“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

The body is equipped to perform far better, in a variety of ways, than you give it credit for, however—but the fact remains that the genetic structure focuses volition. [...]

[...] If you persisted upon focusing on noise rather than quiet however, you would find no quiet regardless of the circumstances. [...]

[...] In this case however you aggravate and exaggerate all those differences from the ideal, and focus upon them predominantly. [...]

[...] It focused so defensively on its own material that it was hampering its flow of creativity, while the “unacceptable” aspects of Ruburt merrily went on creating other books, not even including my own.

[...] Such experience allows you to unite various aspects of the self, and to bring the whole self into sharper focus. [...]

[...] In some stages it is unaware of the divisions or various manifestations of itself, due to the amount of focusing that is necessary for such form- [hyphen] projection.

[...] Like children playing with blocks your focus of attention is upon physical blocks. [...]

[...] That intense focus that united belief systems, that tension between a sensed subjective world and the physical one, and the rarity of images to be found elsewhere, brought art into that great flowering.

[...] The inner self, in your present, has not yet found nor focused its true ability or direction, and so it fears itself a void and therefore often resents the energy of the outer self.

[...] [I’m sure others have had similar experiences: Once a subject is focused upon, data relative to it seem to leap out from the background welter of daily events and “facts” surrounding one’s life.] Almost automatically, many of the notes for this appendix came to deal with the scientific thinking about evolution, and I realized that I wanted them to show the differences [as well as any similarities that might emerge] between Seth’s concepts and those “official” views prevailing in our physical reality.

[...] Religious questions connected with evolution aren’t stressed as much as some might like, although they aren’t ignored either — but to go very far into religious history would lead away from the focus I’ve chosen.

[...] Both above and below your usual conscious focus, then, time is experienced in an entirely different fashion, and is constantly manipulated, as physically you manipulate matter.⁹

In this reality, [each of] you very nicely emphasize all the similarities which bind you together; you make a pattern of them, and you very nicely ignore all the dissimilarities … If you were able to focus your attention on the dissimilarities, merely those that you can perceive but do not, then you would be amazed that mankind can form any idea of an organized reality.

The area became a psychic and physical focus point of attention, thereby attracting other energy to it. [...]

[...] There is a change of focus. [...]

(I seemed to have the ability to shift my focus so as to see more of the scene. [...]

[...] All for this was focused into a particular time, as you think of it.

The brain to some extent keeps the mind to a three-dimensional focus. [...]

[...] He cannot turn himself or his abilities off … His activities would be strong in whatever level of activity he focused his energy, exaggerated in terms of others by comparison. [...]

[...] Often, however, individuals use disasters quite for their own purposes, as an exteriorized force that brings their lives into clear focus. [...]

[...] Because of this intense focus, there will be financial success.

[...] This involves a narrowing of focus on my part, and the use of Ruburt’s nervous system.

(Jane said it was “like following a psychic focus around the room,” which I thought an apt phrase. [...]