“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] She felt Seth’s presence “just below consciousness”, she said, and thought she might be able to speak for him in a natural manner without attracting the attention of others. There was a constant stream of people passing our table in the coffee shop, but no one paid us any attention.

[...] They reveal themselves to us when we turn our attention away from physical data and look inward; this is when the sixth Inner Sense comes into play. [...]

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

[...] His focus of attention is rather severely limited in some aspects, and yet in other ways it is very strongly focused.

[...] His attentions are focused elsewhere. [...]

[...] I am not suggesting that you pretend the symptom does not exist, but that you quite deliberately give yourself constructive suggestion, and turn your attention immediately away quickly to other matters.

Make an attempt to divert his attention. [...]

And do not pay any attention to Ruburt when he chews you all out. [...]

[...] Now it is extremely important that his conscious attention be elsewhere after he has given his suggestions. [...]

This will effectively have him concentrate his attention where it belongs, while the inner self follows through on the suggestion which he has given.

[...] This is a method however to bring them to you, and a legitimate way of gaining attention. [...]

[...] As an actor in a drama goes along with certain acts and gestures that make the play necessary, while at the same time he realizes that the play is a play, he must still focus his attention upon the lines spoken, and use the props available.

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.

[...] By the period you call old age the inner attention is already escaping. [...]

(During the long break I felt that people’s attention wandered. [...] But it is not easy to maintain the unflagging attention of a group of people on a weekend night, especially when they gather to eat and drink.

[...] You are aware of fluctuations in your normal consciousness, and closer attention would make some of this quite clear. You expand or narrow the scope of your attention constantly. [...]

[...] If you are lost in a book and unaware momentarily of your immediate environment, you are not afraid that it will be gone when you want to turn your attention back to it. [...]

[...] The person encountering these has only to turn his attention away to “deactivate” the phenomenon. [...]

[...] If such a materialization appears threatening, then simply wish it peace and withdraw your attention from it. [...]

When you let your attention waver, however, you may often fall into a state in which you momentarily perceive glimpses of another alternate present. [...]

(Long pause at 11:14.) The coughing has brought into activation the use of certain muscles also, particularly in the chest areas, and taken his attention way from other areas of the body that are being revitalized while his attention is elsewhere.

[...] All of these exercises should be followed by a return to the present: You focus your attention outward in the present moment as clearly as possible, letting the sounds and sights of the physical situation come into your attention.

[...] You have been taught to focus all of your attention clearly, ambitiously, energetically in a particular way — so daydreaming, or mixing and matching modes of consciousness, appears passive in a derogatory fashion, or nonactive, or idle. [...]

[...] Hypnosis, again, is merely a state of concentrated attention, in which you focus upon beliefs. [...]

[...] The focus of attention is narrowed then, and intensified. [...]

When you are sketching outdoors, as a helpful exercise I suggest the following: attach your focus of attention to one small thing. [...]

[...] This will result in paintings in which your chosen point of attention radiates through the form, illuminating all other objects in the painting, and psychically radiating outward from the painting.

[...] When you attach your attention say to a flower, it is not only a matter of imagining yourself as the flower, or trying to sense what a flower is. [...]

[...] Out of a vast field of perception you choose to focus your attention upon certain specific areas and ignore all others, and so there is perfect agreement among you as far as this small area is concerned. [...]

[...] If you were able to focus your attention upon the dissimilarities, merely those that you can perceive but do not, then you would be amazed that mankind could form any idea of an organized reality. [...]

[...] Seth did most of the talking as usual; and more and more his attention became riveted upon Rich as the latter buzzed around, taking photo after photo, with flash. [...]

[...] Now Seth was just beginning to pay some attention to the activity about him. [...]

[...] Out of a vast field of perception, you choose to focus your attention upon certain specific areas and to ignore all others, and so there is perfect agreement among you as far as this small area is concerned. [...]

I have said this before: If you were able to focus your attention upon the dissimilarities, merely those that you can perceive but do not, then you would be amazed that mankind can form any idea of an organized reality. [...]

[...] It must have come to your attention that I have mentioned the nature of your love for each other many times—often when you would have preferred some other material —but I do again want to stress it as a vital ingredient in Ruburt’s recovery. [...]

[...] Seth’s voice boomed out loudly for the last paragraph above—and as it did so young Willy instantly snapped to attention.

[...] You can trick normal consciousness quite easily with baubles, take its attention into other areas so that the inner self is left alone to do its work. [...]

[...] Let him use those days as models, the focus of attention being upon them rather than upon the poor days. [...]