“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] The outer senses themselves are camouflage patterns, part of the necessary and essential physical body camouflage. [...]

These dreams go unrecognized by the conscious ego; but they do not go unrecorded by the inner self, and they therefore exist, and they form electromagnetic channels of their own to which—make that by which—the physical body itself is affected. [...]

[...] The first time, it ran up my body from the left foot.

[...] As the brain gives orders and communicates messages to the various parts of the physical body, so would the mind or entity do in like manner. [...]

If you will think (I hope) for simplicity’s sake of the whole self as it exists on your plane with its physical body, conscious ego and inner self as one field unit, which is also part of the larger or more complete entity as one field unit within another, then perhaps it will not be too much for you to imagine the connection, or one of the connections, between the entity field and the whole-self field, which is on your plane as being the inner senses—that is, the inner senses are one of the connectives between these two fields.

[...] I was just wondering why a body of knowledge like this couldn’t have accumulated over the centuries, slowly.”)

[...] When the whole physical body is constructed, the individual personality-consciousness is again more than the sum of its component parts.

Now you can do, that is any individual can do, and does, the same with the physical body. [...]

[...] Then these materializations of panic and pain play about the physical body, projected by the ego and stealing the powers of the subconscious mind from their natural constructive tasks to do so. [...]

[...] Now this quality that could be said to be a substitute for your space and time, this quality-depth, represents the perspective in which this sort of psychic traveling or psychic motion, or any psychic action, occurs; and its depth can be understood not in terms of downward action, but perhaps you can comprehend it if you think of a deep trance, for example, as definitely having motion, though the body may be motionless.

[...] Physically, play develops their body mechanisms. [...]

[...] The whole physical organism of the body has been trained from infancy to react to certain patterns, these patterns based on physical root assumptions.

[...] The dangerous psychic explosions that I spoke of as being possible are very real possibilities, and involve even chemical changes in Ruburt’s own body; and I do suggest that you make some changes, either by returning to your regular workroom, Joseph, or by making the porch room into a temporary bedroom. [...]

[...] I told you that the physical body itself was able to pick up other neurological messages beside those to which you usually react.⁸ Now let me add that when a certain proficiency is reached in alterations of consciousness, this allows you to become practically familiar with some of these other neurological messages. [...]

[...] You will already be acquainted and trained to leave the physical body. [...]

[...] I’m Seth,” my lips spoke.
He began walking my body about
As if getting accustomed to arms and legs.
I’d never been so astonished,
To be locked out of myself like that.

(Jane said there is little to say about her psychological time experiences, other than that she felt she was making a guarded attempt to lift out of her physical body.

[...] The physical body often and consistently acts upon subconscious knowledge, but in order to impress consciousness, such information must be carried by some kind of sense impression, whether this be a pseudosense impression, or a more normal one.

(I’d like to add that I hardly think it a coincidence, however, that within less than a month from my “first Roman,” Seth was to initiate a body of information in which he began to clarify many of the questions I had about certain of my own psychic adventures. [...]

[...] She’d felt as though she was out of her body some of the time, out on the first floor’s porch roof looking in at herself. [...]

Periodically, after answering the mail, I add it to the archives of the Seth material at Yale University Library as an integral part, a reinforcement, say, of Jane’s great body of work. [...]

Early in this introduction I wrote that late in November 1963 Jane had had an out-of-body experience while writing her essay, The Physical Universe as Idea Construction—that she had looked in at herself from the porch roof outside our windows. [...]