“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

There are two ways to get at your own conscious beliefs. [...] They are quite available once you are determined to examine the complete contents of your conscious mind.

[...] You give no conscious thought to the coming and going of cells within your organs. [...]

The “negative” subjective and objective events that you meet are meant to make you examine the contents of your own conscious mind. [...]

[...] The conscious system of beliefs behind the impediment will be illuminated, and you will realize that you feel a certain way because you believe an idea that causes and justifies such a reaction.

[...] Action develops according to value fulfillment, and value fulfillment has little to do with size or numbers; and action turns to consciousness. Action working on itself becomes consciousness, and in speaking of consciousness I do not necessarily mean what you mean by the word.

[...] It is conscious of itself as belonging to action. [...] It is conscious of the gestalts of which it is part.

Your concept of consciousness is fearful and limiting, and depends for its existence upon ignorance and barriers, barriers that divide parts of the self from others, from other parts of the self, and from other selves, and from experiences of the selves.

[...] It is only your ego which leads you to believe that such an expansion would result in a lessening of consciousness on the one hand, or an invasion of other selves on the other.

[...] Quite without realizing it, your ego is a result of group consciousness, for example; the one consciousness that most directly faces the exterior world, is dependent upon the minute consciousness that resides within each living cell of your body; and as a rule you are only aware of one ego — at least at a time.

Since consciousness forms matter, and not the other way around, then thought exists before the brain and after it. [...] They knew (pause) that the seemingly solid natural objects about them were composed of many minute consciousnesses.

(9:35.) Because of the energy he is given by others, he will have a certain consciousness of his own, but such a mock devil has no power or reality to those who do not believe in his existence, and who do not give him energy through their belief. [...]

Now those who have such beliefs actually lack a necessary deep trust in the nature of consciousness, of the soul, and of All That Is. [...]

As you have probably supposed by now, there is consciousness in everything. Visible or invisible to you, each fragment of the universe has a consciousness of its own. Pain and pleasure, the strongest aspects of all consciousness, are experienced strongly by every fragment, according to its degree. Differentiation is of course various, and it is in the degree of differentiation that consciousness is different.

[...] In some ways its living forces and consciousness are kept to a minimum. [...] The state of consciousness involved here is dull as compared to the highly differentiated human ability in many ways.

[...] However conscious fears cause the ego to tighten its grasp and some effects of this nature were starting up again. [...]

[...] Incidentally while we are on this subject, often in the past when you thought you were dealing with a matter or a person in a dissociated manner, you were instead exhibiting a cold conscious detachment.

Such expansion of consciousness itself automatically results in the solution of such problems. I am not speaking here of a one-sided expansion, in which so-called occult tendencies are emphasized at all, but in an overall reeducation of consciousness, in which the operational self becomes aware of areas that have been considered taboo.

[...] The old line of consciousness is breaking down, and at every level the “ignorant,” the wise, the lettered, the unlettered, the religious or the irreligious; it makes little difference. In whatever way, racial consciousness is in a time of change. [...]

[...] It will be a source book for all of those who try to understand the self as it operates consciously and unconsciously. [...]

[...] We are introducing a different kind of consciousness as normal, as natural, and as good, broadening the frontiers of psychology, religion and science as well—again, to whatever degree.

[...] This does not mean that there is no consciousness in such species, nor does it mean there is no self-consciousness. [...]

[...] Material from the inner senses is very seldom experienced by the conscious mind in its pure condition. [...]

[...] Miss Callahan herself was conscious of natural dismay over the projected operations. [...]

[...] Yet consciously of course, she was ignorant of her own inner decision, and this is always absolutely necessary.

(9:36.) Your conscious mind is meant to assess and evaluate physical reality, and to help you chart your course in the corporeal universe of which you are presently part. [...] All energy at the inner self’s disposal is then concentrated to bring about the results asked for by the conscious mind.

He was a study, a living example, of the effects of conflicting unexamined beliefs, a fierce and yet agonized personification of what can happen when an individual allows his conscious mind to deny its responsibilities — i.e., when an individual becomes afraid of his own consciousness.

