“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

The consciousness will expand on your planet, just as it expands for those who go beyond your plane. The scope of consciousness will be so broadened in the future that all personality fragments, split personality images, and even individual fragments in succeeding incarnations, will be held in clear focus without strain. [...]

Increased concentration of the conscious individual is the trend. [...]

[...] Speaking about the problem you mentioned, because your aggressions are fairly well controlled consciously, and because in the present your creative energies are in the realm of your subconscious, at this stage they can be, and often are, used to create unhappy image personality situations such as at York Beach. [...]

[...] While you did not recognize them consciously, unconsciously you knew them well. [...]

Some sense impressions fall beneath the threshold of consciousness, these impressions coming from the outside environment. [...] If such inner data is to become at all conscious, it must be translated into terms that the ego can recognize. [...]

The training involved on Ruburt’s part does result in a utilization of abilities, and for his conscious use. [...]

[...] These cannot be willed however, on a conscious level.

Consciously Ruburt can learn to note various circumstances that seem to facilitate or inhibit his abilities, and our communications, but the abilities themselves develop in accordance with unconscious principles. [...]

I have told you that the ego is self-conscious action that attempts to set itself apart from action and to consider action as an object. Now this altered ego retains its highly specialized self-consciousness, and yet it can now experience itself as an identity within and as a part of action.

This is a cornerstone for consciousness and for personality. [...] Without it, no further development of consciousness can occur. [...]

[...] Look for dream individuals with whom you are not acquainted in normally conscious life. [...]

[...] It is a probable system where consciousness decided to use the cat form as the most satisfactory and in which the cat walked upright, used tools and so forth.

(Just before the session Jane began to edge into an altered state of consciousness other than the one she uses for her “Seth trance,” as she put it. [...]

So the psychic families, or the families of consciousness, can be thought of as natives of inner countries of the mind, sharing heritages, purposes, and intents that may have little to do with the physical countries in which you live your surface lives. [...]

[...] (Long pause.) You are not subordinate to some giant consciousness. [...]

[...] The people who put up the tree might experience one Christmas Eve, while other consciousnesses, tuned in to the different series, could experience endless generations¹³ — and their perceptions would be quite as legitimate as those of the light-watchers who had erected the tree.

Now again, that kind of reasoning belongs to the official line of consciousness. [...] There are millions of cases in which the body has healed itself, and an individual has passed into a disease and out of it without conscious awareness of the situation. [...]

Those dreams reactivate Ruburt’s conscious memory of walking normally, and also serve to reawaken nerves and muscles that are connected with normal walking. [...]

[...] Man will be so shoved together that the impact will literally explode into a new level of consciousness, a new development in those terms.

The change will amount to a new kind of consciousness, certainly in quality.

There have been changes through your ages that have given birth to enlarged or expanded consciousness. [...]

[...] ² Now that is an excellent suggestion, given by the conscious self to other portions of your being. The results of such a suggestion would also follow your conscious beliefs, however.

You must therefore understand and examine your beliefs, realize that they form your experience, and consciously change those that do not give the effects you want. [...]

For that matter, the body is naturally well-equipped to handle “projection of consciousness,” or out-of-body travel, whatever you prefer to call it. Your biological makeup includes mechanisms that allow a certain portion of your consciousness to leave your body and return. [...]

(Pause.) Yet in your dreams, you often see quite correctly the reasons for your physical difficulties, and begin a therapy that you could consciously take advantage of. [...]

(I had asked: “Please redefine the ego, briefly, as a part of consciousness in our terms.”

Obviously then ego is a part of identity, rather than the other way around, and it is only a part of consciousness. [...]

[...] But this feeling of jealousy prevents you from using consciously what you have gained. [...]

[...] I commented aloud to Jane about how I thought that I had been using my psychic abilities in my paintings, quite consciously and deliberately as a most welcome aid.

The conscious mind can direct bodily activity (long pause), but the body consciousness alone can perform those activites that bring forth life and motion.

[...] He endowed the nail with consciousness and self-awareness. [...] The atoms and molecules that compose the nail possess their own lively consciousnesses. [...]

[...] He is being healed, but with conscious cooperation, and relying upon the fact that you form your reality—not, for example, by simply accepting another framework of belief—but his dealing with the nature of beliefs themselves, and this is an achievement. [...]

Ruburt is more conscious of his body because of the constant changes, and that is in itself strange. [...]

Some of my descriptive passages in Dreams as I deal with Jane’s personal challenges are harrowing; they strike at the very heart of our fears of illness and disability, and even death, leading us to consciously face those possibilities while at the same time they perfectly mirror our equally profound inner needs and drives. [...]

[...] The varieties of consciousness springing out of this global healing process must literally be without end—always creative, always forward looking.

[...] Ruburt’s aunt was looking from without, and the consciousness of Ruburt’s mother left the body as Rooney’s did. [...] Consciousness leaves first, though the body mechanism reacts, but without the “I” identity from which the (in quotes) “horror” comes. [...]

[...] Therefore the fear was a conscious one, and basically unwarranted. [...]

[...] If you wanted to leave your job badly enough and could not consciously decide to do so, then it would force the situation for you in the most obvious way possible.

You have, however, become so specialized in its use, so prejudiced in its favor, that your tendency is to examine all other kinds of consciousness using the reasoning mind as the only yardstick by which to judge intelligent life. You are surrounded everywhere by other kinds of consciousness whose validity you have largely ignored, whose psychic brotherhood you have dismissed—kinds of consciousness in the animal kingdom particularly, that deal with a different kind of knowing, but who share with you the reality of keen emotional experience, and who are innately aware of biological and psychic values, but in ways that have escaped your prejudiced examination.

[...] (Long pause.) It depends upon conscious thinking, problem-solving methods, and it is a natural human blossoming, a spectacular mental development in its own framework of activity.

I want to add that even with ideas of religious determinism—that man cannot know God’s will, for instance, or is quite dependent upon that divine grace—we’re still creating our conscious ideas of what God is, in those terms. [...]

You forget that consciously you did not beckon the fragments at York Beach, and that last night’s materializations were consciously requested. This certainly must hint at some conscious control, Joseph, and should make you feel more confident about our sessions, not less. [...]

[...] Your friend is caught between charming gullibility and self-conscious, sardonic refusal to accept many things. [...]

[...] Consciously he had no intention of trying to dominate the session, but underneath he really wanted so much, and I don’t know him very well. [...]

So what we want, obviously, is to ensure that the conscious mind, with its reasoning processes, can make proper adjustments about the nature of the world and the individual citizens within it. I will return later to the purposes of man’s conscious mind in nature, and part of that discussion will fall in our book (Dreams).

[...] The same applies to the conscious mind in that situation. [...]

I could only reply this evening—as I had at the time—that I was glad she’d had her perception, but that consciously I hadn’t been aware of any bodily changes. [...]

[...] She exclaimed in surprise: She’d consciously forgotten that event, for she hadn’t seen John as I briefly talked with him on the back porch. [...]

[...] In Mass Events Seth told us: “Consciousness forms the genes, and not the other way around, and the about-to-be-born infant is the agency that adds new material through the chromosomal structure.” [...]

Now, we will see to it that you live very adventurous nights, and those of you who do psychological time and take the physical time necessary to do the experiments, will find the mobility of consciousness—I am using that term because Ruburt likes it so well—that is necessary. You can extend your own conscious knowledge of reality if you are willing to do so. [...]

[...] Now when you are quieted and when you are in the dream state or when you are doing psychological time then you free yourself from the three-dimensional system and allow your consciousness to recognize other portions of its own reality. [...]