“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

This is simply a reaction to returning consciousness. [...] However the sugar is important in fueling the consciousness on its journey. It aids in connecting the consciousness to the body, and without it under some conditions consciousness could be cut off from return. In other words, there is indeed a connection that is and must be partially physical, between the body and the traveling consciousness, and it is based upon a certain sugar molecule in a form not normally seen.

[...] And I would warn you, though I am aware of the power of suggestion you see, and would be under such circumstances extremely careful less the warning itself act as a negative suggestion.

Consciousness simply changes its form. [...]

[...] According to the intensity of the projection and according to the systems visited, the physical body becomes more or less rigid when consciousness returns to it.

(Any role that consciousness might play in such biochemical processes isn’t considered, of course, nor is there any sort of mystical comprehension of what we’re up to as creatures. No matter how beautifully man works out a hypothesis or theory, he still does so without any thought of consciousness coming first. [...] Only man would think to burden such pervasive parts of his own being, and those of other entities, with such negative concepts! [...]

(Within such a gloomy framework, then, I think it legitimate to ask how the species can consciously stress its accidental presence in the cosmos, yet demand that its members be the most “moral” of creatures. [...] Seth hasn’t said so yet, but I think such contradictions play an important negative role in present world conditions. [...]

[...] These activities certainly represent evolution through conscious intent, guided by the same creature who insists that no sort of consciousness could have been responsible for the origin or development of “life,” let alone the “dead” matter of his planet. [...] I have yet to see in those accounts anything about the role consciousness will play in this truly miraculous conversion of dead matter into that of the living. Perhaps those involved in the experiments fear that the idea of consciousness will impugn the scientific “purity” of their work.

[...] It has a validity within very limited perspectives only; for consciousness does, indeed, evolve form. Form does not evolve consciousness. It is according to when you come into the picture, and what you choose to observe … Consciousness did not come from atoms and molecules scattered by chance through the universe….

[...] The ugliness is a direct result of negative thought.

[...] Yet surely you are wide awake when you brush your teeth, and when you dream surely you will say you are sleeping and your consciousness is dead.

How dead is sleeping consciousness, and where do you travel when you sleep? [...]

[...] All individuals and consciousness cooperatively form and sustain the frameworks that you know.

There is less differentiation, in your terms, in notime, but far more differentiation in terms of consciousness, and psychological experience. [...]

[...] It is true that one in a period of illness habitually, to one extent or another, becomes susceptible to negative psychic environmentals. [...]

[...] They coexist but they cannot meet naturally, as the negative universe coexists with your own but is divided from it.

[...] If you speak for example be conscious of speaking and hearing yourself speak. [...]

[...] Jane said she had “two lines of consciousness,” and that Seth wanted to lead her very carefully between them. [...]

[...] Jane and I thought this was unwitting negative suggestion, since Betts at 44 is 3 years younger than I am.

“Uh huh,” I said, and the details of that last episode rushed into consciousness once more. [...]

[...] (The thing is, when I consciously think in such a limited fashion, my intuitive inner self rises up and shows me that much more is involved than the ego. [...]

[...] This doesn’t mean that we consciously make a choice in the way we’re used to; we don’t sit down and say, “Well, I think I’ll get a broken leg this afternoon at three in front of Rand’s drugstore.” [...]

[...] The woman is picking up and reacting to the negative thoughts of those who believe her recovery is impossible.

(Long pause.) Actually, in several places in previous books, I did indeed describe negative suggestion and its utilization by the medical authorities under the name of preventative medicine. (In Mass Events, for instance.) If people were not sick they would not need doctors (quietly amused), and since many people are unaware consciously of their own motives, then the doctors and the patients are often in league with each other, helping to maintain the dis-ease. [...]

(I was beginning to get glimmerings of a number of questions that, as far as I knew, I hadn’t been stewing about, at least consciously. [...]

[...] But then after supper, as I talked with Seth, I found myself wondering whether the fund thing would cause enough of a change in our probabilities to perhaps negate the insurance settlement, whatever it might be. [...]

[...] However, the personality is certainly not aware of their existence on a conscious level a good deal of the time.

[...] In such a case negative ions form an electrical framework in which healing is possible. [...]

Such inner therapeutics also occur however at various levels of consciousness where they may be sparked by exterior stimuli of an esthetic or pleasing nature. [...]

[...] We have taken his ego into consideration at all times, so that he can consciously assimilate what he has learned, as is preferable. [...]

[...] If Ruburt had known what was in my mind, he would have been nervous and self-conscious.

[...] I am saying that I do not want Ruburt’s consciousness involved beforehand, and the nervous strain on Ruburt’s part of wondering how such events will come to pass must also be avoided.

[...] That is, you may hear sounds and consciously ignore them.

[...] Not so much in interpretation as the fact that some terms may be negatively suggestive, or that you may put emotional connotations where they do not belong.

Usually the dream state is considered from a negative standpoint and compared unfavorably with the waking condition. [...] We shall consider those aspects of consciousness which are present in the dream environment and absent in the physical one. [...]

[...] This does not mean that we do not repress fears and desires beneath consciousness. [...] As you will see later in this book, dreams can often release such repressed material for your conscious examination.

[...] Though Seth told us that the experiments in dream recall would automatically make our consciousness more flexible, his real meaning didn’t come through to me until I found myself manipulating dreams and later having out-of-body experiences from the dream state.

