“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] It is quite possible to take your normally conscious “I” into the dream state, to your advantage. [...]

[...] Even the decision to try such a venture is beneficial, since it automatically presupposes a flexibility of attitude on the part of the conscious self.

Now, in physical terms it may take some time before your conscious mind accepts or recognizes a diagnosis given in a dream. [...]

The enlightened conscious mind is always alert for such messages. [...]

Now if you are delightfully free, and if you are following, you can follow that path into that other reality and to that other consciousness. [...]

[...] If you have ever learned the feeling of your own consciousness, learn it now. [...]

[...] Now the selves that you know are now returning through the channels, and as they do you will experience a relaxation of the neck and shoulder area and as you return into the selves that you know the back of your heads will also feel more rested for the body knew that there was a difference in consciousness for some of you. [...]

[...] Tell yourself before you go to bed that you can do it and then those of you who do stuff during the week, try to do it consciously using the same way we did it tonight. [...]

[...] On the other hand the entity’s consciousness can travel through these. [...]

It is as if you could consciously come to terms with each of your own cells and become aware, in your terms, of their future and their past. [...]

[...] But when you realize that your own body cells are much more than physical, contain their own capsule comprehension, then you will see that they could, at least theoretically, operate in such a manner if you could throw your own consciousness into them, and perceive their seemingly alien experience.

Now the moment points could also represent various personalities belonging to the entity, portions of its own consciousness that it sends upon the journeys of exploration and discovery. [...]

A man who makes a statue uses his conscious mind, his creative abilities, his physical body, and the inner resources of his own being.

[...] You form your image constantly; as many of the artistic processes are hidden, so the inner mechanisms by which you create your material self lie beneath the surface of your conscious mind. [...]

[...] I’ve also been praised or criticized for elements that I hadn’t realized existed in a painting, while my conscious intentions were ignored or unperceived. [...]

In any case, interpretation involves but one part of the task as you try to consciously assess a dream’s meaning. [...]

[...] Again, the powers of the brain come from the mind, so while you learn to center your consciousness in your body — and necessarily so — nevertheless your inner perceptions roam a far greater range. Before sleep, then, imagine your consciousness traveling down a road, or across the world — whatever you want. [...]

[...] The brain is primarily an event-forming psycho-mechanism through which consciousness operates. [...]

(9:58.) Mentally it can form an infinite number of events, and consciousness can take an infinite number of roles. [...]

[...] In their pretending they exercise their consciousness in a particularly advantageous way. [...]

[...] At one time, bear with me, (long pause) there was what we may call a federation of consciousness, though that is not the best term. But consciously a group of people upon this earth managed to remember old truths. [...] They knew how to do this consciously. [...]

[...] Hopefully you will reclaim these methods consciously and use them. [...]

[...] They may or may not make conscious sense to you. [...]

[...] And yet you would not even have admitted the experience consciously not too long ago, as something like it occurred at an earlier date and consciously you forgot it.

[...] The one point I would like to make, first, is this: Conscious fear is usually the main hindrance as far as data from the inner senses is concerned. Therefore, a realization that these senses belong to you and are quite natural will help you avoid the otherwise unavoidable, almost automatic closing off of such data by the consciousness.

Usually in these sessions only one inner sense is in strong operation, but as I mentioned in our last session, man does not trust anything which occurs to him or in him unless he is consciously aware of what he is doing, how he is doing it, and why. [...]

[...] He still wants to know if I am part of his subconscious—and I must admit I do find such an idea appalling—and he wants his answers given to him in a manner which his conscious mind can understand. [...]

You do still continue such activity, again, [although] you have turned your conscious minds away from those directions. Most of it does not become conscious because you do not want it to. [...]

We talked about how people could be helped to consciously realize their participation in this worldwide dream organization. [...] The experiment has the potential for significantly broadening our conscious understanding of the world we’re creating.

[...] The discoveries and inventions that made the industrial world possible were always latent in man’s mind, and represented an inner glittering landscape of probability that he brought into actualization through the use of dreams—the intuitive and the conscious manipulation of material that was at one time latent.

[...] That realization alone can further remind you that the conscious mind does not have to have all (underlined) the information required. [...]

