“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] You are only aware of development along certain lines because you focus upon some, and do not focus upon others. [...]

The barrier, if it may be so called, is not so much in the nature of the two dimensions themselves, but in your own limitations, since presently you are focused mainly in one of these. [...]

[...] It is not space that separates, it is the focus and the form of energy.

[...] In whichever direction we focus our abilities and energies, we seem to see new action, but it is merely our focus which has changed; and in changing, has formed new action.

The knot, or the main concentration of focus, in ego concern, prevents true refreshment, either through the inner self or from the outer world. [...]

[...] The knot of energy, among other things, quite a few other things, is caused by the temporary inability to change the focus of interests from outward to inward methods of communication.

I am not suggesting here that this individual turn all focus away from the outer world, far from it. [...]

[...] This is to be followed with a focus toward relaxation. [...]

[...] Remember the change in focus I spoke of at our last session. [...]

[...] However, generally speaking, those completely focused in physical reality will look for their prime fulfillment within it. [...]

Those who are not completely focused in physical reality will look for other ways of fulfilling their needs. [...]

[...] Conversely, if you had a child it would have been much more difficult for you to make communication with me, because of the direction of your own energy and focus. [...]

[...] The antagonism he had for testing came not from the idea itself so much as from the idea of focusing upon detail for detail’s sake.

[...] I talked about cases we had read about, where hypnosis was used to get the subject to focus only upon the test item, ignoring any other data even if relevant. [...]

[...] I give him access to large fields of focus, I help him change the energy that he uses in perception into other directions, to turn it inward. [...]

[...] It is simply a portion, a field of focus whereby the self attempts to objectify itself within the world of matter.

[...] After physical death the personality simply ceases to project itself, as a rule, within the physical field, and no longer focuses within it.

[...] It has a small focus but a powerful one.

[...] In such cases, for various reasons, the inner self simply sees no reason for their continued focus in the physical field.

[...] In a large sense he begins to train himself to focus only upon what you would call physical reality, though he still partially perceives other fields that you do not accept.

He is only recognized and his wants satisfied when he focuses in one particular reality. [...]

[...] When the infant is born he still hears these sounds and voices, but again they do not meet his physical needs nor bring him milk when he cries, and gradually he discards them, focusing upon that data which best serves his physical purposes.

[...] This adds to the confusion, and it is a matter of physical survival that he largely ignores these messages while he learns to focus in physical reality.

The ego attempts to maintain a clear point of focus, of stability, so that it can direct the light of the conscious mind with some precision and concentrate its focus in areas of actuality that seem permanent. [...]

Because it is intimately connected with other portions of the self it does not basically feel alienated or alone, but proudly acts as the director of the conscious mind’s focus. [...]

[...] As I said, the ego cannot keep information out of the conscious mind but it can refuse to focus directly upon it.

[...] For one instant your consciousness is “alive,” focused in physical reality. Now for the next instant it is focused somewhere else entirely, in a different system of reality. [...] The next instant it is “alive” again, focused in your reality, but you are not aware of the intervening instant of unaliveness. [...]

[...] Its focus is not nearly as constant as you suppose, however. [...]

(10:18.) Now: If you alter that picture a little so that the images are somewhat scrambled — and you do this by altering the focus of your consciousness — then the familiar coordination is gone. [...] (Pause.) If you did change the focus of your consciousness still further, you might then “bring in” another picture entirely. [...]

[...] You cannot move through time and space without altering the focus of your psyche. (Intently:) When you so alter that focus, however, you also change the exterior reality that you then experience.

[...] You use one main focus in your reality. [...]

[...] For other contrasting examples, in Volume 1 see the notes closing out sessions 688 and 703, as well as related material in Appendix 4, wherein I wrote about the translation challenges she’s often faced since beginning “Unknown” Reality: “— hence her talk before many of these sessions … about attaining that ‘certain clear focus,’ or ‘the one clearest place in consciousness,’ before she began speaking for Seth.”

