“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Projections continue in the waking state, beneath it, as they continue beneath the dreaming state, you see. Now you have learned the methods at least that allow you to become aware of some projections that occur during the dream state. You realize that knowledge alone is not enough, that practice and ability play a considerable part. There are methods that will allow you to catch yourself in the middle of projections embarked upon from the waking state. This is considerably more difficult.

It can only be achieved as a rule after some proficiency has been gained with recalling dream projections. Here you are dealing with the waking consciousness in its normally strong and dominant condition. You must be able to let it operate and yet perceive beneath its surface the other conditions, the projection conditions, that are also operating.

You must allow the normal waking consciousness to become transparent, so to speak, without however disturbing its flow. When this is accomplished you can also become aware of the projection conditions. This is almost like working backward, for directly beneath the thoughts and impressions of waking consciousness, you will glimpse dream images like those that appear just as you fall to sleep.

These also must be allowed their motion and should not be hampered. Beneath these however you will sense either light or darkness, images of light or darkness, and these will lead to the projection conditions or environment. The only way to prove waking projections of this type to yourself is by following this method.

[...] Directly beneath, still using our analogy, will be found the nutrients and seeds of those desires. [...]

Beneath this layer, in a third subconscious level, still dealing with the present personality, lie those possibilities of development which have lain barren and were not sufficiently strong to send up seeds to bloom in the sun of conscious ego.

It is also possible that these secondary personalities, emerging, give access to buried abilities and benign constructive abilities which had been buried beneath heavier fears that weighed them down. [...]

[...] Directly beneath personal subconscious you will find upon examination either through hypnosis or applied association, a layer dealing with the period before this life, and after the life before this one.

[...] In the meantime, beneath the fun and games, feel your own vitality. [...]

[...] That the power beneath the voice is but a shadow of the vitality that is within each of you. [...]

[...] Only by turning your head aside momentarily can you see what is beneath the seemingly solid pattern. By plunging into our ocean of value climate you can dive beneath your camouflage system and look up to see it, relatively foundationless, floating above you, moved, formed, and directed by the shifting illusions caused by the wind of will, and the force of subconscious concentration and demand.

[...] It can speak in the silence of a room if you have the wits to realize that beneath sound there is what our friend, the physicist over here, might call antisound. That beneath the sounds that you hear there are other sounds, and I do not simply mean beneath the range of your hearing. [...]

[...] They are often idealists, who beneath it all — beneath the enthusiasm, the intelligence, and sometimes beneath extraordinary ability — still feel that life could no more than sully those abilities, dampen those spiritual winds, and darken that promise that could never be fulfilled.

[...] Those other background stimuli are now quite difficult for you to identify, but they are always there in the [hinterland] of your waking consciousness, like dream chatter way beneath your usual associations.

[...] All of these communications are a part of the human parcel of reality, and they all exist beneath what you think of as normal consciousness. [...]

[...] I believe approximately 55 feet, and some boulders beneath here. There is a small object in this cave, but 15 feet approximately beneath to the left are many plants, with strange shaped blossoms; and in the roots, intertwined with the roots of these plants, are some objects of interest to you.

[...] It is to be found directly beneath the moon’s rays at a time when Venus is in the ascendancy, and forms on the surface of the lake an acute angle.

If you are beneath it you are safe. [...]

[...] Difficult to explain, yet at levels “beneath” matter, incipient matter was being manipulated. [...]

[...] Actually the body was being changed, but at a level beneath ordinary body awareness, at prematerial structure.

Now: there are obviously beneath the psychological areas that you recognize many other deeper layers of action and interaction. [...] It is beneath the usual cause-and-effect area that the true “causes and effects” lie. [...]

[...] These encounters in their own ways are meant to show you that other people do indeed mean well, that they send good wishes in your directions (long pause), and the small clues mentioned earlier are meant, again, to remind you of the inner unity and correspondences beneath events. [...]

Beneath these ideas is the fear of the mind itself, the belief that its abilities are fine and dependable up to a point — but if it goes too far then it is in trouble.

