“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] Intense focus is a characteristic of the conscious mind, and you can call it narrow because it includes only the physical dimension; but within the scope of that corporeal field it has great freedom to interpret the given dimension in any way it chooses.

[...] He is merely shifting focus from one level to another, and allowing me to speak in this manner, because he now realizes that I am no threat to any portion of his individuality as a self.

[...] He does possess natural desires, characteristics and intents that help focus his own activity. [...]

Your body consciousness is like the consciousness of any animal—alert, above all optimistic, focused in the present, as you understand it, glorifying in motion and in rest, in excitement and in quietude. [...]

[...] (Pause.) At the same time there are feelings that to relax would be to let go too much (louder)—slide into overly spontaneous behavior, to lack control over one’s life, to lose the observer’s fine focus. [...]

[...] There are dimensions of human sentiment and psychological experience, that remain latent simply because you focus your attention so closely within the idea of “the norm.” [...]

[...] You choose your time and focus in physical reality again and again, and the mind holds an inner comprehension of many seemingly mysterious developments involving the species.

[...] There are endless other ways, but the change of focus as I have suggested will automatically bring a change in your questions. [...]

[...] They serve as focus points for others who have the same ideas but are afraid to really face them or admit their beliefs. [...]

[...] This automatically should bring about a change of focus. [...]

[...] The focused intellect can indeed activate the intuitive abilities — and the healing abilities. [...]

Now driving, riding, is beneficial, for it artificially allows the eyes horizons of distance, and large areas of focus. [...]

The feelings or emotions automatically reach out, therefore, altering all objects within your reality, but from the particular focus point of its emergence. [...]

[...] Now, there is a way—when you are involved in physical activity, and even intense mental work—to change the inner focus so that you are aware of two realities at once and can manipulate quite easily in the physical reality as you must. [...]

[...] In such instances, often the personality will insist upon focusing his perceptive abilities and energies toward physical existence. [...]

[...] When you turn on a television set the picture seems to come out of nowhere onto the screen — yet that picture is the result of order precisely focused.

[...] There are satisfactions in his life [however] that prevent him from narrowing his focus even further.

When you are sketching outdoors, as a helpful exercise I suggest the following: attach your focus of attention to one small thing. [...]

[...] To some extent this was quite natural, for the new species developed in order to change the nature of its consciousness, to follow a reality in which instinct was no longer “blindly” followed, and to individualize in strong personal focus corporeal experience that had previously taken a different pattern.

[...] The traveling involves merely a change of focus, both on my part and somewhat on Ruburt’s part, for he is far from inactive, far from being a passive receiver.