“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] They automatically sweep his consciousness into other areas of activity, away from issues to which he may have been sensitized in the past, and serve to give him a breathing spell and refreshment.

[...] Different environments simply give consciousness some new material to nibble on.

[...] You can trick normal consciousness quite easily with baubles, take its attention into other areas so that the inner self is left alone to do its work. [...]

(As of June 24, 1969, I have had no success communicating with Dr. Pietra on a conscious basis. [...]

Consciousness is not made up of balances so much as it is made up of exquisite imbalances, and the focus of awareness is to some degree the result of this state of excitability. [...] I am not speaking of physical elements, but of the psychological characteristics of consciousness, for even those continually merge and change.

[...] I simply want you to realize that if this life is a trance, then you can turn the direction of your consciousness to perceive greater realities that presently exist. [...]

(Bert C.: “What recourse would the poor individual who was born with all of these seemingly insurmountable handicaps have, were she to say consciously, at the ego level, ‘I just don’t want any of this. [...]

[...] To deny this is to try to force consciousness into some rigid form from which it cannot ever be freed, to apply rules to it that make a very neat psychological landscape.

^* Both Jane and I belong to the family of consciousness that Seth calls Sumari. [...] See her material on Sumari in Adventures in Consciousness.

(Jane, in an obvious state of altered or enhanced consciousness, not only outlined all of Politics today, but wrote four manuscript pages that will either go into its Introduction or Chapter 1. All of the material poured out of her in a most remarkable, unimpeded way — “… as though it was already finished somewhere else, just waiting for me to get it down. [...]

[...] As earlier mentioned,⁴ the conscious self generally focuses in but one small dimension. [...]

[...] When you journey into other realities, or when your consciousness leaves your body, you can also rely upon guidebooks that program your activities ahead of time. [...]

[...] So there are psychic customs as there are physical ones, religious and psychic dogmas, guided tours of consciousness in which you are told to follow a certain line or a certain program. [...]

“Science would say that the idea of meaning itself is simply a reflection of the state of the brain, as is the illusion of our consciousness. But a science that disregards consciousness must necessarily end up creating its own illusion. [...]

[...] And in his opening delivery he referred to the creative freedoms that—seemingly in spite of her conscious fussing—Jane had allowed herself today.)

[...] Moreover, science’s thesis meets with no answering affirmation in the human heart—and in fact arouses the deepest antipathy, for in his heart man well knows his own worth, and realizes that his own consciousness is no accident.⁵ The psyche, then, possesses within itself an inner affirmation, an affirmation that provides the impetus for physical emergence, an affirmation that keeps man from being completely blinded by his own mental edifices (all with much emphasis and fast delivery.

(9:33.) There is furthermore a deep, subjective, immaculately knowledgeable standard within man’s consciousness by which he ultimately judges all of the theories and the beliefs of his time, and even if his intellect is momentarily swamped by ignoble doctrines, still that point of integrity within him is never fooled.

[...] Consciousness can be put together in many ways, and you use your own consciousness in ways that presently at least escape you, even though the results may be quite objective. [...] The meeting was real in your terms, yet the manipulations of consciousness behind it were largely unknown.

[...] They did not think of detail, and details were arranged more beautifully and precisely than would be possible in conscious physical terms. [...]

(10:19.) This sort of thing happens frequently with Miss Dineen, and consciously she is drawn toward areas of town, for example, in which certain individuals are shopping or strolling, so that while she visits few fashionable establishments, she enjoys a series of seemingly unrelated, pleasant encounters with strangers.

I am trying to make conscious to you methods that you use beautifully unconsciously and well in other areas of your living. [...]

[...] In conscious projections you allow yourself some freedom. In many cases you do consciously what you do unconsciously in any case. [...]

There would indeed be a mass transference of consciousness, but not necessarily at all to one particular reality. The individual consciousnesses involved would not for example necessarily choose to start anew, in the same kind of reality, agreeing to form more or less identical conditions.

