“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] Ruburt wrote that there were clumps of consciousness, and of course he is correct. You are a part of many such clumps of consciousness. [...]

There are various levels all operating, various levels of consciousness and identity. [...]

[...] Consciousness at your level is at a crisis point for many reasons.

Within your system, for the “first time”, in quotes, individualized consciousness is strongly-enough organized to do, in quotes, “good or evil.” [...]

Your Sumari consciousness is that kind of consciousness, and so is mine, except that my boundaries are far less limited than your own, and I recognize them not as boundaries but as directions in which recognition of myself must grow. [...] This is not an undifferentiated consciousness, in other words, that addresses you now, but one that recognizes the nature of its own identity.

[...] But the names signify an independent, unique kind of consciousness that makes use of certain boundaries.

(9:49.) It is a personal consciousness. [...]

[...] The connection, the conscious connection, is important, for in that regard you are not alone. [...]

[...] If all of those functions must be beneath present consciousness, you can see that no single ego-consciousness could easily grapple with several environments, times, or life experiences. [...]

There are points of correlation between the two of which the conscious brain is not aware, and perceptions that do not consciously register. [...]

Now: the inner self is the primary personal creator and perceiver, the seat of identity, a consciousness then with many faces. [...]

[...] Bodily mechanisms, who holds memories too numerous for the conscious mind to follow.

The entity operates its fragments in what you would call a subconscious manner, that is, without conscious direction. [...] It’s as impossible for the entity to control fragment personalities as for the conscious mind to be aware, or control its own heartbeat. [...]

(“Seth, was this image conscious of Bill’s presence?”)

In some submerged manner all fragments of a personality exist within an entity, with their own individual consciousenesses. [...]

(Jane did remember it, beginning with the word superego, but she was receiving the answer very quickly at that point; also she thought she might be consciously tinkering with the message by using such a word as superego.

The entity itself does not have to keep constant check on its personalities, because in each personality there is an inner self-conscious part that knows its origin. This part, for now, I will call the self-conscious beyond the subconscious. [...] It is the part, and the self-conscious part, that receives all inner data.

When such abilities as telepathy occur, this telepathic function is carried on continually by this other self-conscious part of you, but as a rule you act upon such data without the knowledge of the conscious self with which you are familiar. [...]

There is also a corresponding, but lesser, self-consciousness that connects your present personalities with the dream world, which is aware of its origin and communicates data from you to it. Again you are no more aware of your dream creations, and no less aware than your entity is of you, but in the last analysis you are aware and connected with your entity through this self-conscious part of you that faces another plane.

[...] It is a phenomena in which he gives consent, and he could, at any time and in a split second, return his conscious attention upon the physical environment.

[...] Your physical senses correlate fairly quickly, so that consciously you are aware of your physical stance and relationship with the immediate physical world. 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. [...]

[...] These basic thought-processes, then, are too vast to be consciously apprehended, for they deal with meanings and relationships that reach before and after your life spans.

Your usual perception is of course blocked by time, and by your conscious understanding at any given point in your lives. [...]

[...] It is that the conscious mind does not understand the unconscious mind and that your conscious mind does not understand that it is frightened of demons and believes in their existence. [...]

[...] They are a part of the heritage of your consciousness. [...]

[...] The body consciousness alone understands that its physical existence in any one life is dependent upon its physical death — and that that death will assure it of still another existence. The “drive for survival” is, therefore, a drive that leads to death and beyond it, for all of consciousness understands that it survives through many forms and conditions.

[...] Because of the true nature of time, and the interrelationships of consciousness, a future life affects a past one, for in actuality all of these existences happen simultaneously. [...]

[...] While I did she had some thoughts of her own — that a person can choose illness, for example, in order to explore that reality, and to exert certain effects upon others around the ill person: thoughts I have had many times — my old idea of consciousness getting to know itself in as many ways as possible.

[...] I’m afraid I think that consciously we’re a long ways from incorporating such ideas into our daily society.

