“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] The dream state appears chaotic, shadowy, suspicious, or even meaningless, precisely because in life you are so brilliantly focused in daily reality that dreams appear to be staticky objective background noise, left over from when you sleep. But that is how physical experience would seem to someone not focused in it, or inexperienced with its organization.

[...] There were dream trees, with dream foliage, that gradually became aware within that dream (with gentle emphasis), turning physical, focusing more and more in physical reality, until their dream seeds finally brought forth physical trees.

[...] Nor is it inherently focused in the particular age period in which it now shows itself. [...]

Because of your exaggerated focus, you therefore become relatively blind to other aspects of “sexuality.” [...]

[...] The strong focus that now predominates does inhibit the formation of certain kinds of friendships that would not necessarily at all result in sexual activity.

We have spoken, saying that the ego has a relatively small but intense focus. [...] The concentration however and the focus is much more intense than that with which you are familiar.

Its general field of awareness however is much larger than any with which you are familiar, and he has a greater control and focus within this larger generalized field than you possess in your comparable generalized field of perception. [...]

[...] However, once his attention was centered here, he turned his conscious attention to full focus upon what he perceived. [...]

[...] In other words you put yourself into a position where you focus your attention upon very negative influences.

In the waking state the whole self is focused toward physical reality. In the dreaming state the whole self is focused within a different dimension. [...]

For you see, you think that you are only conscious when you are focused in physical reality. [...]

[...] There is one self, and it focuses its consciousness in various dimensions, and that is all.

[...] From energy you form patterns which you recognize, and give names to and use, but the utility of these objects is useless to you unless you are focused within the dimension for which they were specifically formed.

[...] To begin with, your physical form is the result of great emotional focus. [...]

[...] Your emotional intensity and focus create forms beside your physical body, however their duration and degree are dependent upon the intensity of any given emotional origin.

Now, through very intense emotional focus you can create a form, and project it to another person who may then perceive it. [...]

[...] You are presently focused not only in your physical body, but within a particular frequency of events that you interpret as time. [...]

[...] For example, there is an initial stage for those who are still focused strongly in physical reality, and for those who need a period of recuperation and rest. [...]

[...] 9:42 to 9:58.) Now: You may after death utterly refuse to believe that you are dead, and continue to focus your emotional energy toward those you have known in life.

[...] Suffice it to say that large fields of emotional focus toward physical reality can hold you back from further development.

You could perhaps change your own focus of attention away from the center, and theoretically see the room and its inhabitants; and yet still this distance that has nothing to do with miles would be between you.

[...] You simply turn the main focus of your attention in a different dimension of activity, one in which you have indeed continuously operated.

[...] You are focused in a daily life for a reason. [...]

[...] In the dream state you operate under the same conditions, more or less, that are native to a consciousness not focused in physical reality. [...]

The methods are available, however, and those who do use them will not find themselves alienated when the full focus of their attention is turned in that direction after death.

[...] By its very nature each consciousness is a particular, peculiar, and unique focus of awareness which will experience any possible realities through its own characteristics.

[...] Each consciousness is endowed with creativity of a multidimensional nature, so that it will seek to create as many possible realities for itself as it can, using its own significance as a focus to draw into its experience whatever events are possible for it from the universe itself. [...]

[...] You imprint the universe with your own significance, and using that as a focus you draw from it, or attract, those events that fit your unique purposes and needs. [...]

[...] You are yourself, yet at that level you are also a part of that universe from which that self springs, and its power and vitality are your own, to be uniquely focused. [...]

I have given you endless material on the importance of significances, and how you build upon them according to your focus. In that one area of Ruburt’s condition, you focus upon the improvements that occur. [...]

In traveling through the states of consciousness, these other personalities would try to attain some focus and perceive your environment, trying to make sense of data with which they are largely unacquainted. [...]

(9:20.) As these systems are adjacent to yours, so is yours adjacent; alternate focus allows personalities from other realities to perceive your own, then, as it can theoretically at least allow you a glimpse into their existence.

[...] And that’s why we missed the regularly scheduled session for last Wednesday evening: She became so relaxed she didn’t care to focus on going into trance.)

[...] They concentrate upon, or focus upon, their unique specificiations. [...]

