“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Upon physical death you simply step out of the intense focus upon one self-constructed plane. [...]

[...] So there were in those days some rather disconnected events that served as the focus point for great psychic activity: People wanted to believe, and their belief changed the course of history. [...]

The spontaneous self, the creative self, is also immersed in Framework 2, and the creative conscious mind springs from there also, even though its focus must of necessity be in Framework 1’s world of space and time.

There is what you could call a maximum point of energy focus, and after this is reached the departure of the energy begins. [...]

[...] Very simply, delta brain waves are connected with dreamless sleep, theta with creativity and dreams, alpha with a relaxed alertness and changing consciousness; beta — the fastest — with concentration, and with an intense focus upon all of the challenges [and anxieties and stresses, many would say] faced in the ordinary daily world.

[...] This was a necessity to focus energy toward physical manipulation. [...]

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

Now: In the dream state your specialized focus need not be as precise or time-oriented as in the waking state.

[...] I feel that while all of this is still coming from this anchor self, the selves in these dreams are equally as focused — each of them being dream selves, existing in their universes, and with each of their own connections expanding outwards in much the same way that mine do. [...]

[...] At the moment I still feel that I’m searching for that one intense focus-approach to my work for Mass Reality that will finally mean I’m under way on that project.)

[...] I’m still pursuing my new ideas about ignoring as much as possible any potential hassles, and focusing on my creative work each day.

You are each a center and a focus point and an individuality, and around you are circling realities and you have an existence in each of these. [...]

[...] Such a person may, however, according to intents and beliefs and focus, be in fairly decent physical health —because health may be a prerogative.

[...] The consideration itself is what I am after —the willingness to explore a probability that has come into your attention—because in so doing you remind yourselves of the freedoms that are (underlined) available in your terms, and because such a consideration, among other things, will allow you to automatically see your beliefs from a different focus, through another picture frame. [...]

The reality and the framework within which these sessions exist have electrical and chemical organizations also, that require a delicate focus that was upset this evening. [...]

[...] The problem is, again, that while you are focused in the world of matter, you are allied with only one aspect of your entire consciousness. [...]

[...] And with his focused memory at his command, man’s ego was born, which could follow its own identity through the maze of blazing impulses that beset him, could recognize itself through the pattern of continuing constructions and could separate itself from its action in the physical world. [...]

This new dimension enabled the species to manipulate and recognize its own constructions and freed it to focus greater energy in projecting some ideas over others. [...]

[...] The outer ego is rather more tied to physical properties, and yet it can directly experience inner reality by a change of focus through aligning itself with the inner ego, focusing its energies with the inner rather than the outer senses. [...]

We are dealing with inherent abilities of human personality, whether or not the personality is focused within physical matter, but I am indeed aware of the difficulties which shall be encountered. [...]

[...] Here we merely switch the focus of attention to other channels. [...]

[...] Usually however we are highly active, our full energies focused in our work and in new challenges.

The main issues with which the Sinful Self was concerned were focused most clearly in Mass Events and God of Jane, since more than the other books they represent a direct confrontation “attacking” the very legitimacy of the entire concept of sin and evil, insisting more dramatically on the good intent of man’s basic impulses. [...]

[...] Our focuses are different, yet the overall coloration of your experience does come through to me, and through this delightful personality (humorously), I can to some extent relate to it.