The consciousnesses that have made up your race gain valuable experience. [...]

[...] Without it consciousness would tend to float free. [...]

[...] No other answer makes intuitive or consciously reasonable sense to me. I think it quite psychologically and psychically limiting to believe otherwise, for such beliefs can only impede or postpone our further conscious understanding of the individual and mass realities — the overall “nature” — we’re creating. [...]

[...] We must have much to consciously learn here. [...] I’ve often thought that if each birth and each death was signalled by a flash of light, an observer in space would see an earth that was always bathed in a flickering gentle glow because of all of the activities of consciousness going on there. [...]

[...] It’s late October 1985 as I begin this Preface for her Seth, Dreams and Projection of Consciousness. As I have informed many correspondents, Jane died at 2:08 A.M. on Wednesday, September 5, 1984, after spending 504 consecutive days in a hospital in Elmira, N. Y. I was with her when she died. [...]

[...] I also discovered what must be a very common phenomenon: Those who knew of Jane’s passing became instantly self-conscious when we met. [...]

It was aware, and conscious. [...] In the same way however you will both find the inner ego inserting itself into periods of waking consciousness, and there may or may not be a momentary disorientation.

[...] It is possible for the inner and outer egos to merge to some extent, and this merging when it occurs does indeed represent the formation of a new kind of consciousness.

[...] When you carry the waking I into the dream state, this is one approach to this different consciousness. [...]

[...] This is indeed a released, free consciousness. [...]

Your life seems synonymous with your consciousness. Therefore it appears that your knowledge of yourself grows gradually, as your self-consciousness develops from your birth. It appears, furthermore, that your consciousness will meet a death beyond which your self-consciousness will not survive. [...]

[...] Each person senses now and then a private purpose, and yet many are filled with frustration because that inner goal is not consciously known or clearly apprehended.

[...] Emphatically.) I am not, on the one hand, an easy author to deal with, because I speak from a different level of consciousness than the one with which you are familiar. [...]

Your beliefs about dreams color your memory and interpretation of them, so that at the point of waking, with magnificent psychological duplicity, you often make last-minute adjustments that bring your dreams more in line with your conscious expectations. [...]

[...] The male, however, chose to take upon himself a kind of specialization of consciousness that, carried too far, leads to a hard over-objectivity. [...]

[...] Taking that for granted, then, you are each born with the conscious knowledge of what has come before. [...]

[...] This is done when the conscious mind is separated from direct involvement with physical events. [...]

[...] What you now create unconsciously your species will create consciously. The infinite abilities of consciousness become individualized, focused into a particular reality which then becomes expanded. [...]

[...] You will be able to use that power consciously, with purpose, to change your personal experience, and so to change the social framework at least partially. Such exercises aid in the evolution of your consciousness, and will also serve you in fashions you may not suspect. [...]

[...] The need to act and be in control of action is paramount in conscious beings. [...]

[...] You are developing properties of consciousness that are in their own way uniquely your own, as your environment is. [...]

(Long pause at 10:23, eyes closed.) I make recommendations now and then, and now and then you see fit to follow them … ¹⁰ Considering Ruburt’s challenges, he has done extremely well as he cleared away the debris that literally surrounds the lives of most people … In a way his progress has been dependent upon the state of his learning, so that he has been trying to stretch the abilities of normal consciousness by drawing in other “strands.”¹¹ Yet because he was the one so involved, he had to test each strand; and in the meantime he still had his “old” consciousness, with its habits, to contend with.

6. Seth spoke of “strands of reality” here, we think, because today Jane had been going over her material on the stages of consciousness and strands of consciousness for chapters 24 and 25, respectively, of Politics.

