“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

As temperatures in various depths of ocean change, and as even the color of the water and of the flora and fauna change, so too in our value climate there are quality changes, and senses equipped to project and perceive the changes. There are distortions because of the limitations of the outer senses, but the inner senses¹ do not distort. The inner senses inhabit directly the atmosphere of our value climate; they see through the ever-varying camouflage (physical) patterns, and the flux and flow of apparent change. To some small degree in our sessions you plunge into this ocean of value climate, and to the extent that you are able to divest yourselves of the clothes of camouflage, you can be truly aware of this climate.

The value climate of psychological reality can be likened to an ocean in which all consciousness has its being. There are multitudinous levels that can be plunged into, with various life forms, diverse and alien, but nevertheless interconnected and dependent one upon the other. I like the ocean analogy because you get the idea of continuous flow and motion without apparent division.

What is required is more than a shedding of clothes, however. To plunge into this ocean you also leave the physical body at the shore. It will be there when you get back. Your camouflage patterns can be likened to those cast by sun and shadow upon the ever-moving waves. As long as you keep the pattern in mind, you create it, and it is there. If you turn your head away for a moment and then look quickly back you can see only the wave. Your camouflage and your world are created by conscious focusing and unconscious concentration. 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.

Your belief otherwise automatically shuts you off so that the necessary climate, the psychic climate, is a barrier to what you want. [...]

[...] I cannot put this emphatically enough: your beliefs form a psychic climate that in itself attracts and forms the materialization of those beliefs.

[...] Your situation could be bettered financially while you retain basically the same schedule you now enjoy, if—and a very large if—if changed expectations were creating the psychic climate in which supply would flow. [...]

Various emotional factors within each personality cause what we may call a characteristic emotional climate. [...]

[...] It will accept most readily those thoughts and emotions, or electric actions, which attract it, which have a similarity to its own charged emotional climate; and it will have greater resistance to those which have the greatest dissimilarities. [...]

The emotional climate, though intangible, is intimately known by each individual as it exists within himself, and it is the best indication of his physical condition, for thoughts and emotions as independent electrical actions have great influence directly upon the physical mechanism, acting indeed as electric storms which flash through the entire nervous system; or as great stabilizers as the case may be, and with of course many middle varieities of influence.

[...] (Long pause.) At any given time there will be various climates of belief pervading the world. [...]

[...] You may migrate to a climate in which the prevailing ideas suit you better, as well as the weather.

Your daily experience will be affected by your race, your beliefs about it, your beliefs about other races, and the climate of opinion in general. [...]

[...] The other can indeed telepathically help change the inner climate by inserting ideas of confidence and strength, and thus changing the psychic climate enough so that the ailing personality can then do more on their own behalf.

[...] Ruburt’s psychic climate has indeed changed for the better, but in periods of physical symptoms beyond his present norm, you can greatly assist in such a manner, for these are simply—or not so simply—miniature pitfalls. [...]

[...] It has appeared in your psychological climate, rather than in specific instances. [...]

[...] Where there is great privation there will be a cruel climate, but the climate does not cause the privation. The emotional aggression caused by privation caused the climate.

There is an important relationship, then, between emotional energy and physical climate, and I hope to go into this more deeply. [...]

[...] You have heard doubtlessly of emotional contagion, and of emotional climate, and these terms are well named. [...]

[...] They exist in a climate that we will call the value climate of psychological reality. [...] This value climate of psychological reality is a quality which makes all existences and consciousness possible. [...]

I want to make one note here, that again experience in the use of psychological time will bring you close to an understanding of the value climate of psychological reality, for obvious reasons. Psychological time indeed is a part of this climate as it appears in fairly uncamouflaged form in your own universe. [...]

One of the main attributes of this value climate is spontaneity, that shows itself in the existence of the only sort of time that has any real meaning, that of the spacious present.

As temperatures in various depths of ocean change, and as even the color of the water and of the flora and fauna change, so too in our value climate there are quality changes, and senses equipped to project and perceive the changes. [...] The inner senses inhabit directly the atmosphere of our value climate; and they see through the evervarying camouflage patterns, and the flux and flow of apparent change. In our sessions to some small degree you plunge into this ocean of value climate, and to the extent that you are able to divest yourselves of the clothes of camouflage, to that extent can you truly be aware of this climate.

The value climate of psychological reality can be likened to an ocean in which all consciousness has its being. [...]

[...] 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.

That climate is sometimes suddenly produced—in a church congregation, for example—where it acts dramatically to bring about a healing. Unless the individual learns, however, to induce that psychological climate personally, the healing may not last. [...]

[...] Those feelings of confidence arouse bodily healing processes, and promote the proper hormones, for example, and provide a climate in which healing naturally occurs.

[...] In that kind of a climate, both inner and outer worlds to some extent must be protected against. [...]

[...] That entire climate arouses feelings of disapproval, for the individual can never live up to impossible aspirations. [...]

I will answer it, and at our next session, when you remind Ruburt of the great creative climate in which it can be “answered.” [...]

You see from (tonight’s) the session the climate of suggestion that is about you, and that had to be conquered. [...]

[...] The overall emotional coloration and vitality of all of the creatures, say, within any given arbitrary environment is highly complicated, so that there is of course a psychological climate to which you react, as there is a physical one. If it rains you can stay inside, run naked between the raindrops, wear galoshes and carry an umbrella, take a cab, or be so involved in your own activities that you are not even aware that it is raining at all, and the same applies to inclement psychological climates. [...]

[...] 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 is natural enough to feel blue if you hurt, but this is something different from an overall glum inner climate. [...]

[...] It is extremely important that you know your own emotional climate. [...]

[...] His continuing love provides however the climate, the steady reassuring climate, the only climate in which you dare to taste that isolation. [...]

[...] Psychological time is a sort of climate or environment conducive to the existence of all consciousness.

[...] It is also free to a very large degree of your physical time, but it does exist in the climate or environment of psychological time.

The most full operation of the inner senses is possible only in this climate. [...]

[...] I admit that some of this material quite contradicts your usual ideas, but the health of your body is intimately related not only to the state of world health, but to the physical climate as well.

There is a connection here between last night’s episode, and the emotionally charged psychological climate behind the overt behavior itself: the behavior for example was not violent in any way.

[...] You interact with that invisible psychological climate, so that it becomes part of your mental environment. [...]