“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

These repressed feelings grew just beyond the reach of consciousness, and just below the reach of consciousness, but almost consciously he began to wonder, to judge his condition now with what it must be. [...]

[...] The intense but limited focus of usual consciousness will itself distort the true nature of dreams, and the ego will hold any such conscious examination of dreams within rigid bonds.

They will indeed burst through, or appear through, into the egotistical consciousness if given the opportunity; but the egotistical consciousness cannot go after them. [...]

[...] I have said that consciousness is merely the direction in which the inner self focuses at any particular time. [...]

In the interpretation of your dreams then Joseph, as with Ruburt’s, we must change our focus, for what appears as a logical interpretation through conscious examination is often distorted.

[...] It has resulted in a greater freedom in our sessions because the two of you together discussed your conscious beliefs about sessions, and Ruburt learned that many of his previous beliefs here were limited.

[...] You each gave yourselves daily suggestions that are no more than the repetition of new conscious beliefs.

(“Impulses have a life-serving, life-promoting, creative basis, and possess a spontaneous order—though as we will see, that order may not be immediately apparent since the orderly pattern is larger than our conscious span of events.” [...]

(“Your impulses work in a specific manner, dealing with each individual or event, and based upon information that exists in Framework 2—which may not be consciously available.”

6. Some impulses are simply educational, bringing hidden intents to consciousness.

[...] Briefly: Ruburt has always felt the strength of his abilities, even before he recognized consciously the areas into which they would lead him. [...]

[...] As there is no contact between the entity and the ordinary conscious ego, so there is no contact on a conscious level between the self who dreams and the dream world which has its own independent existence.

For every consciousness on your plane, or any other plane, existed simultaneously and in essence even before what you may call the beginning of your world. [...]

[...] You simply are not aware of these selves anymore on a conscious level than you are aware of what you refer to as past selves.

[...] It is a product of your own existence, and you can neither consciously call it into existence nor destroy it.

They represented parts of his own psyche, still, at that level of consciousness, not having quite assimilated the greater knowledge or experience, so he felt he needed protection—the protection that would beautifully, cleverly and insidiously serve all of his purposes, allowing him to go ahead as he wanted to, but with control drawn back to the body’s discontent. [...]

[...] My consciousness does not normally operate at the same speeds as yours, either, so what I am saying has long ago, in my terms, been said, while in your present it is new, or just reaching you.

(Pause.) In your terms man is of course still learning, and as he set up barriers between lands and formed separate nations, so he also set up divisions between aspects of his own consciousness and awareness, in his terms, so he could deal with them one at a time. [...]

The spontaneous self was never meant to appear as an alien to the conscious personality. [...]

(Long pause.) Consciousness makes its own patterns. [...]

(Jane said she was even conscious of my movements, slight as they were. [...]

(Jane said she was even conscious of the sound my pen made on the paper as I wrote. [...]

[...] While he hadn’t made any conscious decision to leave the valley, he felt as if he had. [...]

Incidentally I do have access to your conscious and unconscious minds, but only when you permit it. Consciously neither of you are aware of the subtle permission or refusal of permission that you yourselves give. [...]

(Tired consciousness sometimes yields good results; so may a clogged-up consciousness. [...]

[...] You get a subconscious focus different in many ways from conscious concentration. [...]

[...] Ego spits like a cat to maintain conscious control, but will relax when it sees it can come to itself whenever it chooses. [...]

[...] Your own conscious awareness is increased because you are then aware of inner actions with which the conscious mind had not been familiar. Here we have a coming together of actions, a joining and an immersion of one action within another: the action of the subconscious in answering questions put to it by the conscious mind, (use brain rather than mind), and the acceptance, which is itself action on the part of consciousness, of the answers received.

[...] Yet in Monday night’s deleted 847th session that “energy personality essence,” as he calls himself, digressed once again from work on Mass Events to give us more excellent material on plant and animal consciousness. [...]

[...] (Loudly:) Various — this is the beginning of the next chapter (7) — the headings were given — various kinds of governments represent the exercise of different aspects of consciousness.

