“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(No doubt, of course, that extrasensory information was obtained; telepathy from Jerry in some cases perhaps—from her conscious and subconscious mind. No information given to my knowledge that was unknown to any living person; some given that was not known consciously by Jerry but she could have picked up the knowledge and forgotten it.)

(Smile.) You would have been consciously aware of the painting whether or not you were consciously aware of the vision. [...]

[...] As soon as I realized this conscious effort I relaxed, in hopes that this would encourage its longevity, but the vision faded and did not return. [...]

(“Now that I have conscious memory of seeing the vision, I’m wondering just how much this memory is going to influence my actual production of the work.”)

Now this whole self is completely unique, yet the energy that composes it is a part of the energy that also is the ground of being, for all other consciousnesses. [...]

(9:32.) As he resumed “normal” consciousness Ruburt found himself wondering about the great violence involved, and the entire situation in which such people placed themselves. (He often has the radio on when he is working with alternate states of consciousness, by the way, using it as a point of reference.)

[...] You are consciously aware of certain events, and unconsciously aware of much more that in one way or another you are learning to bring into conscious focus.

Dictation: Ruburt was working with alterations of consciousness this afternoon. [...]

[...] Peculiarly, in spite of her deep trance and the mass of material she’d delivered, Jane remembered one line — Seth’s remark about her using the radio as a point of reference while she worked with states of consciousness. [...]

[...] Consciously recalling the dreams is excellent, since the subconscious data is at least to some extent consciously assimilated, and in the dreams aggressive tendencies are indeed released and worked out in an actual manner, as satisfying to the subconscious as if they were worked out within the physical field. [...]

This involves on his part not a conscious, but a subconscious change of habit. [...]

[...] Ruburt at this time would not dispense with the sessions, although it is true that he sometimes consciously resents the discipline involved in their regularity.

Subconsciously however, the very regularity is reassuring to him, since a fairly permanent pattern exists despite the flux and flow of conscious inclination. [...]

[...] Consciousness of self, if you recall, is self-consciousness that still retains self as a part of action, self that perceives its existence within action. Ego, originally a part of this consciousness of self, splits off as previously explained, and attempts to dissociate itself from action, indeed to view action as a result of itself; that is, to view action as a result and not a cause.

[...] Remember here the difference between consciousness of self and the ego, for the difference is important. The ego is but part of the self, part of the conscious self, but focused in one direction.

[...] Remember here again that there is a difference between the ego and consciousness of self. It is not necessary that the ego assimilate all experiences that are open to consciousness of self. [...]

[...] It does not apply to those other portions of the self, and it is through the inner self, through inner consciousness, that to some degree the nature of action can make itself known. [...]

[...] I cannot emphasize too strongly the fact that all of these portions are self-conscious. They may not be conscious of the other selves however. The inner senses connect all the selves, and the movements of consciousness are far more complicated than that of a Ferris wheel.

[...] I knew nothing of its history consciously, and hoped Jane and Seth could help out. [...]

[...] It can be said that all consciousnesses and all identities are but one. [...]

[...] It consciously contains experience that was previously subconscious. [...]

[...] As you will see later, you can become more and more consciously aware, therefore bringing into your consciousness larger and larger portions of yourself.

(10:12.) You breathe, grow, and perform multitudinous delicate and precise activities constantly, without being consciously aware of how you carry out such manipulations. You live without consciously knowing how you maintain this miracle of physical awareness in the world of flesh and time.

[...] Your own conscious thoughts will give you excellent clues. [...]

Your conscious mind is always trying to give you a clear picture, but you often allow preconceived ideas to block out this intelligence. [...]

[...] Affirmation is based upon the realization that no other consciousness is the same as your own, that your abilities are uniquely yours and like no other’s. It is the acceptance of your individuality in flesh. [...]

[...] They are natural ever-changing states of feeling, each leading into another in a free flow of energy and activity — colorful, rich, glowing tints that bring variety to the quality of consciousness. [...]

[...] They are one of the means by which physically attuned consciousness knows itself. [...]

