“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] Before I leave the subject, however, let me remind you that these emanations in varying degrees rise from all consciousness, not simply your own. This includes cellular consciousness as well, so that an invisible network of electromagnetic units pervades your entire atmosphere; and upon this webwork and from it, the particles of physical matter are then formed.

Now, this is not to be a technical book, so this is not the time nor place to discuss thoroughly the action, behavior or effects of these coordinate points; nor of the electromagnetic energy units — those natural emanations of consciousness of which I spoke. [...]

[...] You hypnotize your very nerves, and the cells within your body, for they will react as you expect them to react, and the beliefs of your conscious mind are followed in degree by all portions of the self down to the smallest atom and molecule. The large events of your life, your interactions with others, including the habitual workings of the most minute physical events within your body — all of this follows your conscious belief.

[...] You do not consciously examine the data that you receive. [...]

[...] Part of her consciousness was at an elevated spot on the wall in back of me. Actually the wall didn’t exist, Jane said, merely this dot or spot of consciousness in back of me. [...] Yet from this spot behind me there was a part of Jane’s or Seth’s consciousness with energy coming out like a cone, again.

Verbalization is not a basic method of communication for in quotes “higher” forms of consciousness, nor is it for lower forms of consciousness. [...]

[...] We were discussing the fact that no knowledge exists apart from consciousness. [...]

[...] There are indeed a body of symbols that are more or less basic within all kinds of perception—bridgeworks from one form of perception to another, since beneath all perceiving systems there is consciousness. [...]

[...] The advanced consciousness can focus within one in quotes “life” while already sending portions of itself into the next quote “life,” as for example you might in school take advanced calculus while still remaining in an elementary philosophy class. [...]

[...] If you remember the early portions of our latest book (Mass Events), then this information should fall into place, for consciousness emerged from the inside outward. [...]

Ruburt translates what I give him without being consciously aware of receiving the material in usual terms, or of translating it. [...]

[...] You may “speak” through art or music, through trance activities, but you will specialize in the use of the inner senses, and in translating the inner knowledge of the species, bringing it to whatever level of ordinary consciousness that is considered the official one.

(Long pause at 9:45.) There are as many frontiers as there ever were, and there is no catastrophe that will annihilate consciousness, or put an end to earthly life. [...]

(10:40.) Their conscious decisions for making numberless moves, for example, changing jobs perhaps, and the literally numberless decisions involved, were all made consciously for different reasons. [...]

Before that meeting, while consciously doing what they thought should be done—hiring detectives, searching down clues—they each followed inner directions without knowing it, because you are not taught to think of such things.

Certainly, when finally the two moved to the same street, neither thought of looking there, consciously. [...]

You certainly know consciously the importance of those significant clues, or the body’s reasoning or processes. [...]

You are teaching yourselves the value of consciousness and vitality and strength and life, by pretending to yourselves that death is death and that your consciousness will not continue and that your parents who die are forever still, by pretending that the voices you have heard in childhood will be heard no more. By pretending that when you breathe your last breath here, your consciousness is forever still. [...]

[...] In Alpha I you are used to one short adjacent step away from what you call your consciousness. [...]

[...] It is not the answer to the nature of reality or to the responsibility of consciousness. [...]

(Pause at 9:34.) It was seeking for a multiplication of consciousness, forming new offshoots from its own source. [...] Before the so-called flowering of Greek and Roman cultures, consciousness had not as yet made that specialization. [...]

In usual historic terms, humanity has been experimenting with its own unique kind of consciousness, and as I have mentioned many times, this necessitated an arbitrary division between the subject and the perceiver — nature and man — and brought about a situation in which the species came to consider itself apart from the rest of existence.

[...] To some extent this was a true, creative, sexual drama — again, of high pretense, for in its own way the consciousness of the species was playing for high stakes, and the drama had to be believable.

The overly specific sexual orientation, then, reflects a basic division in consciousness. [...]

I have spoken often concerning the importance of changing focus, altering the direction of consciousness. This does not involve a change in consciousness itself, merely a change in the direction in which consciousness is focused. [...]

[...] Jane and I try to ignore such factors consciously, but have no doubt we feel the psychic effects of weather as much as anybody else.

[...] We had no conscious ideas as to why this should be, and indeed this was the first time this problem had come up during the sessions.

[...] This is the first time I definitely realized I had a false awakening, then consciously tried to project from it. [...]

On Ruburt’s part we had a definite manipulation of consciousness that was directed to some extent. [...]

[...] When you appeared in form two he was conscious enough, you see, to recognize your arrival, and then to point out to you the dream image which he had already created. [...]

[...] The idea was too alien, and you split your consciousness so that you watched the small man in green.

9. A note added two months later: In retrospect it’s easy to see that while discussing his ideas of counterparts here, Seth was also preparing us for the families-of-consciousness material he was to start giving in January 1975. [...] In that session Seth was quickly at pains to say that belonging to a certain family of consciousness did not come first in our reality: “Your individuality comes first.”