There are many other deep psychological connections beneath schizophrenic behavior, but since this book is also devoted to other subjects, we will go on to other ways in which conflicting beliefs bring about mental or physical dilemmas.

[...] Yet beneath both limbs I felt the presence of the bed. It appeared that the point of transition between the two levels existed somewhere within, or beneath, my body, but I was not aware of it consciously. While I knew the bed lay beneath either arm, note that I was not aware of the bed beneath my lower legs. [...]

[...] They operate constantly beneath normal waking consciousness…

While you go about your daily chores and endeavors, beneath normal waking consciousness you are constantly focused in other realities also, reacting to stimuli of which your physical conscious self is not aware, perceiving conditions through the inner senses, and experiencing events that are not even registered within the physical brain. [...]

[...] Other portions of these events are quite clear to you both in the dreaming state and beneath waking consciousness during the day.

[...] Beneath this, there are other communications, not consciously recorded, so that the body reacts to temperature, air pressure, and so forth, and reacts accordingly.

In the same way, beneath your conscious use of language there lies a vast inner communication, a mental system upon whose basis language must rest. [...]

[...] Jane said she had “strong, definite feelings” about the material tonight, as if Seth was trying hard to reach her beneath usual levels of consciousness. [...]

(The hospital was hardly a quiet place, what with fire trucks and police cars pulling up beneath our window with sirens screeching and wailing, and with people in the hall outside 330 pushing carts that rattled and sounded like a bushel of pots and pans jouncing around — all of this as Jane was ready to begin the session. [...]

[...] Joe B may hold the opposite viewpoint most intently — that sex is at least evil, perhaps sent by the devil, and below or beneath the dignity of a good man.

Then, however, perhaps with no warning, he may suddenly refuse to make love with his wife, become hostile with his children, stop off for a few drinks after work, before supper, or even begin seeing a prostitute, or begin an affair — often with a woman he considers beneath his own station.

(Very loud.) I want you to climb the vowels and syllables of this voice as if they were indeed a ladder, and let them carry you into dimensions that are native to you, dimensions that are yours by right, that are your heritage; (really booming) dimensions of awareness that you carry within you both day and night, beneath the level of your ordinary days. [...]

[...] Now your class reflects what you are doing, so always look beneath the surface, and examine your class reactions as you examine your dream reactions. [...]

I quite realize that many of my statements will contradict the beliefs of those of you who accept the idea that the conscious mind is relatively powerless, and that the answers to problems lie hidden beneath.

[...] In so doing you never think of looking for it in the conscious mind, since you are convinced that all deep answers lie far beneath — and, moreover, that your consciousness is not only unable to help you but will often send up camouflages instead. [...]

[...] The main point I wanted to make in this chapter was that your conscious beliefs are extremely important, and that you are not at the mercy of events or causes that dwell far beneath your awareness.

(“Something bright and small also, beneath this overhanging or threatening portion.” [...] Note that the 1 Roller Pan is written on the bill directly beneath the word Roofing, which is referred to in the data above. [...]

[...] Something small and bright also, beneath this overhanging or threatening portion.

[...] Jane said the mucilage connection referred to the word cement on the bill heading, beneath the Schuyler name.

[...] There is black printing on the back of the object, plus a bleedthrough of the price and date at the top, and a couple of ghost images of other price-and-date data beneath, in reverse.

[...] He feels that he is supposed to be an authority, telling people to go ahead, and so fear should be beneath him. They are beneath him, such fears, but unvoiced they become impediments. [...]

(The table would rock back and forth beneath the touch of our fingertips when the pressure was requested; as it did so it would begin to feel increasingly solid and heavy; the creaks and groans in it would disappear and it seemed to become one indivisible unit. [...]

[...] Most of the time our hands touched the table so lightly that it could move quite freely beneath them, seemingly of its own volition. [...]

(When we asked for a full levitation, it seemed the table did its best to achieve this, getting all legs off the floor except the last tiny point of contact of the third leg; it would then go in circles beneath our hands, or begin to dance about, eventually. [...]

[...] It was soon discovered that by balancing it at a certain angle with the fingertips, then exerting a downward pressure, one can have an illusion of a force from beneath holding the table up with one leg off the floor. [...]