“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] end up with extraordinary energy and physical vitality—plus refreshed abilities; as if today things are progressing at other than conscious levels and I’m doing lots that I’m not aware of. [...]

Care then should be taken to concentrate on the daily matters at hand—his writing, and to avoid conscious concentration upon the state of his health or the progress of healing. [...]

Your neighbor has no real conscious knowledge of the nature of your emotional reaction. [...]

[...] Here the rigid assumptions of normal waking consciousness often fade, and you can find yourself performing those physically rejected activities, never realizing that you have peered into a probable existence of your own.

[...] The one All That Is is aware not only of its own nature and of the nature of all consciousness, but is also aware of its infinite probable selves. [...]

[...] This came to Jane’s consciousness as we watched a very creative skit on the TV program Sesame Street. [...]

[...] I felt self-conscious about my blue jeans and shoes. [...]

[...] Now, when the sun shines and the rays fall from the sun down through your solar system, the sun is not consciously aware of its rays nor of the rooms that these rays may illuminate. [...]

[...] Now, I can write as the many selves I have been, with full knowledge of my background so that I can address myself to mothers, and fathers, and children...consciously remembering my experience in those roles. [...]

Now when your teacher appears on the TV screen, he is not aware consciously of himself within the image that you see. [...]

[...] If you constantly want them without making any conscious effort, then that involves a constant sense of stress.

[...] It would be foolish to the extreme to stay here when you are both consciously and unconsciously waiting for the bridge to be built. [...]

[...] So he felt in an impossible situation: and quite consciously, when he allowed himself to become aware of his thoughts. [...]

It is composed of a conglomeration of quite conscious but unexamined, or rather unassembled, beliefs about yourselves, some quite contradictory, and your “place” in the world.

[...] Consciously the whole affair annoyed you no end. [...]

[...] After the session I made a conscious effort to improve my attitude about the car. [...]

[...] Consciously you were not aware of the change. [...]

[...] But the conscious reasons that you have for being annoyed with your automobile, these reasons are rationalizations to hide the deeper causes.

[...] I don’t mind noting that I wish she had.² She might have been able to offer insights about it that I couldn’t come up with, especially concerning the seemingly endless abilities of the psyche — call it personalized energy, consciousness, or what-have-you — to travel through its own space and time.

6. My ruminations in notes 3 and 4 should indicate how difficult it can be for the conscious mind to interpret psychic data arising from other “layers” of itself. [...]

[...] I trust the elements of those perceptions, and my reactions to them, but their conscious understanding and integration remain beyond my abilities at this time. [...]

[...] It seems to me that no matter what role in any life the individual decides upon before birth (to incorporate Seth’s ideas here), that individual will carry consciousness’s innate drive toward personal expression — but still within the protection furnished by social organization. [...]

[...] When you operate within it you should indeed experience it completely, in as many phases as possible, and be it to a much greater degree than is usually achieved, the conscious mind using itself then in experience, and thus knowing itself. [...]

It has often been said that the subconscious has a generalized focus, but the subconscious and inner senses have as strong and vital and intensified a focus as the focus of the conscious mind. [...]

It is not true, of course, that before the time of modern psychology man had a concept of himself that dealt with conscious exterior aspects only, although it has been written that until that time man thought of himself as a kind of flat-surfaced self — minus, for example, subconscious or unconscious complexity.

[...] They would take what they could from your technology, but in conscious and spontaneous ways they retaliated — and still do — by exaggerating all of those human tendencies that your society has held down so well. [...]

[...] My physical hassles disappear for fairly long periods, and then I’m conscious of one or the other of them. [...]

[...] Let it lead you into other aspects of consciousness and vitality as it is with our friend over here and to open doors of feeling as it has with you (Alison Hess). [...]

(Now I explained to Jane what I considered to be “a gorgeous little illustration” of how unconscious hassles can go on in the psyche quite unsuspected by the conscious mind as the cause for physical difficulties: As stated, when I woke up this afternoon my stomach hurt. [...] Interestingly enough, though, I made no such conscious connection until I began writing these notes. Then it came to consciousness: of course. [...]

A few days earlier, knowing he had progressed, he ceased doing the psycho-cybernetics exercises however, and these are an excellent and enjoyable way of focusing conscious energy in constructive directions. [...]

There was a reason, of which he may or may not be consciously aware. [...]

[...] The information I have given you I derived from a certain portion of the girl’s consciousness. [...]

In that picture consciousness has little part to play. [...]

[...] Beliefs about the dishonor of age often cause people to make the decision—sometimes quite consciously—to bring their own lives to an end before the so-called threshold is reached. [...]

Your dream³ fits in here in its own fashion, for you see that the ship of life, so to speak, rides very swiftly and beautifully also beneath the conscious surface, traveling through the waters of the psyche…. [...]

[...] The ways and the means, however, cannot be questioned, for they will come about from a greater source of knowledge than you consciously possess.

[...] In spite of his own conscious lack of knowledge, he was brought to operate according to the information available in Framework 2, though he was not aware of it. [...]

True spontaneity however comes directly from Framework 2, and behind it are endless patterns of orderliness and complexity that are beyond your conscious Framework 1 comprehension. [...]

[...] My own reaction to the events in our lives over the years was that consciously we had reached limits, and that it was beholden upon the rest of the personality—Jane’s especially—that it recognize this and back off enough from its own goals so that the physical body could recover, at least enough to ensure survival and a working life in which it could deal with life’s daily goals, and arts, too. Otherwise, I said, the whole process becomes self-defeating not only for the conscious portions of the personality, but for the very body itself. [...]

[...] Somewhere along the line you have to decide upon a cutoff point—that is, all portions of the personality have to do that together, or the conscious self is dragged along unwilling to cooperate....” [...]

[...] Again, there are chemical and electromagnetic connections that cannot be severed between all these states of consciousness.

[...] It is interesting to note that when Jane resumed with the Dr. Instream material, we immediately became conscious of the traffic noise. [...]

[...] It was now that I was quite conscious of traffic noise. [...]

[...] In its way the entire summer affair, with people about, is important, so that you can consciously make decisions that once perhaps were unconsciously made, without deep-enough understanding.

[...] [I have always had it since I can consciously remember.] When I remarked that my father had got rid of his hay fever, Seth said he gave it to me. [...]

[...] This led also into a discussion of the consciousness of each atom and molecule, etc., and our agreement telepathically on such things as the placement of objects in space. [...]

[...] At one point Seth asked Bill to not say so much when he answered a question, because this led Ruburt to start to actively and consciously consider the material and to make his own interpretations, which could be distorted. [...]

[...] Here he was dealing with the basic unity of all consciousness again. [...]