“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] They dealt with a different framework of consciousness—one that is somewhat now out of character with your kind. [...] Those Italian villages exemplified really a kind of consciousness, or an orientation of consciousness, that existed before modern psychology and Darwinian belief: a framework of consciousness and experience that was overall similar in the recent past and in the time of the Romans—one, in other words, that existed up into the present. [...]

[...] The land that is the environment, and the consciousness in your terms of the people, were part of each other in such a strong fashion that their energies merged (pause) to bring about the earthquake conditions. [...]

You had a mass burial—land and people together, a folding-in of consciousness upon itself, of energies upon energies, as those people realized that their kind of existence could no longer be maintained. [...]

Hellfire, for example, hardly presents any desirable extension, but there was before hell always the hope that the sinner would repent, and even if hell became the feared future existence, it still preserved the nature of the human consciousness involved. [...]

[...] Although you are not consciously aware of the past familiarity, nevertheless you use the knowledge to your conscious advantage.

In the case of projection, this trance forms a safe channel through which the consciousness may travel and return. It is associated with the pyramid effect, usually going outward from the center of consciousness.

Though he does not understand what he does, he is learning control at other layers of consciousness, and he will be able to utilize his abilities far better in our sessions and in other experiments. [...]

[...] In many ways it is an aggressive tool that the consciousness uses to pierce through time and space as you know it.

The kind of dream Ruburt interpreted for you, about the Cézanne exhibition, is an example of an excellent message dream, important enough to come to consciousness because you were ready. Then, you consciously assimilate the information, and add the strength and power of the conscious mind, and conscious intent, to the power of the dream’s message.

Once you begin consciously working with Framework 2, help, support, solutions, all begin to come, for you line up your conscious faculties with your unconscious ones, in the most beneficial way, and your conscious goals fit in with your unconscious natural goals—the primary ones given you at birth. [...]

“Pretend that you are in the dream state and concerned with the problem of waking consciousness and existence. From that viewpoint, the picture is entirely different, for you are indeed conscious while you sleep.

[...] This simply means that I can sometimes recognize when I am dreaming, bring my normal “waking consciousness” into the dream situation, and then use it to project my consciousness elsewhere. [...]

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

Whole blocks of sessions deal with the methods used and the conditions that can be met in projections of consciousness from the dream state. [...] I’ve often awakened, fully alert, in the middle of the night, suddenly conscious that I’ve been giving a kind of Seth session. [...]

(Seth II:) We seed universes and consciousness and your animals and your plants. The consciousness that composes them, is endowed by us. The warm-blooded creatures that you know are seeded by our consciousness. [...] Consciousness releases its abilities in ways that you do not understand and yet from your own mind, springing from your own dreams, other systems of reality emerge as you have emerged from our dreams. [...]

Now also realize that all consciousness is individual and sacred and that none of this is meant to deny the integrity of any individual consciousness. [...]

[...] They are methods that you use as a part of all consciousness to form new experiences and new developments. [...]

Now the time has come for you to outgrow parables, but this will take considerable stretching of consciousness on your part, and considerable work on our part. [...]

An important point here: You use consciousness—what you think of as rational consciousness—in an unusual manner. Obviously other species use their consciousnesses differently. [...] Your kind of consciousness, relatively speaking, involves some intrinsic difficulties, along with spectacular potentials. [...]

In that larger picture (underlined) there are no errors, for each action, pleasant or not, will (underlined) in its fashion be redeemed, both in relationship to itself and in relationship to a larger picture that the conscious mind may not be able presently to perceive. [...]

(Pause at 9:26.) This means that you deal, even consciously, with vast areas of probabilities, with various combinations, with ways in which identity itself will be defined and experienced. [...]

[...] His consciousness left his body — an event not even considered possible by many educated people. Ruburt’s consciousness merged, while still retaining its own individuality, with the consciousness of the leaves outside his window, and with the nail in the windowsill, and traveled outward and inward at the same time, so that like a mental wind his consciousness traveled through other psychological neighborhoods.

