“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] He goes inward then with great applied focus, but held the body in such tight reins that he denied it both energy and attention.

[...] He felt it was necessary (underlined) to inhibit physical expression in order to concentrate all of his energies inward into his work. [...]

Whenever he had a work problem he hastily then withdrew more physical energy in order to go inward with greater acceleration. [...]

[...] The inner ego, as action, thrusts in an inward direction; that is, back toward the originating impulse. [...] They are two faces, therefore, and form one of many spheres of action, one pulling inward and one outward.

The inner ego is focused inward, with as much intensity as the outer ego is focused outward. [...]

For if you listen inwardly, you can hear the first words spoken upon your planet. [...] You have only to close your eyes and look inward. [...]

[...] I kind of doubt it, but as for looking inward, you know that there has to be a balance between the inwardness and outwardness.”

[...] Without strong subjective proof of your own, without the full ability to travel inward and the doorways to inner knowledge closed until you receive the kind of proof that you are after. [...]

There are far more wonders to perceive through this inward exploration than you can possibly believe until you begin such a journey for yourself. [...] You may not be able to put your knowledge clearly into words, but this will in no way negate the value or the validity of the experience that will be yours once you begin to look inward.

The anima represents the necessary initial “inwardness,” the brooding, caring, intuitive, inside-turning characteristics, the inward focusing from which creativity comes.

[...] The accomplishments, wars, difficulties and institutions are all “after the event” — that is, they are outward actions of an inward existence. [...]

[...] The existence of Sumari physicians will make sense when we finish our discussion of inward orders of reality and the dream state.

[...] You must look inward and listen. [...]

[...] and that you must look inward, not outward, to find it. [...]

[...] The answers to questions you have asked can be found if you will look inward, and they will appear in terms that you can understand. [...]

[...] She lit a cigarette and looked off to one side and down, her attention already turned inward as she prepared to psychically join a very familiar “energy personality essence,” as Seth calls himself.)

[...] It can view outward reality or turn inward, observing its own contents.

[...] All they know, teachers, is how to look inward. Look inward into your own reality, and find your own freedoms, your own truths, your own way, your own questions  and these will lead to your own answers.

[...] For a short period of time, Ruburt turned his creative energy, as he knows, I believe, inward rather than outward, knotted it up, misdirected it, did not focus it properly, and turned it into destructive energy.

[...] He is too mature now to turn such destructive energy inward in a strong manner, against his own organism. [...]

[...] In the past you turned some repressed violence inward against yourself. [...]

That center is like a road that you can follow inward. [...]

[...] Now you can grab a hold of the original inspiration for a painting, and ride it outward, or you can look at your own completed painting and ride it inward to its source. [...]

[...] The symbolism apparent to Ruburt when Seth Two speaks works well, but outward is also inward, and so consciousness travels as far inward as it seems to him to go outward.

[...] And it is spinning outward and inward into all probabilities simultaneously.

1. Once again (as in Note 7 for the last session), I quote Seth from the 45th session: “Any investigation of the basic inner universe, which is the only real universe, must be done as much as possible from a point outside your own distortions … To get outside your own universe, you must travel inward … Your so-called scientific, so-called objective experiments can continue for an eternity, but they will only probe further and further with camouflage [physical] instruments into a camouflage universe … The subconscious, it is true, has elements of its own distortions, but these are easier to escape than the tons of distortive camouflage atmosphere that weigh your scientific experiments down.”

In the 688th session, in Section 2, see the material on time and the backward and forward, inward and outward motion of the CU’s, or units of consciousness.

[...] You have taught yourselves to look outward into physical reality, but the inward validity of your being cannot be found there — only its effects. You can turn on television and see a drama, but the inward mobility and experience of your psyche is mysteriously enfolded within all of those exterior gestures that allow you to turn on the television switch to begin with, and to make sense of the images presented. [...]

Any investigation of the basic inner universe, which is the only real universe, must be done as much as possible from a point outside your own distortions, but the only way open for you to escape the distortions of your own physical universe is to journey inward. To get outside your own universe, you must travel inward, and this represents the only perspective free of distortive elements, from which valid experimentation can be carried on. [...]

[...] You will do better when you focus inwardly in a receptive manner, but without any inhibiting factor. [...]

[...] It is simply much easier, and even more scientific, to achieve a so-called, again, objective view of your universe by going inward, than it is to attempt to escape your distortive atmosphere by going further outward, because in the outward direction you will only meet more camouflage.

[...] You tried to switch over and pick up inside data with the outer senses, and then project this inward. [...]

[...] In other words, peeping inwards and outwards at the same ‘time’ you will find that all divisions are illusion and all time is one time. [...]

[...] If you had helped tonight, you would not have felt the need to turn your emotions inward against yourself in such a self-destructive manner.’”

Creative people, if they succeed at all, often find themselves in a position where they feel that the precious inward isolation is threatened. [...] The inward work ends up causing them to relate to a physical world when they believed that their duty was to shut themselves off from that world.

[...] His writing, as much as art does, sprang from periods of deep thinking, isolation, and involved strong tendencies to go inward more or less alone.