[...] Obviously he is in the middle of a learning adventure, trying to do far more with his ordinary consciousness than most people, and trying to solve his problems and encounter his challenges without relying upon old structures of belief … He has done this even though he has been working in relatively untried areas, where there seem to be few certainties.⁹

[...] From the 514th session for Chapter 2 of Seth Speaks: “Consciousness is not dependent upon form, as I have said, and yet it always seeks to create form. [...]

[...] In it, symbolically, you have “death” as your physically attuned consciousness comes to the end of the amount of stimuli it can comfortably handle without rest. So, at your normal physical death, you come to the point where your earth-attuned consciousness can no longer handle further data without a “longer rest,” and organize it into a creative meaningful whole — in terms of time.

(10:42.) The physically attuned conscious mind in your now cannot handle those staggering probabilities while maintaining a sense of identity, yet there are conscious traces within your daily thoughts that are the psychological representations of such knowledge.

The adventures of your simultaneous selves, again, appear as traces in your own consciousness, as ideas or daydreams or disconnected images, or sometimes even in sudden intuitions. [...]

[...] It does mean that in your own life such information automatically appears in intimate ways, but couched within the framework of your own comprehensions, even passing unobtrusively through your conscious thoughts.

[...] I am conscious of these actions that occur within the psychological framework of my personality. Theoretically the human personality can, or could, be conscious of dreams even while he was in a waking state. [...]

It goes without saying that the dream universe is every bit as real to the inner self as the physical universe is to the conscious egotistical self. [...]

[...] The individual would not of course as a rule remember such a dream on a conscious level. [...]

(The above paragraph brings to mind the fact that Seth discussed a dream of Bill Macdonnel’s during the 84th session; Bill witnessed the session, and afterwards told us he had no conscious memory of the dream, which had taken place a few days before the session according to Seth. [...]

[...] It would be impossible to be consciously aware of all of the infinitesimal details that exist in even one life; your consciousness would be so full and cluttered up that you would be unable to make choices, or to use free will.

This does not mean that all conscious knowledge about your own reincarnational existences is forever beyond you — for through various exercises you can indeed learn to recall some of that information. [...]

I do not mean to imply that you necessarily deal with opposite kinds of behaviors, for there are endless variances — each unique — as consciousness expresses itself through physical sensation, and attempts to explore all of the possible realms of emotional, spiritual, biological, and mental existence.

[...] Of course he would not consciously admit these feelings, considering such sentiments were unbecoming on his part. [...] He felt closed off, yet did not consciously think his feelings justified. [...]

[...] They aid in keeping the channels open between the conscious and subconscious. [...]

[...] He has read too, too much along certain lines, and has tried too hard on a conscious level.

In a way his progress has been dependent upon the state of his learning, so that he has been trying to stretch the abilities of normal consciousness by drawing in other “strands.” Yet because he was the one so involved, he had to test each strand, and in the meantime he still had his “old” consciousness, with its habits, to contend with.

[...] Obviously he is in the middle of a learning adventure, trying to do far more with his ordinary consciousness than most people, and trying to solve his problems and encounter his challenges without relying upon old structures of belief—healthwise not relying upon doctors or dentists. [...]

The material Ruburt is getting from the library will help him with his health, for it will automatically put him in touch with a strand of consciousness devoted to such issues. [...]

You blamed yourself for financial reasons, though consciously this would be the last thing to come to your mind. [...] But subconsciously you wondered what social environment your child would really (underlined) encounter„ and whether or not you deprived him of the social and economic benefits that you have convinced yourself, consciously, you do not need.

[...] Regardless of what you thought consciously therefore, you still inwardly blamed yourself for letting the child go, and therefore the difficulty with the womanly organs.

Now these are the things, some of the things, that you do not want to face consciously. [...]

[...] You were not consciously aware of the connection, but you were consciously aware of the painting’s strong impact.

[...] Naturally, the painting was sold before we had any conscious awareness of its import. [...]

[...] He would retain his own consciousness, and would perceive sensations somewhat in the way we now feel heat and cold. [...]