“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] In all universes that we know, creativity and expansion are the rules.

[...] Always there is the expansion of consciousness, though the lines of these progressions may be quite alien to your own. [...]

[...] The release of the fears then allows the body to release the natural optimism and healthy emotions that are needed, and the expansion of activity and energy.

Now in class you see he is expressive and expansive. [...]

[...] I wanted him to enlarge upon the statement he’d made at 11:29 in the 690th session: “Further developments in your concepts will lead to greater activation in portions of the brain now not nearly utilized, and these in turn will trigger expansions in both psychic and biological terms.” [...]

[...] It means the further expansion of the concept of identity: “You” would not only be aware of the you that you have always known, in the same way that you are now, but a deeper sense of identity would also arise.

[...] You would just have another expansion of consciousness, another self-who-is-aware-of-being in the same way that — using an analogy, granted — the writer is aware of the self who lives, in those terms; is the self who lives while being in a position of some apartness, able to comment upon the life being lived.

[...] The whole world of nature is an irrepressible, expressible area of expansion. [...]

[...] But that’s okay—anything is okay that leads to an expansion of her physical activity. [...]

The personality is much more extensive and expansive than you realize. [...]

[...] Expansion and contraction occur constantly as characteristic of action, as I have explained.

[...] Yet as there is great variety to physical form, so counterparts follow a still more expansive inner freedom that finds an even greater diversity of characteristics.

[...] (Long pause.) Ruburt experiences now what he calls a massive quality, a physical and psychic expansion of consciousness in which the dear familiar world seems small — yet twice precious. [...]

1. Jane delivered this material for Seth in the 42nd session for April 8, 1964: “The universe is continually being created … as all universes are … 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, and 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.”

[...] One of these is the discovery of at least some of that missing mass, thus indicating that gravitational fields may exist among the galaxies, and galactic clusters, strong enough not only to halt the expansion of the universe but to pull all matter back together again.

I hasten to add that it’s only of academic interest to us, though, whether the universe disperses itself through an eternity of frozen expansion or compresses itself into a cosmic fireball of unbelievable proportions. [...]

[...] Theoretically there is no limit, you see, to their rate of contraction or expansion. [...]

[...] Instead there is an expansion of her consciousness and a projection of energy that is directed away from three-dimensional reality.

People with life-threatening diseases also often feel that further growth, development, or expansion are highly difficult, if not impossible to achieve at a certain point in their lives. [...]

The joy stretches out, so to speak, into the future, sheds also its light into the past, and may cover greater areas of expansion than could be shown in physical terms at that moment. [...]

Symbols are highly charged psychic particles and that includes physical objects that have strong characteristics of attraction and expansion, that stand for inner realizations and realities that have not been perceived through direct knowing. [...]

For material on mental and psychic expansions in old age, and the hemispheres of the brain, see the 650th session in Chapter 13 of Personal Reality. [...]

The purpose is the expansion of consciousness itself, and this automatically leads to the knowledge that every consciousness is connected to every other, and that any harm to one is harm to all. [...]

[...] The expansion of consciousness automatically leads you to understanding and compassion.

[...] He crossed a blacktop expanse of some kind by a large bulky building. [...]

[...] Perhaps glass doors (long pause; at least one minute), but an expanse of glass.

[...] This will cause an expansion within the personality. [...]

(To Alison Hess.) And also an expansion of your own. [...]

[...] This sense allows for an expansion or contraction of the tissue capsule. Theoretically there is no limit to the contraction or expansion allowed, but practically there are usually definite limitations.

[...] Although our house is separated from it by quite an expanse of lawn, our new neighbor is quite obvious as he walks back and forth before his picture window in his undershirt. [...]

[...] According to Seth, each unit of consciousness “contains within itself innately infinite properties of expansion, development and organization; yet within itself always maintains the kernel of its own individuality…. [...]

Since it’s sometimes difficult to be sure of just what Seth is saying, in retrospect I wished that either he’d volunteered more information about his explosion-expansion, or that I’d been quick enough to ask him to do so. [...]

[...] You are an extremely expansive person, and you will use your abilities to look for good prospects simply because you are sunny. [...]

[...] You must learn to feel and recognize your feelings and be expansive. [...]

(“Number twenty: If everything exists now, or at once, how can it be added to through constant creation and expansion? [...]