[...] Each of you are as familiar with the so-called birth of the universe, as close to it or as distant [from it], as your own recognized consciousness is to your own physical birth, for the initiation of awareness and sensation in one infant really carries all of the same questions as those involved with the birth of the universe.

The mother could not consciously control the bodily processes that lead to birth. [...]

The psyche as you know it, then, is composed of a mixture of these families of consciousness. [...] (Pause.) A book would be needed to explain the dimensions of the psyche in relation to the different families of consciousness. [...] I am alert to the fact that I am using many terms, and that it may seem difficult to understand the differences between probable and reincarnational selves, counterparts and families of consciousness. [...]

(That concentration upon places to live reminded us of families, of course — “regular” families as well as Seth’s families of consciousness. [...]

[...] To one extent or another, each family of consciousness carries within it the characteristics inherent in all of the families. [...]

[...] These qualities are particularly important as they add to, temper, or enhance the primary characteristics of the other families of consciousness.

[...] Here is question one: “When I project my consciousness out of my body, is my astral body pregnant because I am now pregnant physically? [...]

[...] The new individual has a deeply buried memory of its past lives, but the personal consciousness of the last reincarnated self must not be superimposed upon this new identity. [...]

[...] The mother knows where the child is, even though she is not conscious of this. [...]

[...] If the consciousness involved has its own reasons for living, then it will make the most of even the most dire conditions. If instead the consciousness has been kept alive despite its own intents through medical procedures, it will terminate its own physical life in one way or another.

Human consciousness normally experiences wide sweeps of rhythms, varying states of awareness, and its amazing flexibility is partially dependent upon its lack of rigidity, its own spontaneous inclinations, and its capacity for curiosity, wonder, discovery, and emotion.

Many deficient individuals in their way are as vital to the development of humanity as geniuses are, for both preserve the elastic nature of human consciousness, and promote its coping qualifications.

(9:17.) Each species is endowed also, by virtue of the units of consciousness that compose it, with an overall inner picture of the condition of each other species (pause), and further characterized by basic impulses so that it is guided toward choices that best fulfill its own potentials for development while adding to the overall good of the entire world consciousness. [...]

(Jane paused, eyes closed, often seeming to grope for words while in trance.) This is, again, difficult to explain, but free will operates in all units of consciousness, regardless of their degree—but (whispering) it operates within the framework of that degree. [...]

[...] We are speaking now of conscious decisions as you think of them.

(Long pause.) You can only make so many conscious decisions, or you would be swamped and caught in a constant dilemma of decision making. [...]

(To Dennis and Giselle.) You both have been learning very much and when you are ready to become consciously aware of what you have learned in the past week it will rise to the surface of your consciousness. [...]

[...] Consciousness opened up new dimensions of activity, development and awareness. [...]

Human existence, again, represents growth and development and the birth of consciousness into a different and new dimension of activity. [...]

[...] You have various aspects of consciousness. [...]

[...] Now, when you allow negative thoughts to predominate in your conscious mind you then become more open to the negative thoughts of others. You are given a natural protection but you weaken this protection when your conscious thoughts are negative. [...]

(To Brad:) Now, your conscious thought patterns and your subconscious thought patterns are the same. Therefore, using your inner senses that day you felt the urge to get into your car because consciously you were looking for negative patterns. [...]

[...] I want you to watch your own conscious thoughts. [...]

[...] Therefore, often you allow these thoughts to take all of your conscious attention. [...]

[...] The most important one is that Ruburt must make a conscious effort not only to alter his habits but to handle what he thinks of now as distractions by conscious effort, the changing of a pattern, rather than by unconscious limitations on the body. [...]

[...] Simply deciding on a conscious level to reenter that arena, in his present state, shows in itself a change of belief, for before he did not want to try, and considered it a threat to his work.

[...] He is still frightened, and will be worried lest he become too involved in it, but he is willing to handle that on a conscious level now, which is another important change in beliefs.

Before he did not believe he could handle that consciously, so it is important. [...]