[...] Metaphysically, they can be thought of as the point at which All That Is acts to form [your] world—the immediate contact of a never-ending creative inspiration, coming into mental focus, the metamorphosis of certainly divine origin that brings the physical world into existence from the greater reality of divine fact. [...]

[...] As physical creatures, they focused upon what you think of as physical identities: separate, individual differences, endowing each physical consciousness with its own original variations and creative potentials, its own opportunity for completely original experience, and a viewpoint or platform from which to participate in reality—one that at that level could not be experienced in the same way by any other individual (all very intently). This is [the] privileged, always new, private and immediate, direct experience of any individual of any species, or of any degree, as it encounters the objective universe.

[...] He was that portion as the normal waking self, the focus personality.

(9:25.) There was a definite separation, however, in that the focus personality was able to sense its own greater extensions—or rather, those extensions to which it gives permission. [...]

Now: in the first episode mentioned the experience was the same, only more vividly experienced since the focus personality was not fully awake and did not have immediate sense data to handle. [...]

Your own kind of focus emerged from such a background, so that within yourselves you contain myriad consciousnesses of which you are unaware. Through your own particular focus, the consciousnesses of the natural world merged to form a synthesis in which, for example, symphonies can emerge. [...]

[...] In using the animal’s flesh, then, the hunter believed that he was giving the animal a new focus of existence. [...]

[...] The man’s focus is there, as Ruburt focuses in his work. He has learned to focus faith in a highly specialized fashion, and has built up a backlog in that area.

His inspiration comes now from all of history, and from that larger reservoir he forms the new focus of his art. [...]

What you perceive, using other portions of yourself, can be far more vivid than the reality in which you usually focus your attention. [...]

[...] It is true also that certain methods—and I have given some of these to you—are necessary to allow you to switch your focus of attention from physical reality to other realities. [...]

When you turn off what you think of as your conscious mind, then another conscious mind clicks into focus. [...]

[...] You must momentarily, for now, shift the focus of the flashlight. [...]

[...] Therefore the material will have a typical Sumari slant and interest, a characteristic focus upon certain areas.

[...] The vocal sounds of the Sumari language and characteristics as they are presently apparent to you will, hopefully, lead toward these clearly understood but logically unstructured sounds that are recognized by the organism and by the inner self, but ignored by the reasoning conscious mind that focuses upon the logical language.

[...] Your interest in painting and your abilities do not only spring from the Denmark life, for example, but also arose out of your quite legitimate life as Nebene, when you were focused upon the visual symbols and their correct inscription. [...]

[...] You were focused upon the transmission of knowledge. [...]

[...] Let him—again and again I say this— focus toward his work and classes, and pleasant daily activities, and away from symptoms.

The success exercises are also teaching him how to focus his energy without strong conscious deliberation. [...]

[...] The various lines however all represent full use of your abilities, merely pointing out various lines of focus that you may choose.

(Jane told me that during this experiment she was aware of a “cone” of energy being focused in my direction from herself, with the wide end of the cone at her end—she could not really describe this feeling, she said, any better than this.

Your own focus is so precisely and finely tuned that despite all of that activity, objects appear solid. [...] They are highly dependent upon your own subjective focus. Let that focus falter for a briefest amount of time, and the whole house of cards would come tumbling down, so to speak.

Hypnotism then is one tool to enable the conscious personality to divest itself of its concentrated focus upon outer camouflage, and to enable it to focus instead upon the inner self. The main rule here is merely a change of focus. [...]

Telepathy involves of course a focusing of abilities and energy. [...] You will do better when you focus inwardly in a receptive manner, but without any inhibiting factor. [...] Focusing upon a camouflage objective will give you a camouflage result.

[...] Your camouflage and your world is created by conscious focusing and unconscious concentration. [...]

[...] Nevertheless progress could be quickened if persons who did not need hypnotism to divest themselves of outer focus were used in scientific experiments.

Further work with it at this time turns to an introversion with the personal subconscious, and an overinvolvement with it as far as overall focus is concerned. [...] A deeper involvement however at this time serves to focus your energies in a bunch, so to speak, in the personal subconscious, blocking creative energies that come from deeper layers of the inner self. [...]

[...] Within the physical universe you merely focus upon similarities and ignore the vast differences that exist. [...]

[...] You have indeed additional energy at your command, but the focus in the personal subconscious prevents you from using it. [...]