“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] You can, however, focus very clearly on other aspects. And particular types of consciousnesses and identities are merely the result of action’s formation into perception patterns with which it can focus upon certain aspects of itself.

[...] All types of consciousness represent a different focus of energy’s perception within itself. [...]

[...] Notice how you are focusing. The bodybuilder does not think he is inhibiting his expression if he chooses to focus on his bodybuilding to the exclusion of distractions that may be quite real but detrimental to his purpose. [...] You both did very well on many occasions recently, so try to duplicate versions of the behavior I told you was helpful—and focus in those directions.

My idea briefly is this: Our usual orientation is focused pretty exclusively in what we think of as the “real” world, but there are many realities. [...]

Seth’s books may be the product of another dimensional aspect of my own consciousness not focused in this reality, plus something else that is untranslatable in our terms, with Seth a great psychic creation more real than any “fact.” [...]

The funny thing is that a personality not focused in our reality can help people live in that world more effectively and joyfully by showing them that other realities also exist. [...]

[...] You must learn how to focus, how to emphasize those particular qualities you want to record, and how to cut out distracting influences. [...]

[...] So you must learn how to aim and focus your dream camera.

[...] Instead, the whole portent of the dream event would be an educational one, bringing your fear into clear focus. [...]

[...] At the same time her personality is far different than her mother’s, and less focused.

[...] The energy that you have could be focused momentarily into a physical acknowledgment that would have strong psychic overtones for both of you. [...]

(Slowly:) Since you are not only a physically focused creature, however, other issues also operate. [...]

[...] Your consciousness must be focused at one particular range of frequencies before it can even perceive matter, much less solidity. [...]

[...] Read over the Framework 2 sessions, for both of you have largely forgotten to focus in that direction, and to look for hints of its activity. The looking-for creates the activity also, you see, for it serves as a psychological focus.

[...] It was indeed a healing one, when he was dealing with the plasticity of events, and bringing those he wanted into better focus, by consciously drawing upon his own larger creative abilities. [...]

[...] This does not mean that you are to isolate yourselves, but that your encounters with others be focused with greater meaning and intent. [...]

[...] You see then why these various concerns focused themselves on the foot; a motor expression for inner desires in this case.

[...] The consciousness of the tree is not as specifically focused however as your own. [...]

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

You will find that the sort of focus, the particularized focus achieved in the free contemplation and enjoyment of nature, is a welcome change from the dissociated focus aimed at to some degree in psychic pursuits. [...]

[...] In the second approach you become completely immersed in the idea of spontaneous play, which is true blessedness and creativity and there is no focus upon subject. [...]

[...] (Humorously and emphatic.) Both demand a concentration and focus into the basic reality from which painting comes, rather than upon the painting itself. [...]

[...] Something else here: you are overly concerned with the physical idea of time, and focusing wrongly, and this is affecting your work.

[...] My attention now began to change its focus; for the first time I really heard myself. [...]

(Either I heard my snoring actually increase in volume, or I focused upon it even more acutely. [...]

Now in answer to your questions: Western man has chosen to focus his energy outward and largely ignore inner realities. [...]

[...] The focus of your consciousness blots these out while you are in the normal waking state. [...]

[...] The inner multidimensional shape of events occurs in a framework that you cannot structure, however, because as a rule you are not focused in that direction. [...]

The physical manipulation of events is indeed a psychological knack of considerable merit, in which consciousness and attention are exuberantly and wholeheartedly focused, bringing vitality and meaning to one relatively small range of activity.

Your own system has those characteristics only to those entirely focused within it, however. [...]

In certain terms, the ego is the eye through which the conscious mind perceives, or the focus through which it views physical reality. But the conscious mind automatically changes its focus throughout life. [...]

[...] As such, all of the energy and power of Being is focused and reflected through you in the direction of your three-dimensional existence.

While your feeling-tone is uniquely yours, still it is expressed in a certain fashion that is shared by all consciousnesses focused in physical reality. [...]

[...] Your state of mind, freed from its usual physical focus, creatively expresses itself in all of its power and brilliance. [...]

You must remember that the objective world also is a projection from the psyche.² Because you focus in it primarily, you understand its rules well enough to get along. [...]

[...] Their descriptions would vary because of their private beliefs, and would be colored by the individual focus from which each of them viewed that city.

[...] When your consciousness is not directly focused in physical reality, then, the great creativity of the psyche is given fuller play. [...]

“The camouflage is so craftily executed and created by the inner self that you must, of necessity, focus your attention in the physical reality which has been created. [...]

“These connections between you and All That Is can never be severed, and Its awareness is so delicate and focused that Its attention is indeed directed with a prime creator’s love to each consciousness.

[...] … There is a portion of All That Is directed and focused within each individual, residing within each consciousness. [...]

[...] … This portion of All That Is that is aware of itself as you, that is focused within your existence, can be called upon for help when necessary.

[...] I told Jane I was surprised at what Seth had had to say, about her focusing on things she needn’t be concerned about. [...] I hadn’t realized she was still focusing on how she was going to get to be able to sit in a chair, however. [...]