“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

What I want to emphasize here is the paranoid’s misinterpretation of innocuous personal or mass events, and to stress the ways in which physical events can be put together symbolically, so that from them a reality can be created that is almost part physical and part dream.

[...] You create them. [...] These individuals often use the physical world in the way that most people use the dream world, so that for them it is difficult to distinguish between a private and a publicly-shared reality.

[...] Often, however, they have less of a solid foundation than others in dealing with a mass-shared reality, and so they attempt to impose their own private symbols upon the world, or to form a completely private world. [...] Each person forms his or her own reality, and yet that personal reality must also be shared with others, and must be affected by the reality of others….

[...] Their reality is the result of the most precise balancing of forces so that certain mental events appear quite real, and others are peripheral. [...] If in the middle of the night, and fully awake, you believe it is sunrise in physical terms, and cannot differentiate between your personal reality and the physical one, then that balance is disturbed.

I have told you often that you create your reality physically. Obviously you create your psychic and spiritual reality also. You are aware (underlined) of the physical environment that you create. [...] Your reality exists, as you should well know by now, in many dimensions.

[...] In your system there is some lag before physical reality catches up with your inner conceptions. In other realities there is no such lag, for reasons that by now you should understand.

[...] Following the laws of attraction, it drew to it other such realities.

In one way they are automatic offshoots or products, except that once created, because of their nature and their nonphysical environment, their abilities far surpass your own in terms of acceleration. [...]

Art is created, then, using time — for example — as a structure. [...] One of their main preoccupations is to create beauty that impinges itself in as many various dimensions of reality as possible.

[...] This merely means that you understand your multidimensional reality in practical terms. I have used the word multidimensional often, and you see I mean it quite literally, for your reality exists not only in terms of reincarnational existences but also in the probable realities mentioned earlier.

Such a work would be perceived in your system as one thing, for example, but would also be perceived in probable realities, though perhaps in an entirely different way — a multidimensional art, you see, so free and elemental that it would appear simultaneously in many realities.

[...] There never was any real division, but only a seeming one in which you played various roles, developed different abilities, learned to create in new and diverse ways. [...]

The fact is that each of you create your own physical reality; and en masse, you create both the glories and the terrors that exist within your earthly experience. [...]

I speak to those who believe in a god, and those who do not, to those who believe that science will find all answers as to the nature of reality, and to those who do not. I hope to give you clues that will enable you to study the nature of reality for yourself as you have never studied it before.

Consciousness creates form. [...]

[...] Later I will explain how this psychological framework is created and maintained, for it is like a road that must be kept clear of debris. [...]

[...] By the very nature of consciousness, it seeks to materialize itself in as many dimensions as possible — to create from itself new levels of awareness, new offshoots. In doing so it creates all reality. Reality, therefore, is always in a state of becoming. [...]

[...] They lead the actors to see beyond the selves and settings they have created. [...] Their purpose is to open up within the three-dimensional selves those psychological doorways that will release the three-dimensional self for further development in another system of reality.

Entities or souls, in other words, send out portions of themselves to open up avenues of reality that would not exist otherwise. (Long pause at 9:39.) The three-dimensional selves, in existing within these realities, must focus their attention there completely. [...]

[...] In a large manner, the physical senses actually form the physical reality they seem to only perceive. [...] You can tell the position of the other actors for example, or time by clock, but these physical senses will not tell you that time is itself a camouflage, or that consciousness forms the other actors, or that realities that you cannot see exist over and beyond the physical matter that is so apparent.

Yet Buddhist belief, for instance, maintains that our perception of the world is not fundamental, but an illusion; our “ignorance” of this basic undifferentiated “suchness” then results in the division of reality into objects and ideas. But why call our generalized awareness an illusion, instead of regarding it as one of the innumerable manifestations that reality takes? [...] Even given their undeniable accomplishments, why didn’t the Eastern countries create ages ago the immortal societies that could have served as models for those of the West to emulate — cultures and/or nations in which all the mundane human vicissitudes (in those terms) had been long understood and abolished: war, crime, poverty, ignorance, and disease?

[...] Given those points, she’s bound to have differences of belief with other views of reality.

[...] I added that even though we have no interest in putting down other approaches to inner reality, still we’re firm believers in the “inviolate nature of the individual consciousness, before, during, and after physical existence, in ordinary terms.”¹ So, here, we leave it up to the reader to make the intuitive and overt connections between Seth’s philosophy and the material Jane wrote today. [...]

[...] Thank God that some god loved itself enough to diversify, to create itself in a million different forms; to multiply, to explode its being inward and outward. [...]

[...] (Seth smiled.) The possibilities that have come to reality within this universal system have each given birth to other systems and realities, as one tree bears a thousand seeds. You, yourselves, through your own mental actions, create realities of which you are unaware, and you give birth to more than physical children.

[...] There is interrelationship, intertwining realities, and connections that cannot be denied. I told you, for example, that dream reality consisted of more than you knew, and that the dream universe continued whether or not you perceived it. Within that context, those inhabitants dream—in turn—their own dreams, and form electromagnetic realities. [...]

