“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] In the intense focus of awareness that occurs within the dream state, the inner self is able to direct all of its energies for the purpose of solving a given problem.

[...] Literally, the whole inner personality is able to focus upon any given problem, completely free of distractions, using the subconscious language of symbols. [...]

[...] The subconscious will then break the physical data given to it down into its psychic components, translate it into symbols; and the inner self, at the request of the subconscious, will then focus all of the energies at its command to deliver the most acceptable solution, taking the entire needs of the whole self into consideration.

(In making up the test, I had unwittingly focused my conscious attention on the calendar side of the paper. [...]

I said (in sessions 711 and 716, for instance) that your normal focus of consciousness can be compared to your home station. [...] To some extent it represents your personal focus, through which you interpret most of your experience. [...]

[...] However, the frequencies themselves have to be adjusted properly to be brought into focus, and those adjustments necessitate certain intents and sympathies. [...]

[...] If you can momentarily abandon your private world view, that focus from which you experience reality, then you can allow the experience of others who have had similar challenges to color your perception. [...]

[...] They are varieties of consciousness, each focused upon its own view of reality, each containing experience that others exclude.

[...] It is your nervous and physical mechanism which acts as a limiting device, and also as a focusing device. By limiting many otherwise available perceptions it forces you to focus upon what you can perceive with greater intensity.

[...] You will compare your own life and work often in a critical fashion to artists who were obsessed with one art from the beginning of their lives, or who pursued what is really a kind of straight and undeviating course—a brave courageous one, perhaps, and highly focused, but one that must be in certain respects (underlined) limited in scope and complexity, not crossing any barriers except those that seem to occur strictly within painting’s realm itself (all intently. [...]

[...] I do admire that intense focus, that wholehearted commitment, and history offers plenty of examples—famous, too, if you will —of gifted individuals who lived their lives that way and made great contributions....

[...] Now in many instances of so-called paranormal perception there is what would seem to you a reversal of focus. [...]

[...] In paranormal instances you change your focus largely, throwing it into the seemingly independent event. [...]

[...] To add your own energy, focus, and concentration to dire circumstances in other portions of the world does not help, but adds to, such situations.

[...] In such a fashion, one large portion of the species focuses in physical reality while the other large portion holds a secure foothold in inner reality —

(Still quietly:) It is true that you create your own dreams, but it is also true that you only focus upon certain portions of your dream creations. [...]

Give us a moment … The dream world is as organized as your own, but from the waking state you do not focus upon that inner organization. [...]

Give us a moment … (Humorously, to me:) You are the living version of yourself in space and time, around which your world revolves.¹¹ The great potentiality that exists in the unknown self, however, also actualizes other such focuses, and in the same space-time framework. [...]

[...] The focus upon the idea of pleasure will further alter the situation for the better, however, for again it inserts a different kind of focus. [...]

You are both moving into a most profitable season, and a most fulfilling one in many respects, and this is the result of discipline and focused energies on both of your parts.

As you know, it is the focus of your perception upon certain reference points, to the exclusion of others, that helps to tie your universe together. [...]

[...] The alteration of consciousness involved will also enable you to make several distinct and advantageous changes of focus, in line with your own work. [...]

During some cycles I am more strongly focused with you than others, but I am always close enough to see that the material is being properly delivered and that the necessary structures are being maintained. [...]

[...] They do not simply fall away from your experience, but serve as focus points for events that do not concern you directly, while indirectly they form a definite psychological background. [...]

The dreams are often a synthesis of past, present, and future, where one main event is used as a focus point around which “present” events will be collected.

[...] I have told you that a plane is not necessarily a planet, nor a place, but even a mere focus of awareness. A dream is an awareness of and existence in another plane, whereby the self changes focus to keep in touch with the various portions of itself so that inner communication can be maintained.

I will let you take your break—all of you, those portions of yourselves that you know, for those other portions of yourselves as always continue along their own lines of focus.

[...] But while you are awake this communication also goes on continually but you are not aware of it, for your ego is so focused upon physical reality and upon survival within it, that you do not allow yourself to listen to the inner voice. [...]

[...] Told my class last night the whole bit, and said that from now on classes were to be focused about the material; we were going to study it from scratch; this was my life work, my direction, what I was meant to do. [...]

[...] She calls the conscious self the “focus personality,” for instance, since it’s focused in this physical [camouflage] reality. The focus personality is composed of aspects of the “source self” [or entity]. [...] To Jane, Seth is a ‘personagram” — an actual personality formed in the psyche at the intersection point of the focus personality with another aspect.

[...] I want the passages chosen to make sense on their own, out of context, and to focus clearly on the subject; at the same time, I don’t want to include too many or too few of my own notes. [...]

[...] This certainly does involve a looking inward on his part, but it is not self-hypnosis in usual terms — merely a focusing upon an objective inner stimulus … Any such signs (as the powerful, deeper Seth voice) involve camouflage patterns, and do not actually represent direct experience. [...]

[...] Characteristically I operated in certain manners that resulted in the primary use of my left hand, when I was focused within physical matter.

[...] You can specifically say that this has to do with what you call your psychic work, but even before “it” began he was aware of that energy of his, concerned about using it, focusing it, delighted with it, and afraid of it at the same time.

In whatever level of activity he focused his energy, his activities would be strong, exaggerated in terms of others by comparison. [...]

The cat focuses upon one thing at a time even though it has no strong ego. [...] You get a subconscious focus different in many ways from conscious concentration. In this state the attention is focused inward rather than outward, and it is the inner rather than the outer senses that are being exercised. [...] Its inner senses were focused in my direction.

[...] The normal intellect, oriented so precisely by beliefs to the inevitability of a one-focused kind of perception, is limited.

[...] Some aspects of life may be ignored or even refuted for a time while others are focused upon. [...]

[...] That focused self operates from its present, however, and some day in your own future you may find yourself thinking nostalgically of a moment back in your own past, when you were indecisive and irresolute, but took the proper course.

[...] Instead, your vantage point and your focus is such that you cannot turn your head to look higher. [...]

[...] It is in a state of drowsiness on the one hand, and on the other it focuses the usable portion of its energy into being a tree.

[...] The consciousness of a tree is not as specifically focused as your own, yet to all intents and purposes, the tree is conscious of 50 years before its existence, and 50 years hence. [...]

[...] It is you, so focused in physical reality, who do not listen to its voice, who do not understand that it is the great psychological strength from which your physically oriented self springs.

[...] Her eyes were closed often.) You are presently focused entirely within it, wondering perhaps what else if anything there may be outside. [...]