“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(Pause at 10:37.) Its focus in the present is now secure. That focus finally brought about, in your terms, an expansion of consciousness, and one that early man did not have to handle. [...]

Where your physical survival, in those terms, once depended upon a narrowed focus while you learned physical manipulation, now the success of that manipulation necessitates a broadening of focus — a new awakening into the larger existence of the selfhood, with what will be a corresponding rerecognition of neurological activity that is now only briefly sensed by some (like Jane), but present in the heritage of your corporal structure.

[...] Vivid memories, out of context but given immediate neurological validity, could compete with the brilliant focus necessary in his present.¹

Though the past is actually quite as immediate, alive, and creative as the present is, man made certain adjustments, on several layers, that would focus definite distinctions and set past and present experience apart. [...]

The willing fingers and good intent, yes, but the active focus of your energies was not here. [...] It is a matter of your active, active (underlined)interest, and the enthusiastic focus of energy, whether or not you are directly involved in a given experiment.

The flexibility and yet the focusing ability of the main sensitive is very important with this method. [...] The amount of contributing energy needed may or may not require many sitters, according to their varying abilities to direct and focus energy.

[...] (Pause.) Such objects may be moved without the help of any survival personality however, by the concentrated focus of psychic energy on the part of one or several individuals.

[...] While each person views that reality from a slightly different focus, still it occurs within certain ranges or frequencies. You bring it into clear focus in almost the same way that you adjust your television picture, only in this case not only sound and images are synchronized, but phenomena of far greater complexity. [...]

[...] Using it, you can perceive events not only from your own viewpoint, but from other focuses. [...]

You form certain focuses, then. [...]

(10:15.) In the dream state, many people have learned to escape from a bad dream by waking up, or altering the focus of consciousness. [...]

[...] We have indeed spoken much concerning the focus of energy, and a sufferer is truly entranced with the idea of his illness, and it is only this which basically allows the illness to continue. He focuses upon it both consciously and unconsciously.

[...] It will involve perhaps more than anything else the task of slowly changing the focus of his attention and energies, of turning energies that are being used in a self-destructive manner into constructive channels.

[...] The sufferer focuses upon the illness, therefore avoiding his task of functioning upon the problem.

This first attempt to discover the problem, automatically and because of its nature, immediately aids the sufferer in changing the focus of his attention away from the symptom, which he has himself formed, and already the symptom is weaker.

[...] It draws its main activating energy from your focusing, and according to the intensity and nature of your focus. [...]

[...] This also happens beneath your normal physical focus to some extent, even as you go about your waking activities. [...] There are many alternate presents, with you focused only in one of them.

[...] Starting with the ego or waking consciousness as the outer self focused toward exterior reality, these states are broad, more like plains to be explored. [...]

(“I hope you’ll cover for your book the question Jane and I were discussing at the supper table this evening, about what you actually see when you’re speaking to a group of people — focusing upon each of us as individuals in this time and place.”)

[...] You chose to concentrate on artistic endeavors as you grew and learned through various areas and periods — that is, you tried and enjoyed sports, and writing; and after a while you decided upon the painting self as the particular focus upon which you would build a life.

The sportsman that you might have been would have gathered, from that same available background, other attitudes and ideas that would have fit in with his concept of himself, and with his core focus. [...]

The time is right for you to enlarge your focus. [...]

[...] You sense the overall shape of the book, often clearly, but because of the workings of functional consciousness, when you must focus upon a particular passage, that focus necessarily precludes the overall vision at the same time.

[...] Daily life is a focus taken on the part of that portion of the psyche you call you, and there are many other such focuses. [...] At your particular focus of consciousness, no arguments will suffice to convince you otherwise, for you are everywhere presented with the physical evidence of “fact.” [...]

[...] My focus, however, is in an area that you do not perceive. [...]

[...] Your life is a dreaming experience to other portions of your greater reality which focus elsewhere.

[...] The book has hovered in the back of her consciousness ever since, waiting until she focused her attention upon it once again. [...]

[...] You have been taught to focus all of your attention upon physical events, so that they carry the authenticity of reality for you. [...]

[...] The all-important matter of your focus is largely responsible for your interpretation of any event.

[...] Again, your interpretations of identity teach you to focus awareness in such a way that you cannot follow the strands of consciousness that connect you with all portions of nature. [...]

[...] The particular focus necessary to produce such a picture then necessitates the exclusion of other data. [...]

[...] By contrast to waking consciousness it can appear hazy, not precise, or off-focus. [...]

[...] While you must of course hold accurate focus in time and place, there is still no basic reason why you must so divorce yourselves from dream experience.

