“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] There is every reason to explore inner reality, but this exploration should lead you to understand the nature of physical reality also. [...]

[...] You create physical matter and then perceive it. [...]

[...] It is good to know where you are, and the nature of your reality. [...]

When you have out-of-body experiences, you can become aware of the nature of inner reality more directly.

Matter is continually created, but no particular physical object is in itself continuous. [...]

[...] Matter is created directly from energy on a subconscious level.

The matter is spontaneously and instantaneously created. [...]

[...] There is so much to be said here, as it is also necessary to consider the ways in which physical material is constantly created, and to consider the role of the senses.

[...] The individual first manipulates situations within the dream reality, and then transposes his characteristic method of handling them upon the physical reality.

[...] An ego that is overly rigid will inhibit the intellect from perceiving various portions of physical reality, and therefore distort the appearance of reality, limiting the intellect’s abilities.

When the ego is of such a rigid nature that it distorts physical reality out of all context, then however the personality had better rely upon the subconscious even in this respect, for the subconscious will at least perceive those elements of physical reality that immediately threaten the whole self.

Now, before we plunge into the nature and characteristics of dream reality, let us briefly consider the relationship between emotions, space, and distance as they occur within the waking conditions.

[...] As the outer ego manipulates within the environment and physical reality, so the inner ego or self organizes and manipulates within an inner reality. The inner ego creates that physical reality with which the outer ego then deals.

The inner ego however is always aware of both aspects of its reality. [...] It constantly translates the components of its gestalt into reality, either physical reality through the EE units I have mentioned, or into other realities equally as valid.

An individual inner self, then, through constant massive effort of great creative intensity, cooperates with all other inner selves to form and maintain the physical reality that you know, so that physical reality is an offshoot or by-product of (pause), the highly conscious creative inner self. [...]

Having determined upon physical reality as a dimension in which it will project itself, the inner self therefore first of all takes care to form and maintain the physical basis upon which all else must depend—those physical properties of earth that can be called natural ones.

[...] The inner senses deal with realities beneath camouflage … and deliver inner information. [...] As the senses of sight, sound and smell appear to reach outward, bringing data to the body from an outside observable camouflage pattern, so the inside senses seem to extend far inward, bringing inner reality data to the body. [...]

The elements — those that you now know and those you will create — are camouflages of the basic stuff or vitality which you cannot discover with your outer senses. [...]

[...] The painting, however, achieves a certain freedom from camouflage, although it cannot escape it, and actually hovers between realities in a way that no thoroughly camouflaged object could do. [...]

[...] And while they create instruments to deal with smaller and smaller particles, they will see smaller and smaller particles, seemingly without end. [...]

[...] There are those who are so tightly meshed within physical reality that the soul is squeezed dry. [...] For our friend however the inner self has been overly involved with wandering, and but lightly held within the limits of the intense focus demanded by physical reality. [...]

It is now important that he relearn the objective nature of your reality, the simple sanity of an apple as an apple. After this then perhaps he can begin to wonder at the reality behind the objective universe. [...]

[...] He has disrupted the part of the self that usually deals with physical reality, and its manipulation. [...]

[...] From your viewpoint in three-dimensional reality it is safe, most advantageous, to journey into other dimensions only when you have a reliable vehicle in which to travel. [...]

The paintings you saw are realities, already created by you in other dimensions, and existing as potential forms in this dimension.

You are being given directions and suggestions. (Pause.) You are of course amiable to inner visual stimuli, and used to interpreting reality in highly specialized forms, through visual data.

[...] He forgets himself, uses his body, and at least creates the climate in which muscular relaxation can occur.

Your criterion for physical reality is physical materialization. [...] You are driven to find the reality of yourselves beneath the reality that you know and to do this you must work through the reality that you know and a self that you know. [...]

[...] When you look at your physical reality and see what it is this does not take faith, it is a simple matter of physical perception. When, however, you begin to have glimpses about the nature of reality and realize that you are more than you know that you are now, then it takes faith to bring that inner image close to some actuality, in your terms. [...]