Because you know that you breathe, without being consciously aware of the mechanics involved, you are forced to admit that you do your own breathing. When you cross a room, you are forced to admit that you have caused yourself to do so, though consciously you have no idea of willing the muscles to move, or of stimulating one tendon or another. [...]

He says, ‘I breathe, but who breathes, since consciously I cannot tell myself to breathe or not to breathe?’ He says, ‘I dream. [...]

As breathing is carried on in a manner that seems automatic to the conscious mind, so the important function of transforming the vitality of the universe into pattern units seems to be carried on automatically. [...]

[...] Who moves?’ How much easier it would be to admit freely and wholeheartedly the simple fact that you are not consciously aware of vital parts of yourself and that you are more than you think you are.

Primarily, such a consciousness knows itself, or tries to know itself, only in relationship to others or exterior conditions. [...] No consciousness is purely tuned into outside conditions only, of course. This type, however, is a cultivated specialization of consciousness in which its nature is known through the impact of exterior rather than interior conditions. Generally speaking, and only generally, it represents the consciousness familiar to many in your society—most likely, the majority.

The outside-attuned consciousness, however, is almost dependent upon exterior stimuli for its sense of life and enjoyment. I do not want to oversimplify, yet such a type of consciousness is far more interested in exploring the nature of itself as it relates to exterior conditions or circumstances. [...]

Because of the nature of your society, a large number of people cultivate what I will call an outside-attuned consciousness. [...]

[...] The polarities are artificial, but there is no doubt that in your society and times the exterior-tuned consciousness is the most paramount. [...]

(“Even while I told Jane about this during break, I could feel this acceleration begin again, as Jane’s consciousness prepared to continue the communication. It was almost an inside-out process of going into trance, and as I watched Seth a few minutes later it seemed that Jane’s consciousness was rushing past her open eyes, beyond my comprehension of what speed is. [...]

In our own sessions he is not aware, consciously, of the creative work that is being done, precisely because he has gone out of the range that the conscious mind can follow. [...]

[...] Here, you see, the acceleration is so rapid and intense that he is not consciously able to follow it. [...] It is, however, related strongly to qualities inherent within each consciousness. [...]

To some other types of consciousness, your physical reality is clearly understood in its symbolic form. [...]

[...] So it is the conscious alert mind that must take these pictures if you hope to later make sense of your inner journeys. That conscious reasoning mind must therefore be taken along. [...] Certain techniques will help you pack your conscious mind for your journey as you would pack your camera. It will be there when you need it, to take the pictures that will be your conscious memories of your journey.

[...] When your consciousness is not directly focused in physical reality, then, the great creativity of the psyche is given fuller play. All of its dimensions are faithfully and instantly produced as experience when you learn to take your “normally alert” conscious mind with you; and when you are free of such limiting ideas, then at those levels you can glimpse the inner powers of your own psyche, and watch the interplay of beliefs and symbols as they are manifested before your eyes. [...]

If you are in a world not yours, with your consciousness drifting, you are in free gear, so to speak, your feelings and thoughts flowing into experience. [...]

[...] We will be giving some instructions that will enable readers to experiment with the projection of consciousness at least to some extent. [...]

You are so consciously aware of your need for privacy and you are so consciously modest, that his very strong but mostly unconscious needs in these directions sometimes go unsatisfied, since he is not as consciously aware of them.

[...] The time will come at a much later date when you will allow such material entry into your conscious state directly—that is, without the need to project it visually, since here a certain amount of distortion is almost always present.

[...] His conscious and unconscious mind had to be acquainted with certain ideas to begin with, in order for the complexity of this material to come through.

[...] The inner senses provided him with much, but nevertheless the ideas contained represented an achievement of the conscious mind. [...]

[...] I do not force my perceptions upon the woman through whom I speak, nor is her consciousness blotted out during our communications. Instead there is an expansion of her consciousness and a projection of energy that is directed away from three-dimensional reality.

This concentration away from the physical system may make it appear as if her consciousness is blotted out. [...]

[...] In these communications, therefore, Ruburt’s consciousness expands, and yet focuses in a different dimension, a dimension between his reality and mine, a field relatively free of distraction. [...]