“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] Now, when she comes to our apartment, she senses this other Jane and Rob moving about just beyond the focus of our normal perceptions.

[...] It cannot afford to, generally, since its focused energy must be used in the manipulation of physical actuality.

[...] It was as though the world outside of the immediate focus of my eyes was only half-formed; the rest, grayish and swirling.

The impression is difficult to bring into clear focus. [...]

(The first question asked Seth to comment further on the “going forward” data on page 242: “The impression is difficult to bring into clear focus. [...]

[...] He has explained that this is easier, usually, than focusing so sharply on the one physical and psychic personality in our temporal now.

(5:00 p.m. “Don’t be worried — I’m not going to go on with the session, but as he said, you always go back and change the past from the present — your focus point, you know — I know what he’s going to say next …” I said she was welcome to resume the session.

[...] On the other hand it was part of his method, a way of intensifying focus, increasing perception in a small area while also insuring safety, so that inner excursions would be balanced by a constant worrisome body that would urge him to return.

[...] I haven’t made any effort to record dreams since her illness, simply not focusing on that activity. [...]

[...] You are focusing your questions too deeply upon yourselves and in so doing you are cutting down the kind of information that you can receive. [...]

This book was written by a personality called Seth, who speaks of himself as an “energy personality essence” no longer focused in physical form. [...]

[...] Certain personality characteristics are important too, I imagine — the agility with which I can switch the focus of my consciousness, for example.

[...] [She] could not receive the information from me — it could not be translated nor interpreted — while she was focused intensely in the physical environment.”

[...] His perception changes focus so that he is aware of an event that would otherwise be future for him. [...]

[...] At the same time, as I looked about the room, everything seemed to be in a sharper focus, and I had a feeling of more light in the room, although it was well lit to begin with. [...]

[...] I had a little trouble focusing on my writing paper, but none looking away from the table. [...]

[...] When you feel that way, close your eyes, if only for a moment, reassure yourself that you can trust your vision — mental and physical — and that indeed your goals will be brought into clear focus.

[...] Not only are they perceived in slow motion, but they are perceived along one line of focus only. The focus is indeed intense, but so limited in scope that it is relatively impossible for you to keep your attention upon the self except in the most inconsistent and fleeting of ways.

[...] For a short period of time, Ruburt turned his creative energy, as he knows, I believe, inward rather than outward, knotted it up, misdirected it, did not focus it properly, and turned it into destructive energy.

[...] It was not that he actually focused the energy purposely upon the cat, merely that the cat’s spongelike psychic nature received it full force.

[...] He inhibited many of his strongest drives in order to focus them upon his search and the work to which he was committed.

In whatever situation you find yourself, in whatever “life,” (in quotes) there will be different focuses of abilities, conflicts of ability that are all challenges. [...]

[...] It can quite freely focus into inner reality when you understand that it can. [...] You can change the focus of your own consciousness.

[...] Some people will choose ‘defective’ bodies purposely in order to focus more intensely in other areas. They want a different kind of focus…. [...]

Through such behavior the overall value fulfillment purposes and intents of the species are kept in focus, and those necessary requirements then planted in whatever space or time [is] required. [...]

“To confine such creativity to solve life’s problems primarily, or to direct it primarily in that fashion, limits it and holds it in an improper focus; shackles it.

“To [achieve] that, I have to drop those old feelings of responsibility as a primary focus, because they strain the Seth-book framework, particularly when I demand that in each book Seth answer all questions and so forth.

[...] You must hold that person in mind so that to some extent love is a kind of meditation — a loving focus upon another individual. [...]

The organization of your feelings, beliefs, and intents directs the focus about which your physical reality is built. [...]

[...] I’m convinced that this sort of exercise is most valuable in that it helped to shake our consciousness out of its usual focus in objective, ego-oriented reality.

“What crops did they grow?” he asked, and I tried to rouse myself enough to keep on speaking while still retaining focus on these strange shifting scenes.

[...] But another part of my consciousness was focused on the gun, and I was intent upon describing it as well as possible.

[...] You merely focus your energy along these lines. [...]

It is true that generally your energy is focused into physical construction and manipulation. [...]

[...] Jane said her focus of attention was intense while speaking for whatever the source of data was. [...]

[...] The forces behind the numbers break through, and form their own interaction, affecting all integers to the 99th degree; and from then on an acceleration of effects, a shifting out of focus.

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