“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

To understand what the larger self is, you must try to imagine yourself in an environment that is not physical... not only without physical environment in terms of space and objects but without the intimate physical environment of the body that now you take so for granted. [...]

[...] Think in terms not only of other personalities, but of your own personality as it might operate in completely different environments both physical and nonphysical. As other personalities then have looked into this room, then imagine yourself looking into other environments. [...]

[...] You do not even see it, it is so a part of your mental environment. [...]

The shape of the physical environment, for example, is not static; though it is made of material it is not one thing at one place and within one time, and not something else. That is, the quality that you call environment, and speak of as if it were one thing with one shape and form always, is indeed at various times many things in many places, with you at the focal point.

You therefore at any time, physically, can change what you call your environment physically merely by changing your location. Environment therefore involves not a thing but a perspective that exists in relation to the individual.

Since physical environment of itself is not one thing that can be taken with you, but a relationship within a personal perspective, where then does the feeling of consistency of environment originate?

I am leading up to the part that expectation plays in the construction of your physical environment, but you can see now why it was necessary that I explain the psychological perspective to you beforehand.

[...] Each individual helps form that exterior environment. [...] You alone do not have that kind of control over your fellows’ environment. In the dream world, however, such thoughts will definitely form your environment.

[...] It affects the environment. So hallucinations alter the environment, but in a different way and at another level of reality. [...]

[...] The dream world also possesses its own natural environment. [...] Few view this natural inner environment, however.

[...] They are a part of the environment and appear within its reality, though they change shape and form constantly, as physically manufactured objects do not.

[...] There are similarities upon which you all agree, of environment and conditions. [...] But you must learn which portions of the environment are held by all, generally speaking, and which are not. [...]

Reread the material I gave you concerning the various environments in which you may find yourselves, if you intend to embark upon this once again.

[...] You projected to her system of reality and the environment was pseudophysical, the projection of her own thoughts made real in objective terms within the system.

Some of your environment under such conditions and at certain stages does represent what many occultists call thought-forms. [...]

[...] But at your level of activity your thoughts, feelings, and intents, however private, form part of the inner environment of communication. This inner environment is as pertinent and vital to the species’ well-being as is the physical one. [...]

[...] Give us a moment… First of all, the body must be in a state of constant change, making decisions far too fast for you to follow, adjusting hormonal levels, maintaining balances between all of its systems; not only in relationship to itself — the body — but to an environment that is also in constant change. At biological levels the body often produces its own “preventative medicine,” or “inoculations,” by seeking out, for example, new or foreign substances in its environment [that are] due to nature, science or technology; it assimilates such properties in small doses, coming down with an “illness” which, left alone, would soon vanish as the body utilized what it could [of it], or socialized “a seeming invader.”

If, however, you dwell mentally in a generalized environment of fear, the body is given no clear line of action, allowed no appropriate response. [...] It is alert to everything in its environment. [...]

[...] Through biological communication the child’s cells are made aware of its physical environment, the temperature, air pressure, weather conditions, food supplies — and the body reacts to these conditions, making some adjustments with great rapidity.

[...] I am not saying that this future environment is not real, however. It is as real as your present environment indeed, you understand this.

[...] If you have your wits about you, you can gain information concerning the future by studying your projection environment, if for any reason you suppose it to be ahead of you in time.

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

They are adopted to meet the particular requirements of the environment in which they are used. [...]

[...] The thoughts themselves, also psychic realities, were projected outward, changing and affecting the physical environment in direct and objective terms. [...] Nevertheless they changed your (underlined) environment. Indeed, they form the environment.

[...] Beneath these however you will sense either light or darkness, images of light or darkness, and these will lead to the projection conditions or environment. [...]

[...] You are following levels of your own consciousness until you discover yourself in an environment of which the ordinary waking consciousness had been previously unaware. [...]

[...] Since the mechanisms of normal speech are so little known to you on a conscious level, then it is not surprising that you are equally unaware of more complicated tasks that you also perform — such as the constant creation of your physical environment as a method of communication and expression.

[...] It is only by comprehending the nature of this constant translation of thoughts and desires — not into words now, but into physical objects — that you can realize your true independence from circumstance, time, and environment.

(Long pause at 11:01.) You have heard the expression before, I am sure, that the environment expresses a particular individual’s personality. [...]

[...] But before we are finished we will see that basically speaking, each of you create the book you hold in your hands, and that your entire physical environment comes as naturally out of your inner mind as words come out of your mouths, and that man forms physical objects as unselfconsciously and as automatically as he forms his own breath.

Your own environment includes far more than you may have supposed. Earlier I referred to your environment in terms of the daily physical existence and surroundings with which you are currently connected. In actuality, you are aware of very little of your larger, more extensive environment. [...]

[...] These settings also represent your environment, the environment that surrounds your entire personality.

[...] This intensely moving drama, with all its joys and tragedies, can be compared with your present life, your present environment, both individually and en masse.

You therefore create far more environments than you realize. [...]

(Long pause.) There is no place where consciousness stops and the environment begins, or vice versa. Each form of life is created along with each other form—environment and organism in those terms creating each other. [...] The environment and the creatures accommodated each other.

[...] In that regard the earth’s entire environment was built mentally, atom by conscious atom—each atom, again, being initially formed by units of consciousness. [...]

(Long pause.) There is also constant communication between them and you at other levels than those you recognize, so that there is an unending interplay between each species and its environment.

