“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Give us a moment … I said earlier in this book that the world you know arises from basic unpredictability, from which significances then emerge. ⁴ No system of reality is closed. The particular string of probable actions that you call your official experience does not just dangle, then, out in space and time — it interweaves with other such strands that you do not recognize. In the waking state the conscious mind must focus rather exclusively upon that one particular point of concentration that you call reality, simply so that it can direct your activities properly in temporal life. It is quite equipped, however, also to direct you to some extent in other levels of reality when it is not needed for specific survival duties.

(9:56. See the notes at the beginning of the session. As stated, Seth returned after break with a discussion of the reasons for Jane’s excellent state of relaxation. Most of his material is deleted here, but I can write that her situation was tied in to her work with the challenges presented by her physical symptoms [as described in Note 8 for the 679th session, in Section 1]. As she comes to understand her own belief systems more and more, Jane very gradually continues her physical improvement. In the personal part of this session, then, Seth explained how her very beneficial state of ease “now began in a dream state last night, was further accelerated this morning, and further so in the relaxation just before the session…. The [recent] dreams also provide additional assurance; and while dreaming, body states are altered — something physicians do not recognize.”

(Seth’s last statement had to do with his contention that “hormones are also automatically released into the system, encouraging either periods of activity or tranquilizing periods, according to the specific portions of the overall process [of healing]. The dreams provide a steady give-and-take between conscious and so-called unconscious activity. This is also a time of deep unconscious creativity….”

“Other species of consciousness gain their experience at different ‘levels’; often we encounter such consciousnesses in the dream state, then interpret their actions in the wrong order of events … according to our own camouflage³ system … Our bodies are the focuses for only the physical part of our consciousnesses … My latest dreams are giving me a picture of the nonphysical inner wonderworks …”