“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

This Introduction represents my only conscious contribution to this entire book, for example. But certainly as Seth often states, even the unconscious portions of our personalities are actually conscious. [...] Not that Seth is just another focus of mine, for it’s quite legitimate to say that I’m a focus of his consciousness in that same context; but that Seth represents that larger portion of the psyche from which our own kind of consciousness emerges. The point of all of this is the exploration of human consciousness, its ranges and scopes. [...]

[...] It represents a turning away of consciousness from ordinary reality toward an inner one. [...]

[...] Seth was discussing the Three Mile Island accident, but he left off book dictation for a while because we felt so badly, and gave us some excellent material on animal consciousness before and after death — because “tragedies” come in all shapes and sizes, and the most domestic events of our days offer Seth opportunities to comment on life itself.

So even if I was focused elsewhere and my consciousness turned inward, a spotlight was thrown upon our world from that other viewpoint, almost as if a character in one of our dreams suddenly came awake, walked out of the dream, and dared comment on our waking world. [...]

[...] When you alter your consciousness, again, you automatically begin to let old organizations of data drop away. You may have tuned out what you think of as negative feelings or programming. [...]

[...] Your consciousness must learn to organize itself in more than one fashion — or rather, you must be willing to allow your consciousness to use itself more fully. [...]

[...] Your consciousness was straying. This time begin with the point of your own finest focus, which you have established, then let your consciousness stray as given. [...]

[...] They are simply the result of not yet learning how to tune your own consciousness clearly in to other kinds of focus. [...] When you alter your conscious focus in such a fashion, you are also moving away from the part of your psyche that you consider its center. [...]

[...] If you accept those selves you will not waste energy comparing yourselves with others, particularly in negative fashions.

[...] You do have something extremely valuable when you realize it, though this is often lost to you in practical terms because of your fears and negative projections. [...]

[...] The knowledge will merge with your own conscious feelings at the time. [...]

The solution to your problems is within your knowledge, and consciously so—something few people can say. [...]

Now also realize that all consciousness is individual and sacred and that none of this is meant to deny the integrity of any individual consciousness. Do not therefore feel negated or alone for you are anything but alone. [...]

(Seth II:) We seed universes and consciousness and your animals and your plants. The consciousness that composes them, is endowed by us. The warm-blooded creatures that you know are seeded by our consciousness. [...] Consciousness releases its abilities in ways that you do not understand and yet from your own mind, springing from your own dreams, other systems of reality emerge as you have emerged from our dreams. [...]

[...] They are methods that you use as a part of all consciousness to form new experiences and new developments. [...]

Now the time has come for you to outgrow parables, but this will take considerable stretching of consciousness on your part, and considerable work on our part. [...]

The conscious mind had nothing to do with this. [...]

[...] Such a wish is very seldom on a conscious level, but it is often emotionally charged, and it brings forth immediate results because of the charge it carries. [...]

[...] As negative suggestions play their part, so do positive suggestions, and both in terms of symbols.

[...] You do this often without realizing that you do so, but a conscious knowledge will help you.

The fact also remains that on other levels but conscious ones, you know and every individual knows that the dream world that the conscious mind believes so foolish and irrational, is indeed constructed by the inner self with utmost care, with a precision known only by the intuitions. [...]

The conscious mind does not even know, and cannot of itself command, the legs to walk across the floor. Is it any wonder, then, that the conscious mind does not know how it creates the dream universe?

We will find in many cases, first of all, dreams originating in that layer of personal subconscious, the most simple being those that have immediate reference to daily conscious life. [...]

The dream objects are in fact chosen with such precise discrimination that in many instances, on deep examination they will be seen to embody not only data concerning the dreamer’s daily conscious existence, but one and every dream object may be seen to apply on many levels at once.

[...] In it, symbolically, you have “death” as your physically attuned consciousness comes to the end of the amount of stimuli it can comfortably handle without rest. So, at your normal physical death, you come to the point where your earth-attuned consciousness can no longer handle further data without a “longer rest,” and organize it into a creative meaningful whole — in terms of time.

(10:42.) The physically attuned conscious mind in your now cannot handle those staggering probabilities while maintaining a sense of identity, yet there are conscious traces within your daily thoughts that are the psychological representations of such knowledge.

The adventures of your simultaneous selves, again, appear as traces in your own consciousness, as ideas or daydreams or disconnected images, or sometimes even in sudden intuitions. [...]

[...] It does mean that in your own life such information automatically appears in intimate ways, but couched within the framework of your own comprehensions, even passing unobtrusively through your conscious thoughts.

[...] Control leads to rigidity, nonexistence and the negation of all. [...]

[...] Now, consciously you will not understand what I am telling you but unconsciously you will. [...]

[...] The transgressions were not as severe as your strong conscious supposed and the time of penance is over. [...]

[...] There are built-in guidelines so that the body consciousness itself, while mirroring your negative images at times, will also automatically struggle against them.

[...] The negative taboos over the years have built up. Some of this can be immediately negated if you do one thing.

[...] Yet instead, a high amount of concentration is involved, as other stimuli are shut out and consciousness is instead focused on visible sensation. [...]

[...] You should use your own mantra—you resent using the mantras of others—the very fact that certain mantras are expected to bring you to a certain state of consciousness is precisely enough to make you decide that you will not go in that direction.

