“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

We have here an excellent focus of energy, an excellent use of action, that of itself propels itself onward; I might say, somewhat sarcastically: Oh, ye of little faith. [...]

[...] It goes without saying that such a work actually contains a portion of focused psychic energy, which is action, and which has its effects.

The energy charge in this particular manuscript is not only very vivid, but well focused. [...]

[...] The energy is focusing toward materialization. There is also energy that will never focus in this way. [...]

[...] If the energy is focused in a particular manner, then you have physical objects within your system.

[...] The overall rhythms of your creaturehood automatically bring you into periods of rest and intense focus.

[...] This provides a clear focus in which “present” action can be considered. [...]

[...] (Pause.) I need not be entirely focused within your dimension in other words, but I am focused sufficiently to meet our appointments.

When it seems to you that there is a difference between the focus in sessions, then it is simply that the reception conditions are poor. [...]

[...] Your question stems however from the idea that if I am here I cannot be somewhere else at the same time, or that all of my energies must be focused here at the session. [...]

[...] Both above and below your usual conscious focus, then, time is experienced in an entirely different fashion, and is constantly manipulated,³ as physically you manipulate matter.

[...] The reality, the physical reality of a given cell, is the focused result of its existence before and after itself in time; and from its knowledge of past and future it receives its present structure.

[...] When, in historic terms, the race was in the process of adopting a necessary artificial separation of itself from the rest of nature; when it needed to be assured of its abilities to do so; when it took upon itself the task of a particular kind of specialization and individual focus, it needed a religion that would assure it of its abilities.

While it (ego consciousness) recognized its deep oneness with the earth and all creatures, it could not at the same time develop those abilities of specialization and its own particular unique focus. [...]

[...] Those dream experiences often seem out of joint or out of focus in morning’s hindsight, or in retrospect, simply because they occur with a complexity that the brain could not handle in ordinary waking terms.

[...] But other cultures in your past have experienced reality quite differently as a result of encouraging different neural patterns, and putting experience together through other focuses.

Dreaming, for example, can be “brought into focus” in a far sharper fashion, so that at least some of those experiences can be consciously utilized. [...]

[...] They are also quite as legitimately the same identity, but they are not focused upon because the body must have one clear, direct mode of action.

[...] It is true that focusing upon the inner reality at times requires a temporary lessening of outer focus, and this would sometimes give the appearance of letting go, but the inner concentration requires discipline and intent. [...]

[...] One of the basic purposes of existence on your plane is to enable the personality to focus powerfully and to form basic vitality into creative pattern. [...]

[...] You would experience directly the personalities of the inhabitants of the automobiles—the vitality even of the components of the automobiles’ molecules, and “see” (in quotes) the future and the past experience of everything within that particular range of focus. [...]

[...] One of your purposes as I have said is to learn to organize energy units and to focus your own energy along those lines. [...]

[...] They help focus both mind and imagination. That focusing helps you to act, to be. [...]

Like the entire American hostage affair (in Iran), any physical event serves as a focus that attracts all of its probable versions and outcomes. [...]

[...] To use these arts requires first of all the knowledge that beneath the world you know is another; that alongside the focus of consciousness with which you are familiar there are other focuses quite as legitimate.

[...] In the waking state the conscious mind must focus rather exclusively upon that one particular point of concentration that you call reality, simply so that it can direct your activities properly in temporal life. [...]

[...] A way was needed to teach these personalities to focus long enough, in your terms, intensely enough, within any given reality.

[...] The survival instinct, strongly connected with the physical self, keeps it anchored in focus within your system. [...]

[...] (Pause.) You are intensely focused within physical reality.

As you know, other portions of the self are intensely focused elsewhere. [...]

The inner ego is focused inward, with as much intensity as the outer ego is focused outward. [...]

[...] Apparent boundaries are not boundaries, but only differences in the focus of attention. [...]

[...] The focus in which the creativity occurs is merely different. [...]

[...] The noise of the chant was like something that you’d use to turn on this instrument—when the chant got to a certain pitch it turned on this instrument; and it somehow intensified and focused sound to what we would call an incredible degree —broke it down and then focused it in certain directions.”

[...] Only your determined focus upon your time conceptions closes you off from many ideas that otherwise are available.

[...] Knowing those coordinates would of course be very important, but the other realities would still remain nonrealities to you unless you changed your primary focus. [...]

Dictation: There are also various states of consciousness in waking life, upon which you do not focus, and of which you are usually quite unaware. [...]

Divorced from physical focus, you are in a better position to hear the Speakers, to translate their instructions, to practice with the creation of images, and to be guided in the methods of maintaining the health of the physical body. [...]

[...] In order to perceive some of these you have only to learn to change the focus of your attention from one level to another. [...]

[...] I need not be entirely focused within your dimension, in other words, but I am sufficiently focused to meet our appointments. [...]

[...] We focus our attention upon a certain group of events—the “present” ones—and then drop them into the subconscious where they seem to fall away and become distant. [...]

If we could remove these blind spots and enlarge the focus of our attention, I think that we would become aware of these other events, and that telepathy, precognition, and clairvoyance would be normal, practical methods of obtaining information. [...]

[...] The inherent relationship would snap into focus during a session, however, when the supraconscious identity would take over.

[...] Often at times when his vision is disorienting, that activity however also results in the better focus in reading that is coming about. Usually it is changes in focus that are involved. [...]

[...] Rooms ordinarily alien or unknown to me seemed to open up, although in a very concentrated focus, as say from the beam of a flashlight. [...]

[...] With your focus now, you should have decent results. [...]

[...] His focus is not certain, and the intensity of his presence varies. [...]

[...] By labeling a group of symptoms you add to their idea of permanence, and give a name to certain aspects of bodily activity, distinguishing them from other activities and therefore giving them rather dangerous focus. [...]

[...] Your apartment hunting had a favorable effect, simply because of the complete change of focus and the swinging of energies into a different area.

[...] Jane had no questions for Seth other than her usual desire that he continue his material on Frameworks 1 and 2. I didn’t either, not having taken the time to focus on any.

It hints at the most precise and powerful focus, so that amid an infinity of data, events can be arranged at times so that two particular people, for example, separated in childhood, could, 30 years later, find themselves living next door to each other. [...]

[...] He reports feelings of certainty, yet overall you have a tendency, shall I say (with irony) not to focus upon those new significances, those new coincidences, for you think still “in terms of the evidence.” [...]

The focus again now therefore, in his prayers, should be on feelings of peace, tranquility, safety and joy in creativity. [...] This sort of focus, for his personal makeup, will bring about a quicker complete recovery. [...]

[...] When he focuses upon health itself as such, he overconcentrates. [...]

[...] In terms of sex, you insist upon a picture that shows you a growth into a sexual identity, a clear focus, and then in old age a falling away of clear sexual identification into “sexual disorder.” It does not occur to you that the original premise or focus, the identification of identity with sexual nature, is “unnatural.” [...]

Since you value sexual performance in the most limited of terms, and use that largely as a focus of identity, then both your old and young suffer consequences that are not so much the result of age as of sexual prejudice. [...]

[...] This acts to cut out other data, and to further intensify your focus upon your difficulty. When you break that focus the problem is solved.

This does not mean that those individuals might not come down with another disease instead, but it does mean that the belief in disease is patterned and focused to particular symptoms by such methods. [...]

[...] Such focus of attention on positive aspects automatically pulls your energy away from the problem. [...]