“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] As the vitality of the universe forms, of itself, the boundaries of the various fields of activity, and as vitality itself takes on the coloration of the various fields and forms the camouflage patterns within them, so also vitality, in the form of emotions that the camouflage patterns of the personality, even while this vitality forms both emotions and personality for every individual, every consciousness, may be thought of as a separate field of activity; and all the data relating to fields of activity may be seen to apply to any consciousness as well.

[...] For the personality, true to the roles of action, will seize upon the new action and form of it new realities and unities with itself.

[...] Its anticipations, of course, then form that environment.

I mentioned earlier that the personality is an excellent example of action as it is sometimes projected into the physical field, while not appearing within it in tangible form. [...]

[...] They maintain that all of the earth’s living forms have remained essentially unchanged since that prime creative event; they can account for the disappearance of the dinosaurs, for example, and the vast number of other life forms we no longer see around us. [...]

[...] (Long pause.) They provide the power that allows you to form a belief system to begin with.

(Pause.) Now: While you believe that consciousness somehow emerges from dead matter, you will never understand yourselves, and you will always be looking for the point at which life took on form. [...]

You are filled with questions about when and where the various species appeared, and how the rocks were formed, when some reptiles grew wings, when some fish emerged from the oceans and learned to breathe air, and you are bound to wonder what happened in the times in between.

[...] It is true that your thoughts and emotions and beliefs form the reality that you experience — but it is also true that this creative construction is, in a manner of speaking, magically formed. [...]

[...] Instead, of course, your intellectual abilities are supported and promoted by that inner mixture of spontaneity and order that so magically combine to form both your reality and the reality of the world.

Now, some systems have no basic form, but adopt the form, the forms, thrust upon it. [...] There is in such cases a constant battle of forms.

Once more, the undifferentiated layers or areas are composed of the vitality that forms the camouflage of all systems. [...]

[...] Thoughts as a rule would not be perceived here, for the symbols that form them would not be understood.

To a certain extent, I must travel from those realities into your comprehension, wrest myself free in order to form an ever-changing, ever-moving, ever-on-the-move entity that can speak here and be there at the same time. [...] That distance from you also represents the reaches, however, of the human psyche, and the vast corridors of psychological activity from which it is formed, and from which your world emerges.

[...] The species contains within itself all of the necessary spontaneous attributes that are necessary to form a civilization, for example. [...]

[...] He is able to form many different kinds of cultures, for example. [...]

[...] A small note to our friend — again — to trust the great power of the universe that forms his own image, to trust his spontaneity, and his body’s natural urges toward relaxation, motion, and creativity, as these show themselves in their own rhythms.

[...] For when this physical image makes the transition to other realities, then I will speak through another form as each of you has spoken through other forms. I remember the forms through which I have spoken and you do not, but look at it this way: The child that you were in this life has a far different form than the person you are now, and yet you spoke through that form. [...]

You have a different form every seven years. [...] Your forms are completely new and different, and yet I see that you carry on quite effectively and it does not seem to bother you. [...] And so if you change your physical form without knowing it as the years go by, why should it surprise you that at one time you leave the present form that you call your own for another. [...]

[...] For I tell you frankly, truth takes many forms and wears many masks. [...]

[...] I have it in my head that there is a physical reality somewhere where objects have shape and form—where there are things like trees and people and streetcars and a strange thing called progress. [...]

[...] Our individual consciousness grows, and out of its experience it forms different “personalities” or fragments of itself. [...] These “fragments” themselves grow, develop, and may form their own entities or “personality gestalts”—or, if you prefer, whole souls.

“The energy of action, the workings of action within and upon itself, forms identity. Yet though identity is formed from action, action and identity cannot be separated. [...]

“This first dilemma results in action, and from action’s own workings upon itself we have seen that identity was formed, and that these two are inseparable. [...] Action, having of itself and because of its nature formed identity, now also because of its nature would seem to destroy identity, since action must involve change, and any change seems to threaten identity.

[...] To perceive other realities, we have to use the Inner Senses—methods of perception that belong to the inner self and operate whether or not we have a physical form. Seth calls the universe as we know it a “camouflage” system, since physical matter is simply the form that vitality—action—takes within it. [...]

[...] For you form your own physical universe—it does not form you. [...]

[...] I am here to tell you that your joy is not dependent upon your nervous system or physical form, since I have none. [...]

Do not be afraid but change with the seasons, for you are more than the seasons and you form the seasons, as they are the reflections of your psychic climate. [...]

[...] The dreamer says that physical reality forms you. [...]

[...] Physically speaking at least, thoughts are chemically propelled, and they travel through the universal body as viruses travel through your temporal form.

[...] There are many casualties, but this is still a system that you have chosen, and your ideas still form your reality. [...]

[...] Some can only be glimpsed in distorted form because of other “natural” conditions that you cannot perceive. [...]

It is natural to live after death, and natural to return the body to earth and [then to] form another. [...]

[...] It fills forms, and as it passes the forms seem to blur, as a wind will fill out the sails and then disappear.

[...] In the painting of a picture, you are actually forming new patterns through which energy can flow into material form. [...]

We have much yet to cover about various topics only lightly touched upon so far, including the nature of matter, the process involved in its continual creation and manipulation, and the truly astounding cooperation involved, as all living things contribute their energy to keep the physical universe in any kind of permanent, coherent form.

[...] The ability of the individual creator of any particular physical form to use psychic energy to control and manipulate causes the outer appearance of deterioration and aging of matter.