[...] This is not a usual case — but to some extent or another, such a division occurs physically or mentally when the contents of the conscious mind are not examined.

[...] The simple event of Ruburt reading Hoyle’s book: Ruburt began reading certain ideas with which he is not yet consciously familiar. [...] I am aware of his emotional ideas, of course, and to an important degree I am free of his prejudices, but more than that, in certain terms, my consciousness is not limited, so that I can take from Ruburt’s understanding his good comprehension of where science is, and then tell you where an enlightened science might go.

More important, I can tell you that atoms, for example, are primarily consciousness. [...] I can perceive your objects as objects, or not—but the true nature of reality must come from a study of consciousness.

[...] In many cases, however, the contact alone opens up different aspects of your own consciousness in response. [...]

(Long pause.) It is as if bits and pieces of any and all probable events exist in a jigsaw-like fashion throughout the minds of men, throughout the consciousnesses of plants and all natural things, wanting to be put together—and each individual consciousness has its part to play in directing which of those events occur or do not occur—but the processes involved in the formation of those events are hidden from the conscious mind. [...]

[...] They may involve a different kind of consciousness and intelligence than your own. [...]

(10:17.) There are certain interior physical events that can happen within Ruburt’s body to help him move more naturally, but he cannot possibly consciously comprehend each change that must occur, and when viewed in that light the entire exercise seems so complicated as to be almost impossible. [...]

[...] If you begin to concentrate upon the importance of the nature of thought, to become overly concerned with the processes involved with thinking or reasoning, then your very conscious concern would make those processes seem all the more complicated, while instead it is easy to see that those processes are quite naturally equipped to handle their own tasks with remarkable ease. [...]

[...] You are, I hope in the midst of a garden of consciousness... [...] These are your thoughts and mental images and they spring out from you, as the petals spring out from a flower, but you can see the petals of a flower and you are not consciously aware of these other images. [...]

[...] And because you consider yourselves above a plant, and do not realize what a fine consciousness they possess. [...]

[...] And if the consciousness within the leaves did not sing with the vitality of existence, then no amount of chemicals would make it live. [...]

Imagine, as a simple technique, that you are what you are—a consciousness with all the potentials of development—even those potentials that you do not understand. [...]

[...] This perspective cannot “work” at your usual level of consciousness, any more than the artist’s perspective will work for the ant’s — though there is much you could learn from an ant’s consciousness (intently). [...]

[...] At your particular focus of consciousness, no arguments will suffice to convince you otherwise, for you are everywhere presented with the physical evidence of “fact.” [...]

(10:07.) Your own waking consciousness deals specifically with certain kinds of distinctions. [...]

[...] If you accept those terms as the only criterion of reality then surely it appears that death is an end to your consciousness.

[...] Portions of your consciousness are alive in mine, so you are to some extent carried along where I go, as motes of dust might be swept along with a brisk autumn wind from one area to another. [...] These arouse your curiosity even when consciously you are not aware of perceiving them. [...]

[...] Weathermen speak of local conditions and merging air currents — but my journeys are in a realm where consciousnesses merge. [...]

[...] Knowledge is changed automatically through the auspices of each consciousness who perceives it. [...]

[...] While our meetings take place in your time, and in the physical space of your house, say, the primary encounter must be a subjective inner one, an intersection of consciousnesses that is then physically experienced.

[...] What the entity does however it does consciously and with purpose, since it is by definition beneath consciousness, and without consciousness there is no purpose.

[...] The consciousness of a part of the whole could not bear the weight of the consciousness of the whole. [...]

[...] In each life the new consciousness struggles to tie together the whole present personality, to use what is necessary from the subconscious for the good of the personality, and to keep submerged in the subconscious any knowledge that would threaten the dominancy of the present ego.

[...] Imagine (to Kris)  and even you imagine your own consciousness accelerated, faster and faster and faster. [...] Use my voice again, simply to give you something to hang on to, and translate the tones into the acceleration of your own consciousness, and translate the energy so you can use it to form your own path. And follow the acceleration of your own consciousness gladly and joyfully and openly and follow it wherever it wants to go, freely, in gratitude. [...]

