“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] As the personality on your plane actually changes, expands and grows according to its potentialities, as it presents at various times varied images to the world, such as—if you’ll excuse me for using clichés—a smiling face, a sorrowful face, but is still basically the same personality, so on another level does the entity present at various times a varied appearance and speak in a different voice. As the smiling and the sorrowful face also express and expand the personality, so too do the various reincarnated personalities express and expand the entity as a whole.

Without the stages of childhood, adulthood and old age, the personality could not expand to its fullest degree, and without various incarnations the entity cannot expand. [...]

[...] It was as though, she said, her boundaries of awareness had expanded. It was not that she felt thickheaded, but as though the skull itself was literally expanding. [...]

[...] They hadn’t made such an impression on her either time, because although she had felt the expanding of the skull, she had experienced nothing like the strange infinite black within this expanded area.

(Jane said it was as though her eyes had actually moved farther apart, to create this expanded, broadened field of awareness, of infinite black. [...]

In such cases the ego is too rigid, and does not expand with the nature of the personality’s whole creative experience. [...] In this case, however, Ruburt’s ego gradually began to let its rigidity go, in a gradual process that allowed the whole personality, itself included, to expand.

The universe expands, as I have said before, as an idea expands; and as sentences are built upon words, in your terms, and paragraphs upon sentences, and as each retains its own logic and continuity and evidence within that framework, so do all the portions of the universe appear to you also with the same cohesiveness (dash) — meaning continuity and order. [...]

Now: Throughout your reincarnational existences you expand your consciousness, your ideas, your perceptions, your values. [...]

[...] Consciousness will expand. [...]

[...] There are no magic words that will make you wise, that will fill you with understanding and compassion, that will expand your consciousness.

Now: If you expand your sense of love, of health, and existence, then you are drawn in this life and in others toward those qualities; again, because they are those upon which you concentrate. [...]

[...] It is for this reason that I am trying to expand your conscious ideas, so that you become better equipped to choose your line of physical experience from all those probable ones open to you.

[...] Why hadn’t it continued expanding until it encompassed ideas like those Jane was delivering tonight, for instance? [...]

[...] As the personality on your plane actually changes, expands and grows to its potentialities, as it presents at various times varied images to the world (such as — if you’ll forgive me for using cliches — a smiling face, a sorrowful face), but is still basically the same personality, so on another level does the entity present at various times a varied appearance and speak in a different voice. As the smiling and sorrowful faces also express and expand the personality, so, too, do the various reincarnated personalities express and expand the entity as a whole.

Without the stages of childhood, adulthood and old age, the personality could not expand to its fullest degree, and without various incarnations, the entity cannot expand…

[...] The sudden circulation flowed through the tissues that were unaccustomed to it, and further expanded them.

[...] My new book is progressing at its proper pace, following certain contours of Ruburt’s consciousness also, as his psyche “expands.” [...]

[...] Time constantly expands in all directions and along every conceivable point. [...]

[...] These ideas in this book are meant to expand the private reality of each reader. [...]

[...] Your consciousness will expand as you become acquainted with these ideas.

[...] Despite himself, however, he was stretching the dimensions of his own consciousness, exercising his consciousness in different directions, expanding the scope of his abilities—and in so doing contributing a small masterpiece to the world. [...]

[...] It is also, like physical exercise, an energizing phenomena, one that expands and extends the mental and psychic properties as surely as physical exercise develops the body’s being. [...]

[...] Much of his art in those terms did not show, but the art of his consciousness expanded beyond Michelangelo’s.

Now, I have been, in many ways, a sly and cunning teacher, for the material is given in such a way that as you read it and use your intellect and intuitions to understand it, you automatically develop both your intuitions and your intellect and expand the nature of your own consciousness, though part of the training of consciousness itself is in the body of the material as it exists. [...] You have become dissatisfied with those ways, but in becoming dissatisfied you must also extend yourselves to learn new methods of perceptions, and you must expand your consciousness. [...]

[...] The safest thing to say would be that each session, even, adds to our knowledge of what a constantly expanding whole self can be. [...]

[...] The soul or entity is not diminished but expanded through reincarnations, through existence and experience in probable realities — something that I will explain later.

[...] I hope to acquaint you with those deeply creative aspects of your own being, so that you can use these to extend and expand your entire experience.

[...] In the future the ego and the intellect will expand sufficiently so that they can contain and use and appreciate all the other functions and portions of the self which they now mistrust. Individual identity will then expand to include a greater variety of impulses and stimuli, which do not necessarily come from the self, and yet maintain specialized identity.

As the ego becomes certain of its strength, then it will allow the self to expand. [...]

I have said the universe, that is the inner universe, does expand, but does not expand in space. For Roarck’s benefit, ideas, theories, plans, capabilities expand, but do not take up more space. And so does the universe expand, but space is merely a camouflage, useful to you for a time, constructed through the use of mental enzymes, subconsciously and only for a brief span.

[...] Nerve patterns are being reactivated, circulation patterns reinforced, muscles contracting and expanding in their own exercises, right now, in a concentrated, rather intensified bodily commotion. [...]

Concentrating upon your own camouflage universe, you are able to distinguish only the distortive pattern, and from this pattern you deduce your ideas of cause and effect, past, present and future, and ideas of an expanding universe that floats …

[...] Both God and the psyche are constantly expanding — unutterable, and always becoming.

[...] Time would expand adjacently. [...]

(Seth dealt with the expanding universe theory in sessions 42-45, saying among other things that our physical universe is not expanding as is currently thought; he had much to say on the distortive data furnished us by our instruments.)

[...] The expanding universe theory applies much more truly to time than it does to the physical universe. [...]

[...] The elements of the painting would expand in the same way that I have told you the universe expands, in a way that has nothing to do with space but of value fulfillment, which has its own kind of depth and perspective, and which exists not only behind but within the construction of matter.

[...] In our analogy, the painting while framed within a given space, expanded. [...]