“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Give us a moment … Your planet as you know it is a certain kind of focus point for consciousness. [...]

[...] Briefly and very simply, Seth maintains that Framework 2, or inner reality, contains the creative source from which we form all events, and that by the proper focusing of attention we can draw from that vast subjective medium everything we need for a constructive, positive life in Framework 1, or physical reality. [...]

[...] She simply did not bother focusing her energies upon practical matters, particularly during the last years, but she was quick spiritually.

[...] I switch the focus of my attention with conscious intent, so to speak. [...]

[...] Out of many possibilities, the daughter’s conditioning was psychically chosen and accepted, and through that focus she meant to interact with the mother’s behavior. [...]

[...] Now your ego, your exterior self, focuses outward into physical reality. [...]

[...] She requested that we not talk about it very much so that she wouldn’t focus upon it to any degree.

[...] You have already made the initial change away from physical focus.

[...] It is as if, for example, consciousness of any whole self were compared to a huge, and indeed almost infinite light, with the ability inherent in the light to focus in many directions; to be diffused, as if the light had many switches that would turn it to greater or lesser intensities and directions.

[...] You are somewhat closed down to these, which add extra and necessary dimension that would round out and focus the information.

[...] The focus of your attention has changed somewhat, but you are still strongly relating to the physical field.

“The eye projects and focuses the inner image (idea) onto the physical world in the same manner that a motion-picture camera transfers an image onto a screen. [...]

Projection from a dream state is something else again, therefore, and when it is executed successfully then you have a fine example of the self as it changes the focus of its own awareness. [...]

[...] But until you learn to focus in two directions, and this is simplified to a pathetic degree, in the meantime you simply turn down the volume of the first channel, while you attract your attention to the second. [...]

The fact remains that the outer senses induce a conscious focusing along certain limited lines, grouping perceptions and comprehensions in a narrow fashion, and limiting the practical and imaginative range that consciousness might otherwise take. [...]

[...] From it he proceeds to show how all that we are — whatever our individual belief systems may be — stems from the brilliant focus of our physical, mental, and spiritual abilities in “present” experience.

[...] Despite the sessions held now and then to help particular persons, and despite their incidents of extrasensory perception, the sessions remain focused primarily on the material. [...]

[...] When you create physical matter you are not aware of doing so, but you affect energy directly in such an execution, your own attention being focused primarily in the physical system.

[...] Survival in your system is strongly dependent upon the highly specialized, focused, limited but specific organizational qualities of the ego. [...]

(Things began to get vague, as though I was having trouble focusing on the situation any longer. [...]