Because his conscious desire was based strongly upon inner emotional need, and not opposed to it, and because the emotional need at that time was powerful, that is his need to leave on vacation, and because he remembered our discussion on expectation, he was able to utilize both conscious and unconscious energies. In other words, to consciously focus his subconscious psychic abilities to perform toward a definite, material end.

It is however usually operating at subconscious levels, and without either knowledge or intent as far as the conscious mind is concerned. To be able to bring these natural but subconscious forces at all under any domination by the conscious mind is a terrific task.

Such domination will never be habitual, but conscious awareness of subconscious manipulation of matter may become habitual, and may often of its own accord follow the desires of the conscious mind, if certain conditions are met.

First of all, the conscious desires must be in league with, and unopposed by, subconscious expectations. [...] And three, communication between the conscious and subconscious, or the inner and so-called outer parts of the whole self, must be excellent.

[...] If so, the conscious knowledge may appear suddenly in the middle of your waking day. A reconciliation will be felt within the self following such a conscious understanding, though the dream itself may not be consciously remembered. [...]

(After supper Jane began to show signs of going into an altered state of consciousness. [...]

Dictation: As you examine the contents of your conscious mind, it may seem to you that you hold so many different beliefs at different times that you cannot correlate them. [...]

[...] Let me emphasize that they are consciously available. [...]

[...] Your conscious mind perceives these clearly, while you pretend that this official version is all that exists. Your conscious mind, generally speaking, interprets reality according to your private beliefs and those of your civilization. [...]

[...] As you know, in a fashion you are appealing to portions of peoples’ minds that exist “beneath” the conventionalized version of consciousness that they take for granted. The words are perceived consciously, but the concepts run directly counter to many usual beliefs—not just scientific ones, but to the beliefs that underlie the accepted establishment of the world.

[...] It seemed too much to bear, and quite unexplainable in ordinary conscious-mind terms. [...]

[...] In a manner of speaking, your conscious mind, as you think of it, is a psychological convention. [...]

[...] We want you to become aware of all of your activities, not simply your conscious ones. You are using abilities in that work that you are not using as yet in your conscious lives, and I want you to become aware of what these abilities are. [...]

[...] The soul is not the consciousness that you know. The soul is far beyond the consciousness that you presently experience. [...]

(Following a discussion of everyone’s experience for the week and a mobility of consciousness exercise.)

[...] Now, however, you should also become aware of other personalities who work with you when your normally conscious ego is quieted. [...]

Other portions of yourself, therefore, of which you are not consciously aware, do inhabit what you could call a supersystem of reality in which consciousness learns to handle and perceive much stronger concentrations of energy, and to construct “forms” of a different nature indeed.

[...] If you have, for example, a highly vivid desire to be somewhere else, then without realizing it consciously a pseudophysical form, identical with your own, may appear in that very spot. [...]

[...] On the other hand, if the desire were still more intense, the energy core would be greater, and a portion of your own flow of consciousness would be imparted to the form, so that for a moment you in your room might suddenly smell the salt air, or in some other way perceive the environment in which this pseudoimage stands.

[...] (Pause.) The image then follows its own laws of reality, and to some extent, and to a lesser degree than you, has a consciousness. [...]

I also think that if asked Seth would point out that since the concept of quantum mechanics is based upon the idea that everything we “know”—matter, energy, our sensual information—is made up of quanta, or the interactions of insubstantial fields that in turn, and quite paradoxically, produce very active subatomic packets or particles, then quantum mechanics is at least analogous with his statements that basically the universe is composed of consciousness itself. But I think that the continuum of consciousness, or All That Is, contains not only the phenomena of quantum mechanics, but also Seth’s nonphysical EE (electromagnetic energy) units, and his CU’s (or units of consciousness). [...]

[...] From what Jane and I can gather (through our reading especially), at least some of the world’s leading scientists are becoming willing to contend with consciousness itself. (Including their own consciousnesses? [...]