[...] Faith, however, is not believing in a unreality, it is believing in realities that you cannot, at this point physically, perceive. [...] It is banking on the invisible self that, as yet you have not been able to actualize in physical reality. [...]

[...] Your body is your method of perception at this time, but I am telling you that if you identify your entire reality with your body then you are heading for severe feelings of depression and desolation and also letting yourself in for some surprises in the future. [...]

[...] Their main points of consciousness were elsewhere, in another kind of reality, while their physical manifestations were separate. Their primary focuses of consciousness were scarcely aware of the bodies they had created. Yet even those bodies learned, in quotes now, “through experience,” and began to “awaken,” to become aware of themselves, to discover time, or to create it. [...]

(Just as I had some small psychic adventures during our time off from “Unknown” Reality, Jane did too. [...] During the night following the arrival of that first copy of Personal Reality, while lying quietly beside me in an altered state of consciousness, Jane received information of how “the ancients paralyzed the air.” [...] At the breakfast table, I told her I thought the material was connected to the sessions in Personal Reality on the interior sound, light, and electromagnetic values “around or from which” the physical image forms. [...]

[...] In the same way, the private psyche contains within it hints and glimpses of other alternate realities. [...] Such secondary systems can tell you much about the potentials of human reality, those that are latent but can at any time be “raised” to primary importance. [...]

In some of their own private dreams, many of my readers will have discovered a reality quite as vivid as the normal one, and sometimes more so. [...] In systems different from your own, there are realities in which physical organisms are activated after what would seem to you to be centuries of inactivity¹² — again, when the conditions are right. [...]

[...] There are genetic cultures operating, then, of literally infinite variety (intently), and they each have their place and their reason, and they each fit into the overall picture—not only of man’s reality but of the planet’s reality, including all of nature.

[...] I quoted a poem (on animal consciousness) from a book of sketches and untitled poetry that Jane had created for my birthday last June. [...]

[...] We are creators, yet we have also been created. We seeded your universe as you seed other realities.

[...] In my terms, they coexist with me, but at another layer of reality.

[...] I give you this information hoping to help you understand the true nature of your own reality. [...]

[...] Through showing you the nature of my own reality, I hope to teach you the nature of your own.

[...] Many new versions of reality appear first in art or fiction, and in such a way new ideas are spread through a society, while no threatening advances are made upon the world of fact. In any society, as young people come to maturity, they begin to weigh their individualistic version of reality against the adult authoritative one, and in one way or another, as they attain adulthood, they change the system to whatever degree.

[...] I’ve finished working on the last session for Volume 2 of “Unknown” Reality, and today began the last note for the book, on ESP class. [...]

[...] It will always be “undermined” by creativity, and the search for another, newer version of reality. [...]

[...] For you, the church had little authority, but the state is vested with authority that must uphold the composite idea of reality generally held.

You create many of your own difficulties, if not all of them. [...] The inner psychological state is projected outward, gaining physical reality. [...]

[...] You form physical materializations of these realities within your own mind.

If you imagine dire circumstances, ill health or desperate loneliness, these will be automatically materialized, for these thoughts themselves bring forth the conditions that will give them reality in physical terms. [...]

In your reality, the “Unknown” Reality we have just finished is the only version of that manuscript. [...] When we are working on such a project here (in your reality), we are working on probable books also, and those are as real as your official one. [...] So we have been working on a probable “Unknown” Reality — in fact, on many probable “Unknown” Realities. Not mere versions, but variations.

[...] Perhaps Seth likes some of those other versions of ourselves more than he does us. ( I didn’t ask him if I was right, though.) It might even be that his favorite Jane inhabits one probable reality, his favorite Rob another. [...] In which reality did we produce the “best” version of “Unknown” Reality? The worst? [...]

