“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] It’s all a matter of focus. Not that Seth is just another focus of mine, for it’s quite legitimate to say that I’m a focus of his consciousness in that same context; but that Seth represents that larger portion of the psyche from which our own kind of consciousness emerges. [...]

So even if I was focused elsewhere and my consciousness turned inward, a spotlight was thrown upon our world from that other viewpoint, almost as if a character in one of our dreams suddenly came awake, walked out of the dream, and dared comment on our waking world. [...]

[...] In greater terms, therefore, those people decided to be at that particular time and place, so that the photograph is the result of multitudinous decisions, and represents a focus of experience, rising from myriad probabilities. The picture of the world represents in a greater dimensional fashion the same kind of focus. [...]

[...] This simply provides a workable focus in which achievement and experience can happen.

[...] The consciousness of a tree is not as specifically focused as your own, yet to all intents and purposes, the tree is conscious of fifty years before its existence, and fifty years hence.

[...] The inner self is aware of this integrity of identity, but the ego, focused so securely in physical reality, cannot afford this luxury.

Your sexuality is a point of focus, and that is all. [...] You chose your sexual focus for a reason. [...]

[...] Head and back more flexible; eyes not quite so red—“in and out” of focus in a period of minutes, yet Jane could see to work part of the time today, as Seth suggested.)

[...] Under its banner of suggestion, however, the great parade of men and other living creatures are observed so that the hypothesis brings about its own hypnotic focus—so that creatures, man, and indeed the universe itself, seem to behave in certain highly ritualized fashions. [...]

[...] More than this, however, the theory’s vast suggestive nature forms a framework through which people then view the experiences of their lives, and through whose focus the behavior of their own species seems determined. [...]

[...] Darwin then brought nature to man’s focus in a new way, for before neither science or religion had dealt with it in a meaningful manner. [...]

Such religious dramas focus, direct, and, hopefully, clarify aspects of inner reality that need to be physically represented. [...]

Man tried to form a new realm, attain a different kind of focus and awareness. [...]

[...] The new kind of consciousness simply had to look away from it to maintain initially an independent focus.

[...] The conscious mind focuses with a quick, limited, but intense light, perceiving from a given field of reality only certain “stimuli.” [...]

[...] They may appear as symbolically representing strong characteristics upon which they have focused, though you have ignored them.

[...] As mentioned (in Session 682), this was extremely important while it learned the art of specialized focus. [...]

[...] When man’s consciousness was sure of itself it would not need to be so narrowly focused. [...]

[...] This need not take place, for the conscious mind — basically, now — having learned to focus in physical terms, is meant to expand, to accept unconscious intuitions and knowledge, and to organize these deeply creative principles into cultural patterns.

[...] The soul can change the focus of its consciousness, and uses consciousness as you use the eyes in your head. [...]

[...] I can now turn the focus of my consciousness toward it, and if I choose, experience it as you do; but I can also perceive it in many ways that you cannot in your time.

[...] In your system, however, you are focused much more intensely upon one relatively small aspect of experience.

[...] The male child does not possess an identity so focused upon its maleness. [...] They simply do not focus upon their maleness or femaleness in the way that is supposed.

Basically the species is relatively so freewheeling, with so many potentials, that it is necessary that the mother’s beliefs provide a kind of framework in the beginning, allowing the child to focus its abilities in desired directions. [...]

[...] Your particular kind of consciousness is the result of specialized focus within a particular area. [...] It is, instead, a certain kind of organization that is indeed inviolate even while it is itself a portion of other kinds of consciousnesses, with their own points of focus. [...]

[...] Also, part of man’s reality contributes to that trans-species organization, but he has not chosen to focus his practical daily consciousness in that direction, or to identify his individuality with it. [...]

[...] Consciousness differentiates itself, therefore, by operating within certain code systems that help direct particular kinds of focus, bringing in certain kinds of significances³ while blocking out other data.

[...] He is studying what he can do and not do with that particular focus. [...]

[...] In your system of beliefs, however, those athletes must train and focus all of their attention in that direction, often at the expense of other portions of their own experience. [...]

[...] These powers of the body are biologically quite achievable in practical terms, but only by a complete change of focus and belief. [...]

[...] There is a portion of All That Is, that is directed and focused upon every individual consciousness. [...]

While there is a portion of All That Is, that is aware of itself as you, for example, a portion that is indeed focused within your existence, whose energy is directed within you, and to whom you can call for help when necessary, there is also an overall god-personality that is aware of itself also as something that is more than the sum of its creations. [...]

[...] Such concern merely brings them further into focus. [...]

[...] Now I suggest a different approach, also, that may help change the focus from physical symptoms to physical accomplishment. [...]

[...] We tune in to these models, and our intersections with them alter them at any given point, causing new dimensions of actuality that then reach out from that new focus.”²

[...] The world is so much more solid right now⁴ that by contrast my earlier experience of it is like a shoddy version, made up of disconnected dots or blurred focus….”

[...] In the waking state he is able, now, to alter the direction of his focus precisely enough to bring about a condition in which he perceives both realities simultaneously. [...]

[...] They are held, however, both separately and in joint focus. [...]

During Western years of adulthood, consciousness is focused most intently in one specific area of activity and physical manipulation. [...]

When an individual becomes older — and retired, for example — the focus for that particular kind of concentration is no longer so immediately available. [...]

[...] Many of you sleep through periods that should be those of your greatest creativity and alertness, in which the conscious and unconscious are most beautifully focused and at one. [...]

(10:20.) A good portion of my abilities, knowledge, and so forth, is available to me because I am not focused within your world. [...] I have a certain freedom by nature that is (pause) “traded in” by mortal people in return for life’s brilliant focus. [...]

[...] He focuses in the world, and I do not. [...]

[...] But, if you go to bed this week each night with the idea that you are not sleeping in the terms in which you usually accept that term, but you are instead changing the focus of your consciousness and that you will be as much awake and consciousness, then you will become aware of what you do consciously when you sleep. [...]

([Gert:] “On this business of the Alpha layers, this again is a changing of focus, it is not?”)

[...] It means alternate focus of consciousness, in other kinds of realities that do exist within your own. [...]

[...] Healing involves great natural aggressive thrusts of energy, growth, and the focus of vitality. [...]

[...] A strong focus is a necessary counterpart, since you are involved in a learning process in which all elements inherent in the situation will be explored.

[...] The infinite abilities of consciousness become individualized, focused into a particular reality which then becomes expanded. [...]

[...] The natural hypnosis exercises (given in the last chapter) allows you greater effectiveness in directing and focusing that power.

[...] With the schedule that I have suggested the inner energies are vividly and intensely focused, but for a short period of your time. This allows for an excellent utilization of the abilities already developed, and permits, again, excellent concentrated inner focus. [...]

A complete change from intense focus outward to intense focus inward is most beneficial, but this does not mean that every few minutes found available be spent in psychological time experiments. [...]

[...] Some people will choose “defective” bodies purposely in order to focus more intensely in other areas. They want a different kind of focus. [...]

By themselves, whether they appear as superior or defective conditions, they necessitate a different kind of adaptability, a change of subjective or physical focus, the intensification of other abilities that perhaps have been understressed. [...]

[...] “Well, I thought some of your material tonight, about focusing and bodily states, sounded like Jane’s own situation—her troubles with stiffness and walking.” [...]