“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] You must learn to recognize, develop, and use these Inner Senses. [...]

“It is also true that you may need to learn the methods by which you can perceive other realities, simply because you are not used to manipulating these other conscious portions of yourself. [...]

Seth insists that there is only one way to learn what consciousness is: by studying and exploring our own awareness, by changing the focus of our attention and using our own consciousness in as many ways as possible. [...]

Seth began to list and explain them early in our sessions, starting in February 1964, and we are still learning to use them. [...]

As in many other instances I do not try to push you, for you must learn many things by yourselves, and your own subconscious will pace you. You will learn as you learn. [...]

[...] You will learn by doing.

[...] This is to be expected, but you will learn from your mistakes, as well as from your successes.

[...] You will learn to feel your way.

Now briefly, we will continue while Ruburt learns how to manipulate his controls. [...] In dreams you often realize what you have learned. [...]

[...] And you have abilities that you are not using, you see, and the sooner you learn to use them the better it will be for you. [...] I am still learning. [...]

[...] You will one day be where I am, and you will have learned many things. [...]

There is a short time between lives when you rest and when you take stock of what you have learned and where you are. [...]

You will shortly learn, here at least, to be honest with your own self, to free your own emotional energy and then learn to direct it. [...]

[...] You must learn to recognize and use and pool your emotional energy. [...]

[...] But the time has come for you all to learn to recognize, feel, and direct your own emotional reality. [...]

Now we have spoken in terms that you could understand, the nature of your world and reality as you know it, but you have not taken the stuff of reality into your hearts and understood it and this is what you must now begin to learn to do. [...]

(To Sue.) When you really learn to trust yourself, when you learn emotionally, as well as intellectually, when you learn with your spirit and your gut, then you will learn who you are. [...]

[...] However, you are learning now to mitigate to some extent. [...] And you are learning to do this despite the difficulties that have been involved. [...]

[...] They satisfy a portion of yourself that can say, “I have been to a sensitivity session and I have seen and felt and touched and I have learned, to some extent, to look within myself,” but you are very careful of where you look. [...]

Now, I cannot explain this so quickly to you for it is a delicate question and each individual in the room must learn his own way of handling these feelings. [...]

(A one-minute pause at 11:21.) Learned behavior therefore alters not only present and future but also past conduct. Your power as a rational consciousness focused in the present provides you with opportunities for creativity that you are but vaguely learning to understand. As you do learn, you will automatically begin to appreciate the multidimensional nature of not only your own species but of others as well. [...]

Learning is not simply passed on from living tissue to living tissue — this your biologists have discovered — but it is also passed on through the body’s present corporeal reality, sometimes entirely changing the messages to past cells, that in your terms no longer exist.

This is the reason for the results of some experiments being conducted abroad, in which accelerated learning takes place, when under hypnosis or otherwise a present individual is convinced that he or she is, for example, a great painter, or a linguist. [...]

You have completely forgotten the chaos and unpredictable nature it presented to you before learning processes were channeled into specific directions. You learned to perceive reality in a highly specialized fashion.

When you are dealing with inner, or basically nonphysical environments, you must again become unspecialized, and then learn a new set of principles. You will soon learn for example to trust your perceptions, whether or not the experience seems to make logical sense.

You must learn to differentiate between many forms that may appear in many ways similar enough, to seem to be of identical nature. [...]

(11:07.) You can learn to vastly enrich your own experience. [...] You can learn to use and experience time in new fashions. [...]

[...] This perspective cannot “work” at your usual level of consciousness, any more than the artist’s perspective will work for the ant’s — though there is much you could learn from an ant’s consciousness (intently). [...]

If, however, you learn to know yourself better in daily life to become more fully aware even of your earthly life, then you will indeed receive other information that hints of a deeper, more supportive reality, in which physical existence rests. [...]

Even within that context, however, there are surprises and enchantments waiting, if you simply learn to expand your awareness, exploring not only the dream state, but your waking reality in more adventuresome ways. [...]

Now you learned as much this evening listening to each other speak as you would have learned from what I had to say. [...]

(To Dennis and Giselle.) You both have been learning very much and when you are ready to become consciously aware of what you have learned in the past week it will rise to the surface of your consciousness. [...]

You are learning to adjust the leash and now and then with great caution you allow yourself to wander a fingertip away without it. [...]

[...] When you learn to rephrase the question you will not be in kindergarten. [...]

[...] An ancient language that never was and within those paradoxes what meanings are there for you to learn? [...] And you need not worry, you will not have to learn declensions. [...]

[...] Did it ever occur to you that there are other methods of communication and ways of learning what they are and steps to learning them? [...]

