“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] There are several levels of feeling here. On one level he would not care, if only he felt you were really (underlined) painting what you wanted, and pleased with it; but you do not seem pleased.

We are going to get a good portion of this out, but you two have to face it on an emotional level, and you avoid it, both of you. [...] He is ashamed because at one level he begrudges the food you eat, so he will not eat to punish himself.

[...] We are picking up one level here.

Returning to our last discussion, I want to make it clear that these generic images, activated during certain levels of consciousness, are then interwound into dream drama.

[...] They will be charged with emotional energy according to the individual’s own experience, but they will form the base from which such a dream at that particular level is formed. [...]

[...] Dreams at the deepest level will not respond necessarily then to your present sex identity.

[...] It’s as if, at usual levels, you tried to be a doctor instead of a writer. At psychic levels, the qualities you need for sessions and your own work do not mesh with the overriding need to help others. [...]

[...] And for Mark’s sake may I say that levels of existence do not necessarily imply higher or lower levels, but concentric levels, even as the layers of the subconscious do not imply upper and lower levels, but are merely terms used for the sake of simplicity.

[...] The personality must gain experience, in other words, on a particular level of existence, on which or within which it operates, and it cannot choose otherwise. It must experience existence on the particular level on which it has been projected.

[...] You simply are not aware of these selves anymore on a conscious level than you are aware of what you refer to as past selves.

[...] Its original purpose was to enable you to empathize on an aware level with yourselves and other members of creaturehood, so that you could consciously control what was previously handled on a biological level alone. [...]

Animals have a sense of justice that you do not understand, and built-in to that innocent sense of integrity there is a biological compassion, understood at the deepest cellular levels.

[...] The “new” consciousness accepted its emerging triumph — freedom — and was faced with responsibility for action of a conscious level, and with the birth of guilt.

[...] They can be dealt with at that level, but that level is to some extent now a superficial one relatively speaking. [...]

This does indeed mean change at other levels of activity, the Sinful Self not only loosening its hold, but relinquishing some of the energy that it had withheld and repressed, so that the energy becomes available practically speaking for the body’s use once again. [...]

[...] At that level, therefore, Begin destroys a nuclear faculty before its damage can be done. [...]

(9:41.) Beneath those levels, however, you comprehend events in an entirely different fashion. [...]

[...] What you could call my dreaming state is involved with the levels I spoke of that exist beneath your remembered dreams.

[...] In my “waking” condition, I operate at many levels of consciousness at once, and deal therefore with different systems of knowledge. [...]

[...] It may also of course mean that other, perhaps more desirable events that you have not thought of may not happen—because you have been so specific, and perhaps determined your desire from your own level of understanding only—where the reservoirs of this deeper mental system might have been able to tell you that the event you want so badly is not, after all, to your best interest.

[...] The processes at this other level are so lightning fast, so inclusive, that they would not seem to carry any recognizable concepts, simply because the vast amount of information could not be followed or slowed for your attention.

At those basic levels direct knowing is involved, knowing itself in all of its infinite patterns, and that process alone involves unimaginable motion.

Deeply (pause) therapeutic elements are operating at all levels of Ruburt’s experience. [...]

[...] Again, many events are gathering as the result of our sessions, and certain activities taking place at other levels of activity during what you might think of as our usual session times. [...]

[...] Therefore the session is extremely brief—but the energy within and behind it is also being used on your behalves at levels that may not at this point be presently apparent to you. [...]

[...] He opens up a door in himself that leads to other levels of his being, but a being that cannot be completely expressed in your world. That existence is mine, expressed in my experience at another level of reality, so I must write my books through Ruburt. [...]

(9:30.) Earlier I mentioned some odd effects that might occur if you tried to take your watch or other timepiece into other levels of reality. [...]

[...] No brushstroke is ever really wiped out, however, in this mysterious canvas of our analogy, but remains, further altering all the relationships at its particular level.

