“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] There are hidden but very definite connections between the self and the objects of which it has created in its environment. The environment is simply an extension of the self, and those objects within it are a part of the physical or the physically materialized personality. [...]

The brain looks out upon the physical universe, and consciousness then reacts, again creatively, to that environment. [...]

Physically you are a part of your environment, and you form it as you form your image. [...]

[...] The psychological reality, the psychic reality, always forms it own environment. The divisions between various environments have nothing to do with space. There are fields of energy set up and channels that open between various such environments, and communications can be made through these.

Those who struggled and did not achieve fame for example, will sometimes recreate their past, manipulate hallucinatory relationships and events and achieve it within that counterfeit environment. [...]

[...] It, the personality, must avoid a rigidity of attitude, for this will not only hamper the native intuition but serve to divorce the personality from his environment.

For safety’s sake a firm relationship between the ego and its environment should be considered a prerequisite for serious or extensive psychic investigation. [...]

[...] Then he can apply inner knowledge to the ego’s environment. [...]

If this sounds difficult then indeed it is, because I will not deal in platitudes, and the exercise of the inner abilities demand, as a bulwark, the sometimes difficult achievement of an ego that can adapt itself in the outer environment, and so hold its own while the inner self is then freed to go its way.

[...] The environment, the methods of perception, the reality system within each room is unique.

[...] Each guest has a peculiar and unique uniform, suitable for his own room environment, and no other. [...]

His experiments involve drugs of much greater precision and stability than any that are known in your environment. [...]

[...] I believe that within seven hours he will be within your environment, whether or not you perceive him.

In waking reality you obviously share a mass world experience as well as a physical world environment.

[...] Your daily experience is private and uniquely yours, yet it happens within the context of a shared environment. [...]

Your dreams are also uniquely yours, yet they happen within a shared context, an environment in which the dreams of the world occur. [...]

[...] Wars, violence, disasters — these are obviously shared by many, and are a part of your shared psychological and physical environment.

[...] You can usually see in a superficial fashion how animals under “natural conditions” fit into their environments so perfectly, so that their needs and desires and equipment meet and merge with the characteristics of the environment. It is not nearly as easy to see that the same applies to man and his mental and physical environment, his town or country or culture, but the infant trusts from the very first moment.

[...] Without those other species, man as you know him would not exist, not without the continuous cooperation of those species with each other, and their interrelationships with the environment.

[...] Culture is as real and natural as trees and rocks, so see the various cultures of these three groups as natural environments of the different places or countries; and imagine, then, each group exploring the unique environment of the land into which they have journeyed. [...] Each expedition sends “letters” back home, commenting upon the behavior, customs, environment, and history of the land in which it finds itself.

[...] Your daily environment is very important to your work, and to Ruburt. The money in the bank is helpful, but if your daily environment is not conducive to your work and peace of mind, then the money security is meaningless. [...] You require certain things of your art, and therefore you want the same things in your environment. [...]

Now: the hill environment has open nature. [...] The environment demands exploration. [...]

[...] You would find yourselves quite hampered in such an idealistically perfect environment. [...]

If we ever hope to “map” the dreamscape, we need a million trained dreamers: a million individuals trained to use dreams as vehicles and then, courageously, to leave them to explore the environment in which they find themselves. We need people able to distinguish between the environment-within-the-dream and the far vaster environment (or atmosphere or medium) in which these dream-places exist.

[...] It is naked and out of its element outside of the normal environment of physical existence. [...] … This provides necessary balance and control, and results in the sturdy anchorage of the personality in the environment in which it must presently survive. [...]

[...] Seth maintains that we will understand ourselves as dreamers only if we are also aware of the larger environment in which dreams take place, that we interact in the dream state as we do in the waking one and that we form mass dream events as we form physical events on a mass basis.

[...] Added to this, the training will give you valuable insight into the nature of dreams in general, the stages of the subconscious and the inner life of the personality when it is dissociated from its physical environment to some considerable extent.

[...] Your mind is meant to perceive the physical environment clearly, and its judgments about the environment then activate the body’s mechanisms to bring about proper response. [...]

[...] Existing in such diversified, rich environment-possibilities, the human psyche needed and developed a conscious mind that could make fairly concise and accurate “minute by minute” judgments and evaluations. [...]

Now: Dictation (on The Nature of the Psyche: Its Human Expression): As the earth is composed of many environments, so is the psyche. [...]

