“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

For one thing, while pain is unpleasant it is also a method of familiarizing the self against the edges of quickened consciousness. Any heightened sensation, pleasant or unpleasant, has a stimulating effect upon a consciousness to some degree. [...] This acquiescence to even painful stimuli is a basic part of the nature of consciousness, and a necessary one.

[...] It is only when action becomes compartmented, so to speak, in the development of highly differentiated consciousness, that such refinement occurs. I am not here saying that unpleasant stimuli will not be felt as unpleasant, and reacted against, by less self-conscious organisms. I am saying that less self-conscious organisms will rejoice even in their automatic reaction against such stimuli, because any stimuli and reaction represents sensation, and sensation is another method by which such action knows and expresses itself.

On a very basic level, as consciousness with a self (but no conscious “I” exists in the most minute division of consciousness), all action and all sensations and all stimuli are instantly and automatically and joyfully accepted, regardless of their nature. [...]

Even a quick and automatic rejection or withdrawal from such stimulus is in itself a way by which consciousness knows itself. [...]

In other words, the psychic development is a part of his natural growth (long pause), a reaffirmation and restructuring of inner information that in one fashion or another was always available to him, but needed to find a conscious format, a conscious expression, a way to pierce the seemingly opaque habits of knowledge of the cultural world. [...]

[...] One thing that inhibited me is that I was aware, of course, of the predominantly negative context or tone of the whole idea of the list. [...]

The Mafia dream (of March 16) based on the gangsters’ series, for example, served to bring into conscious awareness not just the information, but Ruburt’s feelings about the dominant male role in your present culture. [...]

There are other dream episodes that Ruburt has forgotten, and help that he has received, that does not need to become conscious. [...]

[...] When she lay down for a nap yesterday afternoon she picked up from Seth hints of subjects he’s going to discuss in Dreams: “man migrations,” and “inside and outside cues” as pertaining to man’s consciousness. [...]

(Pause at 9:31.) All units of consciousness, whatever their degree, possess purpose and intent. [...]

[...] There is a great elasticity for action and mobility, so that, for example, in man his conscious experience can actually be put together in an almost limitless number of ways.

[...] (Pause.) In his thinking, in the quality of his thoughts, in their motion, he is indeed experimenting with a unique and a new kind of reality, forming other subjective worlds which will in their turn grow into consciousness and song, which will in their turn flower from a dream dimension into other ones. [...]

[...] I also talked about resuming use of the pendulum to see what beliefs of a negative sort were still active there.

(I would add that much of my present concern seemed to have been brought to a conscious focus by an even that took place last Saturday evening, when Jane spontaneiously asked the Bumbalos over for a drink. [...]

(No need to go on with the barrage of negative things I said after the session, I suppose. [...]

[...] While this is happening I am in no condition to critically analyze my own state of consciousness. [...]

[...] I reacted to her desire; just as I react negatively to someone who is highly critical. [...]

The situation is not negative unless you are thinking mainly in financial terms, and of great unusual wealth. [...]

[...] He to some extent (underlined twice) recognizes his projections, is consciously aware of them, and tries to deal with them, but in that particular situation you do not recognize yours, though you understand to some degree your different individual reactions.

[...] Remember, however, to concentrate now upon, say, Prentice’s failings are an exercise in negative meditation, in negative suggestion, so try, each of you, to avoid that. [...]

Without consciously knowing how his body performs such manipulations, he trusts it—the hands to hold the brush, the fingers to type or whatever, and the idea becomes reality. [...]

[...] That is highly important, for concentration upon negative experiences helped make you ill. [...]

[...] If you constantly want them without making any conscious effort, then that involves a constant sense of stress.

[...] You have negatively assumed that you could find nothing suitable—no place, that is—and resented the time involved. [...]

[...] Many of these characteristics are not particularly negative at all. [...]

[...] It would be foolish to the extreme to stay here when you are both consciously and unconsciously waiting for the bridge to be built. [...]

In physical life, your conscious mind is largely dependent upon the workings of your physical brain. You have a conscious mind whether you are in flesh or out of it, but when you are physically oriented, then it is connected to the physical brain.

First of all, it is within your conscious mind. The pendulum would be a method of allowing you to view conscious material that is not structured to recognized beliefs. [...]

Instead, on your return you are communicating to the world through your notes — a choice you made consciously, but without being aware of the other contents of your conscious mind, and the “conflicting” beliefs. [...]

Now at various times you made those conscious choices. They escaped your notice but they existed as conscious points of awareness and choice. [...]

[...] I do have a few clear conscious memories of Grandmother Butts; the last time I saw her she was ill, a few months before her death 52 years ago. Yet, strangely, I can consciously accept that my grandmother passed away more than half a century ago easier than I can the fact that my own father and mother have already been dead for seven and five years, respectively.

[...] Constructive or “positive” feelings or thoughts are more easily materialized than “negative” ones, because they are in keeping with Framework 2’s characteristics.²

[...] It is a circular, associative, “naturally ordering process,” in which spontaneity automatically exists in the overall order that will best fulfill the potentials of consciousness.

[...] I know it is difficult to comprehend, but every object that you perceive — grass or rock or stone — even ocean waves or clouds — any physical phenomenon — has its own invisible consciousness, its own intent and emotional coloration. [...]

Before you embark upon other journeys of consciousness, understand that your beliefs will follow you and form your experience there as they do here. If you believe in demons you will meet them — in this life as enemies, and in other realms of consciousness as devils or “evil spirits.”