[...] All of this meant that man’s conscious mind was about to expand its strengths, its abilities, and its reach. [...]

[...] And Ruburt’s (Jane’s) material on plants may lead him to some most creative extensions of his own consciousness, and new insights.

He wondered about their mental condition in relation to the overall consciousness. [...] Consciousness can never fully express itself in physical terms, as you know. [...]

In a situation such as your father’s or Miss Callahan’s, the overall consciousness is not less, but less of it expresses itself in physical terms. [...]

The consciousness of the personality has not left too soon, or unusually soon, as in your father’s case, but stubbornly persists. [...]

[...] He will have choices to make that before he did not have—choices he avoided consciously. [...]

[...] This resulted in conscious conflict before avoided, and a series of conflicting thoughts and impulses.

[...] Now this portion of the self is indeed self-conscious in the highest meaning of the term—aware of the subconscious portion of the personality, aware of the primary conscious framework that you call your ego, and constantly directs the overall activities. [...]

[...] The physically-oriented ego, if it alone survived, would contain only your conscious memories. [...]

[...] All of this simply means that you became aware of larger portions of the whole personality, and were consciously able to use these abilities, conscious and subconscious being, of course, artificial terms.

In those terms you could call it a part of a more expansive portion of the self, the only part that you are so far able to experience in your usual conscious terms. [...]

[...] It represents a certain state of consciousness — an in-between threshold dimension of awareness, in which the imagination and the senses are almost caught in the act of putting an object together, or of bringing the world into a sensed reality, brand-new, from the realm of the inner mind: a very evocative state of consciousness, and one that as I believe Ruburt mentioned, you could also use in connection with faces.

Whether or not the sessions happened as they did, however, once the two of you met, the probability brought about by your relationship meant that in one way or another you would seek out a larger context of consciousness — a context, because of your talents, that would not remain private, but attract others (intently).

[...] As in the Introductory Notes, I want to stress Jane’s role as the creative artist, disseminating her personal view of a larger inner reality, and her intuitive and conscious comprehension of at least some aspects of that reality; for such understanding can easily elude our Western-oriented, materialistic, technological outlook.

[...] Yet, at the same time, she could say to me: “I hope to go further into consciousness than anyone else ever has.” ¹

[...] Yet we could relate to it at once; in this instance especially Seth’s insights “fit” Jane’s conscious knowledge and extended it in most interesting ways.

(She hasn’t undergone a classical religious conversion of the kind William James describes in his The Varieties of Religious Experience,⁴ yet more than once she’s known her own forms of ecstasy, or deep alteration of consciousness, or illumination — whatever one chooses to call such states. From two perspectives she rather briefly describes one such episode, which actually lasted several hours, in her Dialogues, and in Adventures in Consciousness.⁵

[...] Long before you are consciously aware of the circumstances, your body might leap out of the path of an approaching car. [...] Though consciously you were not afraid, there was a biologically pertinent fear that was acted upon.

[...] Few of my readers possess such conscious knowledge, yet the majority speak quite well.

[...] Your conscious mind, however, directs your temporal perception and interprets that perception, organizing it into mental patterns. [...]

[...] As I watched my father grow older, with an accompanying progressive loss of memory and function, I used to wonder why he didn’t consciously revise his response to life — and why I never saw any indication that he wanted to. [...]

(“I feel gaps in my consciousness,” Jane said, worried. [...]

The upsetting alterations of consciousness occur mainly when Ruburt’s energies are being utilized elsewhere. [...]

[...] The emotions are like musical notes: the more of them you can play the richer your composition (with emphasis)—and your understanding, even when it is not fully conscious, has helped release the range of those emotional characteristics. [...]

(“I’m in a sort of transitory state,” Jane said after a pause, “between my own level of consciousness and Seth’s. There will be far more said on such issues, but in the same way, any organization devoted primarily to one large system of beliefs will always highlight the effectiveness with which belief systems operate. [...]