“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] The mature conscious mind, once more, accepts data from the exterior world and from the interior one. It is only when you believe that consciousness must be attuned only to exterior conditions that you force it to cut itself off from inner knowledge, intuitional “voices,” and the depths from which it springs.

[...] All portions of the body’s reality are versions in flesh of the soul’s reality, even as all segments of the exterior universe mirror an internal one. The latter is as alive and natural and changing as the exterior world. [...]

[...] There is no effect in the exterior world that does not spring from an inner source. [...]

It is not as easy, however, to realize that your feelings and thoughts form your exterior experience in the same way, or that the events that appear to happen to you are initiated by you within your mental or psychic inner environment.

[...] Both the eye and the ego are formations focused toward perception of exterior reality.

[...] So far in any of your investigations, you have been probing exterior conditions, searching for their interior nature.

To make this clear: When you dissect an animal, for instance, you are still dealing only with the “inside” of exterior reality, or with another level of outsideness. [...]

Your closest point to the withinness of which I speak is your own consciousness, though you use it as a tool to examine the exterior universe. [...]

[...] The built-in initiating triggers of reactions that are meant to follow inner stimuli are activated instead by “exterior” means.

[...] Part of this experience includes a natural fascination with exterior events. [...]

The more involved you become with complicated physical organisms, the more energy you project outward and the more entranced you become with “exterior” manifestations. [...]

(She told me that Seth would soon be going into the effects of our beliefs upon our environment, explaining how our racial mental climate is responsible for our exteriorized “weather.” [...]

[...] The inner conditions cause the exterior climatic changes, though of course it now seems to you that it is the other way around.

Now he began to draw and sketch, and to learn how to build images in the mind that were connected to real exterior objects in the presently accepted manner. [...]

(Long pause at 11:26.) There are “inner sounds” that act like layers between tissues, that “coat” molecules, and these serve as a basis for exterior sound principles. [...]

[...] All of the individuals living, in your terms, at that time have taken part in the same inner drama which is then exteriorized. [...] They are recognized intuitively when they appear on the exterior scene because in psychic life they have already been known, and in dream states these dramas have been worked out. [...]

[...] However, they became what they seem to be for these chosen people have also accepted this role, and the exterior drama will be worked out in such a way that it makes sense within the time period in which it seems to take place. In this same framework, as the exterior drama begins to fade and as it has left meaning, in your terms, only now as time seems to pass, then once again the interior drama arises, but this time with a new story, with a different god and with new prophets; and as the old weakens so the new interior drama begins once more to arouse man from within his dreams, and again they choose and someone appears, or two or three, and a new drama is projected into external reality. [...]

[...] Now your ego, your exterior self, focuses outward into physical reality. [...]

[...] The exterior conditions can be remedied. [...]

[...] It might help if you imagine an inner living dimension within yourself in which you create, in miniature psychic form, all the exterior conditions that you know. [...] Your thoughts, feelings and mental pictures can be called incipient exterior events, for in one way or another each of these is materialized into physical reality.

[...] Exterior events, circumstances and conditions are meant as a kind of living feedback. [...]

[...] There is nothing in your exterior experience that did not originate within you.

I will have more to say at a later time, for definite steps will be taken to see to it that he relates more specifically soon with the exterior world. [...]

[...] You both consistently in this particular regard operate from the outside, and become deluged, hypnotized by the exterior situation. [...]

[...] They deal with exterior patterns that, on that level, can be charted. The weather, however, is the result of the world’s natural moods, and intuitive predictions would be far more predictable, for they would deal with those variables that cannot appear, or be predicted, at the exterior level.

[...] Ruburt deals with the interior world the way most people deal with the exterior one. [...]

[...] Actually the two merge, of course, for your Framework 1 existence is immersed in Framework 2. Again, your body itself is constantly replenished in Framework 1 because of its simultaneous reality in Framework 2. Framework 2 is ever exteriorizing itself, appearing in your experience as Framework 1. You concentrate so thoroughly upon exterior reality, however, that you often ignore the quite apparent deeper sources of your own physical existence. [...]

“Because dreams are such a perfect combination of stimuli from the inner environment and the exterior environment, other events are often used to trigger inner dream messages, just as the opposite occurs. [...]

[...] You are too busy with exterior things. [...]

[...] While it is easy then to understand the nature of exterior actions of repetitive quality, it is far more difficult to see many physical symptoms in the same light — but here also whole groups of recurring reactions to certain stimuli are involved. [...]

[...] Each of the systems uses paraphernalia — gestures, medicine, treatment — that are the exterior manifestations of beliefs shared by healer and patient alike.

They believe that diseases are the result of exterior conditions. [...]

Smoking represents among other things, to him, a blanket of insulation, not only between himself and exterior reality, but a blanket between himself and interior reality. [...]

[...] Indeed, the need for the habits creates the exterior habit. [...]

[...] Such beliefs clutter up your conscious mind with negative suggestions that can only frighten the exterior ego and impede the great strength and vitality that is your heritage from lending you the fullest possible strength and support.

Now: The body consciousness reacts to exterior stimuli, of course, and to inner stimuli as well. [...]

The body consciousness must react to your (underlined) interpretation of an exterior stimulus as well. [...]

In each life you are meant to check the exterior environment in order to learn your inner condition. [...]

[...] As this is done, the exterior circumstances should change for the better as the inner self becomes more aware of its own nature and capabilities. [...]