“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(Long pause at 11:22.) Give us a moment… Speaking historically in your terms, man first identified with nature, and loved it, for he saw it as an extension of himself even while he felt himself a part of its expression. In exploring it he explored himself also. He did not identify as himself alone, but because of his love, he identified also with all those portions of nature with which he came into contact. This love was biologically ingrained in him, and is even now biologically pertinent.

To explore that exterior world was to explore the inner one. Such a person, however, walking through the forest, also felt that he or she was also a portion of the inner life of each rock or tree, materialized. Yet there was no contradiction of identities.

All of this also applies to the animals to varying degrees. Even in animal groups, individuals are not only concerned with personal survival, but with the survival of “family” members. Each individual in an animal group is aware of the others’ situations. The expression of love is not confined to your own species, therefore, nor is tenderness, loyalty, or concern. Love indeed does have its own language — a basic nonverbal one with deep biological connotations. It is the initial basic language from which all others spring, for all languages’ purposes rise from those qualities natural to love’s expression — the desire to communicate, create, explore, and to join with the beloved.

(9:00 during a rather steady, emphatic delivery.) Man has within him the need to rest and to explore, to stay by “the hills of home,” (from Thomas Wolfe), and to explore beyond them, but such a relatively accessible second environment does have certain advantages for you and Ruburt over those it sometimes presents for others, and such a willingness to explore the probability alone can give you some excellent results by providing a new elasticity of attitude, and in a fashion by bringing home in a different way the idea that the present is the point of power. [...]

I am of course quite aware of the danger of flooding that can occur under such circumstances, but I would like you both, as freely as you can, to explore that consideration. [...] Any decision is of course your own—but the overall willingness to explore the creativity possible in such a probability is perhaps more important than any choice you make. [...]

[...] The consideration itself is what I am after —the willingness to explore a probability that has come into your attention—because in so doing you remind yourselves of the freedoms that are (underlined) available in your terms, and because such a consideration, among other things, will allow you to automatically see your beliefs from a different focus, through another picture frame. [...]

[...] Any inner journeys should allow you to find greater significance, beauty, and meaning in life as you know it now; but full enjoyment and development also means that you use all of your abilities, that you explore inner dimensions with as much wonder and enthusiasm. [...] Such explorations will completely alter somber preconceptions about existence after death. [...]

[...] This is to be an active exploration and endeavor, not a passive withdrawal, and certainly not a cowardly retreat. Toward the end of this book, methods will be given for those who are interested so that you can explore these after-death conditions consciously, having some control over your experiences and progress.

[...] Therefore, the best way to become acquainted with after-death reality ahead of time, so to speak, is to explore and understand the nature of your own dreaming self. [...]

[...] Now these nonintervals are indeed openings into other realities, and you can theoretically explore them. [...] You are doing the same thing when you realize you are dreaming, and decide to explore, say, a distant landscape that appears within the dream.

[...] Theoretically you could explore these endlessly. [...] Now in your physical life as you know it, you are indeed exploring such a noninterval. [...]

[...] One portion of you leaves the inner self to explore in depth a particular noninterval. [...] This noninterval however creates its own interval points that you also explore, in your dreams and waking projections that escape your ordinary consciousness.

The inner lands have not been as well explored. [...] Others have journeyed to some of these interior locales, but since they were indeed explorers they had to learn as they went along. [...]

(Pause at 11:13.) Explorers traveling into inner reality, however, do not have the same kind of landmarks to begin with. Many have been so excited with their discoveries that they wrote guidebooks long before they even began to explore the inner landscape. [...]

Dictation (quietly): To explore the unknown reality you must venture within your own psyche, travel inward through invisible roads as you journey outward on physical ones.

[...] The child’s explorations of its environment are in a fashion quite different from its later adolescent explorations of the world. [...]

[...] It is quite natural for children to play creatively with the various states of their own consciousnesses, to explore the “us-ness” of a seemingly single identity. [...]

Love is naturally creative and explorative — that is, you want to creatively explore the aspects of the beloved one. [...]

[...] Love, sexuality, and play, curiosity and explorative characteristics, merge in the child in a natural manner. Yet it soon learns that areas of exploration are limited even as far as its own body is concerned. [...]