[...] Yet there is no answer within quantum mechanics as to how or why one’s personal identity chooses to follow a certain probable pathway, and consciousness per se is not considered. (Some physicists, however, have implied that subatomic particles—photons—communicate with each other as they take their separate but “sympathetic” paths.) Pardon my irony here, but Seth has always dealt with the ramifications of consciousness and maintained also that we do not inhabit just one probable world, but constantly move among them by choice—and by the microsecond, if one chooses.

[...] Seth says this spontaneous creation happens all of the time through the actions of consciousness. [...]

You are a you who has a consciousness and you can use this consciousness as you will. [...] You are not your consciousness. You are a self who is conscious and has a consciousness. Now I want all of you, including my friend here (Rob) to contemplate the part of you who has this consciousness to use. [...]

And I want you both to know if you do not already know that the creativity and the joy and the wonder that is inherent in each consciousness is present not only in your minds and in your consciousness as you think of it, but also in the smallest cell within your fingertips. [...]

[...] However, the very attempt to handle more data in itself enlarges your own consciousness and does not detract from it.

[...] you had a body consciousness of a protective nature, but this was only one portion of an entire personality who has yet to appear. [...]

[...] Not that we wanted or needed conscious control—but why didn’t we have the conscious visual knowledge of the workings of our various bodily parts, be they heart, liver, or whatnot?

Now: in answer to, in partial answer to, your question concerning conscious knowledge of the body’s workings, I have several things to say.

[...] More than that, however, your question of course reflects your cultural beliefs and assumptions, and so you do not realize that in some ways such conscious knowledge of the body’s workings might limit rather than expand concepts and experience of the body and the self.

[...] He felt so at one with the land, he and his body, that “a conscious knowledge of it,” it in your terms not only would have inhibited his identification with nature, but his agility within it.

[...] In this period let the conscious suggestions be given with emotion and feeling, and then have him forget all about them. He does not need to give himself conscious suggestions every fifteen minutes. [...]

Now you give yourself conscious direction by taking it for granted that you paint well, by trying to see the completed painting in your mind. This is the function of the conscious self, to use the emotions and expectations to bring about a desired result.

[...] They carry on conversations with Ruburt and on an entirely different level than the normal conscious one.

[...] Now it is extremely important that his conscious attention be elsewhere after he has given his suggestions. [...]

I am not suggesting that you relinquish conscious concern and control, but you will be amazed at how the intuitive self will use your hands, and to your conscious advantage, in experiments.

You have had glimpses, but the two abilities will work hand in hand so that ideas for paintings will occur with greater vividness, and your hand itself will know how to get certain effects that you want, before you are consciously aware of how this is done.

[...] Jane certainly didn’t know about this consciously, for I have said nothing about it to her.

[...] Moreover, I don’t believe she thinks this way consciously.)

You take dreaming for granted, yet it is the result of a characteristic ability that is responsible for the very subjective feeling that you call conscious life. Without it your normal consciousness would not be possible.

A spoken language is, again, dependent upon all other languages that could possibly be spoken, and thus its sounds rise into prominence and order because of the silences and pauses between them; so your waking consciousness is dependent upon what you think of as sleeping or dreaming consciousness. [...]

[...] Then, freed from waking limitations, you process your experience, weigh it according to your own intents and purposes, correlate it with information so vast you could not be consciously aware of it. [...]

[...] It demands a peculiar and distinctive mixture of various kinds of consciousness, and the transformation of “nonphysical perception” into symbols and codes that will be sensually understood, though not directly experienced as in waking experience.

The consciousness so attuned however is only a small portion of the individual’s total consciousness. [...] However they are also aware and conscious of huge portions of themselves that are not so imprinted. [...]

As I have mentioned many times, at present you focus your attentions and consciousness within the physical system. [...] The imprinting simply involves an adjustment whereby consciousness is attuned to a particular station, so to speak.

[...] All of these do imply a whole, but the very term whole would again be meaningless if the whole, through self-conscious individual parts, were not conscious of itself.

[...] We have been and we are expanding consciousness, and this consciousness includes the ego.