Yet at other levels this seeming solidity of events also breaks down. [...] A sudden contemporary belief in illness will actually reach back into the past, affecting the organism at that level, and inserting into the past experience of the cells the initiation of those biological events that will then seem to give birth to a present disease.

A new belief in the present, however, can cause changes in the past on a neuronal level. [...]

[...] At your level of experience many effects are accepted and used quite practically, as are your solid tables. [...]

There is little use in trying to discover other levels of your own reality if you insist upon applying the laws of physical life to your own larger experience. [...] It was quite real, however, and at another level of reality it was operational, suited to its environment.

[...] 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). [...]

[...] Yet to some extent, the physical rules are also inviolate — at their level.

On other levels, however, each one is well aware of the other’s presence, and on those levels they do react to each other’s activities. [...]

[...] In other instances the individual encounters the difficulties on mental or emotional levels. [...]

In the kind of schizophrenic behavior we have just been discussing, hypnosis is frequently used as therapy, often in an attempt not only to introduce the two levels of the personality to each other, but also to uncover the time they originally split off in such a fashion.

When information “falls” into your conscious mind from those vaster areas, then it also is changed as it travels through various levels of psychological atmosphere, until it finally lands or explodes in a series of images or thoughts. [...]

[...] Again, however, that fine precision rests upon an endless amount of information that impinges onto other levels of your psychological reality. [...]

[...] The resulting structure of the dream suits your reality and no other: As this intrusive matter falls, plummets, or shifts through the levels of your own psychological atmosphere, it is transformed by the conditions it meets.

(Pause.) These sessions themselves involve the highest levels of creative productivity, at many, many levels, so he should refresh himself painting or doing whatever he likes, for that refreshment adds to his creativity, of course. [...]

[...] He would, however, be able to see other beings at his same level in nearby stacks. [...]

6. If this two-dimensional being, through psychic ability were able to project himself into other levels of his existence (the stack) he could see his “future” and that of other beings in nearby stacks. [...]

[...] In some cases such blocking is on a deeper level and not at all conscious, and it is also at this level that the few distortions that occur take place.

[...] On some other planes the mental enzymes are unnecessary, since the personality on a conscious level can work such transformations; and here again we run into an apparent contradiction, because while these transformations occur consciously on certain levels it is also true that the personalities concerned do not have to be conscious of the transformations. [...]

[...] The camouflage pattern is completely broken up, the disorganized personality is afloat and could slip into a state where disorientation would prevent return to your level, while ignorance and lack of discipline prevented entry onto another level. [...]

[...] Your physical universe and laws give you little evidence of this kind of activity, for at that level the evidence shows you the appearance of time or decay. [...]

Now: All of the probable events of your life exist at once, at certain levels that are connected to the dream state. [...]

[...] There is basically no difference at these other levels of existence between waking and dream events. [...]

In a way, on one level, a personality seems to be operating “blind,” while in another it is aware of its accomplishments and challenges. [...]

They represented parts of his own psyche, still, at that level of consciousness, not having quite assimilated the greater knowledge or experience, so he felt he needed protection—the protection that would beautifully, cleverly and insidiously serve all of his purposes, allowing him to go ahead as he wanted to, but with control drawn back to the body’s discontent. [...]

[...] Your attending class, and hence symbolically standing with him as he relates this greater understanding, not distantly but to individual encountered human beings—a good point, important on your part, for you have never before been willing to encounter others at such a direct level.

At one level Ruburt did allow himself to participate in a very difficult health situation. There were many questions he asked himself about his mother’s condition in particular (Marie is a bedridden arthritic), and about such situations in general, and he did indeed allow himself to go along on one level to provide an extraordinary impetus that he felt would be needed to conquer such extraordinary conditions.

[...] On the other hand, on the more usually understood human level, he also became extremely frightened.

[...] I do not know whether or not he will continue today, for it is a hard session for Ruburt to give, while maintaining the necessary trance level.