“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] There must be some differentiation between dream and waking experience just so that you can manipulate in the more narrowly focused daily life.

Beliefs direct, generate, focus, and harness feelings. [...]

[...] In terms of your focus a given occurrence “takes time.” [...]

What was needed was a highly focused, precisely tuned physical self that could operate efficiently in a space and time scheme that was being formed along with physical creatures—a self, however, that in one way or another must be supported by realms of information and knowledge of a kind that was basically independent of time and space. A knowledge indispensable, and yet a knowledge that could not be allowed to distract the physical focus.

[...] Instead you should examine your conscious beliefs, for they are so strong that they are causing you not only to focus upon calamity in the physical world, but to use your inner abilities to the same end.

It is the core belief which is strong enough to so focus your perception that you perceive from the physical world only those events that correlate with it. [...]

While this may sound quite sacrilegious scientifically, it is possible to understand the electron’s nature and greater reality by using certain focuses of consciousness: by probing the electron, for example, with a “laser” [beam] of consciousness finely focused and attuned — and more will be said about this later in the book. [...]

[...] The Aspect self that appears in our reality is the focus personality, “earthized” in physical form. [...]

[...] Aspects like Seth, she wrote in Chapter 11, “would have to communicate through the psychic fabric of the focus personality. [...]

[...] It automatically provides the inner focus and concentration necessary. As you know, his presence in this chair (eyes open, Jane pointed to the Kennedy rocker in which she sat) at regular session time provides the same sort of concentration and focus in another direction.

[...] You focused, both of you, upon the problem.

[...] It is a matter of focus. [...]

[...] It appears that one light exists before the other, then, and each one is so brilliant to your focus that it blots out the lights before and after it. [...]

[...] In the 686th session he discussed our cells’ comprehension of the past, present, and future, as well as our cellular responses to a variety of neurological pulses besides that certain range we’re egotistically focused upon. [...]

And: “It’s significant that we apply numbers to time, but as there are unrecognized spaces between numbers, there are unrecognized spaces (psychologically invisible) between or within moments, and some of the events of our bodies are ‘too small’ for us to follow, focused as we are in our prime series. [...]

[...] He goes inward then with great applied focus, but held the body in such tight reins that he denied it both energy and attention.

[...] Under the circumstances the vacation idea, with or without variations, is a good one, during which focus upon the physical aspects of life should be emphasized and encouraged. [...]

The rest, the changed focus, will be of benefit. [...]

(Long pause at 9:44.) It is probably almost impossible for man to see that he forms the idea of historical context through his own associations and focuses. [...]

[...] It also in its way managed to even focus some of man’s less handsome attributes toward ends that were less reprehensible than in the past. [...]

The individual, when it is time then, begins to see beyond temporal life, to open up dimensions of awareness that in your terms he or she could not afford while involved in the intense physical focus of normal adult life. [...]

[...] Jane, in a very deep and active trance, had been so focused on the material that she’d been unaware of anything else. [...]

[...] And with Ruburt’s eyes closed there is some difficulty for I must focus psychically in order to find you as you think you are now, for I see all of you. [...]

[...] The dream locations that you visit you form in precisely the same manner as atoms and molecules, but they are of briefer duration, for you do not focus your energy upon them for the same amount of physical time. [...]

[...] In the creation and maintenance of your normal reality, you focus your daily waking consciousness so that it becomes effective within the ranges necessary. [...]

[...] It appears to be a reality only within your own framework and because of your limited focus.

[...] The particular kind of focus that you have is responsible for the great significance you place upon male and female. [...] If you wanted to focus upon the differences in their behavior, you could build an entire culture based upon their diverse capabilities, functions and characteristics. [...]

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

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

[...] They begin when you turn your focus of attention away from physical reality for a few moments a day. [...]

[...] This brings that focus into greater—far greater—intensity and motion. [...]

[...] Seth went on to say that fuller contact was still possible, “though Dr. Pietra’s focus is not certain, and the intensity of his presence varies.”

[...] You simply are not focused within it. [...]

“The package of experience upon which you can focus is indeed composed of many small packages, but the whole package of reality is much larger than this. [...]

[...] But watch the center of your focus. [...] Your focus must be upon your abilities, your achievements; the realities—all of them—of the moment. [...]

[...] It is also important, now, that you concentrate upon your own creative works, both of you—Ruburt particularly, so that he takes his mind off of his body, and focuses elsewhere. [...]