[...] They are elements of the power of consciousness, filled with energy. [...]

I want each of you to write a list, yourself—and this involves work—a list of your conscious ideas about yourself, your conscious beliefs. [...] I then want you to make a list of your conscious beliefs regarding each other, and you are then to discuss these. [...]

[...] Your beliefs, that artists and writers were poor, were quite conscious. [...]

[...] I also want you each to consciously know what you think, secretly, about the ways in which Ruburt’s symptoms keep you from doing certain things, both of you.

[...] If you would examine your own beliefs, you would realize why you waited this long, and I am talking about conscious beliefs.

[...] (Pause.) So is your own world formed by units of consciousness. Its natural elements are the glistening remnants of other units of consciousness that you do not perceive. [...]

[...] I’d made a note of it, and asked that Seth comment if we had a session yesterday: “Units of consciousness also form other kinds of matter that you do not perceive.” [...]

(Pause.) Units of consciousness do help form different kinds of physical realities—as indeed Ruburt has himself hinted in some of his poetry. [...]

[...] I wanted to let you know of my presence, and I wanted to give you at least a brief answer to your question about units of consciousness. [...]

When Jane began delivering the Seth material in 1963, I became very conscious of the record we’d leave, not with Seth but concerning our private lives. [...] Other facets of our physical and nonphysical lives could help us tremendously if more conscious attention was given to them, regardless of “when” they happened.

[...] Even so, I think, ultimately we come to understand, whether on conscious or unconscious levels — or both — that we were utterly ourselves while learning along the way.

[...] Surely Jane’s life shows this, and in ways that neither of us were even remotely aware of consciously when we married 42 years ago.

But how can we — how can anyone — bring more of our inherent knowledge to consciousness, to use? [...]

Now: Dictation: When you allow your emotions their natural spontaneous flow they will never engulf you, and always return you refreshed to “logical” conscious-mind thought.

[...] It is of the utmost importance, however, that you understand the power and directing nature of your conscious mind, for otherwise you will believe yourself to be forever at the mercy of conditions and situations over which you feel you have no control.

Again, while the conscious mind is meant to direct the flow of your experience through your beliefs, and to materialize them, the actual mechanics are taken care of automatically by other portions of the self. [...]

No man or woman consciously knows for sure which day will be the last for him or her in this particular life, that each calls the present one. [...]

[...] They are conscious. All form has consciousness. [...]

[...] You are learning to use your consciousness to become conscious cocreators of your own reality. [...]

[...] Now even as this voice grows stronger let the feelings within yourselves grow stronger and let you feel your own energy from the inner self fill your consciousness and your physical being with vitality and knowledge and the joy of existence. [...]

I arrived at this idea after several conscious and deliberate attempts to ‘get going’ once again and leave my body behind. [...] This must imply a kind of dual consciousness here, since I was aware of both bodies.

Ruburt’s experience involving you was quite legitimate, although you did not consciously remember it. [...] Both consciously and unconsciously, you were thinking about Ruburt’s dental appointment. [...]

[...] Like mine, Sue’s records are full of notes concerning the effort needed to maintain consciousness at the required level and to prevent falling off into a regular dream state.

[...] His abilities have developed along the lines of psychic-vision, as explained in The Seth Material. His projections have been infrequent, and he never gained conscious awareness of any from the sleep state until this one. [...]

Working nights or early mornings is a kind of solution, and a method of illumination in which he is forced to make conscious decisions. It is a way of consciously deciding to operate, to cut out distractions. [...]

The paper written today should be discussed by both of you so that those ideas are brought completely into the open where he can consciously and intellectually examine them. [...]

[...] His natural abilities are unconventionally tuned, highly spontaneous, working through intuitive loops; in a certain way, now, from a normally conscious viewpoint, unpredictable.

[...] When the system was set up, for many reasons having to do with relative youth and lack of experience, he did not have any confidence in his conscious ability to say no, to hold to a “line of attack.” [...]

