“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] If you went out in a grand manner, publicizing the books, appearing on shows, you could indeed quicken the pace—but in so doing other intangibles would also be altered. There is a great difference between keeping the people always in mind, and playing to the crowd for whatever reasons, but there would be a tendency for purposes to be altered.

[...] These are the final stages necessary so that a new stance is achieved, and again, soon you will not need to go on faith as you do now, because enough adjustment will have taken place all over so that the results will show an easier motion, and in definite, beneficial alterations of stance and walking ability.

[...] When this occurs the relationship is being beneficially altered between the two areas given.

[...] He surprises me, and his reactions alter my past. In his terms I am a future self, with far greater knowledge, yet he uses that knowledge to alter his present reality; and when I was Ruburt I did not have that knowledge. You can say then that I am altering my own past, but Ruburt’s present experience also changes my present experience — and so there is an unending interchange.⁵

[...] All kinds of alterations also take place in the soil beneath the mountain’s layers. [...]

[...] Seth obviously elaborated on that material here, but instead of quoting it in Appendix 18 also, I thought of letting the reader first come across it in this session; and so, to whatever tiny extent, this additional information now alters each reader’s present reality by changing his or her conception of that Jane-Ruburt-Seth relationship.

[...] She started it in a “normal” state of consciousness and ended up in an altered one — “immersed in a high state of inner concentration,” she said. [...]

[...] If you do not like the effects of a belief you must alter it, for no manipulation of the exterior conditions themselves will release you. [...]

(Pause at 10:42.) We are going to deal with practical methods that will allow you to alter beliefs and change your experience. [...]

[...] You also affect these same events, shaping and altering them, and then reacting.

[...] The pathways are carriers of telepathic thoughts, impulses and desires that travel outward from any given self, altering and changing the seemingly objective events.

[...] You cannot exactly say that each object is a symbol of a belief that specifically, and yet any alterations that you willfully make in your behavior with the objects of your intimate environment represent alterations of beliefs. [...] When you change a room around you are altering beliefs in an observable way.

[...] Alterations of schedule or of activity are excellent, now, because they serve to break up associations. [...]

[...] You must alter the kind of messages that you are sending through your thoughts to your own body, to friends and associates.

[...] As soon as you recognize this fact you can begin at once to alter those conditions that cause you dismay or dissatisfaction.

[...] I hope to do this by showing you exactly the way in which you form your own reality, by explaining the ways in which you can alter it to your advantage.

[...] They will also challenge you, and bring into your life expansion and alterations of consciousness of a most rewarding nature.

[...] End at 12:28 p.m. Jane’s altered perceptions continued.)

(10:18.) Now: If you alter that picture a little so that the images are somewhat scrambled — and you do this by altering the focus of your consciousness — then the familiar coordination is gone. [...]

[...] You cannot move through time and space without altering the focus of your psyche. (Intently:) When you so alter that focus, however, you also change the exterior reality that you then experience.

[...] So when you begin to experiment with states of altered consciousness you often run into the same kind of phenomena, when nothing seems to make sense.

[...] In dreams, and in altered states through history as you accept it, men have been taken upon such journeys. [...]

The moment it occurs, it begins to change as it is filtered through all of those other ingredients, and it is minutely altered furthermore by each succeeding event. [...]

[...] As I have mentioned [in other books], you can indeed change the present to some extent by purposefully altering a memory event. [...]

[...] You do not need a time machine to alter the past or the future.

[...] Many alter themselves almost completely without your notice. [...]

[...] See the notes prefacing the 653rd session for April 4, in Chapter Thirteen, describing how she gave birth to the original long Speaker poem while in an altered state of consciousness. [...]

[...] As mentioned (in sessions 651–52 in Chapter Thirteen), even then the body construction has built-in mechanisms to alter such an arrangement when further data can be handled.

[...] By altering our consciousness in the way I’m learning to do now, though, we can line up our focuses with these other ‘ghostly’ messages, that are quite as real as the neurological validity we usually accept.”

(9:24.) “Now while giving all of that, I’m in some kind of altered state of consciousness that I can’t quite identify. [...]

[...] Some words are entirely forgotten in one language, but spring up in altered form in another. [...]

Even the alterations of obvious pauses between languages make sense only because of an implied, unstated inner rhythm. [...]

Give us a moment … Such gadgets can be useful only if they show you that such alterations are naturally possible. [...] In other words, unless the ideas behind objective science are altered, then gadget-produced altered states will almost certainly be used to manipulate, rather than free, consciousness.

[...] When you use them (biofeedback, for instance) even to attain alterations of consciousness, you are programming yourselves, stepping apart from yourselves.

[...] That appendix contains excerpts from The Wonderworks — material which Jane wrote last month while in an altered state of consciousness, and which was at least partly inspired by her dream series. [...]

(Humorously:) I would prefer the balance of nap time and psychological time altered somewhat. [...]

[...] The alteration of consciousness involved will also enable you to make several distinct and advantageous changes of focus, in line with your own work. [...]

The alterations of consciousness would give you a rather unique freedom that I cannot put into words, a perspective and a viewpoint above reality, that would show in your work. [...]

[...] The disciplines involved in these alterations of consciousness will help you in all other areas, will acquaint you quite personally with other realities, and be a preparation for the time when you will not have a physical body in which to manipulate.

[...] On Friday, however, while in an altered state of consciousness, she tuned into some material on Seth, dreams, and other species of consciousness; she calls it The Wonderworks, and excerpts from it are presented as Appendix 11.

[...] Healings can take place in the dream state, where events at another order of existence alter the cells themselves. [...]

[...] The [recent] dreams also provide additional assurance; and while dreaming, body states are altered — something physicians do not recognize.”

[...] The negative aspects are usually not there—not because he omitted them: the book itself helps bring the positive experiences about, because, again, it represents conscious attempts to alter experience.

Your simple remark then was strong enough to completely alter the pattern of his thoughts and behavior last evening, and most of today, so I want you to recognize the importance of your comments. [...]

[...] It was hardly a momentous affair, yet it meant that Ruburt could forget his physical problems to a considerable extent, stop worrying about whether he would have to go to the bathroom, or how to get there, or when people would leave so he could get there, and so the evening was effectively altered for the better.

I simply want to remind you of that other level, so that you can begin—gently, now, gently—to alter your emphasis, to begin to emphasize the use of suggestion in a new creative way. [...]

[...] Your small suggestion about last night—because he was ready and open—altered the evening. [...]

[...] Again, for many centuries, there were innumerable species of man-in-the-making, in your terms; various postures, and even types of manipulation, as well as alterations in brain size and activity. [...]

[...] “Well,” she commented, “I gave the material while I was in an altered state of consciousness, but I don’t know where it came from. [...]

(In a few moments Jane left her altered state of consciousness. [...]

[...] See the episode through his or her eyes, then continue with the procedure just given, only using this altered viewpoint.

[...] Yet the photograph remains inviolate within its own framework; you cannot alter the position of one object within it. [...]