“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] It is a necessary preliminary, where the effects are definitely seen in the material universe. [...]

To move an object in one universe, in one field of reality, from another field of reality, is hardly child’s play. [...]

Ruburt’s abilities began to expand again when he realized he would regain his health in the late spring. [...]

Dictation: Your world view is your personalized interpretation of the physical universe.

[...] If you became aware of more of your dreaming experience, your language would automatically expand. [...]

[...] There is within you, however, the impetus to explore, to expand, to create, and that will automatically lead you to explore inner lands of consciousness; as, in your terms, it has led you to explore the other countries of the physical world.

[...] Prior to the 17th century, extensive searches and studies were made for a “natural” or Adamic language, a basic form of human communication that was supposed to underlie all racial languages; no such universal protolanguage was ever isolated. [...]

The difference between value fulfillment and growth, the fifth dimension, and the expanding universe portions should also be stressed. When man realizes that he himself creates his personal and universal environment in concrete terms, then he can begin to create a private and universal environment much superior to the one that is the result of haphazard and unenlightened constructions.

[...] She thought the title should be The Physical Universe as Idea Construction. [...]

[...] When they take fire however, they literally sweep through the universe.

I started to feel the microscopic nature of our physical universe, comparatively speaking … this is most difficult to put into words. [...] If the room and everything in it was going to shrink as realistically as it had expanded earlier—and it was, I could tell—I just wasn’t ready for the experience.

[...] “The laws of the inner universe [which had been given to us by Seth] are not laws in some book. [...]

“Each simple law of the inner universe that I have given you is in actuality a small inadequate statement in single-dimensional terms, yet it is more than most are given, and the best approximation that can be made of the basic facts beneath any existence, the best statement that can be made under the circumstances with which we must work. [...]

[...] In one way we have seeded ourselves through endless universes.

(Slowly:) The simple picture of the universe that you see on our screen, therefore, represents a view from your own now perspective — but each star, planet, galaxy or whatever is made up of other reference points in which, to put it simply, the same patterns have different kinds of reality. True space travel would of course be time-space travel,⁵ in which you learned how to use points in your own universe as “dimensional clues” that would serve as entry points into other worlds. [...]

[...] The universe that you know is full of microscopic black holes and white holes,⁷ for example. Since your scientists have themselves given these labels, then using those terms I will say (with much gentle humor) that there are red, green, orange and purple holes — that is, the so-called black holes and white holes only represent what physicists have so far deduced about the deeper properties of your universe, and the way that certain coordinate points in one world operate, as providing feed-through into another.

Now imagine that the picture on the television screen shows your own universe. [...]

[...] On an unconscious level, the world as you know it expands in just such a fashion.¹⁰ Several students have had dreams involving their participation in such a project. [...]

[...] Recall Ruburt’s episodes with the [psychic] library.¹ Those are examples of far lesser versions of my activities, and yet in those terms, and using an analogy, I travel to many great universities of the mind.

As I try to increase your capacity for understanding, and to expand the scopes of your abilities, so in other kinds of worlds I do the same thing. [...]

[...] He felt strongly his connection with the universe as a whole and with nature as he understood it. [...]

Her grandfather responded to his own attraction for her, and was able to expand in her direction because she was not an adult. [...]

[...] To me it’s a sort of … yes, sturdy connection of one person to the universe … a one-to-one relationship; a yearning to participate in the meaning of existence; a drive to appreciate nature and salute it while adding to it; but the knowledge that nature is also a touchstone to a deeper unknowable essence from which we and the world spring.

[...] Wherever we live is significant to me; a privileged place; our domestic platform in the universe.

I have lived in physical terms within your three-dimensional universe, and I am aware of that universe. [...]

[...] It constantly seeks to know itself, and to expand. [...]

“The Crucifixion was one of the realities that enriched both the universe of dreams and the universe of matter, and it originated in the universe of dreams. It was a main contribution of that system to your own, and could be physically compared to the emergence of a new planet within the physical universe.”

[...] And if such a universe is valid, why doesn’t it intrude on our daily life even more? [...] How can there be any continuity to a dream universe? Within such a universe, how could anyone possibly agree with anyone else as to what was happening?

“First of all,” Seth said, “the physical universe itself is a conglomeration of diverse individualistic symbols, none of which means precisely the same thing to any two individuals, and in which even so-called basic qualities like color and placement in space cannot be relied upon. [...] Telepathy could be called the glue that holds the physical universe in precarious position, so that you can agree on the existence and properties of objects. [...]

[...] … Ruburt tried to separate from himself all those elements he considers negative, and fight them at once, almost as if in so doing he could remove evil from the universe.

