“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Give some thought to experimentation, observing the nature of color in usual consciousness and in altered states. [...]

[...] This work can be followed by one utilizing sessions concerned with art mainly but covering some other artistic areas as well, such as the nature and origin of inspirations.

So include it in The Nature of Personal Reality, for it is the birth of the book in your personal reality.

[...] Yesterday we’d received our copies of the Bantam paperback issue of The Nature of the Psyche, and I’d brought a book in to show Jane. [...]

In other words, these concepts, so natural to all of creation, have not been practiced by humanity in anything like their pure form. [...]

The main point I want to make is that this “new way” (long pause) is the ideal and easiest complement to nature’s own innate integrity —

The Bantam cover in its own way offers in the most positive of ways, despite your natural objections to it … It suggests the most unfortunate sensationalism, of course, yet people attracted to it for that reason are precisely the people it is important to reach. [...]

[...] The mark of nature unimpeded, and it is the heritage of all living creatures. [...]

Parents may become particularly aware of that lost sense of joyfulness as they watch their own youngsters in their natural play. [...]

Animals can be obedient to their masters, and be healthy and exuberant at the same time, but in the terms of nature, no matter what social customs might say, no person can be obedient to a master and be healthy and exuberant at the same time. [...]

People yearn toward freedom naturally, as the plants do toward the sun. [...]

On your part also then there was a reluctance to react to annoyance in a normal natural manner, and this is why the situation built up. [...]

[...] Left alone and operating naturally, you can trust its spontaneous response. [...]

[...] It is the spontaneous nature of emotional creatures, and it frees the self and opens the channels of creativity. [...]

Your neighbor has no real conscious knowledge of the nature of your emotional reaction. [...]

[...] The one All That Is is aware not only of its own nature and of the nature of all consciousness, but is also aware of its infinite probable selves. [...]

[...] This is the nature of reality. [...]

The nature of All That Is can only be sensed directly through the inner senses, or, in a weaker communication, through inspiration or intuition. [...]

[...] Because of his particular nature, these agreements on your part to avoid such issues, and the resulting lack of positive encounters, was more damaging to Ruburt.

Ruburt was correct then in those statements he made last evening, having to do with the balance of routine and spontaneity, for his nature does need both. [...]

It naturally reflected all of your own attitudes, the similar and various ways the both of you have of facing reality. [...]

[...] You were both afraid in varying degrees of emotional contact of a strong nature. [...]

In many ways his nature is extremely spontaneous in a natural fashion, and it is this attribute that is important to us. [...] This is quite natural. [...]

[...] Affairs will be handled very naturally.

We will discuss for some sessions the nature of dreams, practically speaking, from many viewpoints. [...]

The energy used in constructing dreams is every bit as intense as the energy used in the waking state, but there is no depletion because the sleeping self uses energy more naturally, realizing that it is available, and being more free in its operation.

[...] If you are also of a highly pessimistic nature, given to thoughts and feelings of potential disaster, then these thoughts will be quite faithfully reproduced in experience.

[...] If you happen to live in an area where the coordinate environment is strong, one of those areas I have spoken of as unusually conducive, then it will seem that you are deluged by illnesses or disasters, if these are the nature of your thoughts, because all thought is so fertile in this environment. [...]

Now, this is not to be a technical book, so this is not the time nor place to discuss thoroughly the action, behavior or effects of these coordinate points; nor of the electromagnetic energy units — those natural emanations of consciousness of which I spoke. [...]

[...] As a result you forget your natural selves, and become involved in a secondary, largely imaginary culture: battles that are projected negatively into the future, individually and en masse. [...]

3. My body’s natural safety is the result of its built-in agility, its ability to relax, to let go, to move and respond. [...]

[...] I will work on one book one night and another one the next, if you prefer, or discuss private material or other questions of a general nature, or work twice a week on our present material—whatever suits your fine fancies (with much humor). [...]

[...] It began as a protection from, and a defense against, some of the mysteries of the natural world. [...]

[...] Natural magic: This process can bring you more complex ideas and proof than you conceived of.

¹Rob describes Framework 2 in Session One, Footnote 2. Seth discusses Frameworks 3 and 4 in The Individual and the Nature of Mass Events as creative environments to keep in mind also. [...]

[...] This is one of the reasons, say, for the development of secondary symptoms of a medical nature, when one portion of the body is treated, and then other portions seem to develop symptoms. [...]

Ruburt’s condition now, then, involves the whole body in a natural fashion. [...]

[...] If you keep your sights where you want them, the improvements will continue, and their nature will become more than obvious.