[...] My reality is far more apparent than any apparition’s. Ruburt does well because he explores so cleverly, and keeps his strands of reality in good order.⁶

The longer we went without class, the more Jane and I saw how much its demise paralleled the ending of “Unknown” Reality. Both events were inevitable, we came to understand; both had had their time; our regrets about the finishing of both are real, while simultaneously we heartily agree that the nature of life in this physical — or “camouflage” — reality is one of unending change and renewal. [...]

[...] In the beginning you are safer perhaps in those projections that involve your own reality.

During projection you are dealing with environments and realities with which you are not acquainted on a conscious level. [...]

[...] You will be dealing with realities in which the durability of images is far different. [...]

On very few occasions you may, if you are lucky, travel or project so effectively that you are aware of the spacious present, in which case you will sense the reality of all systems simultaneously. [...]

[...] When I speak so, I am isolating a certain portion of your subjective reality, and labeling it for convenience. [...]

[...] When you do this, you can indeed see the overall purpose of your life—but you cannot do so until you approve of yourself, and recognize that you as an individual are unique, and uniquely a part of all reality.

[...] That “self” is a portion of your being that creates all characteristics, and that can therefore help unify them. [...]

[...] In my greater viewpoint I see your lives—many of them, and the emergence of overall patterns of achievement and challenge, and I hope that you will progress to your own visions of such realities—at least in dreams, for they will sustain you.

Deliberately he decides to create a sculpture, and automatically focuses his energies in that direction. [...] You form your image constantly; as many of the artistic processes are hidden, so the inner mechanisms by which you create your material self lie beneath the surface of your conscious mind. [...]

[...] Your beliefs about the nature of your own reality do. [...]

[...] Many cease creating their bodies and die at a young age for a great variety of reasons, of course, but some die because they believe that old age is shameful and that only a young body can be beautiful.

But for such consciousnesses the bulk of their activities will be elsewhere, possibly in other probable realities, possibly in nonphysical realities that we can hardly imagine from our own vantage points. Those who die unborn, or young, choose to touch upon physical reality to fulfill certain needs; they glimpse it as one might a view through the window of a passing automobile. I really believe that those “certain needs” can have vast implications, by the way, but this isn’t the place to attempt a discussion of such aspects of reality.

In your terms, the person at birth is affected by multidimensional conditions, and the collective position of the planets is but one very minute indication of the other realities involved. Ruburt is correct: Even in conventional terms a true horoscope would have to involve the time of death in your temporal reality, as well [as that of birth]. [...]

Now there is some relationship, at least in terms of our discussion, between the reality of the dolphins and the reality of the fetus. [...]

[...] Seth commented on dolphins some 10 months ago in his final delivery for the 688th session in Volume 1 of “Unknown” Reality; he cited them as being not only similar to certain species that had lived on our own planet in the far past, but as representing bleed-throughs from probable realities in which water-dwelling mammals predominate.

Now we have spoken in terms that you could understand, the nature of your world and reality as you know it, but you have not taken the stuff of reality into your hearts and understood it and this is what you must now begin to learn to do. [...] The reality of what you are now and then you can begin to work with what you are and what you have. [...]

Now there is a point within each of you, at this moment, in this room at this time, that is a connection with all of reality that you can ever know and this point is a point of feeling. [...] The point of reality within you that you try to escape because you are afraid of reality and unwilling to accept the responsibilities of it and so you form pseudorealities. [...]

[...] But the time has come for you all to learn to recognize, feel, and direct your own emotional reality. When you deal with them in terms of formula you have already deprived them, in your own mind, of part of their reality. [...]

[...] You are beginning to reach out and accept emotional realities. [...] The concepts are important but the emotional realities are the basis of your existence and you cannot deny them. [...]

Past associations merge with present reality and form a pattern. [...] Street Four becomes your physical reality. [...]

8. In Chapter 10 for Personal Reality, see the 675th session from 11:51. In Volume 1 of “Unknown” Reality, see the 686th session from 10:37.

[...] I don’t care whether we get stuff on “Unknown” Reality, or personal material, or what. [...]

[...] Class may have to wait until Seth finishes his work on “Unknown” Reality.