“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] Giving yourselves time in which to create is excellent. [...]

[...] On that level they are studying the ways in which beliefs and feelings are translated into living reality. [...]

[...] All realities are the result of certain unique focuses taken by consciousness, therefore. [...] The effects of objectivity are caused as the psyche projects its experience into inner dimensions that it has itself created.

The probable realities connected with your own system are like the suburbs, say, surrounding a main city. If for simplicity’s sake you think of other realities as different cities, then after you leave your own you would pass through the suburbs, then into the country, then after a time into other suburbs until you reached another metropolis. Here each metropolis would represent a conglomeration of consciousnesses operating within an overall general frequency of clearest focus, a high point of psychic communication and exquisite focus in the given kind of reality. Unless you are tuned in to those particular frequencies, however, you could not pick up that reality. [...]

[...] When you are sleeping, then, your consciousness often ventures into other realities, usually in a wandering fashion without tuning itself in to any precise frequencies. Beneath many seemingly chaotic dreams there are often valid experiences in which your consciousness “lights” in another reality, without being attuned to it with the necessary precision that would allow for clear perception. [...] Therefore, it has been difficult to achieve any kind of clear picture of such other realities.

[...] They are then accepted as physical reality. [...] You ignore the ghost symbols or voices, the probable actions that also occur, but that are muffled in the clear tones of your accepted reality. [...]

[...] They are doorways into inner realities, and other realities, as are these sessions. [...]

(At 8:55 as we sat for the session Jane got another flash, concerning time, that it is “intensely personal, that we create it,” from Seth. [...]

[...] Because I have also followed this particular reality, it is meaningful, for me, and I can understand it.

[...] These merge so beautifully that they all serve to form a seemingly perfect picture of physical reality. [...]

[...] It is a particular reality in which you have chosen to know your existence, in which you have chosen to develop yourself, and it is indeed a system, again, like no other system, a unique and dear and beloved portion of reality in which you have decided to flourish for awhile. And in denying it, again, you deny the reality of experience. [...]

Within each of you there are truths that you do not know, realizations of inner reality. Now your ego, your exterior self, focuses outward into physical reality. [...] It wants to see inner knowledge projected outward onto the physical reality then, to some extent, it will accept it and so through the eons that you know this inner knowledge, this inner vitality is projected outward onto history and onto historical events as you understand them. [...]

[...] Words cannot convey the message but working from the words you can obtain a portion of the reality behind them. [...]

Now this inner drama cannot be understood by the ego, and so it is projected outward into external reality. [...]

[Each of] you will create the attributes of reality that interest you and work with them in your own way. [...]

You could not be consciously aware of those other realities all of the time, and deal with the world that you know. [...] Yet there is more to the body than you perceive of it, and this is difficult to explain to you … If you can think of a multidimensional body existing at one time in various realities, and appearing differently within each one while still being whole, then you can get some glimpse of what is involved.³

Now our friend Joseph here was able to handle another reality while still being involved in this one. [...] But in other terms, she was indeed running in another environment that our friend was able to see, and to superimpose over the reality he knew, while keeping both intact.

(So far we’ve been dealing with the idea of counterparts in our own physical reality. [...] (Before that, from Session 712:) To some extent or another, there are counterparts of all realities within your psyche.

[...] Jane doesn’t create a reality in which the event is absent from her memory, or never happened, that I know of.

[...] She did her own thing about creating her own reality. [...]

[...] The Christmas tree and all the decorations have been dismantled; the house is cleaned to some extent, and the copyedited version of Volume 2 of “Unknown” Reality has been returned to Prentice-Hall. [...]

[...] The looking-for creates the activity also, you see, for it serves as a psychological focus.

Conflicting beliefs about the nature of reality can bring about dilemmas in almost any form, for the individual will always try to make sense out of his or her surroundings, and try to at least see the world as a cohesive whole.

[...] A person may become so frightened of using his or her own power of choice or action that the construction of an artificial superbeing is created — a seemingly sublime personage who gives orders to the individual involved.

It dwells in the physical universe, but it can indeed also perceive and appreciate other realities. The ego is part of the personality, and as such it can partake of sturdier, heartier, more vivid realities. [...]

(It will be remembered that it was at York Beach, in August 1963, that Jane and I saw the fragments we had ourselves created, according to Seth, in the dancing establishment called the Driftwood Lounge. [...]

[...] There are no boundaries to the self except those boundaries which the self arbitrarily creates and perpetuates. [...]

[...] You are, in your terms, in their reality while being “ahead” of them in terms of certain kinds of development. [...] You are not involved in a specific kind of emotional reality others are pursuing. Those realities are not beneath your own in any way. [...]

[...] Instead a look at the private unknown reality as it becomes somewhat visible.

[...] You both possessed such strong creative abilities, however, that once expressed they were bound to create attention. [...]

Actually some of the responses to Personal Reality have helped him considerably, as he sees that so-called authorities are greedy for these ideas, and need them desperately. [...]

