then exist independently of the dreamer, although he still applies the dream to himself. [...] Therefore, within the electric system, dreams, thoughts and emotions exist as actualities, and in what you may call a tangible form, though not in the form of matter as you are familiar with it.

They are closed enough to retain identity and separateness of characteristic natures, but because they are all formed from inner vitality, they are actually interrelated; and when I describe fields or systems I describe many portions of one reality, many faces of one reality.

[...] They are not directly experienced by the physical system, but only translations of the original dream experience is felt by the actual physical system.

[...] These reasons have to do with the electric actuality of the inner self, and with that counterpart of the physical body which exists within the electric field.

In the matter of publishing, or selling paintings, others are involved—others who very rarely in their lives experience that important encounter between, say, the self as actualized and the idealized sensed self, between the painting or the poem as an ideal and the actualization of that ideal. [...]

[...] She’d also been picking up from Seth through the day some quite amused comments on a variety of subjects we’d mentioned, ranging from “carpets and health” to the “nature of the law, the connection between the law and ideals and their actualization; the reactions of Tam Mossman to our feelings about Fate Magazine,” etc.

Ideals are vital, for they provide an impetus toward beneficial action, action that is meant to lead to some actualization of that ideal in fact. [...]

You may not achieve ideal solutions with the law, but it should allow practical specific actualization, at least in part, of an ideal situation. [...]

You will need perhaps to reread your material on the spacious present, since our explanation here will be necessarily in terms of sequence of events, when as you know in the spacious present events are actually simultaneous. When the personality withdraws itself from the physical image therefore, in a sort of slow motion of actual simultaneous happenings, this is what occurs.

[...] Actually she slept but the last few minutes of the allotted time. [...]

They exist in actuality, but not in a form with which ordinarily you would be familiar. [...]

[...] This is an electromagnetic sequence or action that will eventually help provide the impetus for projection of the whole self into another field of actuality, as the rate of acceleration increases and becomes more unified.

[...] There is a connection of course between such inner manipulation and the actual physical body—so Ruburt felt physical sensation that was, however, not a part of what he thinks of as the body. [...] Actually the body was being changed, but at a level beneath ordinary body awareness, at prematerial structure.

[...] Actually at these other levels, a Sumari physician was helping him. [...]

[...] This week, actually, the most profound changes of all are occurring. [...]

We have not touched in any degree concerning further possibilities here, but as there is no real or actual boundary between any of these areas of the whole self, so there are no actual, definite boundaries between any given whole self and another, nor between any given entity and another.

[...] The attempt is obviously doomed to failure, since the necessary actual perspectives in which the landscape exists are denied to him as working materials. He cannot create an actual reproduction of a living landscape.

[...] It is not actually composed of the past egos, but of those dominant aspects of the various personalities. [...]

[...] In basic actuality there are no such divisions. [...]

As there is in actuality no beginning or end to a dream, so there is no beginning or end to any reality. [...]

[...] And what you are yet to be existed then and still exists now — and not as some still unfulfilled possibility but in actuality.

[...] But each of you creates a dream world of validity, actuality, durability and self-determination, in the same way that the entity projects the reality of its various personalities. [...]

I mentioned the Crucifixion once, saying that it was an actuality and a reality, although it did not take place in your time. [...]

Most of your experience happens directly, where senses, imagination, motion and physical actuality meet. [...] You may dream that you are running or walking or flying, yet those activities are divorced enough from that area where imagination, motion, and physical actuality meet, so that your body remains quiet, relatively speaking, while you seem to be moving freely somewhere else.

[...] Children playing at cowboys and Indians, or cops and robbers, can on occasion become quite as frightened by the pursuit or the chase as they would be if they were actually caught up in such an adventure in ordinary life.

Each self has its own inviolate point where imagination, motion, and physical actuality intersect. [...]

In actuality, people in those circumstances are often so frightened of the use of power that the idea of being under constant surveillance actually lends them a sense of protection.

In the same fashion, the person who hallucinates the voice of God or a demon actually does so to preserve the idea of sanity in his own mind. [...]

In the electrical field it is the intensity of any given actuality that determines this sort of duration, and the intensity can project such an actuality into many dimensions at once. The intensity of a given actuality within the electrical field, of itself, determines the other dimensions of the actuality. [...]

We have been speaking of the electric reality and actuality of thoughts and emotions, and of dreams, and of all such experiences which appear to be purely psychological in origin, and take up no space in your physical universe.

[...] Now indeed this electrical field in which thoughts and emotions and dreams have an independent actuality, this field contains depths and dimensions of a sort most difficult to explain.

You conceive of action in terms of time, since within the physical field a given action appears to actually take up time, almost in the same way that a chair seems to take up space. [...]

[...] You are born seeking the actualization of the ideal. [...]

[...] Your misunderstandings, your crimes, and your atrocities, real as they are, are seldom committed out of any intent to be evil, but because of severe misinterpretations about the nature of good, and the means that can be taken toward its actualization. [...]

[...] Then we will have less frightened people, and fewer fanatics, and each person involved can to some extent begin to see the “ideal” come into practical actualization. [...]

[...] A book could actually be involved — Seth’s next — on “the therapy of value fulfillment.” [...]

With the book you are in torment as you contemplate the difference between what seems to be the ideal, and its feared actuality. [...]

[...] But the main problem is the dilemma caused by the difference between the ideal and a feared, opposing actuality.

[...] Here you had your feelings that photographs of the family would disclose a practical actuality far less than, for example, your mother’s ideal image of herself. [...]

[...] What you think of as disclosure is the apparent difference between the ideal and the actuality, as you understand each.

[...] And that two things would actually emerge from what seems like one thing down here. Would look like one thing but two things would be involved, actually. [...]