[...] All I know, that within and beyond and through the world that we know, there are other levels of reality, other dimensions of activity, other psychological gestalts that we can explore. [...] I’m going to be quiet for a moment in which time you can explore what you are experiencing. [...]

[...] Feel free to explore whatever you find. [...]

[...] Culture is as real and natural as trees and rocks, so see the various cultures of these three groups as natural environments of the different places or countries; and imagine, then, each group exploring the unique environment of the land into which they have journeyed. Imagine further of course that these explorations occur at once, even though communication may be faulty, so that each group has difficulty communicating with the others. [...]

[...] They are exploring the land of time. [...]

[...] It does mean that you will begin to explore the reality of yourself and of those other dimensions in which you have your existence. [...]

[...] There is no other way—and I repeat this—there is no other way of getting first-hand information about other realities but by the exploration and manipulation of your own consciousness. [...]

[...] I do mean subjective activity on your part and exploration. [...]

[...] It does mean that you will begin to explore the reality of yourselves, and of those other dimensions in which you have your existence.

[...] There is no other way — and I repeat this — there is no other way of getting firsthand information about other realities except by the exploration and manipulation of your own consciousness.

[...] I do mean subjective activity on your part, and exploration. [...]

In his own way Ruburt has used symptoms as what he considered a safe framework in which to explore those areas he wanted to explore. [...]

He was bound and determined to explore the nature of reality. [...]

Man explored the physical world in the dreaming state long before he explored it physically. [...]

[...] (You do, for that matter, explore space in the same fashion, and on at least some occasions your own “visitors from outer space” are dream travelers from other dimensions of reality. [...]

As far as group dreaming is concerned, however, there are still some people who have always served as watchdogs in that regard, while others even in the dream state operate as healers or teachers or explorers or whatever. [...]

[...] You will learn that certain symbols will appear personally to you at various stages of consciousness, and these can serve as points of recognition in your own explorations. When Ruburt is about to leave his body from the dream state for example, he will often find himself in a strange house or apartment that offers opportunities for exploration.

[...] The soul would then begin to explore the reality of this joy in terms that can hardly be explained, and in so doing would learn methods of perception, expression, and actualization that would have been utterly incomprehensible to it before.

In so doing, the soul continually creates new varieties of inner reality to be explored. [...]

He (Ruburt) was bound and determined to explore the nature of reality.¹ … He wanted to protect himself until he had enough knowledge to know what he was doing. [...]

1. Some of Jane’s confrontations with reality are explored in various parts of my Introductory Notes, and in Appendix 1.

[...] The belief in such an unsavory self stops many people from any exploration of the inner self — and, therefore, from any direct experience that will give them counter-evidence. [...]

[...] If you cannot honestly encounter the dimensions of your creaturehood, you surely cannot explore the greater dimensions of the psyche. [...]

Many individuals are afraid that they will be swept away by inner explorations, that insanity will overtake them, when instead the physical stance of the body and personality is firmly rooted in these alternate organizations. [...]

[...] Your have purposefully explored other systems as you explore this one.

[...] There is every reason to explore inner reality, but this exploration should lead you to understand the nature of physical reality also. [...]

The exploration is also a creation, and a continuing creation. [...]

[...] His specific art (pause) was both his method of understanding his own creativity, and a way of exploring the vast creativity of the universe—and also served as a container or showcase that displayed his knowledge as best he could. [...]

(To me:) I want you to specifically understand that there is and can be no conflict, for example, between your writing and painting, for in the most basic of ways they represent different methods of exploring the meaning and the source of creativity itself. [...]

Explore, for example, your own feelings toward me; whether or not they have changed through the years. [...]

“In the sort of exploration of which I am speaking, the personality attempts to go within itself, to find its way through the veils of adopted characteristics to its own inner identity. [...]

[...] You are still exploring the topmost levels of your personality, and you do not have the benefit of those altered states of consciousness that occur when you look into yourself in the manner I have prescribed.

[...] That field of exploration is so vast, however, that it needs boundaries and determinations also. [...]

[...] This provides the necessary sense of safety and the sense of definition in which the child can safely use its explorative abilities. [...]

[...] The personality is then free to explore and assimilate greater areas of original knowledge. [...]