“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

The physicians aid by giving precise overall directions to the body consciousness, simply facilitating healing, and directing energy—they are artists in their field. [...]

[...] The dreams provide a steady give-and-take between conscious and so-called unconscious activity. [...]

[...] I believe my ordinary conscious ideas that doors can’t be penetrated held me back, though. [...]

(Without success, I made several quite conscious and deliberate attempts to “get going,” and travel away from my body. [...]

[...] This implies a dual consciousness here, since I was aware of both bodies.

If you are presently experiencing a life in which you have chosen high emphasis upon physical locomotion, for example, then through vague dream memories of flying you can be inspired toward, say, the invention of airplanes or rockets; but if you actually understand the fact that your own consciousness can indeed travel outside of the body, then the impetus toward physical developments in locomotion is not nearly so intense.

Please understand: I am not saying here that you have no conscious control over events, for they are formed by you in accordance with your feelings, beliefs, purposes, and intents.

[...] Consciously you could not grasp such information, much less act upon it, nor could you maintain your particular, unique, psychological stance. [...]

[...] Such events are not lost, however, but translated into dreams as your own consciousness returns closer to its “home base.” [...]

[...] By intensity I do not necessarily mean effort, vehement desire, or determined conscious intent. [...]

[...] The immediately conscious selves however do progress in their realization. [...] The various immediately-conscious portions of personality evolve and change as they recognize these truths. [...]

Life and consciousness, without the means to express them, are not meaningless, for life and consciousness have their own purposes; and of these purposes I am not prepared now to tell you.

[...] A portion of that kind of personality structure knows well that while its main focus of consciousness has gone into other dimensions, it will nevertheless be perceived by others at any given point.

[...] But all of you sit here very nicely, very spontaneously, very alive, very conscious and none of you know, egotistically, how you do so or what make your thoughts work. When you begin to question how your heart beats or why, then you can encounter difficulties if you lose the faith that they work spontaneously and that your conscious knowledge is not necessary for the fine mechanisms that keep you alive. [...]

[...] You experienced a point of consciousness where, momentarily, that barrier was released. [...]

[...] On the other hand, it is perfectly alright to maintain the sensation so that you know at what point of consciousness you are attaining. [...]

Even if you don’t consciously remember your dreams, you do get the message. [...]

[...] It only occurs, however, under certain conditions, when the individual involved is at a certain state of awareness, in which he is ready to consciously accept such information as originating in dreams, and when the dreams are recognized by him as being an acceptable way of receiving information.

There was a tie-in, and it’s that the Christ drama happened as a result of man’s dream, at least, of achieving brotherhood—a quiet, secure sense of consciousness, and a morality that would sustain him in the physical world.

[...] Man’s fears of not achieving brotherhood, of not achieving a secure state of consciousness, or a workable morality, result in his dreams of destruction, however they are expressed, and indeed, the present physical event as it exists now at the energy plant in Harrisburg can easily be likened to—and is—a warning dream to change man’s actions.

When you consider that behind all matter there is a conscious energy, then you will see where the pattern comes from. [...] No physical nerve structure, or combination of purely chemical and material properties, will ever result in consciousness. The consciousness gives meaning to the physical material.

This process is carried out unconsciously, and yet if mankind follows through then he will become consciously aware of his own part in this continual creation of matter, and he will be able to continue in a much more intelligent manner.

[...] To the contrary, since we have a gestalt here his conscious as well as subconscious grasp of information is important. [...]

The physical material, it is true, makes the consciousness effective within a particular field. [...]

[...] Again in Seth Speaks, see Seth’s material at 10:07 in the 539th session for Chapter 10: “You may perfect [that past life], in other words, but you cannot again enter into that frame of reference as a completely participating consciousness — following — say, the historic trends of the time, joining into the mass-hallucinated existence that resulted from the applied consciousness of your self and your ‘contemporaries.’”

[...] So your own consciousness follows a certain line of development that is its own, and that recognizes its own “seasons.” [...]

[...] The other two were points 4 and 5, as listed in the notes preceding this session; since Jane became consciously aware of material on them just before the session began, she’d had no time in which to give it. [...]

The same kind of interrelationship occurs with each individual now alive, in your terms, whether or not conscious awareness is involved. [...]

(Pause.) At the time, Christ united man’s consciousness in ways that reached out into history. The Christ consciousness was not isolated. [...] The same consciousness gave birth to all of your religions, therefore; the various frameworks through which the peoples of different times could express themselves and grow. [...]

In terms of time — evolution as you think of it — emerging consciousness had come to the point where it delighted so in distinctions and differences, that even in small geographical areas multitudinous groups, cults and nationalities were assembled, each proudly asserting its own individuality and worth over the others. In the beginning in those terms, man’s emerging consciousness needed the freedom to disperse itself, to become different, to originate bases for various characteristics, and assert individuations. [...]

In a certain way the Christ personality was a manifestation of the evolution of consciousness, leading the race beyond the violent concepts of the times, and altering behavior that had prevailed to that time.

Christ was the symbol of man’s emerging consciousness, holding within himself the knowledge of man’s potential. [...]

