“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

If you listen to an FM radio station, there is a handy lock-in gadget that automatically keeps the station in clear focus; it stops the program from “drifting.” In the same way, when you daydream you drift away from your home station, while still relating to it, generally speaking. You also have the mental equivalent, however, of the FM’s lock-in mechanism. On your part this is the result of training, so that if your thoughts or experience stray too far this mental gadget brings them back into line. Usually this is automatic — a learned response that by now appears to be almost instinctive. Period.

In our just-previous exercise, when I spoke of having you let your clear perception drop away, and told you to disconnect vision from hearing, you were drifting in terms of your own home station. Your consciousness was straying. This time begin with the point of your own finest focus, which you have established, then let your consciousness stray as given. Only let it stray in a particular direction — to the right or the left, whichever seems most natural to you. In this way you are still directing it and learning to orient yourself. In the beginning, 15 minutes at most for this exercise; but let your awareness drift in whatever direction you have chosen.

In order to begin, you must first become familiar with the working of your own consciousness as it is directed toward the physical world. You cannot know when you are in focus with another reality if you do not even realize what it feels like to be in full focus with your own. Many people phase in and out of that state without being aware of it, and others are able to keep track of their own “inner drifting.” Here, simple daydreaming represents a slight shift of awareness out of directly given sense data.

You must learn to use this mechanism consciously for your own purposes, for it is extremely handy. Many of you do not pay attention to your own experience, subjectively speaking, so you drift in and out of clear focus in this reality, barely realizing it. Often your daily program is not nearly as clear or well-focused as it should be, but full of static; and while this may annoy you, you often put up with it or even become so used to the lack of harmony that you forget what a clear reception is like. However, in this world you are surrounded by familiar objects, details, and ideas, and your main orientation is physical so that you can operate through habit alone even when you are not as well focused within your reality as you should be.

drifted there.

Now, I do not want any of you drifting. You cannot afford to drift. [...]

[...] Jane appeared to feel better, though, and was taking solace in relaxing and drifting into sleep states.)

(As I drifted off into my nap at 5:15, after finishing my dehypnotizing massage of Jane, I remembered the dream I’d had last night. [...]

You felt before, unconsciously, that you were drifting and that life had little meaning. [...]

[...] A certain portion of your mind was drifting at the time.

[...] Framework 1 and 2 relationships will almost instantly become again more prominent, and many aspects of your lives that now seem so troublesome will seem to have magically drifted away—that is, you will suddenly be aware that the change has occurred. [...]

[...] “Jesus, now I just started to drift right off,” she said.

[...] As before, Jane then drifted back into the trance state, and resumed at 10:25.)

[...] If you let yourself drift off into sleep here, you would most probably manufacture two or three dreams that symbolized the fear, dreams in which you consider and try out possible solutions within the dream context. [...]

[...] Therefore to protect yourself, to protect your subjectivity from drifting, you erect various psychological barriers at what you suppose to be the danger points. [...]

[...] As an experiment, with a complete palette set up, then almost automatically let your hand drift over the palette and choose its own colors in turn. [...]

(Jane’s delivery was now getting lighter and slower, almost as though she was drifting off to sleep.)

[...] It was raging stronger than ever as we sat for the session at 9:15; drifts were piled several feet high against the northern side of the house, and against our new screened-in back porch facing the west. [...]

(December 4, Friday, 11:30 AM: Impression that someone “drifted up” and kissed me on the check. [...]

(“When I get comfortable in my chair, then I start drifting,” Jane said as I worked on these notes. [...]

[...] The drifting off worries her, however. [...]

Often such material deals with material that is very difficult to translate—material that drifts through the psyche, however, to add to your support or knowledge. [...]

[...] These were in your corner of the universe, but in your terms they would have seemed to have drifted off so far that none of your instruments could ever find them.