He is to realize that if he has any duty or purpose in life, it is indeed to express those very abilities (all very emphatically), since those abilities are so natural in his makeup, they also possess their own protective mechanisms. He must realize that he is free to express his poetic, psychic nature, and to follow wherever it leads — since it is indeed his natural pathway into existence, and his most intimate connection with the universe, and with All That Is.

[...] By all means express your emotions to each other as they naturally occur. Ruburt was not taught to love himself as a child, and thought of his talents as a way of justifying his existence — an existence of somewhat suspicious nature, he felt, since his mother told him often that he was responsible for her own poor health.

[...] The shocking nature mainly appearing in the home. However some observable psychotic reactions will be apparent at the (barely whispering now) business place, involving temper tantrums of growing infantile nature.

[...] Both Peg and Bill mentioned a chaotic state existing at the newspaper office where they work, though Bill said this was merely the result of a natural evolution of policies perhaps. [...]

Some drug situation, not necessarily of the highly illegal nature, however. [...]

The breakdown will be emotional but it will show a physical nature affecting circulatory (hesitated on word) symptoms and the heart, but this will be secondary.

[...] You have chosen for the unoperable intimacy of tragedy and flesh and pain in order to teach yourselves the unoperable exultant nature of your own vitality and energy and song. [...]

[...] We do not understand too clearly the nature of the reality that you are creating even though the seeds were given to you by us. [...]

[...] I trust the nature of vitality and being and because I am I fulfill my destiny as you fulfill your own destiny simply through being. [...]

[...] It is not the answer to the nature of reality or to the responsibility of consciousness. [...]

[...] There are various questions involving the nature of perception that then occur, and these will be discussed somewhat later (but see Note 4). Consciousness is equipped to focus its main energy, in your terms at least, generally within the body, or to stray from it for varying amounts of time. [...] In far-past historical times, different kinds of orientation were experimented with (as by the “sleepwalkers” described in the last session, for instance). Your own present private experience can give hints and clues about such other cultures, for those abilities reside within the natural framework, now, but are underdeveloped.

[...] The basically independent nature of consciousness allows for such disentanglement.⁵ The body consciousness maintains its own equilibrium, and acts somewhat like a maintenance station.

There are two main ways of trying to find out about the nature of reality — an exterior method and an interior one. [...]

Much of the remainder of “Unknown” Reality, then, will deal with an inside look at the nature of reality, and with some exercises that will allow you to see yourself and your world from another perspective. [...]

The body is amazingly quick to act upon environmental cues of a physical nature, but your world also involves cultural activity and “dangers” that are not immediately biologically perceivable. So while the body is well equipped to heal itself, and to maintain its own equilibrium, it is also highly responsive to other issues that are of a different nature and beyond the realm of its own functions.

[...] Fear of a biological nature is in itself healthy. [...]

(12:08.) Mainly I want him to follow his impulses—which will naturally fall into the lines I have suggested. [...]

For example: Many of you believe in the basis of Freudian psychology — that the son naturally wants to displace the father in his mother’s attentions, and that beneath the son’s love for his father, there rages the murderous intent to kill. [...]

You cannot begin to have a true psychology, again, unless you see the living self in a greater context, with greater motives, purposes and meanings than you now assign to it, or for that matter than you assign to nature and its creatures. [...]

He could not express his love for her in the terms she wished for he believed that women would, if allowed to, destroy the man’s freedom, and he interpreted the natural need for love as an unfortunate emotional demand. [...]

[...] So much more evidence is available to you: the order of nature; the creative drama of your dreams, that project your consciousness into other times and places; the very precision with which you spontaneously grow, without knowing how, from a fetus into an adult; the existence of heroic themes and quests and ideals that pervade the life of even the worst scoundrel — these all give evidence of the greater context in which you have your being.

[...] (Pause.) Its own nature regulates its intensity, rather than any rules inherent in the nature of intensity itself. [...]

[...] This traveling-through obviously changes the nature of the moment points. [...]

[...] What I am trying to tell you is that a thought or a feeling, with all its varieties of intensities, is more like time, like the true nature of time, than all of your minutes or hours.

[...] It is important that you discuss with him your ideas about our joint work, and the nature of my reality. [...]

The trust in the nature of his own being is important. [...]

It is true that some native populations — particularly in the past — were free of many of the childhood diseases that are considered natural by western medicine. [...]

The idea of using animals for experimentation has far more drawbacks than advantages; there is the matter of one kind of consciousness definitely taking advantage of another kind, and thus going counter to nature’s cooperative predisposition.

[...] The creatures are treated as if they possessed no feeling or consciousness of their own — and such attitudes show a most unfortunate misreading of natural events. [...]