“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] The body is flexibility and health is a natural result of alterations of consciousness—a change of focus that literally brings about new experience.

[...] The physically oriented consciousness, responding to one phase of the atom’s activity, comes alive and awake to its particular existence, but in between are other fluctuations in which consciousness is focused upon entirely different systems of reality; each of these coming awake and responding, and each one having no sense of absence, and memory only of those particular fluctuations to which they respond.

(Barbara insisted that she wanted help, but as in other cases that Jane and I have encountered, her focus upon her distress was so intense that we couldn’t breach it; certainly not in the little time available. [...]

[...] Jane’s focus and concentration on the subject were broken, and we didn’t return to it at the time. [...]

[...] So such people must change their focus of attention.

[...] That you form the universe as you know it en masse and individually from the focal point of this moment, from the focus of this moment that all of your selves exist now and are not done and finished anymore than you are done and finished. [...]

[...] They are not fully focused in physical reality, however, either in personality or in form, and this is their main distinction. [...]

[...] Yet instead, a high amount of concentration is involved, as other stimuli are shut out and consciousness is instead focused on visible sensation. This involves action on your part and the focusing of attention—then this will help clear away some of your difficulty.

Your inner self adopts the physically conscious, physically focused mind as a method of allowing it to manipulate in the world that you know. [...]

[...] The conscious mind is like a gigantic camera with the ego directing the view and the focus. [...]

It constantly comes more and more into the field, focusing more of itself within it. [...] It continually recreates matter as it comes fully within what you call the physical plane, then energy’s construction into matter simply becomes more proficient and focused. [...]

[...] Now, the subconscious performs this task-not too well, since it was never meant to focus clear attention.

[...] The scope of consciousness will be so broadened in the future that all personality fragments, split personality images, and even individual fragments in succeeding incarnations, will be held in clear focus without strain. [...]

[...] You have already made the initial change away from physical focus. [...]

[...] Again, everything seemed the way it should be, though the room did look exceptionally sharp, the details in brilliant focus. [...]

[...] (Actually I’d returned to the bedroom, I believe, still in astral form, lost the necessary focus of consciousness and hallucinated.)

[...] Ruburt turned off his usual focus of perception. He focused it differently, and so saw an image of which he would normally not be aware.

You, Joseph, are now learning to use your inner intuitions and inner abilities, and to focus them also outward creatively in your work, and also in your own physical activities and environment.

[...] They alter the focus of their consciousnesses frequently. [...]

[...] First of all, such groups have a built-in focus — political, civic, religious, sexual, or whatever. [...]

[...] So you choose a certain focus, as you choose ahead of time your physical family.¹¹

[...] You are only familiar with your dreams when you sleep, for then your perception and your energy is focused in that direction.

(Among others, Seth talked about the direction of focus of consciousness in the 94th session. [...]

(Seth repeated several times that we wouldn’t regret this burst of psychic energy, or the time involved, because it meant an increase in Jane’s ability to focus energy. [...]

[...] Seth began by saying that the following information was on the edge of Ruburt’s awareness and that he was not very well focused upon it. [...] Seth then mentioned the period from September 15 to October 15, after saying that possibly he could focus a little more intently upon the problem.

[...] Since Jane had been switching focus often tonight, I suggested that now was as good a time to try the technique as any. [...]

Now, first, Ruburt is having some success in turning the focus of his attention away from the symptoms, and if he continues and remembers, then his progress will be speedy. [...]

[...] Your source of energy is that first creation, in which consciousness focused, where before it had not. [...]

[...] Is this because he’s focusing on other things these days, or—”)

[...] For that matter, the preciseness of your ordinary sense perception rests firmly upon this greater inner flexibility, which gives you a broad base from which to form your secure focus.

[...] He had thrown my glasses to the floor in a quick characteristic gesture, yet now I scrutinized each student with sharp, clear focus. [...]

[...] Nowhere in my first book did I say that I thought Seth was exactly what he said he was: “an energy personality essence no longer focused in physical reality.” [...]