“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

The sense data is important, you see; the new balances that your separate personalities achieve lead you both to new expansions. Each expansion however must also be accompanied by a deepening security of necessary inner isolation. For from this inner isolation, you achieve the strength to expand psychically outward. When the balance is a good one, then the outward expansion leads to inner expansion.

Physical reality is noisy, and complicated, and riotous and contradictory. Nevertheless there must also be balance, for to close yourself off too much robs you of any abundant expansion of spirit.

[...] In other words this expansion has nothing to do with your (underline) idea of space. The expansion, in a most basic manner, is more like the expansion of an idea. [...]

[...] Even on your plane quality, which represents a kind of expansion, does not necessarily imply an expansion of space. [...] And the expansion is more vivid and valid than I can possibly explain to you at this time.

[...] Imagine in other words consciousness, growth, reality and expansion, having nothing to do with expansion of space in your terms, but an almost complete freedom of psychological realities, and you will come at least within the realm of understanding what I mean by an expanding universe that has nothing to do with the expanding universe of which your scientists speak.

[...] This does not mean that there is no growth involved in the expansion of the universe. [...] It simply implies an existence and an expansion of a qualitative manner, beyond your present measurements or complete comprehension.

[...] The seventh Inner Sense allows for an expansion or contraction of this tissue capsule.”

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[...] In other words expansion, occurring in terms of value quality, or gradations of intensity, has nothing to do with expansion in space. And expansion of value and intensity is the only real form of expansion.

[...] You have no way of measuring the mind’s expansion, any more than you can measure the expansion of the universe as long as you are thinking in terms of expansion in space. [...]

[...] Actually in our inner universe of reality growth exists in terms of the value or quality expansion of which I have spoken, and does not, I repeat, does not imply any sort of space expansion. [...]

[...] In value they can be said to expand, yet this very real intensity or value expansion of a feeling takes up no more additional space than it did at its conception.

[...] When you are outdoors sketching there is before you a large expanse. It is easier to think in terms of size and expansion. Thoughts of expansion will help your work, so that the energy and vision are not imprisoned by form but are within form, even while in the process of change.

[...] Expansiveness is built in psychically in this manner.

[...] The expansiveness then was also of a spiritual nature. [...]

[...] Now this is the expansion of which I am speaking. [...]

I have used the term “expansion of consciousness” here rather than the more frequently used “cosmic consciousness” (pause), because the latter implies an experience of proportions not available to mankind at this time. (Pause.) Intense expansions of consciousness by contrast to your normal state may appear to be cosmic in nature, but they barely hint at those possibilities of consciousness that are available to you now, much less begin to approach a true cosmic awareness.

To the extent that he is true to his own vision, possibilities of expansion are available to him that he could hardly have achieved otherwise. [...]

[...] Many individuals have experienced unusual, quite valid and intense expansions of consciousness, but found themselves unable to correlate the new knowledge with past beliefs, to make the changes necessary to handle the sensitivity. [...]

[...] Any valid expansion of consciousness is itself, of course, a part of the message. [...]

Present methods cannot investigate this type of expansion any more than they can investigate the validity, development, and rate of expansion of an idea.

[...] Their expansion is not limited by any of your known, or misinterpreted, laws of space or time or thermodynamics, since they exist in a dimension where such laws simply do not apply.

[...] There are basic laws that can be applied, as far as the expansion rate of idea is concerned. [...]

[...] Such pulsations, expansions and contractions also operate as far as energy in the psychological structure is concerned.

[...] It is a result of an expansion, again, in terms of value fulfillment, an expansion that has nothing to do with either time or space as men conceive them.

The expansion resulted from a contraction of energy, but because of the unique attributes inherent in both value fulfillment and in the spacious present, there simply was not an initial or first contraction or expansion.

But as it is not wise to dispense with the idea of nationalism without gradual growths of understanding and preparation, and while the idea of nationalism cannot suddenly be dispensed with, so also the ego cannot be, and will not be, overthrown overnight; and even when it is finally left behind, it will still be used as a handy reference point; and through all this the self will not lose but gain, for all expansion outward, and expansion inward is a gain, and all boundaries, whether inward or outward, are hampering and limiting. [...]