[...] Among other material covering altered states of consciousness on Jane’s part, refer to her Introduction, as well as the notes for the 639th session in Chapter Ten, and the 645th session in Chapter Eleven. [...] She plans to study all of her experiences with various stages of consciousness in her book, Aspect Psychology.

[...] It also implies, and of course, promotes, the direction of individual consciousness in an exterior fashion only. Not only is consciousness to be focused to the external reality, but within those limits it is still further harnessed toward certain specific goals. [...]

(Jane described her altered state of consciousness to me while it was in progress on Monday, of course, then the next morning she wrote as complete an account of it as she could. [...]

[...] In Chapter One of The Seth Material, she describes her first “trip” through an altered state of consciousness — and how it resulted in the production of her manuscript, The Physical Universe as Idea Construction. [...]

As there are portions of reality that you do not consciously perceive, and other systems of probability of which you are not consciously aware, so also are there aspects of primary godhood that you cannot at this moment comprehend. [...]

Ruburt is subconsciously aware of them in most cases, but seldom brings this to consciousness, so it is simply a feeling of disquietude on his part. He feels he will be interrupted, but is not consciously aware of this, you see.

All personal contact with the multidimensional God, all legitimate moments of mystic consciousness, will always have a unifying effect. [...]

[...] But the time has come for mankind to take several steps further, to expand the nature of his own consciousness by trying to comprehend a more profound version of reality. [...]

[...] Don’t be so anxious to throw your individuality back into their faces, saying, ‘I’m sick to death of myself and of my individuality; it burdens me.’ Even one squirrel’s consciousness, suddenly thrown into the body of another of its kind, would feel a sense of loss, encounter a strangeness, and know in the sacredness of its being that something was wrong. [...] Through honoring yourself, you honor whatever it is God is, and become a conscious co-creator.”

Certainly the species must be putting its conscious activities to long-term use, however, even with the endless conflicts and questions that grow out of such behavior. During the many centuries of our remembered history, those conflicts in themselves have been — and are — surely serving at least one of consciousness’s overall purposes, within our limits of understanding: to know itself more fully in those particular, differentiated ways.

[...] I added that even though we have no interest in putting down other approaches to inner reality, still we’re firm believers in the “inviolate nature of the individual consciousness, before, during, and after physical existence, in ordinary terms.”¹ So, here, we leave it up to the reader to make the intuitive and overt connections between Seth’s philosophy and the material Jane wrote today. [...]

[...] A good general question, we think, and one we’d like to see discussed with our own ideas of the inviolate nature of the individual in mind, has to do with the prevalence of ordinary, daily, conscious-mind thinking and perception throughout much of the world. [...]

[...] You simply are not aware of these selves on a conscious level any more than you are aware of ‘past’ lives. [...] As there is usually no contact between the entity and the ordinary conscious ego, there is usually no contact on a conscious level between the self who dreams and the dream world which has its own independent existence.

[...] What you do not know is that all consciousness dreams. Atoms and molecules have consciousness, and this minute consciousness forms its own dreams even as, on the other hand, it forms its own physical image. [...]

[...] Since dreams are a by-product of any consciousness involved with matter, then trees have their dreams. All physical matter, being formed about individualized units of consciousness of varying degrees, also participates in the involuntary construction of the dream world.

For every consciousness existed simultaneously and in essence, even before what you may call the beginnings of your world. [...]

(I told her I’d been rather surprised when Seth had so baldly stated that there were only nine families of [human] consciousness upon our planet. [...] Strangely, neither of us had ever asked Seth to name any of the other families of consciousness, following Jane’s Sumari breakthrough some three years ago — but at the end of this session see the material about the family of consciousness Sue Watkins had tuned in to back then.

[...] Yet there is a great correlation between what you think of as creativity, altered states of consciousness, play, and “spiritual” development.

[...] They alter the focus of their consciousnesses frequently. [...]

[...] This does not mean that if you become consciously aware of such affiliations you must then feel it your responsibility to form a kind of culture of counterparts, or to try and affect other people’s lives by reminding them of your relationship. [...]

[...] You will not destroy consciousness. You will not annihilate the consciousness of even one leaf, but in your context, if the problem were not solved, these would fade from your experience.

Now: Throughout your reincarnational existences you expand your consciousness, your ideas, your perceptions, your values. [...]

[...] Consciousness will expand. [...]