[...] What you do not know is that all consciousnesses dream. We have said that to some degree even atoms and molecules have consciousness, and this minute consciousness nevertheless forms its own dreams, even as on the other hand it forms its own physical image.

[...] Since dreams are a by-product of any consciousness involved with matter, this leads us to the correct conclusion—that trees have their dreams, that all physical matter, being formed about individualized units of consciousness of varying degrees, also participates in the involuntary construction of the dream universe.

Consciously he knows better. [...]

[...] Hammering at his subconscious as he does on his few walks negates their purpose. [...]

[...] These all correlated with the multitudinous kinds of consciousnesses that had clamored for release, and those consciousnesses were spontaneously endowed by All That Is with those forms that fit their requirements. You had the birth of individualized consciousness as you think of it into physical context. Those consciousnesses were individualized before the beginning, but not manifest. But individualized consciousness was not quite all that bold. [...]

“Imagine a body with a fully operating body consciousness, not diseased or defective, but without the overriding ego-directed consciousness that you have. [...] Their main points of consciousness were elsewhere, their primary focuses scarcely aware of the bodies they had created. [...]

[...] I can only say that it is possessed by “the need” to lovingly create from its own being; to lovingly transform its own reality in such a way that each most slight probable consciousness can come to be (long pause); and with the need to see that any and all possible orchestrations of consciousness have the chance to emerge, to perceive and to love.

The earth then appeared as consciousness transformed itself into the many facets of nature. The atoms and molecules were alive, aware—they were no longer simply a part of a divine syntax, but they spoke themselves through the very nature of their being (gesturing). They became the living, aware vowels and syllables through which consciousness could form matter.

(I had asked: “Please redefine the ego, briefly, as a part of consciousness in our terms.”

Obviously then ego is a part of identity, rather than the other way around, and it is only a part of consciousness. [...]

[...] But this feeling of jealousy prevents you from using consciously what you have gained. [...]

[...] I commented aloud to Jane about how I thought that I had been using my psychic abilities in my paintings, quite consciously and deliberately as a most welcome aid.

[...] What you term negative suggestions are usually impeding actions, or directions of action which impede the main directive inner flow. [...]

When you speak of negative suggestions, you are actually referring to a situation where such crosscurrents entangle action within itself, and therefore impede the main constructive impetus that unrestricted action allows. [...]

Suggestions given by an individual on any kind of a conscious basis have to be given with the cooperation of the ego. [...]

[...] What you call negative suggestions are often judgments of the ego, for suggestion works from the ego to the subconscious, as well as it works the other way around. [...]

The conscious mind however is (underlined) evolving, in your terms. [...] Creativity as you understand it is the three-dimensional aspect then of greater abilities that belong to our consciousness innately, whether it is consciously materialized or not (period).

The expansion of consciousness is large enough to become a different kind of consciousness (dash)—if it as allowed freedom. [...]

[...] He was never meant to give his entire conscious concentration to (in quotes) “psychic” work. The freedom of his own creative work will enhance those abilities, but also free him for some further expansions of consciousness that are meant to follow. [...]

Most individuals dwell focused so rigidly in your particular area of space and time that the greater dimensionality of the entity is unknown to them at a conscious level. [...]

Breaking schedule brought some of this to consciousness. [...] If he chooses to work hourly again, it will be a new fresh conscious decision. [...]

[...] He could not be consciously concerned with it, or use it properly, while producing it. [...]

[...] The negative suggestions in such books as the ones Ruburt is considering buying would not help him.

[...] As its physical growth takes place in the womb, so the shaping of its consciousness is also extended by genetic dreams. These particular fetus-oriented dreams are most difficult to describe, for they are actually involved with forming the contours of the individual consciousness. [...]

Genetic dreams of one kind or another continue throughout your lives, whether or not you are consciously aware of them. [...] Those dreams are most closely related to survival in physical existence, and whenever that survival seems threatened such dreams arise to consciousness whenever possible.

[...] These help form and direct consciousness as it exists in any given individual from before birth.

[...] Such dreams, however, can also be triggered often, as in your own times, when the conscious mind is convinced that the survival of the species is threatened—and in such cases the dreams then actually represent man’s fears. [...]

[...] Earlier Ruburt would have become alarmed and frightened, felt you were being negative, and discouraged at any verbal and emotional encounter with the feelings that you expressed, precisely because they brought into the open feelings of his. [...]

A point now that I want you to heed in advance: In the past, because of joint negative attitudes, I have given the reasons for some of these. [...]

Here you were influenced, where Ruburt was not, toward a job because of ideas of security that came from your mother, and, despite your conscious evaluations, from the activities of your brothers. [...]

[...] Ruburt has noticed several occasions when he projected negatively in your direction. In other words, instances where he misinterpreted your meaning, or anticipated a negative reaction.

[...] The sounds themselves activate portions of the brain not usually used in any conscious manner. [...]

(“Impulses have a life-serving, life-promoting, creative basis, and possess a spontaneous order—though as we will see, that order may not be immediately apparent since the orderly pattern is larger than our conscious span of events.” [...]

(“Your impulses work in a specific manner, dealing with each individual or event, and based upon information that exists in Framework 2—which may not be consciously available.”

6. Some impulses are simply educational, bringing hidden intents to consciousness.

[...] Briefly: Ruburt has always felt the strength of his abilities, even before he recognized consciously the areas into which they would lead him. [...]