“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] I have stuck to the most important beliefs about money, and the male’s status—but also such (family) gatherings also bring into focus beliefs about age and illness, and so forth. [...]

[...] The focus upon compromise automatically forces you to withhold directness and energy in all of your pursuits. [...]

[...] It was something like coming out of a deep sleep and immediately making a strong effort to focus in physical reality.)

[...] It is useless to personify a storm and treat it as a demon, focusing upon its destructive elements, or those elements that to you appear destructive.

[...] In the beginning the experiments would involve such simple procedures as having the Gallaghers, while at their home, focus upon objects Jane and I have not seen, at appointed hours during sessions held in our own home.)

[...] The focus of attention and concentration are magnified a thousandfold in the dream state, and dreams form the basis for your physical environment.

A strong coming-into or focusing of inner reality into the objective form of the painting. [...]

[...] My attention was utterly focused on the events. [...]

The same sort of reaction occurs if you concentrate upon a personal illness, and then find any improvements insignificant because of the great focus of your attention upon the negative aspects.

[...] Characteristically, I operated in certain manners that resulted in the primary use of my left hand, when I was focused within physical matter.

[...] I am trying to teach you to focus your consciousness in many directions, even to carry a portion of egotistical consciousness into the dream state.

[...] Ruburt has been trying too hard lately with psychological time, and trying to make his subconscious function and focus, in the same manner that the conscious mind does.

[...] Your energy focused on the property, constructed the property into the state where the road disintegrated into a trail.

[...] We hoped Seth would deal with any object Dr. Instream had focused on Monday night, as well as the object for last Wednesday April 13.

As I have mentioned many times, at present you focus your attentions and consciousness within the physical system. [...]

[...] 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. [...]

[...] All of your attitudes will come into focus as you decide to move, and when you move. [...]

Most individuals dwell focused so rigidly in your particular area of space and time that the greater dimensionality of the entity is unknown to them at a conscious level. [...]

[...] Newborn animals either die quickly and naturally, painlessly, before their consciousnesses are fully focused here, or are killed by their mothers — not because they are weak or unfit to survive, but because the [physical] conditions are not those that will produce the quality of life that makes survival “worthwhile.”

Organized religion has committed many important blunders, yet for centuries Christianity provided a context accepted by large portions of the known world, in which experience could be judged against very definite “rules” — experience once focused, chiselled, and yet allowed some rich expression as long as it stayed within the boundaries set by religious dogma.