[...] The units of consciousness that I have mentioned are (underlined) that, and they do behave as I have said. They are also in other terms entities, fragments of All That Is, if you prefer—divine fragments of power and majesty, containing (pause) all of the powers of consciousness as you think of it, concentrations without substance in your terms.

However, let us remember that when creating and experiencing a challenge, on any scale, consciousness may choose a predominantly positive or negative focus, or it may seek to achieve a balance. [...] So consciousness is really exploring the nuclear question in global terms, even though here in Dreams I usually deal with its “local” aspects.

(Long pause at 9:28.) There are phases of relatedness, rhythms and harmonies of consciousness from whose infinite swells the molecular “music” of your universe is sounded. [...]

I do not mean by such a description to minimize the importance of physical life, for All That Is endows each portion of its own transformed reality with a unique existence that is duplicated nowhere else, and each spark of consciousness is endowed with a divine heritage that is never extinguished—a spark that is apparent in all other corners of the universe.

[...] The waking consciousness, dear friends, is not the ego. The ego is merely a small portion of waking consciousness. The ego is the portion of waking consciousness that deals with physical manipulation.

[...] The dream state itself is a very loose term, for there are several layers of consciousness within it, and there is no limit to the states of consciousness that can be achieved, ideally speaking.

[...] You have both occasionally learned to take our waking consciousness into the dream state, and here Fox is correct, for you must start at this point.

[...] In ordinary dreaming, without the awareness of usual waking consciousness, perception of dream reality is limited and instinctive. [...]

[...] They will allow you to take the waking consciousness along with you. As your abilities develop and as you become more accustomed to the experience, the waking consciousness will recall more and more, and not become frightened. [...]

[...] The mobility of consciousness will automatically allow you greater freedom in using your inner perceptions in waking life also. For this is a motion of consciousness, a motion that has little to do with the motion of the physical body.

[...] The chemical reaction results in an electromagnetic connection between the consciousness and the physical body, and without it there would be no return to the physical body, in your terms. [...] This freedom of consciousness is not dependent upon physical existence, you see.

[...] In the second form this perception is on a larger scale, the scope of consciousness being further opened. [...]

[...] Given our present ideas about the limitless nature of consciousness, we think our joint quest has been underway since before our births—by choice—and we expect it to continue for the rest of our physical lives. [...] To me, redemption means a continuous search or journey, then, involving whatever events and interchanges we choose to create, for whatever purposes, along the way—and truly, I think, some of those purposes will involve things “the conscious mind may not be able presently to perceive.” [...]

Accounts of projecting into distant future lives seem rare: Perhaps the conscious self deeply hesitates at swimming in such uncharted pools of consciousness, even though present and future relationships are assumed.

[...] It could well be that her psyche has derived from her whole self, or entity, the “facts” of reality a lot better than either of us consciously knows them. [...] Our independence relative to reincarnation may represent just conscious cussedness on our parts, but we believe that each of us (meaning anyone, that is) always has the freedom to accept or reject any such choice or causality —whatever we choose to do. No, instead we think of our current challenges as contributing to the knowledge of our whole selves in most specific ways, rather than our being swayed that much by our reincarnational and/or counterpart associations. [...]

[...] He said that basically both our genetic structure and our reincarnational history are systems of consciousness, that they’re “intermixed.” [...] I don’t doubt that he’s right—that is, in our temporal lifetimes we call upon whatever systems of consciousness we desire to, at whatever “time”: a matter of choice and free will operating within the broad parameters of our sexual orientation and other personality factors.

Too great a conscious focus upon these purposes gives a negative reaction of doubt and anxiety. I am not saying that you should not be at all consciously concerned with your purposes. [...]

[...] Your lack of success lately with psychological time has been to a large measure caused by too great a conscious concentration upon the task. [...]

[...] The inner senses, when the physical body is relaxed, will carry you through the imaginary boundaries, but a conscious focus upon the boundaries to be passed through will tend to reinforce them. [...]

[...] You do not know precisely in a conscious manner how to achieve this state when you are working. [...]