“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

The same applies to all “psychological” particles, to units of consciousness, and to their affiliations within personality. [...]

[...] Gradually you can change events that once led to “negative behavior” so that they then stand for small graduation exercises, and you are in the process of doing so. [...]

(To Art O.): Now, my dear scientific friend over there: Atoms and molecules, minute as they may appear to you, also carry their burden of consciousness and responsibility. Yet there is a portion of consciousness that can joyfully perceive in a manner that is not dictated by its nature; it can playfully perceive as a creative aspect of its being, without responsibility. In one manner of speaking the very air about you sings with its own joyful consciousness. It does not know the same kind of burden of consciousness that often oppresses you. (Speaking generally): You are so frightened of death, in your terms, that you dare not turn your consciousness off for one second; for you fear that if you do, indeed, who will be there to turn it back on again?

It is theoretically possible, for example, for any of you to disperse your consciousness and become a part of any object in the room — or to fly apart, to disperse yourself out into space — without leaving your sense of identity. [...] Consciousness by its very characteristics carries the burden of perception. This is the kind of consciousness you are used to thinking of. You cannot imagine it without perception in your terms; and yet consciousness can be vital and alive without your idea of perception. [...]

[...] You forget that consciousness is the only true vehicle. No part of your consciousness is imprisoned within you. [...]

Until you are honest with yourself and become consciously aware of yourself, you cannot honestly relate with others; you will project upon them your own fears and prejudices. [...] You must become consciously aware of what you tell yourself is true every moment of the day, for that is the reality that you project outward.

[...] The others can, it seems, help minimize the negative aspects of a situation while enhancing the positive. Have I helped Jane in this manner, or hindered her by reinforcing joint negative beliefs? [...]

[...] Jane hadn’t been consciously thinking about psychic matters. [...]

Consciousness predates physical forms. Consciousness predates the physical universe. (Long pause.) Consciousness predates all of its manifestations.

[...] Consciousness built the forms, so life existed within consciousness for all eternity. There was no point in which chemicals or atoms suddenly acquired life, for they always possessed consciousness, which is life’s requirement.

[...] Your own impulses naturally lead you to seek creative fulfillment, the expansion of your consciousness, psychic excursions, and the conscious knowledge and manipulation of your dreams.

[...] What you have in your physical species are the manifestations of inner species of being, or creative groupings originated by consciousness as material patterns into which consciousness then flows. [...]

[...] They grow out of each other in a kind of spontaneous expansion, a profusion of creativity, while the conscious mind chooses which aspects to experience — and those aspects then become what you call an objective event.

(9:40.) Events obviously are not formed by your species alone, so that, as I mentioned in our last session, there is a level of the dream state in which all earth-tuned consciousnesses of all species and degrees come together. [...]

Symbols can be called psychic codes that are interpreted in infinite fashion according to the circumstances in which consciousness finds itself. [...]

Individually and en masse, in the dream state you change the orientation of your consciousness, and deal with the birth of events which are only later time-structured or physically experienced.

There is conscious discipline which can be used by Ruburt, that can negate the subconscious permission, if you so determine, and this with practice will come very easily. [...]

[...] There is no way to probe the realities of consciousness except that a personality travels through all levels of consciousness open to him, and do so in such a way that he can retain and apply the information that he receives in these inner travels.

[...] For we are outlining the stages of an investigation of the nature and conditions of consciousness.

[...] These investigations will also deal with a systematic examination into all levels of consciousness.

None of your abilities contradict each other, or oppose each other, or minimize each other, or in any way negate any of your probable accomplishments. [...] They mean that your own consciousness, as you think of it, has a slant, a potential, a rich combination a peculiar savored blend that is meant to be its own creative brew (very intently). [...]

[...] Despite himself, however, he was stretching the dimensions of his own consciousness, exercising his consciousness in different directions, expanding the scope of his abilities—and in so doing contributing a small masterpiece to the world. [...]

Those sketches of his, it seems, do not stand up as creative products as a great sculpture might, but they stand for a truly creative originality in which a consciousness played with internal material, and projected outward many of the material properties that then simply did not exist. Much of his art in those terms did not show, but the art of his consciousness expanded beyond Michelangelo’s.

[...] They are physical landmarks of psychic and artistic inner journeys, but what you do with your consciousness, how you extend it, is even more important, for as physical play is meant to lead to a future physical body that is mature and fulfilled, so the creative nature of that kind of inner play leads to future extended consciousness, an inner being that is the mature version of an earlier self. [...]

[...] Your conscious concepts must enlarge so that the conscious self can understand its true nature. As you think of it, consciousness is barely — barely — half developed. [...]

Over a period of time, this can bring about some conscious experience with probable realities. [...] Nevertheless, new patterns and cognitive endeavors are being set up between the neurological structure and the consciousness that you know.

In your terms, until now your consciousness has specialized in neurological patterning. [...] Your consciousness and neurological prejudice blind you to the full dimension of physical activity. [...]

[...] Therefore, the so-called egotistical consciousness was not given complete sway. [...] An exterior separation had to occur for a while, in which consciousness forgot, egotistically speaking, that it was a part of nature, and pretended to be apart.

