“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

When I say “You create your own reality through your thoughts,” you, meaning anyone, have a tendency to imagine each thought as a small brick, a psychological object, each one being formed into the structure of your experience. [...]

(I ended up this evening wondering why nature would provide within its limitless possibilities that of such nasty ideas or creations—which, I told Jane, only meant that we had the power or ability to create such ungainly hassles. [...]

All realities are the result of idea construction. [...]

(10:05.) Those processes, however, contain the basic mental structures from which ideas and concepts as you understand them come, and they are also responsible for the inner mental and psychological processes, individually and worldwide, that form private and mass physical reality.

[...] They are electromagnetic realities. [...]

(9:36.) Your conscious mind is meant to assess and evaluate physical reality, and to help you chart your course in the corporeal universe of which you are presently part. [...]

To act in an independent manner, you must begin to initiate action that you want to occur physically (emphatically) by creating it in your own being.

[...] Of course, the wanted result is not yet physical or you would not need to create it, so it does no good to say that your physical experience seems to contradict what you are trying to do.

Every nerve and fiber within the physical image has an inner purpose that is not seen, and that serves to connect the inner self with physical reality—in other words, that allows the inner self to create physical reality.

[...] Your control over it is quite effective, for you create it as you create your fingertip. [...]

[...] There are methods and means, hidden to the ego, whereby the physical universe as you know it is constantly created and maintained. [...]

Thoughts and images are formed into physical reality and become physical fact. [...]

The mind constructs into matter its own idea of reality, and this is where personal expectation comes into play. You do not only create your own environment, generally speaking, you create it concretely, in forms of mass and matter.

The depth of this reality cannot be plunged into in the same manner that one plunges into a river or a stream. The depth of this reality can, again, be compared to the depth of a sleep or a trance, or the depth of any common psychological experience.

[...] Energy and the consciousness within continually constructs itself into completely new constructions; because of the various speeds I have spoken of, and because you do not perceive the full reality, you do not notice the simultaneous constructions, and think them continuous, rather than separate and ever new.

The chair is neither durable nor continuous, and its reality is limited to the recognition which you give it as an object.

The paintings already exist however as definite potential forms, already created by your whole self. Only you can give them physical reality however. [...]

[...] (Sitting up as she spoke, Jane began to take off her sweater and shoes.) The painting exists and in one reality you have already completed it. [...]

[...] The paintings that you will paint do exist, because you have in one sense the potential to create them. [...]

[...] (Pause.) Great artists are those who materialize physically the paintings already created by the whole self in potential form.

[...] Simply tell yourself that you are doing well in this reality, using your abilities, helping your husband and caring for your child. [...] They come into reality with problems, but all of you come into reality with challenges that you have set ‘ahead of time.’ You have given them the gift of existence. [...]

This is what I know of reality. [...] Outside of the realities of which I am aware and others are aware, there are systems that we cannot describe. They are massive energy sources, cosmic energy banks, that make possible the whole reality of probabilities.

[...] The responsibility of dealing with physical reality remains, but in some respects the nature of this manipulation changes. [...] It accepts large portions of reality that it previously denied. [...]

[...] All That Is can never know itself completely, since action must always act and each action creates a new unknown. Action must travel through itself from every conceivable point, and yet the journey, being itself action, will create new paths.

[...] Physicians began to think of men as carriers of disease and diseases — which, in certain terms, they [the physicians] did themselves create through some new medical procedures.

[...] Each of the atoms and molecules that compose your body has its own reality in sound values that you do not hear physically. [...]

[...] Look at them as you would a painting you have created. [...]

[...] Behind all this, of course, would be the belief that caused the difficulty; but once you have brought about a group of symptoms you must be very careful that you do not begin to view your field of reality from that position. [...]

[...] As you create and experience your daily life through your personal feelings and beliefs, so the same applies to dream reality.

[...] Since you are part of it, this also leads you to try to place yourself apart from your own subjective reality. [...] You acquire a true flexibility and expanded awareness of your own being, and open channels of communication between your waking and dreaming realities. [...]

[...] As I mentioned earlier (in the 652nd session in Chapter Thirteen, for instance), the division is largely the result of your mass and private beliefs in the nature of reality, and in the habits the race has acquired of separating “objective” data from subjective.

[...] You dwell within its reality as a cell dwells within the reality of an organ. [...]

[...] You create yourselves on a daily basis, changing your form according to the incalculable richness of your multitudinous abilities. [...] You in turn create other living creatures. [...]

[...] In a book we must use words, but such analogies can, if you let them, conjure up within your imagination some feeling of your intimate relationship with all other reality. [...]

[...] All of this may seem to have little to do with your personal reality. [...]

[...] (Pause.) I do claim an independent reality at another level of existence. [...]

[...] Your creative abilities do not simply allow you to paint pictures, to tell or write stories, to create sculpture or architecture. [...]

[...] This viewpoint will, I hope, provide another framework through which you can understand and study physical reality, your part in it, and sense the immense creative complexity that unites each individual with the source of consciousness itself.

To do this, I hope to explore a more meaningful concept of evolution¹—and that concept must involve a discussion of subjective reality and its effect upon the “evolution” of man’s consciousness.

(“Man was created by God, so that nature only had meaning in relationship to man—man was dominant. [...] The universe wasn’t created by God, and man and nature alike had no meaning, so that thematically man went from being the center of the universe, a special creature, created by God, to a meaningless conglomeration of atoms and molecules, and a meaningless universe, and that philosophical drop was shattering to man. [...]

[...] In the terms of my bodily reality, those dire imaginings, whatever they are, are not real. [...] I will not overload that present by borrowing trouble that in this moment has no reality” (all very emphatically). [...]