[...] Again, these are simply certain focuses that you choose, that direct your experience. You can add other focuses while still retaining your own identity — indeed, enriching it.

[...] We speculated that we’d “homed in on it” now, as if for the first time, because our combined focus was opening up in the direction of homes.

[...] Yet all are in the same overall composition, in “time,” so that time itself serves as the scale (gesturing) in which the [musical] number is written — chosen as a matter of organization, focus, and framework.

[...] Yet those tragic lives are used as a focus point that actually brings into experience, through comparison, the great vitality and thrust of being.

[...] In that context corporeal life is an entranced one, with the focus of attention largely concentrated through the senses’ belief in the reality of their sensations. [...]

[...] Repeat it over and over while focusing upon it for this time. [...]

[...] The universe is the result of a certain kind of focus of consciousness; the stuff of it, the matter, rises out of inner wonderworks — of which the private wonderworks of each of us is a part.

“Other species of consciousness gain their experience at different ‘levels’; often we encounter such consciousnesses in the dream state, then interpret their actions in the wrong order of events … according to our own camouflage³ system … Our bodies are the focuses for only the physical part of our consciousnesses … My latest dreams are giving me a picture of the nonphysical inner wonderworks …”

[...] Put it this way: A portion of the whole self focuses in reincarnational cycles and handles developments there. Another portion focuses in probabilities and handles developments there.

[...] In so doing during the reincarnational cycle, you are focusing your main abilities in physical life, developing human qualities and characteristics, opening new dimensions of activity. [...]

[...] There will be a sustained focus of awareness and existence in an entirely different sort of reality. [...]

[...] The focus demanded is quite intensive.

Your own present personalities are merely the result of the particular qualities and ego-images (hyphen) upon which you have chosen to focus your energies and your intent. Initially, before existence upon the physical plane this time, you could just as easily have focused upon a different quality-personality gestalt, although your choice most probably would be in line with a large field of possibilities, possible according to the desires of your entity.

[...] The difference is only in the amount of energy which you focus and the direction in which you focus it.

[...] Although you have chosen to form a particular group of qualities into a field pattern of a particular personality, upon which you focus the bulk of your energy, there are also other more shadowy, less well-constructed possibilities of personality selves that exist loosely within the psychic framework of the dominant personality, and these also have their influence. [...]

[...] For various reasons you have not really focused on solving the problem, but you have focused upon the problem, and there is a vast difference. [...]

[...] In periods of concentrated focus, with all distractions cut out, the desired ideas are then implanted (in formal hypnosis). [...]

Your beliefs, then, are like hypnotic focuses. [...]

[...] It is focused, intensified, narrowed to a specific area, and all other stimuli are cut out.

[...] All of the gestures, dances, and other procedures are shock treatments, startling the subject out of habitual reactions so that he or she is forced to focus upon the present moment. [...]

[...] During your existence you are focused, you are stuck to, you are placed and centered in, your physical universe by the outside ego. [...]

[...] You can learn to cease focusing now and then and let the inner senses look out through the ego’s eyes.

[...] Your existence, and mine for that matter, on any particular level is predetermined by complete concentration or focus of inner selves upon the particular universe in question. [...]

[...] Complete concentration and focus is your answer.

You accept and perceive and focus upon continuities and similarities as you perceive physical objects of any kind, and in a very important manner you shut out and ignore dissimilarities out of a given field of actuality. [...]

[...] Even subjectively you focus upon and indeed manufacture the idea of a relatively stable, relatively permanent conscious self. [...]

[...] You can learn to follow it, but you are usually frightened of turning your attention away from its intense focus in three-dimensional existence. [...]

[...] As far as you are concerned the present is your point of action, focus, and power, and from that point of volition you form both your future and past. [...]

This is not meant to dilute the function or natural abilities of reasoning awareness, for its powers allow you to focus experience in a highly specific manner, and to direct energy with great purposeful attention. [...]

[...] Your power as a rational consciousness focused in the present provides you with opportunities for creativity that you are but vaguely learning to understand. [...]