[...] Those senses could only perceive the immediate environment, but man’s dreams compensated for that lack, and filled out his consciousness by giving it the benefit of that larger generalized information to which it had once had an easy access. [...]

As energy and strength grew while you were away, susceptibility to the environment would have largely diminished. [...] Working with the charged environment in this manner can cause various flare-ups, which however disappear immediately as the changes continue.

[...] Thus far you have been struggling against an environment in which many items have been charged, and now you are endeavoring to change this charge.

[...] The vacation would have automatically given you freedom from these daily charged items of environment, allowing the symptoms to break up completely without the added resistance.

The classes will be like psychic fresh air in your environment. [...]

[...] You may journey through such a reality, perceiving it opaquely, layering it over with your own perceived symbols, and taking those for the “real” environment. In these terms the real environment will be that which was generally perceived by the natural inhabitants of the system.

[...] You have to learn how to distinguish your psychological state from the reality in which you find yourself, if you want to maintain your alertness and explore that environment. [...] While still dreaming they seem to come suddenly awake in an environment that appears to make no sense. [...]

[...] There is no reason, for example, to encounter any demons or devils in any trance or out-of-body condition.³ (Pause.) In such cases your own hallucinations blind you to the environment within which they are projected. [...] Until you learn to do this you will most certainly have difficulty, for you will not be able to tell the difference between your projections and what is happening in the inner environment.

[...] Your own ideas, objectified, become a part of the physical environment. [...]

[...] In an out-of-body state you can reach rather easily those environments which thoughts become a sort of plastic pseudo material, almost instantaneously.

[...] Try to throw your consciousness into the environment you have painted. [...]

[...] I will give you additional data on those environments that you visit, so that your experiences are paralleled by session discussions throughout the years. [...]

There are various kinds of environments that you should visit. [...]

When people are convinced that the self is untrustworthy, for whatever reasons, or that the universe is not safe, then instead of luxuriating in the use of their abilities, exploring the physical and mental environments, they begin to pull in their realities — to contract their abilities, to overcontrol their environments. [...]

[...] To some extent we will be discussing closed environments, whether mental or physical, in which questioning becomes taboo and dangerous. Such environments may be private, as in the case of persons with what are generally called mental disorders, or they may be shared by many, in — for example — mass paranoia.

[...] Controlled Environments, and Positive and Negative Mass Behavior.’” I told her I thought Seth would not only have plenty of time to cover our respective questions, but would come through with some book work too, and this was the case.

[...] Look at it as you might look at a photograph of an animal in its environment. If the photograph shows you in a room, for example, then think of the room as a peculiar kind of environment, as natural as the woods. [...]

When you see a picture of an animal in its environment, you often make connections that you do not make when you see a picture of a human being in his or her environment. [...]

[...] See how the image can be seen as a part of the overall pattern of the environment — the room or furniture, or yard or whatever.

Actually it can be said that since the self creates its environment, then the environment is an extension of the self. The division between the subject who creates the environment, and the object-(hyphen) environment, which is created, is an artificial but necessary development.

[...] You truly construct your own environment, and it in turn then has its influence upon you. When I speak of environment I include for simplicity’s sake that which is close to the self in its nebulous form, but which is still called notself.

Theoretically, this even personal environment reaches indefinitely. [...]

[...] You must also keep in mind that the individual creates his own environment through his successive incarnations.

[...] The purpose however was two-fold again, the development of an environment in which controls would be there: the symptoms taking the place in this case of the mother’s restrictive presence, and the comparative isolation in the house, the comparative solitude that he felt was necessary then for the emergence of the creative abilities—both of these you see existing in the child environment.

[...] Your father’s condition frightened him because of the mother’s old suggestions of losing the mind, and of course the nursing home environment that represents to him the mother’s environment.

[...] Therefore it chose a highly restrictive early environment. [...]

It chose an environment where hardship would automatically teach a certain discipline, and yet one in which the psychic nature of the circumstances would also permit intuitive creative growth. [...]

[...] In your terms each species is aware of the conditions of each other species, and of the entire environment. In those terms the environment forms the species and the species forms the environment.

[...] Dreams educate you even in spatial relationships, and are far more related to the organism’s stance in the environment than is realized. [...]

[...] Their development paralleled man’s in many respects, in that they lived simultaneously upon the earth, and shared the environment.

Indeed: Afghanistan comes to mind here, as a particularly lucrative environment.

Do not dwell upon the physical inconveniences of your immediate environment, for this only brings about their continuance. Think in terms for example of space, and you will have at least a feeling of space within your present environment. You will also find that the idea of space is a part of you, and it will be given to you in this environment or another. [...]

Now I tell you that if both of you use these methods, you will indeed completely change for the better not only your physical environment and reality, but your inner, creative, psychic and spiritual environment. [...]

[...] Imagine your paintings in homes, in different environments, with people enjoying them. [...]

[...] Literally, your environment would not have included it.

[...] With practice you can become as intuitively aware of your internal physical environment, as [of] your external physical environment.

[...] As a rule, it is still physically oriented, in that the abilities are usually directed toward the inner perception and manipulation of matter or physical environment. [...]

[...] Any physical ailment, then, can be perceived in this state by looking inward into the body and discovering it; then by changing what you see you may find yourself entering your body or another’s as a very small miniature, or as a point of light, or simply without any substance, yet aware of the inner body environment.

In like manner you explore the mental and feeling aspects, then you turn your attention “outward,” toward the environment that results from this alternate present. [...]