[...] I want you to travel further than you have gone before, to open up yourself with greater freedom and joy to other forms of consciousness that are your own; to other roads that exist for you, to other kinds of knowledge that you either may or may not be able to verbalize. [...]

[...] It appears to you that your present consciousness wanders backward into the past, until finally you can remember no longer—and on a conscious level, at least, you must take the very event of your birth under secondhanded evidence. Few people have conscious memory of it.

[...] Gadgets will, ultimately, teach you nothing about the dimensions of your own consciousness. When you use them (biofeedback, for instance) even to attain alterations of consciousness, you are programming yourselves, stepping apart from yourselves.

[...] In all of these cases you are ignoring the reality of consciousness, and its gestalt formations and manifestations. Until you perceive the innate consciousness behind any “visible” or “invisible” manifestations, then, you put a definite barrier to your own knowledge.

[...] In other words, unless the ideas behind objective science are altered, then gadget-produced altered states will almost certainly be used to manipulate, rather than free, consciousness.

[...] That appendix contains excerpts from The Wonderworks — material which Jane wrote last month while in an altered state of consciousness, and which was at least partly inspired by her dream series. [...]

[...] It is for this reason that each portion of All That Is, each most minute consciousness, is endowed with the impetus toward survival, change, development and creativity. It is not enough that All That Is, as a primary consciousness-gestalt, desires further being, but, that every portion of it also carry this determination.

All That Is loves all that it has created, down to the least, for it realizes the dearness, and the uniqueness of each consciousness which had been wrest (spelled) from such a state and at such a price; and it is triumphant and joyful at each new development taken by each consciousness, for this is an added triumph against that first state, and an added security against that first state, and it revels and (takes) joy in the slightest creative act of each of its issue.

[...] Now, every portion of consciousness is imbued with innate knowledge towards the means of expression and creativity. [...]

[...] From its agony it found the way to burst forth in freedom, through expression, and in doing so gave existence to individualized consciousness that forever continues the process. [...]

[...] She called the chapter “Personal Evaluations — Who or What is Seth?” In it she made a number of excellent points concerning her relationship with Seth and Seth Two; for example: “If physical life evolves [in ordinary terms], why not consciousness itself?” The questions we had at the time can be found throughout the chapter. Indeed, we still have many of them — or, I should note, we’re still intrigued by the latest versions of those “old” questions, for like consciousness itself they’re endless in their ramifications. [...]

(In July 1971 Jane began a book to be called Adventures in Consciousness, based on the experiences of her students in ESP class. [...] Class was now providing a wealth of material on reincarnation, various states of consciousness, and out-of-body travel. [...]

(The material itself of course, came from another state of consciousness, and this Jane called her “aspects channel.” [...] And Jane put it all together; the class experiments she’d started out with in 1971, and all of the later material, became Adventures in Consciousness: An Introduction to Aspect Psychology. [...]

(From the 775th session for May 10, 1976:) Bits of your consciousnesses,³⁴ Joseph and Ruburt, go out through these books. [...] Those portions will mix with the consciousness of others. [...]

[...] As you leave your usual orientation, however, altering the focus of your consciousness, you may very well structure your new experience just as you do your physical one. [...]

[...] You are in far greater danger the longer you inhibit your natural feelings, and alterations of consciousness often present you with the framework in which these come to light. [...]

If you are normally capable of dealing with physical reality, you will encounter no difficulties in alterations of consciousness, or leaving your home station. [...]

Now when you leave your home station and alter your consciousness, you are always a tourist if you take your own baggage of ideas along with you, and interpret your experiences through your own personal, cultural beliefs. [...]

[...] Some new habits have finally taken; consciously he has learned to leave himself alone enough so that the body can clear itself.

Now this does have personality characteristics in terms of consciousness and intent. [...]

These are personalities, in that they do possess consciousness, in this case built upon Ruburt’s most creative tendencies. [...]

[...] In one way both personalities were accidental, in that Ruburt did not consciously (underlined) form either. [...]