“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

The beliefs that you receive, therefore, are your parents’ conceptions of the nature of reality. [...] You pick up their ideas of your own reality.

[...] At the same time you consciously assure yourself that the unsatisfactory belief is an idea about reality and not an aspect of reality itself.

From the earliest stages the child automatically compares its interpretation of reality with its parents’. [...]

(Pause at 11:23.) Quite deliberately you use your conscious mind playfully, creating a game as children do, in which for a time you completely ignore what seems to be in physical terms and “pretend” that what you really want is real.

[...] However it is impossible for them to create a consistent solid image in your terms, for while they are still focused within your system the inner self knows well that the individual is finished with a given life situation, is out of alignment so to speak, and is therefore denied full use of its own energy.

You can glimpse other realities, and this knowledge and confidence will automatically be of benefit to you when the transition takes place. [...]

If you know now that you exist independently of the body, if you have experiences within other realities and messages from them, then you need not fear leaving the body, for you can already begin to make inroads.

[...] You may, however, include portions of the session in “Unknown” Reality if you so choose. [...]

[...] In your system of reality you must operate in time. [...]

[...] Through you they become a part of the experience of the greater identity, but its reality also “originally” gave you your physical existence, as you gave your children physical life. [...]

[...] But their realities are also a part of your own greater alliance.

[...] The universe was not created in some dim past, but is newly recreated by our own thoughts, dreams, and desires—so that reality happens at all possible levels at once. [...]

In Dreams, “Evolution,” and Value Fulfillment Seth outlines the great cosmic and private energies that in our terms once brought into existence the reality of the universe and the birth of those private, cohesive realities in which our own individual daily lives are couched.

[...] For now, though, I present what I have to work with from the saddest, most mournful Sumari song she’s ever created and sung. [...]

[...] Inversion in terms of value interwound upon value, energy compressed, contained, working upon itself, contained but with momentum—this comes much closer to reality.

[...] For each observer quite literally created from his own subconscious energy an approximation of a house, a general shape then perceived as a house, and further embellished by personal judgments.

[...] The psychological frameworks simply are various organizational structures that are equipped to perceive reality discriminately.

[...] In many realities such scrutiny is simply impossible, while the structure operates in a given fashion.

[...] We must come to terms with those challenges we’ve created — and are creating.

[...] The vast reality of probabilities makes the existence of free will possible. [...]

(“With the puddle creature I saw both realities — the puddle in physical terms, and the creature in larger than physical terms — and could switch from one reality to the other if I wanted to, I think. [...] I think it came … from that other reality directly here, because I had my ‘windows’ open.”

He was filled with joy as he observed this reality. He knew that in the physical world the puddle was flat, but that he was perceiving another just-as-solid reality; a larger one, in fact, in which that rain creature had its being.

(Now here are excerpts from the account she wrote for me of her experiences involving the rain-puddle creature and the light on the evening of February 2. Jane’s narrative and poetry supplement Seth’s own words, and show how she became consciously aware of the unique transformation of her original poetic ideas into visual reality — and how she then carried the creative process another step by converting her new perceptions into more poetry. We think these bleed-throughs between realities are common, if largely automatic in most cases, in any area of “life.” [...]

[...] In a part of his reality he did die that winter. In your reality, you kept him alive. [...]

[...] Again, the material is indeed dealing with a far more valid explanation for the working ways of reality than the old official beliefs — and again, we are not just (underlined) dealing with evocative, creative hypotheses.

My present uncomfortable state isn’t drastic, by any means, but it is getting my attention — which, after all, is the reason I’m creating it to begin with. [...]

To move an object in one universe, in one field of reality, from another field of reality, is hardly child’s play. [...]

[...] Limited concepts of the nature of reality have already been broadened in those present, in some of their descendants, and in others to whom they will speak. [...]

[...] You will discover in practical terms how you move and affect physical matter before we are finished, and discover quite practically that you create it.

Now it is true that two individuals in particular who have left physical reality have been trying to help Ruburt, particularly in the dream state. [...]

[...] He should create the feeling within himself, and it will be physically materialized.

[...] When enough of these in a given area congregate together a strong field of activity and attraction is formed (long pause) a highly plastic first draft or underpainting model for future events or physical reality.

The sale of the painting has already taken place within inner reality. [...]

[...] Of this, in your work, you create a new dimension.

[...] The painting spirals outward from your inner reality, and it brings forth energy and previous connections and interpretations. [...]

In either case when conditions are right, you should feel a sense of recognition, a sense of grasping a portion of the center of your own reality. [...]

Now: in The Nature of Personal Reality we discussed the nature of private beliefs. Some day there can be a book called The Nature of Cultural Reality.

I do not want to frighten you—but if we ever do The Nature of Cultural Reality, it will be a fine book.

[...] He did his thing, but he set about creating an environment of “safety,” and he would not go outside of it. [...]