[...] In waking life there are fluctuations in your consciousness, periods when you are more or less alert, in your terms, when your attention wanders from issues at hand; or when, instead, you are certainly brilliantly focused in the moment. [...]

[...] What you have is this: In the waking state, the whole self is focused toward physical reality, but in the dreaming state, it is focused in a different dimension. [...]

[...] I seem to fade into a distance that has nothing to do with space but more to do with psychological focus. [...]

[...] But when I want new material for a particular chapter, I turn the focus of my attention from the exterior world to the interior one. [...]

[...] Certainly, it was because of Seth that I found myself studying the dream reality that comes into focus while the body sleeps.

If an inhabitant from another reality outside of your own physical system entirely were to visit it, and if “his” intelligence was roughly of the same degree as your own, he would still have to learn to focus his consciousness in the same way that you do, more or less, in order to perceive your world. He would have to alter his native focus and turn it in a direction that was foreign to him. [...]

[...] Here each metropolis would represent a conglomeration of consciousnesses operating within an overall general frequency of clearest focus, a high point of psychic communication and exquisite focus in the given kind of reality. [...]

(Pause at 11:13.) To some extent, signals from all of the other stations are always in the background of any given program, and by momentarily altering the direction of your own attention you can learn how to bring other stations into focus. Psychically and psychologically, those other stations upon which you do not concentrate form the structure of the psyche as you understand it, from which your earthly experience springs into focus. [...]

Your world, again, is the result of a certain focus of consciousness, without which that world cannot be perceived. [...]

[...] Make an effort to alter your focus—just your focus—so that you concentrate upon what you want to do. [...] For one thing, your focus will automatically serve as a new point of organization in your own lives, so that you will automatically begin to sidestep many distractions of your own making. [...]

Your time concepts are particularly limiting, because they lead you into a particular focus in which you concentrate upon impediments to your desire. [...]

[...] Please take the change-of-focus material into consideration, both of you. [...]

He must distort them simply because existence on the material plane necessitates a way of focusing his abilities that will not allow the larger scope of focus to operate. This focus, which I have mentioned before, has been chosen by him to meet the circumstances of this existence.

[...] Our objective was to focus our psychic energies together and move the ring until it struck or touched the ashtray. [...]

[...] In other words, to consciously focus his subconscious psychic abilities to perform toward a definite, material end.

[...] This added to the strength with which he focused his abilities; and I will have more to say concerning this attitude, which often but not always accompanies such psychic manipulations, even ordinary ones of which you are not aware.

[...] There are indeed many kinds of reality, many versions, and it is some time before human beings learn to focus into one particular package of reality.

[...] For some time, however, young children utilize a remarkable imaginative freedom, so that, for example, they can experience “alternate” events with as much focus, strength, and vitality as that with which they experience ordinary life. [...]

[...] You have many existences at once — but each one has its own living area, upon which that portion of you focuses. [...]

[...] Even though the physical image as such had been left behind, the individuals were not able to change their focus of attention away from the physical system.

[...] However it is impossible for them to create a consistent solid image in your terms, for while they are still focused within your system the inner self knows well that the individual is finished with a given life situation, is out of alignment so to speak, and is therefore denied full use of its own energy.

The focus of attention cannot be as strong as it was in physical life, hence the inability to deal with energy in those terms. [...]

[...] The practice in bringing images into clear focus will help him do the same with inner information of a specific nature. [...]

(Pause, one of many, at 9:37.) While operating through the body structures, consciousnesses such as your own focus largely upon the three-dimensional orientation. [...]

From your ordinary point of view the traveling consciousness is off-focus, not locked into physical coordinates in the designated fashion. [...]

[...] There are various questions involving the nature of perception that then occur, and these will be discussed somewhat later (but see Note 4). Consciousness is equipped to focus its main energy, in your terms at least, generally within the body, or to stray from it for varying amounts of time. [...]

Dictation: We will be discussing alternate methods of orientation that consciousness can take when allied with flesh, trying to give the reader some personal experience with such altered conditions, along with a brief history of some civilizations that utilized these unofficial orientations as their predominant method of focus.

It has often been said that the subconscious has a generalized focus, but the subconscious and inner senses have as strong and vital and intensified a focus as the focus of the conscious mind. [...]

The state into which Ruburt fell as a rule allows no such focus in either reality, but a suspension. [...]

[...] 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. [...]

[...] 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 eyes will at times have a further range—that is, an increased range—while not focusing as clearly as they should, necessarily. [...]

[...] You must not focus your attention upon past failures. [...]

I want you united, so to speak, with your powers focused psychically, creatively, and toward bettering Ruburt’s physical state. [...]