“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Smoking represents among other things, to him, a blanket of insulation, not only between himself and exterior reality, but a blanket between himself and interior reality. He is fully capable now of operating without such insulation, and it will be most beneficial for him to dispense with it.

Any action that affects the physical individual also has its reality within many other fields, and its effects and its nature are felt within them. A manuscript, or indeed any art form, contains action and sets up its own climate, either of psychological acceptance or rejection. This climate is more than the result of the materials or subject matter or nature of which the work is composed. It goes without saying that such a work actually contains a portion of focused psychic energy, which is action, and which has its effects.

When the inner patterns are broken the effects cease, but the inner patterns are associated by the personality with those outer habits. Indeed, the need for the habits creates the exterior habit. This is almost a mechanistic response that is confining, and indeed detrimental to expansion.