[...] Another idea—“It’s no big deal”—was that for centuries man thought the universe was created for man, and everything else revolved around man.

(“Man’s own subjective reality, in all of its manifestations [pause] is the only one real “tool” that will give him any indication of his own greater existence, and therefore of his own origins and that of the universe. [...]

[...] When you realize that your own personality is indeed multidimensional, then you will realize that your age is a reality that you are presently experiencing, among many other realities. It gives you a certain viewpoint and a certain framework from which to view reality, but it is not the only viewpoint that you have available to you, and it is not the only framework from which your reality springs. [...]

[...] You can choose any perspective that you want from which to view the reality that you know. You can choose, therefore, to view the reality that you know from a self, in your terms, that you have been. [...]

[...] And he simply shows those portions of his reality that are also counterparts of your own reality that exists within you. [...]

[...] It is the viewpoint of reality that you have presently adapted, and as such it is purposely not only valid but important to you. [...]

[...] This cycle that psychologists have recently discovered, having to do with the various dream levels, corresponds to the ebb and tide of consciousness as it appears within and disappears from physical reality. It creates physical reality, as you know.

[...] The consciousness as it reasserts itself within physical reality has no memory of the interval in which it did not physically exist. [...] Dreams allow consciousness to disentangle itself from physical reality. [...]

[...] Now these nonintervals are indeed openings into other realities, and you can theoretically explore them. They exist as actually as physical reality. [...]

[...] Your perception of time causes many difficulties when you try to examine reality as it exists independent of matter. [...]

[...] And I hope that you will use your inner senses to create the tree in your mind for the painting that you have begun. Now it will be a better tree in the painting, for you will be able to create the essence of the tree.

[...] It alone is capable of experiencing inner and basic reality directly and immediately. It alone can cope with the tumultuous nature of such direct reality experience.

[...] Gradually direct experience of inner reality is spoon-fed by the inner ego through the mouth of the subconscious to the outer ego. [...] That is, the outer ego is shielded from direct experience of reality because it could not take the impact of such experience. [...]

The subconscious—to finish what I began—the subconscious cushions the outer ego really against the shock of true reality. [...] You are not strong enough yet to bear the brunt of basic reality, and you construct complicated dream worlds in order to find shelter from what would appear to you as savage, uncontrolled and undisciplined chaos.

[...] For seeing that he creates his own reality now, he will understand that he also helped form the environment in which he grew, and that his mother was not entirely responsible.

[...] Various groups of individuals therefore, massed together, help form and maintain particular areas of your reality. [...]

The inner self therefore uses the physical system to express its own inclinations and ideas of reality. [...]

[...] The whole idea of physical reality, individually speaking, is the emergence of experience within your particular system. [...]

In so doing, the soul continually creates new varieties of inner reality to be explored. [...]

[...] Symbols are a method of expressing inner reality. Working in one direction the soul, using its consciousness, expresses inner reality through as many symbols as possible, through living, changing symbolism. [...]

All symbols stand for inner realities, therefore, and when you juggle symbols, you are juggling inner realities. [...]

[...] Fire, for example, is a symbol made physical, so a real fire tells you obviously that you are perceiving reality with your physically attuned consciousness.

You appear in astral form in realities that are comparatively more advanced than your own. [...] They have a reality. [...]

Some dead friends and relatives do visit you, projecting from their own level of reality into yours, but you cannot as a rule perceive their forms. They are not more ghostly, or “dead,” however, than you are when you project into their reality — as you do, from the sleep state.

[...] (Pause.) Such other existences and realities as just described coexist with your own, and in the waking state you are not aware of them. [...]

[...] They are not fully focused in physical reality, however, either in personality or in form, and this is their main distinction. [...]

Now he did not create them on his own, and thrust them upon historical reality. (Jane paused, a hand to her eyes.) He created them in so far as he found himself forced to admit certain facts: In that world at that time, earthly power was needed to hold Christian ideas apart from numberless other theories and religions, to maintain them in the middle of warring factions. [...]

[...] In one sense, you can say that man identifies with the gods he has himself created. [...] Then, say that gods and men create each other, and you come even closer to the truth; but only if you are very careful in your definitions — for how, exactly, do gods and men differ?

[...] It is quite true to say that their reality consists not only of the core of their own identity, but also is reinforced by those projected thoughts and feelings of the earthly audience for whom the drama is enacted.

[...] Obviously, then, beyond these earthly historic religious dramas, the seemingly recurring tales of gods and men, there are spiritual realities.

There are no presents or pasts to these minds, only simultaneous experience, and a creativity that constantly of itself and its existence creates more. Consciousness of itself forms all of these realities and systems. [...]

The multiplicitude of your own system is but one small example of the infinite realities that exist outside it. [...] There are gradations in matter as there are gradations in your color, realities that blend one into the other, and probable systems in which various representations, reflections, shadows and echoes, all probable creations of any given self, mature.

[...] You hold congregation with the many segments of your own reality. [...] Probable selves can be viewed by myself and others like me, for we see your reality in all of its dimensions, and you view it from the small present forms that you know. [...]

You do not understand the diversity of life-forms within your own reality. [...]

[...] It may not have occurred, in one place and in one time, and to one called Christ; but because man has created the myth, he created the Crucifixion out of his own need; and this Crucifixion, which historically did not occur, as the myth says it occurred, nevertheless has as much reality, and more, than it would have had, had it occurred in so-called hard fact.

There are those who will say that such a concept represents an escape from reality. [...] They ignore and fear the inner reality, and the inner ideas and dreams which have actually formed the reality of which they are so proud.

[...] Myths and symbols are often closer to reality than what are called hard facts, since so-called hard facts are often distortions of the outer senses. [...]

[...] Myths and symbols often are closer to reality, again, than so-called hard facts.