[...] But beyond this, the species itself possesses the possibilities for adaptations that allow it to exist and persist in the physical environment under drastically varying circumstances. [...]

(Pause at 9:51.) The psyche, your psyche, can record and experience time backward, forward, dash — or sideways through systems of alternate presents (intently) — or it can maintain its own integrity in a no-time environment. [...]

For that matter, [the same is true of] environment, as it is usually understood. Your cultural beliefs predispose you to interpret experience in terms of heredity and environment, however, so that you focus primarily upon them as prime causes of behavior. [...] You do not concentrate upon the exceptions — the children who do not seem to fit the patterns of their families or environments, so of course no attempts are made to view those kinds of unofficial behavior.

[...] If information is thought to come to the self only through physical means, then of course heredity and environment must be seen behind human motivation. [...]

[...] But beside that, the child uses the early years to explore — particularly in the dream state — other kinds of material that suit its own fancies and intents, and it constantly receives a stream of information that is not at all dependent upon its heredity or environment.

[...] You are supposed to get a clear picture of your inner development by perceiving the exterior environment. What seems to be a perception, an objective concrete event, independent and apart from you the perceiver, is instead the physical materialization of the perceiver’s own inner emotions, energy and mental environment.

[...] The methods by which emotions, concepts, and energy are projected out from the individual to form the physical environment and events, mainly occur in nonphysical terms, but there are nervous system connections that aid in this projection. [...]

Your inner environment is the total of your inner (underlined) perceptions of inner reality. [...]

[...] There is, however, an inner environment that connects all consciousnesses that dwell upon your planet, in whatever form. This mental or psychic — or in any case nonphysical — environment is ever in a state of flux and motion. [...]

[...] While your body appears quite dependable, solid, [and] steady, you are not aware of the constant interchanges that occur between it and the physical environment. [...]

All elements of the interior invisible environment work together, and they form the temporal weather patterns that are exteriorized mental states, presenting you locally and en masse, then, with a physical version of man’s emotional states. [...]

[...] The sculptor’s statue, however, comes from the inner environment, the patterns of probabilities. [...]

“Because dreams are such a perfect combination of stimuli from the inner environment and the exterior environment, other events are often used to trigger inner dream messages, just as the opposite occurs. [...]

[...] You not only form the structure of your civilizations and social institutions through the transference of beliefs, thoughts and feelings; but in this natural exchange you also help on quite intimate levels in the “psychic manufacture” of the physical environment itself, with all of its great sweeping variety, and yet seasonal stability.

[...] You are taught to believe that faith can move mountains, yet many of you will find it extremely difficult to accept your own relationship with the environment. [...]

[...] It is true that in the dream state and in some other levels of existence close to your own, there is strong individual play in the creation of images, and a magnificent use of symbolism, but all of this takes place, again, in an “objective” definite environment, an environment whose characteristics make such phenomena possible — a field of activity, then, with its own rules. [...]

[...] Through the ages the Speakers have taught dreamers how to manipulate in these other environments. [...]

[...] A good Speaker is as effective within one reality as he is within the other, creating psychic frameworks within physical reality as well as within interior environments. [...]

Now: On a physical level your body reacts to information about the environment with which you are not consciously concerned. [...]

On cellular levels the body has a picture not only of its own present condition, but of all those aspects of the physical environment that affect its own condition. [...]

Generally speaking, the psyche has the same kind of instant overall comprehension of psychological events and environments as your body has of physical ones. [...]

[...] An emotional eruption will do the same thing on another level, altering the local area primarily but also sending out its ripples into the mass psychological environment. [...]

[...] You have attempted in many ways to set up a strong relationship with your environment. [...] At the same time, you were afraid of physical reality, and because of your environment in this life, you are afraid that you could not deal with it. [...]

[...] But it can learn to look inward, change the focus of its awareness and take quick pictures of this inner environment. [...]

[...] And you will get nowhere—either in the relationship or without it—until you assert yourself in relation to your environment and realize that you are strong enough on your own to survive in physical reality. [...]

But you will find that it is easy for you to support yourself, to find in other words a position and to hold it well, when you realize that these fears are projections from another time that have no relationship to the environment in which you now find yourself. [...]

[...] You are aware (underlined) of the physical environment that you create. It is the mirror image of the inner environment, but of this you are usually not so aware. [...]

[...] The environment change has been of great benefit, but also because he was ready. [...]

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. [...]