“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] When you understand that completely and fully, you will no longer be within physical reality. [...] In any reality, you create the image that you see. And the reality that follows this one will seem as physical to you as this... [...]

[...] The reality on another plane or in another dimension is just as physical as what we experience as physical here... [...] Whereas here, there is a time lag between the time we think of something and it results in a created action or object. [...]

[...] and the impetus is this: you must not journey into inner reality until you feel secure in physical reality.... [...]

([Tom:] “But between the time of thinking about it now and the time it becomes a reality, other thoughts can come to bear on that idea and change it before it becomes a reality. [...]

[...] When you understand that completely and fully, you will no longer be within physical reality. [...] In any reality, you create the image that you see. And the reality that follows this one will seem as physical to you as this—and as real. [...]

[...] The reality on another plane or in another dimension is just as physical as what we experience as physical here—just as real, seems physical to them. [...] Whereas here, there is a time lag between the time we think of something and it results in a created action or object. [...]

...to solve your problems and triumph over your challenges—and the impetus is this: You must not journey into inner reality until you feel secure in physical reality—for you cannot live in two worlds at once unless you are secure in one. [...]

([Theodore:] “But between the time of thinking about it now and the time it becomes a reality, other thoughts can come to bear on that idea and change it before it becomes a reality. [...]

It is the ego of course that concentrates so intently upon physical reality and physical problems, as well as challenges. [...]

[...] While his beliefs are partially responsible for his astonishing facility, once in various altered states he is in a kind of free-wheeling situation as far as physical reality is concerned. [...]

(Long pause at 9:42.) In certain terms alterations of consciousness involved you in experiences of an angular nature, where perception uses physical reality as a basis, but forms angles from it. [...]

[...] The free-wheeling states of consciousness can therefore be of help to him, the free-wheeling characteristic being primarily in relationship to physical reality. [...]

[...] They still have to discover the fact that mind creates and forms matter.

[...] You do not realize that you create your larger environment and the physical world as you know it by propelling your thoughts and emotions into matter — a breakthrough into three-dimensional life. [...]

(9:23.) Each emotion and thought has its own electromagnetic reality, completely unique. [...]

[...] Here, I merely want you to understand that the world that you know is the reflection of an inner reality.

[...] My wife’s life and work show that we can even create challenges and goals before birth, then in physical life plunge into fulfilling those qualities as we don flesh and clothing and beliefs. Yet what great, unexpected convolutions we can encounter in those challenges we’ve created! [...]

[...] Well, why not, since as Seth describes reality, everything exists at the same “time?” Tricky concepts and questions to wrestle with, I know, and sometimes contradictory. Enough to last for a lifetime in just this mundane reality.

[...] Often our dreams are doorways to other realities. [...]

You must understand the nature of reality before you manipulate within it intelligently and well. In this environment and in physical reality, you are learning...you are supposed to be learning...that your thoughts have reality and that you create the reality that you know. [...] If you still do not realize that you create the reality that you know, then you return and again you learn to manipulate and again and again you see the results of your own inner reality as you meet it objectified. [...]

[...] And it is up to you to find your own reality. [...]

[...] If you have too many ties with this reality and if you are too impatient, and if you have not learned sufficiently, then you may return too quickly.

And into this reality, you do not go as a grown man with preconceived ideas. [...]

You must understand the nature of reality before you can manipulate within it intelligently and well. In this environment and in physical reality, you are learning—you are supposed to be learning—that your thoughts have reality and that you create the reality that you know. [...] If you still do not realize that you create the reality that you know, then you return and again you learn to manipulate and again and again you see the results of your own inner reality as you meet it objectified. [...]

[...] And it is up to you to find your own reality. [...]

[...] If you have too many ties with this reality and if you are too impatient, and if you have not learned sufficiently, then you may return too quickly. [...]

And into this reality you do not go as a grown man with preconceived ideas. [...]

To Ruburt that is taken for granted—for there he operates extraordinarily well, mixing and merging the realities of Frameworks 1 and 2. The practical results of course appear in Framework 1, while the real creativity takes place in Framework 2. Understand that I make these divisions for simplicity’s sake, for the realities are merged. [...]