[...] In our terms, the tunnel shapes lead to an unfathomable new reality that is supposedly filled with the light of the universe. [...] This metaphor is particularly apropos at this time, with the trees still carrying their thick growth of leaves — yet later in the fall it may become even more applicable as the leaves drop and the streetlights, poor as they may be in comparison to the light of the universe, can shine through a little more brilliantly.

[...] On the other hand, I can say everything — for her life encompassed the world, the universe, just as much as yours does, or mine, or Laurel’s. She lives then, as I’m sure you know. From my own experience I can say that she’ll surely communicate with you, expressing new and unfathomable facets and attitudes of the universe — always brilliant, perhaps inexpressible in ordinary terms, yet reaching you and touching in unexpected ways. [...]

[...] My visitors reminded me anew of how private an event Jane’s death is for me, yet how universal it is. [...]

[...] The bridge arching over the lawn symbolizes another connective between that universe and my physical one. [...]

[...] Late in the session, Seth commented upon her state of expanded awareness.)

Now such concentration is excellent if the original concept continues to expand with your experience, and of itself is not limiting to a strong degree. [...]

[...] But in all cases you must come to grips with such unnecessary ideas, face the reality of your creaturehood, and see that you certainly have as much of a place in the universe as a squirrel, an ant or a leaf. [...]

It develops, again, as you know, Joseph and Ruburt, it expands as an idea expands, taking up no space. [...]

[...] It expands and develops in terms of value fulfillment, in a way that has nothing to do with space and time.

In a very actual respect chemically, electromagnetically, extensions of any given self permeate your universe. [...]

(In the 82nd session, which was held on the evening of August 27, 1964, Seth said: “When man realizes that he, himself, creates his personal and universal environment in concrete terms, then he can begin to create a private and universal environment much superior to the [present] one, that is the result of haphazard and unenlightened constructions.

[...] We hope that Jane’s work can help expand such concepts.

[...] I went plummeting through a leaf, to find a whole universe open up; and then out again, drawn into new perspectives.

When I came to, I found myself scrawling what was obviously meant as the title of that odd batch of notes: The Physical Universe As Idea Construction. Later the Seth Material would develop those ideas, but I didn’t know that at the time. [...]

[...] EXPANSION OF SPIRIT ALLOWS PHYSICAL ORGANISM TO EXPAND, RELEASES PRESSURES.

[...] If I’d known how this was to be expanded in the next session, I probably would have been a nervous wreck.

([Gene]: “Is it possible for one to be aware of the larger self, the universal self that exists apart from what I here and now call time?”)

Indeed you form the patterns in the sense universe, but when you have formed them, you must know them not only as your own creations. [...]

[...] The three of us felt some simultaneous sense of expanded awareness.

Quality-depth is therefore the perspective in which all psychic actions occur, all ideas and universes expand. [...]

[...] Quality-depth is the sort of perspective, the only perspective, in which an idea can expand. [...]

Quality-depth, as you probably guessed, can be added to our rules or principles of the inner universe. [...]

We have much yet to cover about various topics only lightly touched upon so far, including the nature of matter, the process involved in its continual creation and manipulation, and the truly astounding cooperation involved, as all living things contribute their energy to keep the physical universe in any kind of permanent, coherent form.

Matter is in some ways the basis of your universe, and yet matter itself is merely energy changed into aspects with certain properties that can, under certain conditions, be perceived by your senses, and that can therefore be manipulated.

[...] Growth does not involve one particular physical extension, in terms of one thing that of itself is permanent enough, in itself, to expand. [...]

The structure of reality, including all physical phenomena, is composed of mental energy, expanding in terms of psychological value fulfillment. [...]

[...] An idea is hardly a closed system, but the reality of an idea, its growth and potential, comes much closer to a description of the characteristics of the universe than any current theory.

There is no need to create a separate god who exists outside of your universe and separate from it, nor is there any need to think of a soul as some distant entity. [...]

[...] In the same way, Ruburt’s personality is expanded through relationship with me, and I also gain through the experience, as even the best of teachers learns from each dimension of activity.

[...] In the beginning of this work I “warned” the reader that here in these sessions we would go beyond ideas of one god and one self.³ I stated that your ideas of personhood would be expanded. [...]

[...] It may grow, develop or expand, change alliances or organizations, and it does combine with others even as cells do. [...]

3. Here Seth referred to his material in the 687th session for Volume 1. After 11:07: “I am saying that the individual self must become consciously aware of far more reality; that it must allow its recognition of identity to expand so that it includes previously unconscious knowledge. [...]

[...] “To play with as you spook out the universe that spooks you out in return. [...]