“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

The individual is, again, a stranger, almost an alien, in his or her own environment, in which he must struggle to survive, not only against the “uncaring” forces of the immediate environment, but against the genetic determinism. [...]

[...] Again, the environment is conscious and alive. There are constant communications between all portions of your body and all portions of the environment.

[...] He can still probe his environment in his own manner. [...]

In the future perhaps we can give you some other details concerning your friend’s existence, and daily environment. [...]

[...] You are actually a vital force, existing as a part of your environment, and yet apart from your environment at the same time.

[...] A complete change of environment would be excellent of course if it were practical. Changes in the patterns and habits within the environment will do in place of the above, however.

The change of environment, out of the apartment, was partially suggested to break any suggestions that might be arising simply from the length, in your terms, of his difficulties. [...]

Your friend Leonard’s return has changed the environment to some degree. [...]

[...] I want you to see what forms an environment. [...]

[...] You wanted it raised because you were ready to change your environment, but not ready enough to move on your own, without the additional impetus.

[...] Although both of your realities are physical ones, the environments are entirely different. [...] His consciousness has been perceiving this sort of unfamiliar environment with some awe. [...]

[...] Different environments simply give consciousness some new material to nibble on.

[...] If you happen to live in an area where the coordinate environment is strong, one of those areas I have spoken of as unusually conducive, then it will seem that you are deluged by illnesses or disasters, if these are the nature of your thoughts, because all thought is so fertile in this environment. [...]

These ancient dreams were shared to some extent by each consciousness that was embarked upon the earthly venture, so that creatures and environment together formed great environmental realities. [...]

[...] And in an important fashion the coordination of the creature in its environment did not need to be as precise, since there was an elastic give-and-take of consciousness between the two.

(8:58.) During this period, incidentally, mental activity of the highest, most original variety was the strongest dream characteristic, and the knowledge [man] gained was imprinted upon the physical brain: what is now completely unconscious activity involving the functions of the body, its relationship with the environment, its balance and temperature, its constant inner alterations. [...]

Your mind is equipped with a certain mental understanding, as your body is equipped with an automatic physical understanding of its nature in relationship with the environment. [...]

Now: this basic mental system provides the infant’s natural mental environment, and nurtures it so that the infant is anything but strictly programmed mentally. [...]

Each person has a highly unique mental environment. [...]

If however you imagine that the environment or physical condition is the reality, then you can feel trapped by it, and spend your efforts fighting a paper dragon. The environment is always altered from the inside. There is instant feedback between the interior and exterior conditions, but the mobility, the necessity and the method of changing the physical environment will always come from within.

(9:50.) Your intimate physical environment is, therefore, a symbolic statement of an inner situation. [...] Left alone, you will automatically translate the freely moving, spontaneous inner events into physical reality, therefore altering your environment and changing the symbols.

[...] The fetus sees the physical environment. [...]

[...] He hears sounds from the physical environment, but also sounds within the available range of reality that you do not accept. [...]

[...] The emotion will once again rush into the psychic space which is formed by elements in the personality’s psychological environment. [...] As the emotion diminishes it takes up less of your psychic space, fills up less of your inner environment, and you seem to yourself to recede from it.

[...] That which appears ahead of you in distance, and has not yet been experienced, under usual circumstances has not yet entered the psychic space of inner environment. [...]

In the dream reality you have the opportunity to work out solutions to problems within a larger framework in a psychic environment, where there is no immediate necessity for physical construction.

[...] The personality’s physical environment therefore is greatly colored and formed by his dream existence. [...]

[...] As it is, life within the environment becomes difficult. Nor am I discussing living in an “ideal” environment all the time.

[...] Through that kind of action it helps form your cultural environment, the civilization of which you are justly proud.

Dictation then: Probabilities are an ever-present portion of your invisible psychological environment. [...]

The invisible environment within your mind is not as lonely as you might think, and your seeming inner isolation is caused by the ego’s persistent guard. [...]

[...] Remember, however, that in a most legitimate way many events that are not physically perceived or experienced are as valid as those that are, and are as real within your own invisible psychological environment.

You are a part of your environment. [...] Yet the energy that forms you and the environment springs alive in each of you through your intersection with the physical world. [...]

(Very intently all through here:) Women delivering children are placed in the same environment. This may seem very humane to you, and yet the entire system is structured so that childbirth does not seem to be the result of health but of illness.

(Pause.) In your hospitals however you take your patients out of their natural environment, and often deny them the comforts of creaturehood. [...]

[...] But in your system as it is set up, such an environment is impossible except for the most wealthy.

There are certain kinds of dreams in which the various species then communicate, and in which the energies of the environment and its inhabitants merge. [...]

I can only hope to evoke some feeling within you that is reminiscent of your own actual behavior at those hidden levels of dreaming activity, but they have remained highly pertinent in the development of all species with their environments, keeping the intents and purposes of one alive in the other. [...]

[...] (There was some other stuff I got but I’ve forgotten it already.) Anyway the chapter was to be followed according to what I got, by one on frightened people who suddenly break out of old ideas, open their mental environments, and seemingly work miracles in their lives; like the old man, the old woman....

[...] In a way, we are completely on our own, manipulating in a subjective environment, aware of the workings of consciousness when it is not soaked up or fastened upon objective specifics. [...]

[...] If you will such images to disappear, they will, leaving you within the basic unhallucinated environment. [...]

[...] You can then explore the environment in which you find yourself or travel to another location. [...]

[...] Again, you’ll be left with the basic environment and can proceed as you want. [...]

[...] As an individual creates his physical image and environment according to his abilities and defects, and in line with his expectations and subconscious and inner needs, so does he create his dreams; and these interact with the outer environment which he has created.

[...] These are also actual and continuing, and they not only represent a part of your environment in all of these cases, but they affect most deeply the ordinary channels of everyday life.

[...] In other words, such a dream may begin to transform the physical environment through lifting inner expectation.

[...] No matter how far you journey — on a motorcycle, in a car or plane, or on foot — (gesturing to me as Seth, Jane then changed the sentence) by bicycle or camel, or truck or vessel, still you are the wanderer, and the land or ocean or desert is the environment through which you roam. [...] You are still the wanderer, the journeyman or journey-woman — but you are also the vehicle and the environment. [...]

[...] They can turn sideways in the painting and look at their companions, observe their environment, and even look out of the dimensions of the painting itself and question the artist.

[...] She is one living portrait of the psyche, independent in her own context, and in the environment as given.