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He is learning to contain and focus the energy that is mine. [...]

[...] And it is your purpose to utilize and direct and focus your own energy. [...]

[...] You see, you are so convinced that you are guilty and you are so convinced that your ego is the most important part of you, when instead it is only the portion of yourselves that you focused upon as a child. [...]

Now, you are getting some distortion simply because of the focusing. [...]

(“It’s a real weird kind of inner focus. [...]

[...] This is simply because there are less psychic distractions, and it is easier for Ruburt to focus into one clear channel.

[...] In corporeal existence it is intertwined with the brain, and during physical life your earthly perceptions — your precise and steady focus within your particular space and time system — are dependent upon that fine alliance.

[...] Information coming from those deeper sources of the self, reaching the areas connected to the brain, will be interpreted according to the beliefs of that most physically focused segment of the self.

It will take little extra effort on your part to remind yourself of the significance of your dreams again, and to bring those into a more workable, practical focus.

[...] She feared a tumor so strongly that subconsciously she focused her energies in those directions. [...]

All of these matters, you see, and many more, from the considerations of health and the formation of destructive ulcers and tumors, to the construction of any simple physical object, to the construction of an apparition—all of these are in one way or another connected with inner focus and concentration.

Ruburt’s habit is to direct his energies unstintingly focused in a more or less single direction. [...]

[...] The resulting exuberance and strength will be solidly based, and add to your overall happiness as well as Ruburt’s. All of these help him release his energy and focus it in the proper directions. [...]

[...] Actually (pause), many other kinds of consciousness, while focused in their own specific ways, are more aware than man is of earth’s unified nature—but man, in following his own ways, also adds to the value fulfillment of all other consciousnesses in ways that are quite outside of usual systems of knowledge.

[...] Not that he has not used them so far, but that he has not focused upon them in what you consider the main lines of civilized continuity. [...]

[...] Simply put, the eyes worked while locked into certain positions or focuses. [...]

When you focus upon negatives, that is all you see. [...]

Your ego is now focused within this reality. You have other egos focused in other realities. [...]

[...] Your neuronal structure necessitates a certain focus so that other experiences counter to your conscious assumptions remain probable or latent. [...]

^* In Jane/Seth’s The Individual and the Nature of Mass Events, which was published in 1981, I wrote: “Seth maintains that Framework 2, or inner reality, contains the creative source from which we form all events, and that by the proper focusing of attention we can draw from that vast subjective medium everything we need for a constructive, positive life in Framework 1, or physical reality.” [...]

[...] In sleeping, however, you focus your awareness in altered form into another world that is every bit as valid as your physical one. Only a small amount of energy is focused into the physical system during sleep, enough simply to maintain the body within the environment.

[...] For [upon waking] again, the focus of energy and attention is in the physical universe. Reality, then, is a result of focus of energy and attention.

[...] To develop as an athlete, for example, great training is required that automatically focuses energy and activity, and hence usually precludes deep concentration to the same degree in a different area. Similarly, to be a musician or an artist or a writer takes effort in time, and automatically focuses attention in specified directions that bar the same kind of work in other fields.

[...] Time as you understand it is utilized as a method of focus, a divider like a room divider, separating purposes instead of furniture. [...]

[...] Or whether he has been thrust outward from the background of which he is part, a living focus rising out of the background, a part of consciousness rising out of a larger, undifferentiated consciousness implied in the background. [...]

You ask yourself the same questions as you paint the painting, and the directed unity and focus will provide exhilaration and strength to it. [...]

[...] You should each be ashamed of yourselves for ignoring the abilities, the freedoms and the pleasures that you have, and instead concentrating on the one area in which lacks are apparent, while at the same time not utilizing the methods I have given you to fully help yourselves in that area—and instead focusing your imagination to continue the situation.

[...] If you each structure that experience ahead of time, however, and see it focused entirely on and through negative beliefs, then it simply becomes another hassle.

[...] As you learn to turn the focus of your attention away from physical reality and therefore experience some slight evidence of other realities, your consciousness will cling to old ideas that make true explanations impossible for you to understand. [...]

[...] He dramatized a portion of each individual’s personality that focuses upon physical reality in a grasping manner, and denies the inner self out of greed.

[...] In your terms, it is as if the earth and all of its creatures were partially dreaming, and not as focused within physical reality as they are now.

[...] So in the beginning of [your] world, consciousness fluctuated greatly, focusing gently at the start, but not quite as willing to be as fully independent as its first intent might seem.

[...] Their main points of consciousness were elsewhere, their primary focuses scarcely aware of the bodies they had created. [...]

Many of my readers are familiar with private meditation, when concentration is focused in one particular area. [...] Here the generalized fears fostered by religious, scientific, and cultural beliefs are often given as blueprints of diseases in which a person can find a specific focus — the individual can say: “Of course, I feel listless, or panicky, or unsafe since I have such-and-such a disease.”

[...] Your most advanced thinkers emphasize man’s rape of the planet, or focus upon the future disaster that will overtake the world, or see men once again as victims of the stars.

[...] This lets us briefly examine the nature of our consciousness by allowing us to view its products — the events and experiences that it creates when released from usual physical focus.