He creates impediments then as in the other area he creates success. [...]

(At break tonight I’d explained to Jane that I still thought the 14th session contained some excellent material on Seth’s awareness of “something resembling time” to him—and that it was “still a reality of some kind” to him. I’m in the process of quoting passages from the 14th session, held in January, 1964, in Appendix 18, as I write it for Volume 2 of “Unknown” Reality.

[...] Many people, however, experience such difficulty in all areas of their lives, with nothing in their own experience that they can trust to give them evidence for a greater reality or control over their own destinies.

Jane and I were very surprised at the initial reception of The Seth Material, then Seth Speaks and Personal Reality (our shortened terminology for those first two Seth-dictated books.) Since we had no experience with “fan mail,” for example, we had no expectations, but as the Seth titles and Jane’s own books were published she came to spend many a weekend answering that most welcome mail. [...] How interesting to see that each one of us was indeed creating our personal reality within the overall reality of the universe that all of us were also creating, uniting all—everything—in complicated fashions far beyond our ordinarily accepted understanding. [...]

[...] But she didn’t ignore it at all, I learned along the way, for she created and explored a spontaneous and innocent reality that freed her from all other concerns. [...] It was, after all, an epitome of what our reality has led us to create and enjoy. [...] She wasn’t bound by the mundane rules of perspective, with its everyday limits that most of us never surmount or subsume: she created her deceptively childish world each time she painted. [...]

[...] Jane was living her challenges just like each one of us does, and her efforts were inextricably bound up with the world even as, I was sure, we were creating our human versions of the earth and its own reality. This taught us that even with Jane’s talents there was more, always more, to create and to learn from. [...]

No, I think that seemingly innocuous little happening is one more sign of how this reality we’re all creating together works in its often mysterious, and often ignored, fashion.

[...] So entranced is your concentration, that when you wonder about the nature of reality you automatically confine your question to this one small flickering moment that you call physical reality. [...] That light is unique, and if you truly understood what it was, you would indeed understand the nature of true reality.

[...] Now within the physical reality that you know, there are hints and clues as to the nature of other physical realities. [...] Now I have been speaking of earthly developments, realities therefore clustered about earthly aspects as you know them.

(9:35.) There are, therefore, many other equally valid, equally real evolutionary developments that have occurred and are occurring and will occur, all within other probable systems of physical reality. The diverse, endless possibilities of development possible could never appear within one slender framework of reality.

[...] For if you are intensely preoccupied with what may seem to be one infinitesimally minute aspect of reality, and while you seem to be completely embedded within it, only the most “surface” elements of the self are so entranced. I do not like the term “surface” in this regard, though I have used it to suggest the multitudinous portions of the self that are otherwise engaged — some of them as entranced in their reality as you are in yours.

[...] You can only create it as a reality in so many dimensions. You cannot appreciate, for that matter, all the systems of reality in which the painting does have reality. [...]

[...] They may be necessary at one time or another, but they can never be primary realities. [...] You have to deal with them only because you have created them. [...]

Each painting that you create represents the death of the self that you were before you created it. [...]

Now, you see, when you paint a picture you use your physical body as a tool to create your inner idea. When you create physical matter you are not aware of doing so, but you affect energy directly in such an execution, your own attention being focused primarily in the physical system.

Now: Dictation: As per Ruburt’s notes, each system of reality is indeed surrounded by its probable realities, though any one of those “probable realities” can be used as the hub, or core reality; in which case all of the others will then be seen as probable. [...]

The rockbed reality is the one in which the perceiver is focused. [...] Taking that for granted, however, any given reality system will be surrounded by its probability clusters. [...] Time and space need not be connected, however — that is, the attractions that exist between a reality and any given probability cluster may have nothing to do with time and space at all. The closest probability satellite to any given reality may, for example, be in an entirely different universe altogether. [...]

The portions of the psyche reflect and create the portions of the universe from its most minute to its greatest part. You identify with one small section of your psyche, and so you name as reality only one small aspect of the universe.