[...] One way of doing this would be to take several steps away from the language that you know to get into somewhat unfamiliar territory and to learn your way there, and then to be taken further down the primrose path where little by little the vowels and syllables themselves would disappear until you are at the pure sound and beneath that with true feeling. [...]

Now if you would truly learn how to listen, and you are beginning to, then you would know what I am saying and my own speech lately is carefully calculated. [...]

[...] You are learning to be as completely as possible. In one way you are learning to create yourselves. [...]

[...] Usually I get excellent results with the pendulum; I learned now that the visual-interference effects had been caused by my unsuccessful attempts to perceive a thought-form sent out by a survival personality. [...]

(I also learned that no particular painting of mine was involved, nor were my efforts to project this afternoon; that the survival personality was unknown to me, and that the pendulum couldn’t tell me who the personality was.

(8:51.) Through denying themselves, say, intellectual development in a given life, personalities also learn the value and purpose of that which they do not possess. [...]

He has indeed learned, the hard way, lessons that he had to learn if he were to further develop. [...]

He has learned that the ego cannot set itself up against the inner self. He has learned to trust and have confidence in the inner self, and to listen to the subconscious which is a part of his inner identity.

[...] For Ruburt’s benefit yes, indeed, the cure is permanent, as long as he utilizes what he has learned, and it seems fairly certain that he will.

(There is also some factual connection in the displacement, since by using the pendulum recently we have learned of the rather important role Blanche played in some of Jane’s earlier associations; due to a complicated variety of events Jane has been bothered lately by some physical symptoms we are in the process of eliminating. [...]

[...] He is aware of light and shadow, of shape and form, though he must learn to distinguish those portions of the available field of reality that you accept as objects, from the available field that you do not accept as objects. [...]

[...] By the time he is born he has already learned to accept his parents’ idea of what reality is. [...]

[...] He learns quickly then to discard the others, for they do not meet his physical ends. [...]

[...] This adds to the confusion, and it is a matter of physical survival that he largely ignores these messages while he learns to focus in physical reality.

You will simply be learning to operate in a new environment in which different laws apply, and the laws are far less limiting than the physical ones with which you now operate. In other words, you must learn to understand and use new freedoms.

[...] Whether or not you accept inferior motives in yourself or learn from them is still up to you. The opportunities for growth and development are very rich, however, and the learning methods at your disposal very effective.

[...] You can experience the after-death environment beforehand, so to speak, and learn the conditions that will be encountered.

You examine the fabric of the existence you have left, and you learn to understand how your experiences were the result of your own thoughts and emotions and how these affected others. [...]

We are beginning to learn the creative joy of play. [...]

[...] She was quite surprised to learn that an hour had passed, however. [...]

[...] Here, however, the resemblance ends, largely, since before I can begin to work I must set up preliminary psychological structures and learn to know my pupils before teaching can even begin.

[...] Great care must be utilized, even before serious learning can begin, that all levels of the personality develop at a more or less constant rate.

[...] When you learn, and you are learning, to extend the limitations of your self, you simply become aware of what you are already. [...]

[...] Now you have learned the methods at least that allow you to become aware of some projections that occur during the dream state. [...]

[...] He is learning.

[...] It will not be too difficult for you to develop your abilities, but it will be difficult for you to learn the self-discipline that is necessary. You can learn self-discipline, and I will be a taskmaster. [...]

[...] You must learn, however, to forget the world that you know physically. [...]

[...] If you will not listen to me when you are awake because it is too late, then I shall be like a recording machine so that you learn while you sleep. [...]

(Very emphatically:) It is absurd to believe that you can learn something about consciousness by destroying it. It is absurd to believe that you can learn one iota about the inner reality of life when your search leads you to destroy it. [...]

[...] There are ways of learning from the animals. [...] These methods do not include dissection, for what you learn that way you will not be able to use (deeper and much louder).

[...] A true physicist would learn to reach that level of consciousness at will. [...]

[...] While you may “learn” certain so-called facts, you are driven still further away from any great knowledge, because the so-called facts stand in your way. [...]

[...] As was characteristic of us, also, we worked by ourselves for a long time as we attempted to learn more about what we were doing. But naive creatures that we were, when we did begin to reach out we were quite unprepared for the skepticism we would meet from the learned “establishment.” [...]

[...] As she researched Jane’s published and unpublished notes, journals, and books for The Magical Approach, Laurel learned that my wife had originally intended to call this book The Magical Approach: A Jane/Seth Book, and wrote of it as being “a psychic-naturalistic journal.” [...]