Now: again, each thought forms its own electromagnetic reality and is composed of energy which can never be dissipated, but only transformed. The subjective reality of one man, left alone in the universe, would emit enough energy to seed another. [...]

[...] You only perceive the portions of them that are apparent within your own system of reality.

[...] Any attempt to so rigorously and precisely express inner reality is bound to be abortive, highly misleading, and in your terms sometimes dangerous; for you do create your own reality and live it according to your inner beliefs. [...]

Before, the environment was effortlessly created and perceived by man and all other living things, knowing the nature of their inner unity. [...] So it seemed that all bridges must be cut, while of course it was only a game because the inner reality always remained. [...]

[...] Its consciousness, and its reality, is within each man, and within the gods he has created. [...]

Such religious dramas focus, direct, and, hopefully, clarify aspects of inner reality that need to be physically represented. [...] Many are also projected into other systems of reality. Religion per se, however, is always the external facade of inner reality. [...]

[...] Action, by its nature, while part of every reality, necessarily changes that reality and forms from it a new reality. [...]

Discovery of these other electrical realities will explain much that previously could not be explained. All realities with which you will be concerned, and with which mankind is intimately concerned, are built up electrically. A dream is as valid an electrical reality as a lightning bolt, the difference being that the lightning bolt projects itself into your awareness through the outer senses.

[...] It is a by-product of any reality, and a part of all reality. [...]

[...] In our earlier discussions concerning the nature of matter, we made it plain that each individual created any given material object, through use of the inner senses, and following certain rules which were mentioned.

[...] We are trying to not observe, as much as appreciate, the nature of your present existence; so those of you who are curious and willing about the nature of nonphysical reality then follow as far as you can, using the voice as a guideline into existence that has no reality in physical terms, that knows neither blood nor tissue, that knows not hand or finger or arm. [...] There is no physical being with whom then you can relate; and yet, beyond this and through the isolation is a point of light that is consciousness, that pulses with the power behind all the emotions that you know and that feeds them, that sends them sparkling and tumbling down into the reality that you know. A warmth that forms the very pulse of physical existence and yet is born from the devotion of our isolation; that is born from the creativity that is beyond flesh and bone, that forms fingers without feeling fingers, that forms seasons without knowing spring, that creates sand without knowing sand or ground, that creates the reality that you know without experiencing it, that forms fathers, sons and daughters and mothers without knowing what fathers and mothers and daughters and sons are, and yet from this devotion, from that creativity comes all that you know. [...]

[...] Your image was an excellent one and in your terms it represents the characteristics of space as you might relate to it and also to those black pockets of which the physicists are speaking where all realities swooped into these, so to speak. But these are other dimensions of actuality where the reality that you know automatically is translated in different terms not, however, annihilated there as it seems, but translated. [...]

[...] And as we continue you will find yourselves in other levels of reality and able to manipulate within them. [...]

[...] There should be an important class meeting at another level of reality and hopefully you will remember it. [...]

This however is not their problem, for like all other individuals they perceive a reality that they have created. [...] It is not related to their attitude toward reality as a whole, but it is intimately connected with the reality which they have created. They are indeed relating to that reality very well. The reality, however, is much more distorted than usual, and this is one of the main problems.

Any individual reacts to a reality as he perceives it to be, and he perceives it to be since he has himself created it from basic reality. The very distortions therefore form many of the characteristic differences which for him gives his reality its peculiar nature. Those whose actions set them apart drastically from others within your system, and who seem in one way or another mentally unbalanced, are often told that they must relate themselves more clearly with reality as it exists.

Now, putting these two statements together, you see that an individual will perceive basic reality, in the main, only from his own reference point, and through his outer sense apparatus. His perception of basic reality in one way does not change the nature of that reality or of that action, as it exists independently of his field of reference. However, the very distortions that occur in his attempt to perceive this reality results in a new reality. [...]

It is only because their realities are so distorted that the difficulty is discovered. [...] Each reality is completely unique for every individual, and through his own actions he attempts therefore to communicate the nature of this reality of his to his fellows.

[...] Many religious people believe that a god exists in a larger dimension of reality, and that he created the universe while being himself outside of it. [...] Established science is quite certain that no energy can now be created or destroyed, but only transformed (as stated in the first law of thermodynamics). Science sees energy and matter as being basically the same thing, appearing differently under varying circumstances.

[...] The universe is being created now (underlined). [...] The illusion of time itself is being created now. [...]

[...] We think that either one of those belief systems is much too inadequate to explain reality in any sort of comprehensive way.

(9:31.) In certain terms, science and religion are both dealing with the idea of an objectively created universe. [...]

The soul, however, does not need to follow the laws and principles that are a part of the physical reality, and it does not depend upon physical perception. [...] The soul’s perceptions are not dependent upon time, because time is a physical camouflage and does not apply to nonphysical reality.

In a manner of speaking, you continually create your soul as it continually creates you.

[...] It also follows that your experience within the physical system is dependent upon a physical form and physical senses — again, because these interpret reality and translate it into physical data. [...]