[...] You create from those conditions the experiences of your days. [...] I hope to give you along the way a picture of reality that puts suffering in its proper perspective, but it is a most difficult subject to cover because it touches most deeply upon your hopes for yourselves and for mankind, and your fears for yourselves and for mankind.

[...] Your beliefs become self-evident realities. [...] Ideas are transmitted from generation to generation—and those ideas are the carriers of all of your reality, its joys and its agonies. [...]

Each time someone we know gets in serious trouble, Jane and I start questioning anew our own values, and those of the society we live in, for such challenges seem to come unbidden and unwanted from way out in some far corner of each person’s reality. [...]

The church’s view of reality was the accepted one. [...]

[...] Those opportunities involved emotional understanding, a very close and emotional contact with a particular belief system, and a firsthand view of a certain kind of reality structure. [...]

Now to some extent each person tests the nature of reality in each life for himself or herself, and also for the entire generation. [...]

[...] It was as if Marie were saying, “This is the kind of a life those beliefs can create. [...]

[...] Another portion of the self seemed to be initiating an entirely different system of reality, in complete opposition to that early background, and the Sinful Self was bound to react with some alarm. [...]

[...] There are more intertwinings here [including some art elements] than it’s necessary to describe; but studying just this one complex house connection, then seeing how it combines with some of the others we’ve become conscious of; leaves Jane and me more than a little bemused by this interlocking reality we’re creating.²

[...] I’ve deleted certain portions of his material about us while leaving other parts for presentation here, since they do extend his recent work for “Unknown” Reality.)

[...] Jane and I were involved in it, and Seth discussed our experiences in Personal Reality; see Chapter 1, for instance.

[...] Yet the full picture of our moving should include not only the myriad probabilities growing out of our own actions, but all of the probable developments involving that house next door: Whatever happenings take place there — which we’ll help create — are bound to have their effects upon us.

Ruburt found great comfort in the church as a young person, for if it created within its members the image of a Sinful Self, it also of course provided a steady system of treatment—a series of rituals that gave the individual some sense of hope the Sinful Self could be redeemed, as in most of Christianity’s framework through adherence to certain segments of Christian dogma. [...]

(Long pause at 9:20.) Ruburt’s creative nature early began to perceive at least that man’s existence contained other realities that were deeper. [...]

He began to search actually from childhood in a natural fashion toward some larger framework that would offer an explanation for reality that bore at least some resemblance to the natural vision of his best poetry. [...]

(10:17.) Ruburt was not responsible for his mother’s reality, for her characteristics, reactions, or beliefs. [...]

(At 8:45 tonight Jane said that Seth was going to talk about the York Beach apparitions we created at that resort in the summer of 1963, while on vacation there, in Maine. [...]

[...] According to the physical validity or the extent of physical reality to be achieved, the physical body of the originator then lends, or transposes or transfers, portions of its own chemical structure. [...]

(“While Jane and I were contending with those pseudoimages we had created at York Beach, in that crowded dancing establishment—did others in the room know what was going on?”)

[...] According to your terms, God never would have created any creature or any reality or any universe. [...]

Now, our friend back here (Ned) could well appear, you see, as a UFO in another aspect of reality, and frighten the inhabitants. [...] But you forget consciousness is the reality and the only true vehicle, and no part of your consciousness is imprisoned within you and it materializes in one aspect or another. Now, I use the word materializes because it makes sense to you but the word itself is distortive because it predisposes an appearance within matter materialization, and yet all realities, as you know, are not physical. [...]

[...] Now, you form the physical reality that you know, individually and en masse, and to change the world that you know you must change your thoughts and to change them you must become consciously aware of what you tell yourself is true every moment of the day for that is your reality, and that is what you project outward. [...]

[...] In these cases you have visitors from other areas of actuality, other realities. [...]

Yes, I think that in our separate ways each one of us chose to create this probable reality out of the many available.

[...] In the overall drama however it made little difference what was fact, in your terms, and what was not — for the greater reality transcends facts and creates them. [...]

[...] It means acquiescing to your reality as a spirit in flesh. [...]

If you do so, then in the great flow and sweep of your eternal reality there will be an overall current of love and creativity that carries you. [...]

[...] But never negate the present reality of yourself because you compare it to some idealized perfection.

I have my own existence, that is quite different from Ruburt’s, and yet I also have a reality that is connected to his psyche.⁶ Each of you also have the same kind of connection with other “more knowledgeable” portions of yourself, or your greater identity, that are independently themselves and yet also alive in your psyches. They are portions of the “unknown” reality.

[...] These pulses or messages became the only official data that, translated into sense perception, formed physical reality. [...]

While the cells required future and past data, and used it to form from that invisible tension the body’s present corporal reality, the same kind of information could be a threat then to the ego consciousness, which could be overwhelmed. [...]

The past, in the present, would appear so brilliantly that man could not react adequately in circumstances of time that he had himself created. [...]