It is also true however that this lack of boundary allows for possibilities of development and expansion that would be impossible with a limited self. [...]

[...] Each self is interwound with all others, and yet each self, being composed of action, has within it the powers of action toward change, development, expansion, and the drive toward fulfillment.

[...] It is only your ego which leads you to believe that such an expansion would result in a lessening of consciousness on the one hand, or an invasion of other selves on the other.

[...] One dream object has reality then in four or five different levels of reality simultaneously, the one object being more than itself, and equal to realities that have existed or will exist in your past or future; the past and future being therefore contained simultaneously within the dream object, by virtue of a quite real psychic contraction and expansion.

The expansion is the dream. [...]

[...] If a dream object or event does so straddle what you call not only time but space, and if as I say dream objects and creations maintain some independence from the dreamer, then you must see that although the dreamer creates his dreams for his own purposes, selecting only those symbols which have meaning to him, he nevertheless projects them outward in a value fulfillment and psychic expansion.

The expansion occurs, again, as the dream drama is acted out. [...]

Now until Ruburt’s psychic experiences and the beginning of this expansion of consciousness and abilities, he was used to relying upon other levels of trust. [...]

The expansions of consciousness on Ruburt’s part did involve some natural feelings of disorientation with his body and the world, that all in all were handled supremely well.

The expansion of consciousness is large enough to become a different kind of consciousness (dash)—if it as allowed freedom. [...]

[...] The freedom of his own creative work will enhance those abilities, but also free him for some further expansions of consciousness that are meant to follow. [...]

[...] It includes additional information on several topics already mentioned in the book proper, such as coordination points, biblical times and records, objects as symbols, reincarnation, and expansion of consciousness. [...]

[...] And that there are still expansions down here—and that at least one of them could emerge or appear more clearly within a fairly short time now, say ninety days. [...]

[...] And if you seek to communicate by expansion of consciousness, then will this expansion come crushing and closing upon itself.

[...] Concentration upon one minute, limited, contracted object will result in consciousness expansion, for have I not said that within even the molecule and atom there exists capsule comprehension?

[...] The merging of self with action in the expansion episode was dismaying at first; just so alien; because I felt the expansion in general; not just specifically in my own body, for example. [...]

[...] The extension or expansion of self momentarily and initially involves a slight expansion of tissue. [...]

[...] Such a development as we are considering involves instead an expansion or extension; in the same manner that the expanding universe takes up no space, but expands in terms of value fulfillment, so the expanding consciousness would take up no space, but would also expand in terms of value fulfillment. [...]

[...] Such an expansion would give excellent impetus and value experience to those basic components, the cells and molecules, experience that would be retained and utilized. [...]

[...] Space travel, when it occurs, will utilize expansion of self. [...]

Such expansion of consciousness itself automatically results in the solution of such problems. I am not speaking here of a one-sided expansion, in which so-called occult tendencies are emphasized at all, but in an overall reeducation of consciousness, in which the operational self becomes aware of areas that have been considered taboo.

[...] Such expansion reacquaints the known self with the great energy that supports it, therefore bringing an individual to a point of understanding in which the concept of a safe universe makes sense. [...]

[...] Many instances of expansion of consciousness, and mental and psychic growth, are interpreted by you as senility. No important correlations have been made between the subjective experiences of the old, particularly in “senile” conditions, with those of other ages involved in expansion of consciousness, whether natural or drug induced.

[...] Unfortunately the personality has no system of beliefs, as a rule, to support such an expansion. [...]

(I thought the two impressions could be examples of inner expansion and contraction. [...]

You must not allow yourself to become constricted, for in constriction there is no expansion and little creativity. [...]

[...] This is a physical form of expansion that should not be overlooked. [...]

[...] He extends himself in an expansion. The psychological expansion on his end, and the psychological expansion on my end, form the gestalt, the psychological bridge, of which I have spoken.

[...] It represents on Ruburt’s part a psychological expansion, and indeed on my own part also. [...]