[...] They are utilized to some extent in daydreaming, however, and in certain alterations of consciousness while you perceive as real, or nearly real, events that are not immediately happening within your space-time structure.

Give us a moment … I am putting this as simply as possible; but when your “original self” enters [part of] itself into three-dimensional life from an inner reality, the energy waves carrying it break — not simply into one particle, following our analogy, but into a number of conscious particles. [...]

[...] The identity of even the smallest consciousness is always maintained — but not limited. [...]

A discrimination, preferably a spontaneous and subconscious discrimination, is necessary, but it may be consciously diverted if undue conscious direction is not allowed to rule with a heavy hand. You may consciously give the suggestion to yourself, that you will constructively use such energy, for example, but then the matter should be forgotten and left alone.

[...] The chemical percentages are important here; that is, the chemical percentages vary from those found in the body during what you call normal states of consciousness.

There is actually a quite natural and most effective manner of psychic refreshment, and most particularly when the conscious mind is somewhat diverted, as by music and so forth. [...]

Ruburt picked up energy in this way this afternoon, quite spontaneously, and without conscious consideration.

[...] Here the critical consciousness is quite apparent, while the body sleeps. [...] For the development of the whole self however, and for the perfection of such experiences, it is beneficial that such projections be carried out by the conscious wish of the projector. You learn therefore to manipulate your own consciousness in different realities than the ones with which you are usually concerned.

[...] Whichever motion you experience there will be a moment where you feel yourself, your identity and consciousness, definitely withdrawing from the physical organism. [...] Now when you feel the consciousness withdrawing, there are two things you may do. [...]

Now your consciousness will not be in it, but it is hardly lifeless. Its maintenance is being controlled by the consciousness of the individual cells and organs of which we have spoken. [...]

[...] If the projection is a success you will instantly lose contact consciously with the physical body. [...]

[...] When the world-view enlarges to include more sophisticated cultural environments then, however, the body must rely upon the conscious mind’s interpretation of events. [...] The body might object, but it still must rely upon the conscious mind’s interpretation of events, that it realizes are beyond its realm.

[...] In all cases a misinterpretation is being made on the part of the conscious mind, that then triggers bodily responses. [...] Whatever the issue might be, the conscious world-view is bringing about biological activity. [...]

[...] Value fulfillment is a psychological and physical propensity that exists in each unit of consciousness, propelling it toward its own greatest fulfillment in such a way that its individual fulfillment also adds to the best possible development on the part of each other such unit of consciousness. [...] It operates above as well, but I am here concerned with the cooperative nature with which value fulfillment endows all units of consciousness within your physical world.

(Pause, then all intently:) Religion and science alike denied other species any real consciousness. [...]

[...] Nor do I. Perhaps, even knowing Jane’s unique creative abilities as well as we do, we’re each somewhat daunted by the thought that consciously we might not be able to concentrate enough on two such projects at once. [...] Right now she’s working on the final draft of Chapter 5 of her own theoretical work on psychic matters, Adventures in Consciousness.

The Present Development of Ego Consciousness, and Why We’re at This State
The connections with health and illness.

[...] Yes, she had been in an altered state of consciousness during her reception of The Way Toward Health “on a real high” — both while the outline for it was coming through and while she wrote her description of the process. [...]

Remind him once again that the conscious mind cannot know of all of the body’s interior actions. And remind him once again of the material I gave him concerning the roles of the conscious and unconscious minds. Remind him also that the so-called unconscious mind is indeed highly conscious—but in a different area of activity—and it knows what it is doing. [...]

[...] He is in telepathic communication with animals and other people, and on a different level he is in a kind of communication with plants and other such consciousnesses. [...]

[...] They are that sensitive to the consciousness within cellular structure. [...]

[...] So does any consciousness, including that of a plant. [...]

[...] Consciousness takes up no space nor is it enclosed by time, as you know time. The camouflage patterns that seem to enclose consciousness are temporary, for short term only, and for limited but necessary purpose.

Hypnotism is important merely as a tool to release the conscious personality from the camouflage inhibitions. [...] In ordinary circumstances the conscious self deals mainly with camouflage existence. [...]

The value climate of psychological reality can be likened to an ocean in which all consciousness has its being. [...]

[...] Your camouflage and your world is created by conscious focusing and unconscious concentration. [...]

Your consciousness fluctuates in the same way. [...] Because consciousness fluctuates however, other portions of your self have memory of those times when it is not focused in “physical reality,” and this is also a portion of your entire existence.

And when you realize that you form the events of your life in the same way, you will learn to take hold of your entire consciousness in whatever aspect it shows itself in this life. [...] Remember, also, that this life is a dimension of experience and reality even if it is, in contrast, a dream in a higher level of reality in which you have your larger consciousness.

[...] The question cannot be answered simply in one evening, but each consciousness has its own defense system and its own vitality; you should trust your own.