[...] The soul, in other words, has created a world for you to inhabit, to change — a complete sphere of activity in which new developments and indeed new forms of consciousness can emerge.

[...] (Pause, smile.) The possibilities that have come to reality within this universal system have each given birth to other systems and other realities, as one tree bears a thousand seeds. (Pause.) You yourselves through your own mental actions create realities of which you yourselves are unaware, and you give birth to more than physical children.

[...] The three-dimensional system is like a shadow of realities that you do not perceive. [...] Consciousness had first to create the void, or the dimension in which the system could exist, and also to endow that void with all the probabilities for development that have come about in your time, and are to come about.

[...] There is interrelationship, intertwining realities, and connections that cannot be denied. I told you that dream reality consisted of more than you knew, and that the dream universe continued whether or not you perceived it. Within that context those inhabitants dream in turn their own dreams and form electromagnetic realities. [...]

[...] You only perceive the portions of them that are apparent within your own system of reality.

Those who understand thoroughly that reality is self-created will have least difficulty. [...] If you believe, for example, that all good must be balanced by evil, then you bind yourself into a system of reality that is highly limiting, and that contains within it the seeds of great torment.

The experiment that would transform your world would operate upon the basic idea that you create your own reality according to the nature of your beliefs, and that all existence was blessed, and that evil did not exist in it. [...]

[...] In them individuals creatively and purposely create realities, knowing how to do so and giving full rein to the creative abilities of consciousness.

[...] In your system of reality now you set up great contrasts and opposing factors. These operate as root assumptions within your reality.

[...] When that point is reached, you will be able, if you prefer, to experience any ‘reality … illusion’ at your will, but the self who experiences these ‘reality … illusions’ will know itself as reality. There is no place for it to go, because it is the only reality, and will create its own environment.”

[...] I am one with what reality I create. [...]

“You create your reality according to your beliefs and expectations, therefore it behooves you to examine them carefully. [...]

[...] Earlier, Seth and Gene had been discussing reality, and Gene had commented that existence was “kind of a lovely colossal joke.” [...]

(Seth II:) Fantasies are the realities your intellect does not perceive in other fantasies, therefore, those others who watch you and who watch without any awareness of the intellect as you understand it. [...] Our perception allows us to tune into the particular fantasies that you perceive as one indivisible reality. [...]  eons ago we helped create as you are now continuing in what you might call dreams our fantasies now do create. As we peer into your room, so do you peer into other realities all unknowing. [...] Now, that is reality .... [...] We perceive your present room, understanding that you consider it this indivisible reality and yet our presence was sensed. [...]

[...] You are to forget the idea that what you see physically is the only reality, and that what only one perceived must be an hallucination if it is not perceived by the others. A reality is a reality regardless of how many perceive it. It is only at your present point of comprehension that you judge reality according to the number of people who perceive the same thing. [...] You are afraid of going off into your own realities afar from your fellows ...and yet to a large degree you do so all of the time in the daily life that you know. [...]

[...] We peer into a segment of reality. [...] You must realize that each reality is unique and precious and a part of the whole. [...] And so will you awaken and so have you awakened and so even in the trance of physical focus are you already awake to your own greater reality. [...]

(Seth:) ...this was in your inner senses and perceiving a different kind of reality in the same way that you formed what you saw on an unconscious basis, in your terms, so you form the physical matter that forms the room on an unconscious basis. [...]

[...] Anymore than my reality is no more than it appears to you in this room, for your reality is far more than it seems to be to you as you sit within this room. [...] It seems to you that there is no other existence for you personally but this room and this time and this moment and yet, of course, you create it. You create the selves, who in turn create the images that you know. [...]

[...] They remembered that they formed physicial reality from the vitality of their own thoughts and fellings and images. [...]

[...] That you do create your reality, that you do have the freedom and the joy and the responsibility of forming the physical reality in which you live. Then you can change the reality. [...] Everyone else forms their own physical reality but not me—my reality is caused by heredity or environment. [...]

[...] You will find this joy and this freedom by learning to look inward and by realizing that you create the reality that you know. [...]

Remember that you only perceive a portion of your own reality. And remember that you only perceive a portion of my reality. Do you realize the implications if you make no effort to realize your own reality and to probe into it and to explore it and understand it? Then how do you think you can understand the nature of reality if you do not make an attempt to see the truths that are within yourself? [...]

[...] Your faces face this room, your eyes look out upon physical reality. [...] And that these faces look out into other realities quite as varied and quite as real. [...] You can close your physical eyes and focus upon these other realities in which you also have your existence. And you can learn to manipulate in physical reality the better, because you understand your full potential. [...]

[...] I have said that any of you and all of you create a dream universe of validity, actuality, durability, and for Philip's benefit, self-determination, in the same manner that the entity projects the reality of its various personalities. [...]

It is not to minimize the importance of the intellect that I once again repeat: Inner reality will only be known directly through the inner self, and the inner senses. The intellect must deal and interpret the realities of camouflage existence, this being its purpose.

You indeed create your own dreams, as you realize, Joseph. Nevertheless, you do not create your own dreams during a specific point in time. [...]

[...] You continually create it, have always created it. [...]