[...] The conscious knowledge alone will trigger intuitional responses within the inner self so that you will receive helpful information through dreams, impulses, and ordinary thought patterns.

You will find yourself exaggerating the negative aspects of your life, and the positive sides of other people’s experiences. [...]

[...] Your own consciousness is embarked upon a reality that basically can be experienced by no other, that is unique and untranslatable, with its own meaning, following its own paths of becoming.

The trouble is that when you refuse to deal with such quite available conscious problems, you begin to organize other pertinent material about the problem, and it also becomes taboo. [...] Because you will not face the material, you cannot counter it with other conscious ideas, or generate other emotional feelings that would help you.

The unacceptable conscious problem therefore collects great charges of correlated emotional feelings that also go unexpressed. [...] That helped release some of them, did therefore release him consciously, and lead directly to his later writing.

[...] Tam knew the purposes of Adventures from the beginning—as did Ruburt, but neither of them could act on that knowledge consciously, for it did not serve as yet their conscious purposes.

In reference to my book’s theme now, the basic dilemma as well as its reasons and development, was quite available in Ruburt’s conscious mind all of that time. [...]

[...] Action develops according to value fulfillment, and value fulfillment has little to do with size or numbers; and action turns to consciousness. Action working on itself becomes consciousness, and in speaking of consciousness I do not necessarily mean what you mean by the word.

[...] It is conscious of itself as belonging to action. [...] It is conscious of the gestalts of which it is part.

Your concept of consciousness is fearful and limiting, and depends for its existence upon ignorance and barriers, barriers that divide parts of the self from others, from other parts of the self, and from other selves, and from experiences of the selves.

[...] It is only your ego which leads you to believe that such an expansion would result in a lessening of consciousness on the one hand, or an invasion of other selves on the other.

[...] At times you have both asked why an ailing body does not simply assert itself and use its healing abilities, throwing off the negative influence of a given set of beliefs and thoughts.

[...] When you think thoughts, they are conscious. [...]

[...] Afterward I wondered if I should have made my little speech, since it stressed negative things. [...]

(I was thinking that Seth was on his way to saying that part of Jane’s own trouble was her conscious struggle to go her own way with her unusual abilities, in spite of her early conditioning—religious and otherwise. [...]

[...] Her self-distrust was the conscious overlay for the culturally forbidden activities. [...]

[...] He must avoid being overly concerned on a conscious level.

Maltz is quite correct, in that an overly conscious (underlined) attempt is harmful. [...]

Pleasant relaxation is the key, as opposed to a retreating, drugged-like mood, or an overly tense, overly conscious worry, as to the degree of his improvement. [...]

The success exercises are also teaching him how to focus his energy without strong conscious deliberation. [...]

[...] She gave Georgia plenty of negative suggestions while I was there: “You don’t get over something like that very quickly,” etc. [...]

Once more, it is extremely important that Ruburt keep his mind on his goals, and not burden his conscious mind by trying to figure out circumstances and conditions that are best handled by the infinite intelligence that is within his own subconscious mind. [...]

[...] He did not specify anything in particular, and so left open the doorway so that his creative intelligence could choose unimpeded by too much conscious coloring—hence his first excellent attempt at holding a plate and feeding himself, even if the plate was a paper one. [...]

[...] As I have mentioned before, love is a powerful ally, particularly when it is not undermined by any preponderance of negative considerations. [...]

Trees and rocks possess their own consciousness, and also share a gestalt consciousness, even as the living portions of your body. [...] So the race of man also has individual consciousness and a gestalt or mass consciousness, of which you individually are hardly aware.

In certain terms, the ego is the eye through which the conscious mind perceives, or the focus through which it views physical reality. But the conscious mind automatically changes its focus throughout life. [...] It is only when the conscious mind becomes rigid in its direction, or allows the ego to take on some of its own functions, that difficulties arise. Then the ego allows the conscious mind to work in certain directions and blocks its awareness in others.

Everything that you experience has consciousness, and each consciousness is endowed with its own feeling-tone. [...]

[...] The ego can feel cut off, lonely and frightened, however, if the conscious mind lets the ego run away with it. The ego and the conscious mind are not the same thing. [...]

[...] Physicists and parapsychologists have suggested various sorts of minute and undiscovered entities (mindons, psychons, psitrons, and so forth) that can move backward in time relative to our conscious conception of what time is, or that are at least free of our idea of a time that flows inevitably forward. [...] (“Regular” electrons, as we think of them in our world, are negatively charged.)

[...] There are units of consciousness,³ then, as there are units of matter. [...] There is a basic unit of consciousness that, expressed, will not be broken down, as once it was thought that an atom was the smallest unit and could not be broken down. The basic unit of consciousness obviously is not physical. [...]

3. A note added later: Of course, as soon as Seth mentioned units of consciousness in “Unknown” Reality I thought of the electromagnetic energy units (EE units, as he called them) that he’d discussed in 1969 and 1971. [...] In the latter material he used several evocative analogies to describe his EE units: “… basically emanations rising from consciousness … the invisible breath of consciousness … The emanations are actually emotional tones … The units are just beneath the range of physical matter.”

[...] It is therefore the source of all other kinds of consciousness, and the varieties of its activity are infinite. It combines with others of its kind, forming then units of consciousness — as, mentioned often, atoms and molecules combine.