As a physical being, your beliefs and concepts form your reality. [...] You choose, in other words, to accept a given picture of the world, and you use that picture as a frame within which you form a life.

[...] This character is so independent, alive and real, that it in turn forms other characters — and each writes its own book, or forms its own reality. [...]

[...] Seth covered many interesting points, and [I can add later] Jane presents the entire session in slightly abbreviated form in Chapter 15 of Politics. [...]

[...] So I hoped her material would crop up in some form in the session itself.)

Of course, these ideas would apply to any form of life as we ordinarily think of that quality. [...] (This kind of thinking usually reminds me of a certain statement Seth made half a dozen years ago; see Note 7 for Session 727: “Creatures without the compartment of the ego can easily follow their own identity beyond any change of form.”)

The physical self as you know it is a focus of consciousness that forms a personality in response to that focus. [...]

[...] Your focus of attention forms boundaries that predispose you to believe in a point at which your consciousness emerges, as you understand it, and a point when it is no longer effective, or dies. [...]

[...] Cells are usually very cooperative, particularly as they form the structures of the body.³

[...] (True.) This sort of a painting however, that uses figures or objects, but not in representational form, bothers you, while you are strongly attracted in sketches of the same nature. [...] It is only when you transpose the same ideas onto painting and a more permanent form that you become uneasy.

[...] I pulled the little sketch, which was a free interpretation of what I considered to be a man facing himself, embodying certain distortions of face and form from my files recently and decided to paint it. [...]

(The pendulum told me that I was bothered by the idea of the possible lack of permanency of the panel I had chosen, and briefly that I was somewhat aware of the change in this picture, as far as handling of form would be concerned, from my usual style of working. [...]

(When I began to learn about my own symptoms, I started taking steps whereby I could present the same idea—of a man facing himself—in other ways, and shortly evolved several quite acceptable ways, that were in harmony with my ideas of pictorial form, permanence, etc. [...]

[...] That illumination was everywhere then at every point aware of itself, and of the conditions formed by its presence. [...] In those terms the environment forms the species and the species forms the environment.

[...] Death in your terms certainly seems an end, but it is instead a translation of life into another form.

[...] Before the smallest cell appeared, in your terms, there was the consciousness that formed the cell.

In those terms there was a point where consciousness impressed itself into matter through intent, or formed itself into matter. [...]

[...] As air is dispelled from the lungs in various forms and used and reused without any loss of power, strength or quantity, so is the vitality of which we speak used in different manners. [...] And as air seems invisible so does this vitality seem invisible, and yet like air this vitality gives shape to every object that you see, and so does it form every camouflage. [...]

The facts are simply that you yourselves form these camouflage patterns, and I repeat this simple statement: You form the camouflage world of appearances with the same part of you that breathes. [...]

But since it is so difficult for man to even recognize the self that moves his own muscles and breathes his own breath, then I suppose it should not be startling that he cannot realize that this whole self also forms the camouflage world of physical appearance, in almost the same manner that he forms a pattern with his breath upon a glass pane.

The book was a first attempt in forming a definite pattern of the material that he was receiving from the inner senses. [...] The camouflage pattern world is formed by the mind, and I am using this now in its true term as a part of the inner world. [...]

[...] You form your own dreams, and you form your own physical reality. [...] It is the physical materialization of the inner selves which have formed it.” [...]

“Its energy is so unbelievable that it does indeed form all universes; and because its energy is within and behind all universes, systems, and fields, it is indeed aware of each sparrow that falls, for it is each sparrow that falls.”

[...] Each act of leaping, so to speak, forms a new thread. [...]

[...] In the ‘meantime,’ the overall self is forming new threads of activity, you see. [...]

Consciousness or action forms all realities. [...] (Long pause.) Consciousness then formed out of itself a new dimension which was the physical one. [...]

[...] Nor between inner reality, which forms physical matter, and physical objects themselves, for the atoms which are manipulated to form objects are themselves a portion of consciousness, and alive in those terms. [...]

The sound, light, and electromagnetic patterns give strength and vitality to the physical form that you recognize. [...]

[...] They build up their own embryonic form until it is in one way or another physically translated.

Mental images therefore are extremely powerful, combining inner sound and its effects with a clear mental picture which will seek physical form. [...]

[...] These combine to mentally form the physical image that you know, so you must work from the inside out. [...]

If physical form is made up of such multitudinous, invisible particles, how much more highly organized must be the inner components of consciousness, without whose perceptions matter itself would be meaningless. The alliances of consciousness, then, are far more vast than those of particles in any form.

They “unite” to form, of course, the larger particles in the physical world. [...]

The varieties of consciousness—the inner “psychological particles,” the psychic equivalent, say, of the atom or molecule, or proton, neutron or quark—these nonphysical, charmed, strange forms of consciousness that make experience go up or down (all with amusement), and around and around, are never of course dealt with.

The counterpart idea is merely a small attempt to hint at that interrelationship—an interrelationship of course that includes all species and forms of life. [...]

[...] Vitality gives itself a shape and form. The form does not impose itself upon the vitality. Therefore it is not strange to consider the possibility of changing form at will, and this is exactly what happens basically in the universe.

It is formed by the unconscious will for reasons of its own. [...] I intend to tie this in for you later with a clearer explanation as to how you on your plane form your own camouflage universe, and to elucidate on the fact that form is not rigid, though it appears to be in many cases on your own plane.

I want to show you how form can be changed, even on your own plane, and give you clear examples here so that you will see how in the inner reality universe, vitality can and does change its form at will. [...]

Molecular construction is formed from the inside, and is not rigid. [...]