“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] Occasionally at surface levels of consciousness, you might wonder what might have happened had you made other decisions than those you have; chosen different mates, for example, or taken up residence in other portions of the country. [...]

[...] They are profound psychological interconnections that bind you each to each, particularly in a telepathic framework, though this may be beneath normal consciousness. [...]

(9:31.) I do not like the phrase, “to advance”, yet in your terms “to advance” as a consciousness is to become more and more aware of these other materializations of your own identity. [...]

They are not “lost”, buried or negated in some superself, without free will, self-determination, or individuality. [...]

(Long pause.) Those creative elements of personality must then to some extent or another finally communicate with the “Sinful Self” directly—sympathetically embrace that self (pause) as the part of personality that first accepted cultural and religious beliefs with all of their negative and positive influences. [...] Those negative beliefs then no longer seem so frightening. [...]

[...] Yesterday evening we checked to see if Jane would have any negative reactions. [...]

(Her material this afternoon concerned “the reconciliation of the Sinful Self and its transformation into the innocent self that it was before it was undermined —indoctrinated—with negative beliefs.” [...]

[...] The belief system may in fact be negatively attuned while still providing that overall value. [...]

They constantly surround themselves with negative suggestions. When disease is seen as an invader, forced upon the integrity of the self for no reason, then the individual seems powerless and the conscious mind an adjunct. [...]

[...] Yet if you pay attention to your own quite conscious thoughts, you will find that you are concentrating upon precisely those negative aspects that so appall you. [...]

[...] Your conscious thoughts and concentrations bring about results with which you are pleased. It is only in those compartments of your life that confound you that you suddenly begin to wonder what is happening — but here also, natural hypnosis is at work just as easily and naturally, and your conscious ideas are automatically coming to physical fruition. [...]

[...] The results do not seem, now, to follow your conscious desires. But you will find that they do follow your conscious beliefs, which may be quite different.

[...] It was simply a portion of you, formed by negative inferences, that became an unwitting enemy of the self you had become. When it was slain it gained freedom, for the negative elements were released from their compulsions, and the ritualized behavior that was symbolized by the formal clothing of your dream.

[...] To some extent you can gain an idea of this through an examination of your own stream of consciousness. [...]

There is always a creative strain, in which consciousness attempts to express itself, and this has been explained earlier. [...]

They also emerge within realities, and can attain consciousness superior, in further developments, than that presently known by man.

It is not true, however, that positive and negative feelings and beliefs “take” there with equal vitality. [...]

Practically speaking, now, negative beliefs often finally catch up with an individual, leading to various diseases. [...]

Negative beliefs have to be inserted there with great repetitiveness before you meet their physical results. [...]

[...] The simple change of dish routine shows you how a change of attitude can break a negative pattern overnight. [...]

You know also that your own previous memories in this life are all available to you at other than conscious levels. [...] The days or hours spent in school are consciously forgotten. [...]

[...] You have conscious intents. [...]

[...] He is not to count the negative thoughts, for that is not the kind of concentration we want.

[...] I must tell you that it can help in a new organization mentally, break down some negative associations, and so forth.

Working nights or early mornings is a kind of solution, and a method of illumination in which he is forced to make conscious decisions. It is a way of consciously deciding to operate, to cut out distractions. [...]

The paper written today should be discussed by both of you so that those ideas are brought completely into the open where he can consciously and intellectually examine them. [...]

[...] His natural abilities are unconventionally tuned, highly spontaneous, working through intuitive loops; in a certain way, now, from a normally conscious viewpoint, unpredictable.

[...] When the system was set up, for many reasons having to do with relative youth and lack of experience, he did not have any confidence in his conscious ability to say no, to hold to a “line of attack.” [...]

Many such philosophies make you cower at the idea of entertaining “negative” thoughts or emotions. In all cases the clues to your emotional experience and behavior lie in your systems of belief: some more evident to you than others, but all available to you consciously. [...]

The conscious mind is meant to align all of your capabilities in accordance with its beliefs about the nature of reality. Those resources are considerable, for they include the deepest aspects of your creativity, and powers far beneath consciousness of which you are only dimly aware.

THE CONSCIOUS MIND AS THE CARRIER OF BELIEFS.

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Now: The next chapter, Eleven, to be titled: “The Conscious Mind as the Carrier of Beliefs. [...]

It is at first appalling to discover that the negative as well as the positive events are formed at automatic levels, but in response to your expectations and beliefs. [...] They represent a species of consciousness, a classification.

The events of your lives are in part caused by the psychological results of that level of consciousness, but only in part. Your own lives show well the stamp of still other classifications of consciousness. Events are formed then by various levels of consciousness intersecting. The mixture of those levels of consciousness, and their points of intersection, are up to you.

[...] Your psychological life is composed of many different levels of consciousness of varying classifications. You might say that perceivable events are composed of a conglomeration of certain levels of consciousness tuned in to form an event, say, instead of an object.

(9:35.) The general world level of consciousness can serve as a springboard, so that you use it as a base only while the intimate webwork of your own psychological reality uses finer creative levels of consciousness. [...]

[...] Negative dreams tend to reinforce the negative aspects of the personality, helping to form vicious circles of unfortunate complications. [...]

[...] I am conscious of these actions that occur within the psychological framework of my personality. Theoretically the human personality can, or could, be conscious of dreams even while he was in a waking state. [...]