[...] There are no magic words that will make you wise, that will fill you with understanding and compassion, that will expand your consciousness.

(Then at 11:21, here presented verbatim:) Now a note: I do not want to get into family variations, but Sue Watkins picked up a variation of the Gramada family of consciousness (the Grunaargh) — quite legitimate, and at the time very good on her part.⁴ People love to make divisions. [...] All divisions are simply for the purpose of organizations of consciousness. [...]

[...] Mine came into consciousness before Jane’s did, but she soon caught up with me. [...]

(After supper tonight I asked Jane if Seth would comment on the Grunaargh family of consciousness. [...]

[...] Every so often someone wants to know about the extent to which we follow Seth’s advice or information, and I suppose a good answer is that we may decide to go along with it if it suits our conscious purposes to do so. [...]

[...] There are different kinds of organizations present, however, and in any given section of the book, several levels of consciousness are appealed to at once. (Intently:) The threads of the work are interwoven so that various portions of your consciousness are sent out, so to speak, on separate journeys of thought and imagination. [...] They intertwine, not only through the psychic organization that I have given to “Unknown” Reality, but because of the great uniting nature within the consciousness of each reader.

It remains nebulous because it is consciously unrealized. The best I can do is to point out areas that have been relatively invisible, to help you explore, actually, different facets of your own consciousness.² To some extent this book has been written to help you exercise your own intuitive and mental capacities from a different viewpoint.

Besides this, however, it contains what you may call cues that automatically open up greater levels of your own awareness, and hence bring into your conscious life some recognition of the unknown reality in which you also have your being. [...]

[...] You must learn more about the slant of your own consciousness before you are in a position to ask truly pertinent questions about the reality that you perceive.

Now I tell you that he has been checking such impulses a good fifty times a day, this including impulses of which he has not been consciously aware. [...] They are just beneath consciousness, and will yield readily to his attention. [...] What he is becoming aware of clearly and consciously is the residue, the checks and balances, that he has been using to restrict physical activity.

[...] Getting up and down from the floor, as I knew it would, reawakened muscular memory, you see, and this in turn knocked at the door of his consciousness, jarring him into new recognitions. [...]

[...] This is important, for to him running is a happy, spontaneous activity, and he has blocked the impulse at times rather consciously because he feared he could not do it, that it would hurt or that he would look silly.

[...] We play, for example, with the mobility of our consciousness, seeing how “far” one can send it. We are constantly surprised at the products of our own consciousness, of the dimensions of reality through which we can hopscotch. It might seem that we use our consciousness idly in such play, and yet again, the pathways we make continue to exist and can be used by others. [...]

We do not feel the need to hide our emotions or thoughts from others, because all of us by now well recognize the cooperative nature of all consciousness and reality, and our part in it. [...]

[...] I believe, for example, that all creativity and consciousness is born in the quality of play, as opposed to work, in the quickened intuitional spontaneity that I see as a constant through all my own existences, and in the experience of those I know.

[...] What I say is one thing, but the pupil of course is thrust into psychological and psychic behavior and experience that may seem quite alien to him on a conscious level.

[...] Tell him to leave his body alone with his conscious mind in the same way that he leaves a poem alone with his conscious mind when it is forming— to think of his body as a poem. [...]

[...] It was rather a displacement of consciousness rather than a projection, for his consciousness was in a trance state, and then displaced to the bookcase area. [...]

[...] Ruburt does not need his conscious mind to perform as a guardian. [...]

I have told him that concentration on his work will dissipate the rest of his symptoms, but he adopted a too-conscious (underlined) deliberation here. [...]

[...] Your consciousness handles far more space data now. (In parentheses: I am speaking in your terms of time.) Watching television, you are aware of events that occur on the other side of the earth, so your consciousness necessarily becomes less parochial.⁸ As this has happened the whole matter (smiling) of probabilities has begun to assume a more practical cast. [...]

(We’ve largely finished correcting proofs on both the text and the drawing captions for Jane’s Adventures in Consciousness, which will be published in June. [...]

[...] As you do not consciously bother with all of the calculations necessary in the process of walking down the street, so you also ignore the mechanisms that involve motion through probable realities. [...]

[...] Inner data is immediately aroused through conscious and unconscious association. [...]