“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] The psychedelic experience is primarily the expansion of consciousness. [...]

Our sessions are experiences in the expansion of consciousness. [...]

It is possible (underlined) that the psychedelic experience for these individuals would involve consciousness expansion directed toward (underlined) usual physical reality, and bring about a more unified personality structure from society’s standpoint. [...]

[...] In true expansion of consciousness then, you become more and more aware, more conscious, underlined, of inner realities that were previously never realized on a conscious level. [...]

[...] Actually in our inner universe … 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. [...]

[...] Cancer patients most usually feel an inner impatience as they sense their own need for future expansion and development, only to feel it thwarted.

[...] The overabundance of cancer cells represents nevertheless the need for expression and expansion — the only arena left open — or so it would seem.

[...] All universes are continually being created, and the appearance of expansion seen by your scientists is distortive for many reasons.

[...] The expansion is an illusion, based among other things upon inadequate time measurements, upon the limited cause and effect theories; and yet in some manners the universe could be said to be expanding, but with entirely different connotations than are usually used.

[...] Expansion you see is a word that implies movement or enlargement in space, and space itself in the way the word is usually used, is a camouflage. [...]

[...] As I mentioned, there is no real expansion of the universe in space. [...]

Some of the soreness was the result of the expansion of tissue, the period between a new expansion and the resulting fresh nourishment sent to cellular structures. Finally this evening muscular expansion had gone as far as it could without a completely fresh influx, and the final breaking-down of the small dams. [...]

[...] He must seek the expansion before he seeks the results or effects of the expansion.

[...] We want an expansion.

More often, however, there are instead only blurred glimpses and tantalizing views of a more expansive kind of experience. [...]

[...] There are ways to bring the picture into focus: There are ways to tune into those other quite-natural frequencies, so that they present you with a more expansive view both of the world as you define it, and of its greater aspects. [...]

[...] There is expansion and contraction within this simple number 1 then, within any number or unit.

This sort of expansion and contraction has nothing to do with addition or subtraction, multiplication or division; but it is an inherent quality of all units.

[...] The subconscious remembers the struggles of physical birth, and immediately following his birthday is a time of expansion. [...]

[...] The dream universe consists of depths and dimensions, expansions and contractions, that are more clearly allied, perhaps, to ideals that have no need for the particular kind of structure with which you are familiar.

[...] Each dot would be intersected by another circle, with dots upon this, and each of these dots in turn would be intersected, etc., so that there could be an infinity of expansions. [...]

[...] His psychic recognition or initiation represented a remarkable breakthrough, meant to give him that additional psychic room that would insure the continued expansion of the abilities of the natural self. [...]

[...] That breakthrough, you might say, with perhaps some exaggeration, was a life saver, for without some such expansion Ruburt would have felt unable to continue the particular brand of his existence. [...]

(Long pause.) Ruburt broke through both psychically and creatively—that is, the sessions almost immediately provided him with new creative inspiration and expression and with the expansions needed psychologically that would help fulfill his promise as a writer and as a mature personality. [...]

[...] Expansion brings expansion. [...]

[...] He is now ready to expand, because this expansion will help his own abilities and will therefore influence others.

Now, you can and must afford yourselves the privilege of expansion. [...]

[...] So does value expansion become reincarnation and evolution and growth. [...]

[...] That focus finally brought about, in your terms, an expansion of consciousness, and one that early man did not have to handle. [...]

The ego specialized in expansions of space and its physical manipulation. [...]

[...] With the developing expansion of space, however, loved ones often dwell far apart, and sudden bodily response cannot be expressed at once, at a particular point of immediate contact.

[...] He now needs a more expansive viewpoint of past and future in order to help him deal with the ramifications of the present as it has evolved through experience.

[...] And expansion must then follow, the expansion in your terms bringing a new beginning.

[...] It would be backtracking to repeat that long discussion, but as the inner universe has as its attributes spontaneity and durability, and as the spacious present is simultaneous while containing within it all pasts and all presents and all futures, and as Philip understands the meaning of expansion in terms not of time or of space but of value fulfillment, so will he intuitively then grasp that no contradiction occurs with actual reality when I say that there is no beginning and no end.

[...] At the same time this expansion did put him in situations that he had avoided before, and so the contrast between his physical situation and that of others was apparent—and to him, frightening. [...]

[...] The sensation of largeness, for example, is a physical interpretation of the psychic expansion. [...]

[...] It is a cushioning, supportive, and expansive stage of consciousness. [...]

Your individual and joint psychic activities should also begin a new expansion for the same reasons. [...]

[...] The plane did not fall in the middle of a huge expanse—perhaps between the mainland and another shore. [...]

The “you” who is capable of such expansion must be a far more creative and multidimensional personality than you earlier imagined. [...]

Each reader, however, should in one way or another sense his own vitality in a way quite new to him, and find avenues of expansion opening within himself of which he was earlier unaware. [...]

[...] They grow out of each other in a kind of spontaneous expansion, a profusion of creativity, while the conscious mind chooses which aspects to experience — and those aspects then become what you call an objective event.

[...] Before conditioning, children’s play follows the love of performance, of body or imagination, for performance’s sake only; the expansion of mental or physical abilities. [...]