(As soon as I fully, consciously, realized what was taking place, I reacted violently in the manner described below by Seth. [...] I blamed myself for not knowing enough to suspend any conscious judgment; I felt I had enough background knowledge to go along with this vision, to see what developed, yet I had reacted in what I thought a foolish way.

[...] For once the knowledge is available, others will become aware of their own experiences, and you see here how the conscious self becomes educated and enriched; for the knowledge becomes part of consciousness. [...]

[...] Conscious realization seemed to be suspended. [...]

[...] I was conscious of doing this, and that it took some little time, yet felt no urge to prod myself wide awake. [...]

This is simply a reaction to returning consciousness. [...] However the sugar is important in fueling the consciousness on its journey. It aids in connecting the consciousness to the body, and without it under some conditions consciousness could be cut off from return. In other words, there is indeed a connection that is and must be partially physical, between the body and the traveling consciousness, and it is based upon a certain sugar molecule in a form not normally seen.

Consciousness simply changes its form. [...]

[...] According to the intensity of the projection and according to the systems visited, the physical body becomes more or less rigid when consciousness returns to it.

Before conscious projection I would therefore recommend you take a small amount of starchy or sugar food. [...]

[...] You are neurologically tuned in to one particular field of actuality that you recognize.² In your terms and from your viewpoint only, messages from other existences live within you as ghost images within the cells, for the cells recognize more than you do on a conscious level. That is, for a brief time, Joseph (Rob) was consciously able to perceive a portion of another existence.

You could not be consciously aware of those other realities all of the time, and deal with the world that you know. [...]

[...] It also implies a freedom and organization of consciousness that is unusual in your system of reality, and was not chosen there.

[...] This presupposes a gestalt of awareness, however, in which each knows of the activities of the others, and participates; and you have a different version of mass consciousness. [...]

[...] It will also include in the opening chapter several occasions when I tried to reach Ruburt in the dream state, and the ways in which I was able to insert several ideas into his dreaming consciousness, and the ways in which the conscious mind utilized and distorted the information.

(11:22.) He had little idea consciously of the strains involved. Unconsciously, and at certain levels of consciousness, he figured it was the best route, allowing him spontaneity plus control; in much of this you acquiesced for some time, having grown tired of playing the guardian to his spontaneity.

You yourself were also not willing to face consciously certain possible consequences directly, for example—of television appearances; possibilities of fame, etc., and you were ambiguous in that regard. [...]

You could not consciously handle these existences with one mind, as you think of mind, segmented. [...]

[...] Consciousness of itself forms all of these realities and systems. [...]

Translated for you, the eye (spelled) is the symbol for this greater mind, for it sees through all systems, and looking outward sees infinities of itself dancing into its own eyes: the glances themselves vital creations and dimensions of consciousness.

[...] Yet consciously, she was ignorant of her own inner decision.

Of course, the conscious mind cannot be aware of such critical inner decisions. [...]

[...] Every time I passed it, I wondered again: Was she transferring her consciousness to another level of reality? [...]

[...] Was their consciousness born anew, and was it really something quite independent of the images they wore?

[...] Occasionally at surface levels of consciousness, you might wonder what might have happened had you made other decisions than those you have; chosen different mates, for example, or taken up residence in other portions of the country. [...]

[...] They are profound psychological interconnections that bind you each to each, particularly in a telepathic framework, though this may be beneath normal consciousness. [...]

(9:31.) I do not like the phrase, “to advance”, yet in your terms “to advance” as a consciousness is to become more and more aware of these other materializations of your own identity. [...]

[...] Such impulses would seem to be disconnected from your own current interests or activities; intrusive in that they come quickly into consciousness, with a sense of strangeness as if they are not your own. [...]

[...] His voice and personality were in control of my physical system, while my consciousness was someplace else—and a good many miles away. [...]

[...] And consider this puzzler: Granted my consciousness traveled from Elmira to San Juan in space, what about time? [...]

[...] My consciousness returned so quickly to my body that my physical head was swimming. [...]

[...] He varied the depth of my trances during tests so I could get the feel of various stages of consciousness, and also showed me how to let him use my own personal associations in order to get certain data. [...]

I also believe, however, that generally speaking science still views our genetic systems in mechanical, deterministic, and reductionistic terms, and will continue to do so for a long time: So that evidence is being accumulated to support that overall view that at this time science has no need to seek for other, larger, and more unsettling frames of reference encompassing consciousness, intent, and genetics. Indeed, I seldom see consciousness mentioned in connection with genetics, except as its quality may relate to genetic “defects” like mental retardation, say.

I’m sure that Seth would be the first to agree that consciousness obviously contains an unlimited number of viewpoints, regardless of which ones we humans may choose to call “true” at any particular time. Consciousness is just as amenable to having some of its physical manifestations scientifically studied, its parts manipulated through “genetic engineering,” as it is to encompassing Seth’s material. [...]

[...] For whatever mysterious reasons, then, our overall consciousness wants and needs this particular “genetic culture.” [...]

[...] But Jane and I don’t try to bend others to our way of thinking; the reality that our species is creating is too big and varied for that; we believe only that we’ll have to explore questions like those involving genetics and consciousness in our own ways, and with Seth’s help.

[...] That is for you both to work out at a conscious level.

He still feels freer alone physically, and more self-conscious getting up for example when you are there. [...]