(Humorously:) if you could be really correlated with my time, then you could have The Nature of Cultural Reality in no time.

2. For a brief description of Jane’s encounter with Mrs. Steffans, see Note 13 for Session 744, in Volume 2 of “Unknown” Reality. Seth, and Jane and I, described a number of our house-hunting adventures in the two volumes of that work. [...] We think that the events surrounding our purchase of the hill house furnish many clues to the spontaneous and creative workings of individual consciousnesses in our chosen physical reality.

[...] Your established fields of knowledge do not grant any subjective reality to c-e-l-l-s (spelled).

[...] When they draw circles or squares, they are trying to reproduce those inner shapes, transposing those images outward into the environment—a creative act, highly significant, for it gives children experience in translating inner perceived events of a personal nature into a shared physical reality apparent to all.

[...] It was an attempt to objectify inner reality as it was perceived through a certain belief system. [...]

[...] “I am more, however, than this portion of me that you contact, for it is only one portion of me that experienced that reality. It is highly important, then, that this material not be distorted, for most communications take place on far different levels than this—[levels] so closely connected with your own system that even the most ‘undistorted’ data is highly distorted because the communicators themselves do not realize that they create the realities which they then describe.

[...] “Ruburt’s range is an excellent one, and the plane of reality in which I have my existence is far beyond those to which persons in the physical system usually have access. [...] This [kind of material] has its purposes, and it does do some good, explaining reality in terms that people can understand, for the props and fantasies are familiar ones. [...] He continued, suggesting that I stay away from books that “deal exclusively with conventional religious subjects, interpreting reality in those limited terms.”

[...] As words would give small hint of the reality of color or sound to someone who did not experience these, so words can only give insight into the nature of reality. [...]

[...] We adopt whatever personality characteristics seem pertinent, for in our own reality we have a bank of complete inner selves, and we are all Seth. We attempt to translate realities into terms that you can comprehend. [...]

[...] As I told you, matter is created constantly. [...]

[...] Your universe of positive matter is but one portion of the stuff of reality or energy as it is temporarily apparent, instantaneously, at one point within one of our imaginary cubes.

[...] Each individual himself creates a portion or a whole physical object. [...]

[...] From your own perspective, from your own space perspective, through the methods which I have given you, you create your own version of a particular object, and you do it by using energy in a personal manner.

[...] Very briefly this evening some of you dealt with the reality of symbols, and this is extremely important for the physical body that you know is a materialization of symbols that you have created. [...]

[...] Automatically in daily life you translate symbols into what you call reality. [...] You form appearances from symbols but you are so lost in the world of appearances that you forget the symbols upon which you have formed the reality. [...]

The precise delineation helped create the subject of the painting beautifully, with almost “supernatural” in quotes, precision. [...]

[...] As a youngster you felt that recreating portions of physical reality gave you a mastery and control over them. [...]

Imagine the vision on the board, forming itself and evolving outward into physical reality, and let your fine technical abilities simply help the vision flow outward.

[...] Remember in your painting the relationship of one object to another, not in terms of space necessarily, the interrelationship of the vitality that forms the objects; the vibrating always changing reality within, say, the skin of the apple or the orange, the quite living consciousness within the molecules that make up what seems to be the solid surface of the fruits’ skin.

[...] Outer constructions are always translations of actions from inner reality into material. [...]

(“What about those fragments you said Jane and I created at York Beach, Maine, last August? [...]

[...] What if Jane and I go to York Beach in Maine again, and meet those fragments we created; what will happen, if anything?”)

(“You said earlier that when Willy and the bug created each other, they saw solidity in infrared. [...]

[...] As events worked out, Seth was halfway through Volume 1 of “Unknown” Reality before I realized that these supplementary notes would work well as the first appendix in the first volume. [...] As in the Introductory Notes, I want to stress Jane’s role as the creative artist, disseminating her personal view of a larger inner reality, and her intuitive and conscious comprehension of at least some aspects of that reality; for such understanding can easily elude our Western-oriented, materialistic, technological outlook.

[...] She was simply herself, and her sense of self, with her individual abilities and appreciation of the world she created and reacted to, grew in a very natural manner as she matured. [...]

2. The mystical way is one of the natural feedback systems that operate between the body and the psyche, as Seth reminds us in Chapter 10 of Personal Reality. [...]

[...] Few even wonder if it can be done … The visions that don’t agree with the various religious and mystical dogmas, that aren’t couched in terms of Christ, Jehovah, or Buddha, might well represent holes in the official picture through which a glimmer of inner reality seeps…. [...]

The City simply represents, in your terms, an idealized version of a reality that can be physical. [...] And if it is, it will be created in your terms now, through your dreams, your love, your desire and your intent. [...]

[...] You form your own reality. [...]

[...] There dwells your reality and your meaning, and therein lies the validity of your soul.

[...] You would, without repressing anything, experience your own reality without impediments. [...]