“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] It is happening on both of your parts, and I am bringing it to the surface of your attention.

[...] But if the child discovers that a prolonged cry after the event gets extra attention and consideration, then it will begin to extend the emotion.

Many people, however, do not pay attention to everything in their environments, but through their beliefs concentrate only upon “the ferocious dog four blocks away.” [...]

It is true that physical stimuli may signal a dream, but the stimuli, the physical stimuli, does not actually signal the beginning of the dream; but it calls your attention to the dream, which has been in progress, as if you walked into a darkened theatre and began to see portions of a production which had been going on.

[...] The symptoms have been aggravated to some extent, then, bringing to the forefront of his mind the very problems that require his attention. [...]

[...] The focus is indeed intense, but so limited in scope that it is relatively impossible for you to keep your attention upon the self except in the most inconsistent and fleeting of ways.

Now if you had all been really paying attention to what I have said for some time about the simultaneous nature of time and existence, then you would have known that the theory of evolution is as beautiful as a tale as the theory of Biblical creation. [...]

[...] You draw to yourself in this existence and in all others those qualities upon which you concentrate your attention. [...]

[...] We have spoken of the dream world, and of its having a psychic reality, without space or time as you know it, and an evolution and value fulfillment quite independent of the meager attention that you give it.

[...] The many species that roam my domain demand my attention, and if you two want to exchange your realities that is fine — but leave me out of it, please.”

[...] I tried to divert her attention now but she read the words “without telling Jane beforehand.” [...]

[...] The focus of attention and concentration are magnified a thousandfold in the dream state, and dreams form the basis for your physical environment.

[...] My attention was utterly focused on the events. [...]

The same sort of reaction occurs if you concentrate upon a personal illness, and then find any improvements insignificant because of the great focus of your attention upon the negative aspects.

[...] The red color was pronounced and I called Jane’s attention to it. [...]

(We had not asked that Bill follow the material from session to session, feeling that it was for him to decide whether to pay any attention to it or not. [...]

[...] Jane said her focus of attention was intense while speaking for whatever the source of data was. [...]

[...] Not until this had gone on for some time did the symptoms become severe enough to get your attention. [...]

[...] Similarly, to be a musician or an artist or a writer takes effort in time, and automatically focuses attention in specified directions that bar the same kind of work in other fields.

(I added another thought—that often lately I’ve reminded myself that I’m 10 years older than she is; at 62 I’ve managed during the last decade to say “the hell with it” to a lot of things that I used to pay a lot of attention to when I was 52, Jane’s present age. [...]