I am speaking now of the consciousness within each physical particle regardless of its size; of molecular consciousness, cellular consciousness, as well as the larger gestalts of consciousness with which you are usually more familiar.

[...] The rock is composed of atoms and molecules each with their own consciousness. This forms a gestalt-rock-consciousness.

[...] These units of which we spoke earlier are basically animations rising from consciousness.

You could compare these units, simply for an analogy, to the invisible breath of consciousness. [...]

[...] Controlled Environments, and Positive and Negative Mass Behavior.’” I told her I thought Seth would not only have plenty of time to cover our respective questions, but would come through with some book work too, and this was the case.

As I have often said, there are concepts most difficult to explain, particularly concerning the nature of consciousness, for often in your frame of reference certain concepts, quite valid, can appear contradictory so that one will seem to invalidate the other.

[...] The mosaics of consciousness are brilliant to behold.

[...] Yet the mosaics of consciousness are more like lights, radiating through themselves and through a million spectrums.

[...] (Our cat Willy jumped up into Jane’s lap.) Psycho-Cybernetics was good for him, for it stopped at least some of his conscious brooding. [...]

[...] Psycho-Cybernetics helps him not to brood, not to worry in advance, and set up negative reactions. [...]

The present simply should not be negatively projected into the future. [...]

[...] He interprets this negatively (pause) because he is so afraid of hurting others. [...]

I bid you a good evening, but I want you to watch your conscious thoughts for a different reason this time. I’ve told you to watch them in the past to become aware of what you are thinking and what negative suggestions you are giving yourselves. [...]

[...] Now recognizing these mental limitations will help free your consciousness and this is after all, I hope, what we all want here. [...]

The same sort of reaction occurs if you concentrate upon a personal illness, and then find any improvements insignificant because of the great focus of your attention upon the negative aspects.

All of this is intimately connected with your biological structure, which is meant to follow the conscious mind’s interpretation of reality. [...]

[...] What you do, of course, is to isolate a group of people who are filled with negative beliefs about illness. [...]

[...] All of this applies quite apart from any other dehumanizing effects, such as overcrowded conditions, the denial of human privacy, and often the negation of dignity.

[...] In this period let the conscious suggestions be given with emotion and feeling, and then have him forget all about them. He does not need to give himself conscious suggestions every fifteen minutes. [...]

Now you give yourself conscious direction by taking it for granted that you paint well, by trying to see the completed painting in your mind. This is the function of the conscious self, to use the emotions and expectations to bring about a desired result.

[...] They carry on conversations with Ruburt and on an entirely different level than the normal conscious one.

[...] Now it is extremely important that his conscious attention be elsewhere after he has given his suggestions. [...]

However, let us remember that when creating and experiencing a challenge, on any scale, consciousness may choose a predominantly positive or negative focus, or it may seek to achieve a balance. [...] So consciousness is really exploring the nuclear question in global terms, even though here in Dreams I usually deal with its “local” aspects.

[...] The units of consciousness that I have mentioned are (underlined) that, and they do behave as I have said. They are also in other terms entities, fragments of All That Is, if you prefer—divine fragments of power and majesty, containing (pause) all of the powers of consciousness as you think of it, concentrations without substance in your terms.

(Long pause at 9:28.) There are phases of relatedness, rhythms and harmonies of consciousness from whose infinite swells the molecular “music” of your universe is sounded. [...]

I do not mean by such a description to minimize the importance of physical life, for All That Is endows each portion of its own transformed reality with a unique existence that is duplicated nowhere else, and each spark of consciousness is endowed with a divine heritage that is never extinguished—a spark that is apparent in all other corners of the universe.

[...] This may be necessary — even vital — to my own well-being, although I must be careful about giving myself negative suggestions over it.

This does not mean that anyone consciously decides to get such-and-such a disease, but it does mean that some people instinctively realize that their own individual development and fulfillment does now demand another new framework of existence.

[...] I here suggest most strongly that until the following Monday at the earliest, he does not work at his writing or his records, that he does not consciously brood over them, and that he divert himself by changing the focus of his conscious awareness.

The conscious mind, the ego, must be momentarily diverted, so that the intuitive self is allowed freedom. [...]

[...] When the conscious mind is so diverted the intuitions can do their work. [...]

(Tracing of the photographic negative used in the 7th envelope test, in Session 187, September 13,1965.)

Now because of their knowledge and temperaments, they had already begun to play cards — to distract their conscious attention — and to drink wine to help reduce tension. Ruburt then went into an altered state of consciousness, and quite correctly foresaw their situation. [...]

[...] The reasons and the habits were all quite consciously available.

All of this had to do with past conscious decisions and responses to situations that, in your terms, no longer existed at the time of the flood. [...]

Again Ruburt “tuned in,” altered his state of consciousness, and was told not to take them. [...]

[...] They exist and cannot be negated.

[...] Here the rigid assumptions of normal waking consciousness often fade, and you can find yourself performing those physically rejected activities, never realizing that you have peered into a probable existence of your own.

[...] 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 came to Jane’s consciousness as we watched a very creative skit on the TV program Sesame Street. [...]

[...] In view of all of those early enjoyable events she’d had, I suggested she try focusing on them in times of stress, instead of the negative ones we usually talk about. [...]

[...] I felt self-conscious about my blue jeans and shoes. [...]