[...] They do not perceive your physical objects, for their reality is composed of a different camouflage structure. This is a general statement, however, for various points of your realities can and do coincide … points of what you would call double reality, containing great energy potential … where realities merge.”

[...] As you create a painting, and the painting is still an aspect of yourself, so it creates the whole personality, which is an aspect of itself. [...]

[...] There is no real distinction between psychological reality and physical reality. [...]

[...] To him all realities are psychological realities, a thought as real as a chair—in fact, much more real. [...]

[...] Inner psychological realities are hidden beneath the physically-oriented ego simply because it cannot afford to deal with them. [...]

The objects in the physical universe are but symbols to express other realities existing within private realms. [...] If, for example, a letter comes to you bearing good news, and you react to the letter with high spirits, then you should understand that the high spirits existed first, and created the materialization of the letter within the physical systems, through the multilayered and complicated reactions that bind together the physical system.

In the same manner, you create your physical image and your world. [...]

[...] Actually, of course, it is reacting to its own reality, projected outward.

[...] A variety of poor or negative feelings, however, of fairly low intensity, can add up to a general negative emotional climate, which projects itself outward into physical reality.

[...] I see now that given the lifetime challenges she’s chosen, such thoughts will continue to play a prominent role in the reality Jane is creating for herself:)

[...] And as I reread them I understand once again that my wife is still teaching me about her courage, and about the ineffable, unending mystery of the universe that each one of us is creating moment by moment, separately and all together.

(I hadn’t realized four years ago that Jane was speculating about leaving physical reality. [...]

[...] You will feel relatively incompetent to handle present physical reality, to alter your environment, to affect and change your world, if you feel that you are at the mercy of conditions over which you have no control.

[...] In each life you choose and create your own settings or environments; and in this one you chose your parents and whatever childhood incidents that came within your experience. [...]

[...] Before this book is done I hope to show you precisely how you create each minute of your experience so that you can begin to exert your true creative responsibility on a conscious level — or nearly so.

(Resume at 11:15.) Though I am using numbers and classifications, please realize that I am doing this for the convenience of explanation, and that these realities exist one within the other. We are looking into reality from your viewpoint, therefore, from your threshold.

You form your own reality privately, yet one cannot enforce a joint reality upon the other. [...]

[...] The body is an artistic creation, and in certain terms you create many bodies, each one perfectly mirroring your beliefs. [...]

[...] The interior reality is clothed in dream images as, when we are awake, it is clothed in physical ones. Dream objects and physical objects alike are symbols by which we perceive — and distort — an inner reality that we do not seem able to experience directly. [...] This lets us briefly examine the nature of our consciousness by allowing us to view its products — the events and experiences that it creates when released from usual physical focus.

Consciousness forms its own reality, physical and otherwise. [...]

[...] In them, however, my own consciousness was still physically oriented since I “went out” to check the reliability of my perceptions against physical reality.

And so the exterior world emerges from the interior one even as this physical book materialized from the inner reality of inspiration, creativity and dreams.

[...] You may say that in sleeping you focus your energies to form a different reality than the reality of waking physical matter.

Now, regarding again the nature of action, I would like to discuss action in relation to the dream reality, for you are intimately familiar with action in dreams, and your practical experience will enable you to understand the true nature of action more clearly.

You perceive, however, but a very small portion of these images which you have yourselves created. [...]

I have mentioned that what I call the dream universe is indeed composed of molecular structure, and that it is a continuing reality, even though your own awareness of it is most usually limited, for quite necessary reasons, to the hours of your own sleep. [...]

[...] [I hadn’t created anything like that for her, though.] When Jane read her poetry to me I strongly felt once again her innocence and perception: “The universe keeps turning into us….” [...]

It is not quite as simple a matter as just deciding what events you want to materialize as reality, since you have, in your terms, a body of probabilities of one kind or another already established as the raw materials for the coming year. [...]

[...] Great expectations are built upon a faith in the nature of reality, a faith in nature itself, a faith in the life you are given, whatever its degree—and all children, for example, are born with those expectations. [...]

The true power is in the imagination which dares to speculate upon that which is not yet (intently). The imagination, backed by great expectations, can bring about almost any reality within the range of probabilities. [...]