It goes without saying that the dream universe is every bit as real to the inner self as the physical universe is to the conscious egotistical self. [...]

[...] The individual would not of course as a rule remember such a dream on a conscious level. [...]

CONTROLLED ENVIRONMENTS, AND POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE MASS BEHAVIOR.

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[...] It is up to the conscious mind to interpret sense events as clearly and concisely as possible. [...]

[...] He will consciously and unconsciously focus upon that part of the body, anticipating its malfunction. [...]

Peter will interpret such body events in a negative fashion, and as threatening, so that some quite normal sensations will serve the same functions as a fear of policemen, for example. [...]

[...] The conscious mind is fascinated and the inner self free then to act constructively. [...] Consciousness is not that simple.

Part of the reason is the negative input that you both are responsible for. With the negative and destructive attitudes you had before our sessions, you are both very lucky that you did not run into more difficulty.

[...] These states are then manipulated, often subjectively, sometimes consciously. [...]

Both of you however have a tendency to dig inward, and to concentrate upon negatives. [...]

Each consciousness has its own responsibility for those thoughts and emotions and it accepts and originates. [...] This does nothing to negate the validity and integrity of the self that you know. [...]

[...] If you are in the habit, for example, of deep negative thought then you will attract to yourself negative feelings and experience deep depression. [...]

[...] Each personality to itself has continuous consciousness. Its consciousness is continuous and it knows who it is and it experiences no lapses. [...]

(To Sue.) For this one over here, no probable self is at the mercy of negative thoughts of yours. [...]

The concept of nirvana (see the 637th session in Chapter Nine) and the idea of heaven are two versions of the same picture, the former being one in which individuality is lost in the bliss of undifferentiated consciousness, and the latter one in which still-conscious individuals perform mindless adoration. Neither theory contains an understanding of the functions of the conscious mind, or the evolution of consciousness — or, for that matter, certain aspects of greater physics. [...]

[...] The woman being created from his rib symbolized the necessary emergence, even from the new creature, of the intuitive forces that will always come forth — for without that development the race would not have attained self-consciousness in your terms.

[...] The earthly characteristics often appear as he is depicted in animal form, for he was also of course connected with the intuitive terrestrial attributes from which the new human consciousness would spring.

Now: This new kind of consciousness brought with it the open mirror of memory in which past joy and pain could be recalled, and so the realization of mortal death became more immediate than it was with the animals.

[...] Some new habits have finally taken; consciously he has learned to leave himself alone enough so that the body can clear itself.

Now this does have personality characteristics in terms of consciousness and intent. [...]

These are personalities, in that they do possess consciousness, in this case built upon Ruburt’s most creative tendencies. [...]

(“Did he have a negative personality like this?”)

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

[...] The rock is composed of atoms and molecules, each with their own consciousness. This forms a gestalt rock consciousness. These units are sent out indiscriminately by the various atoms and molecules, but portions of them are also directed by the overall rock consciousness. [...]

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

They are electromagnetic, in your terms, following their own patterns of positive and negative charge, and following also certain laws of magnetism. [...]

[...] Your body has an overall body consciousness filled with energy and vitality. It automatically rights any imbalances, but your conscious beliefs also affect this body consciousness. [...]

[...] This is not to say that the medical profession often is not of great aid and benefit, but within the value system in which it operates much of its positive influence is negated.

[...] That is why it is vital that you not reinforce these inner sounds through repeating the same negative suggestions to yourself. [...]

[...] If you do not like what you see then quite consciously change the picture in your mind.

Now what makes you ask the question or doubt that any reality could be without it, for it is the basis for any reality that any consciousness knows. [...] Your negative emotions appear to you quite obviously as ill health and wars and desolation, and when something is wrong you recognize them. [...]

[...] And this involves the creation of further value fulfillment, of consciousness that is not a burden, as sometimes your consciousness seems to be to you, but joy upon which other universes can also rest. The consciousness and creativity of one, while seeming alone, is not alone but is a threshold upon which others may rest, and a framework from which others may grow. [...]

I do, indeed, and all consciousness of whatever extent feels love though it may not know the verbal designation for that is the basis of all existence. And there is no existence when you try to separate feeling from reality or consciousness from its experiences. [...]

[...] When you set up blocks against the negative ones, you also set up blocks against the creative spontaneous ones. [...]

[...] That, as Seth has remarked, the conscious mind must learn to rid itself of fear. She’d projected a lot of negative feelings upon the doctor, whom she likes, even to the point of tears. [...]

[...] Above all I wanted her to retrain her conscious mind so that such fears would be banished. [...]

[...] I wanted to know if Jane’s own efforts penetrated her psyche as deeply as the feelings she picked up from the doctor’s visit—if she neutralized those negative reactions.”)

[...] We want you to become aware of all of your activities, not simply your conscious ones. You are using abilities in that work that you are not using as yet in your conscious lives, and I want you to become aware of what these abilities are. [...]

[...] Sorrow of itself can be negative or positive according to the reasons why you entertain it. Detachment can be negative or positive according to the reasons that you adapt it. [...]

[...] The soul is not the consciousness that you know. The soul is far beyond the consciousness that you presently experience. [...]

(Following a discussion of everyone’s experience for the week and a mobility of consciousness exercise.)