[...] This is a gradual process that gently leads the ego into largely unfamiliar territory and at the same time encourages flexibility of consciousness.

[...] She herself projects highly negative feelings outward onto her sitters, and then picks these up again on a subconscious level, and reacts to them. [...]

[...] Jane said that she had been far-out toward the end of the session, and felt that her consciousness had been “roaming around” without alighting upon anything definite.)

[...] For if past, present and future exist together (and continue to develop), then I see nostalgia as expressing a legitimate searching by the conscious mind as it seeks to grasp that the past exists now, and is not “dead.” [...] The yearning I feel each time I drive past the apartment house Jane and I lived in for 15 years, just west of the business section of Elmira, represents my conscious reunification of the past with the present, and even a projection of both into the future in ordinary terms.

[...] Before going into our chronology of personal events for those three months, however, I want to continue my brief study of the affairs—really the consciousnesses—involving Three Mile Island, Iran, and the war between Iran and Iraq. [...]

[...] Despite the appearance that the revolution in Iran—made up as it is of all of those diverse consciousnesses—is feeding upon itself in very destructive ways, in ordinary terms, civil war does not appear to be likely. [...]

Through all of our challenges, we were aware of at least some of the incredible variety of positive and negative world events in the news—the bombings and the peace talks, the sports contests and the religious controversies, the national strikes and the latest developments in the arts. [...]

[...] They are portions of your consciousness, your gestalt of being. [...]

[...] Added therefore to reasons given this evening are such issues given earlier, as a concentration upon negatives, and the methods given earlier to counter those will also be of help.

[...] The negative fears that he cannot perform however hypnotize the muscles. [...]

(Jane reports that as she delivers Seth’s messages now, she does not hear the words within before speaking them aloud; rather now she talks along without knowing consciously what she will say from one word to the next. [...]

Now when this ego becomes overly concerned over practical matters it becomes overly conditioned to negative responses. [...]

[...] And rightly so, since the strong negative suggestions given by her actually represented a turning point, and not a good one. [...]

Dissociation will blot out negative suggestions and is extremely beneficial. [...]

(I’ve already cited Jane’s experience, as given in Chapter 17 of The Seth Material, showing that on rare occasions Seth Two and her feelings of massiveness can go together; but she can also be in an altered, massive state of consciousness without having a session, or she can be speaking for Seth. [...] In Volume 1, Seth devoted much of the 681st session to a discussion of probabilities, or, in sum, All That Is, and interwound Jane’s psychic and physical experiences with that material: “The cellular consciousness experiences itself as eternal … Part of Ruburt’s feeling of massiveness² comes from the mass [life-to-death] experience of the body, existing all at once. [...]

[...] Just before its start, Jane had had the self-conscious idea that she should rub between her eyes with a circular motion — “You know, where the third eye⁵ would be….” In the session itself she came through with material about herself on her “own,” without Seth, but in an altered state of consciousness in which she experienced many vivid subjective images, coupled with strong feelings of massiveness. [...]

1. In Appendix 3 of Adventures Jane listed and described the altered states of consciousness that she’s attained so far in her psychic development. She also considered Seth Two in various other parts of Adventures. In Chapter 2, for instance, the Seth Two quotations are cast in the editorial “we,” the guise in which that energy gestalt often comes through: “We are trying to appreciate the nature of your present existence … For you there may seem to be an unbearable loneliness, because you are so used to relating to the warm victory of the flesh, and [here] there is no physical being … Yet beyond and within that isolation is a point of light that is consciousness. [...]

[...] (In the session itself Seth makes some intriguing references to related possibilities: “In out-of-body states, consciousness can travel faster than light — often, in fact, instantaneously.” Also see Note 2.) In the 682nd session for Volume 1, while discussing his CU’s, or units of consciousness, Seth told us: “Of course they move faster than light.” [...]

[...] Four books were featured, but none of Jane’s. I showed it to her, and it got as negative a reaction from her as it did me. [...]

[...] But these are not as negative as you often suppose. [...]

[...] This does not mean that he need feel like an idiot, but that he set up a body habit for reasons that he once considered valid, and that to change it requires some conscious effort. [...]

I have told you that the ego is self-conscious action that attempts to set itself apart from action and to consider action as an object. Now this altered ego retains its highly specialized self-consciousness, and yet it can now experience itself as an identity within and as a part of action.

This is a cornerstone for consciousness and for personality. [...] Without it, no further development of consciousness can occur. [...]

[...] ‘At that moment they created you out of their fears and negative emotions, with all their talents but with all their aggressions and bitterness too. [...]

[...] Look for dream individuals with whom you are not acquainted in normally conscious life. [...]

(Just before the session Jane began to edge into an altered state of consciousness other than the one she uses for her “Seth trance,” as she put it. [...]

So the psychic families, or the families of consciousness, can be thought of as natives of inner countries of the mind, sharing heritages, purposes, and intents that may have little to do with the physical countries in which you live your surface lives. [...]

[...] (Long pause.) You are not subordinate to some giant consciousness. [...]

There are infinite versions of yourself, but no one negates the others, and each is connected with the others, and aids and supports them. [...]

The cooperation can be joyous, given freely on subconscious and conscious levels, or it can be given in a grudging manner, but it will be given.

(My writing hand was beginning to tire, yet I did not want to pause, so answered in the negative.

[...] My name for him is Ruburt, which happens to be a male name simply because the name is the closest translation, in your terms, for the name of the whole self or entity, of which he is now a self-conscious part.