“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Now: As mentioned somewhat earlier in this book, while your normal waking consciousness seems continual to you, and you are aware usually of no blank spots, nevertheless it has great fluctuations. To a large extent it has memory only of itself and its own perceptions. In normal consciousness, then, it seems as if there are no real other kinds of consciousness, no other areas or levels. When it encounters “blank spots” and “returns,” it blots out awareness that the moment of nonfunction occurred.

In these lapses you are perceiving other kinds of reality — with other than normal waking consciousness. When you return, you lose the thread. Normal waking consciousness pretends there was never any break. This happens with some regularity, and to varying degrees, from fifteen to fifty times an hour, according to your activities.

Normal waking consciousness weaves in and out of this infinite supportive webwork. Your inner experience is so intricate that verbally it is almost impossible to describe. Normal waking consciousness, while having memory of itself, obviously does not retain all memory all of the time. It is said that memory of past events drops back into the subconscious. It is still intensely alive, and by alive I mean living and active, although you do not focus upon it.

It is precisely in the low points of fluctuation that such experiences originate, for normal consciousness is momentarily at a weak state and in a period of rest. The whole physical organism undergoes such normal fluctuations, again, that are usually quite unnoticed. These periods also fluctuate, following rhythms that have to do with the characteristic personality. In some the waves of motion are comparatively long and slow, the valleys within being sloped; with others, the reverse is true.

Important Note: I’ve been following Seth’s instructions fairly well, not completely—and today got more good James on Faith: he mentions the extra-normal or super-normal power again. [...] normal mobility, in the areas affected. [...] that were originally relieved in the head.) In those areas though, the mobility feels normal—uh, if I remember correctly... [...]

[...] Very briefly, for your edification: Ruburt’s eyes are achieving normal motion, the muscles and so forth being released to normal capacity in the last few days. [...]

[...] The sinuses are vastly better, the jaws in the process of returning to normal.

[...] I do want to point out that all fetuses do not necessarily intend to develop into normal babies, and that if medical science, through its techniques, ends up in directing a normal birth, the consciousness of the child may never feel normally allied with physical experience.

[...] In fact, many fetuses explore that element of existence numberless times before deciding to go on still further, and emerge normally from the womb.

[...] Another individual, under the same circumstances, might change its mind and decide to go along with the experience of normal life.

There are also perfectly healthy, normal children who have determined ahead of time that they will live only to the threshold of adulthood, happy and flushed with dreams and promises of accomplishment, yet not experiencing any disillusionment or regret or sorrow. [...]

[...] I said I’d make sure to write up the eye thing probably for a chapter when the eyes got fairly normal—without waiting for say, normal walking. Anyhow—by Sunday evening the whole head, neck, eye, ear, area quite improved in motion; moves faster, those ligaments more resilient, and the motion though restricted, I’d say, near normal. [...]

It matures as far as the normal you is concerned, you see. [...] it is the part of Ruburt with which I normally work.

[...] The waking self may be engaged in normal activities while the inner self is someplace else entirely. [...]

[...] Here you are dealing with the waking consciousness in its normally strong and dominant condition. [...]

You must allow the normal waking consciousness to become transparent, so to speak, without however disturbing its flow. [...]

[...] In certain terms the physical world can (underlined) be said to be opaquely perceived then, while other perceptions become clearer, but the normally conscious attention (underlined) is no longer so dominant, and even normal beliefs go into a momentary withdrawal.

[...] In certain stages of consciousness, beliefs can be changed more easily, but there must be of course an insertion from the normal egotistical level in most (underlined) instances.

[...] His intentness then is translated or transferred away from the normal environment.

[...] The body is now conditioning itself as it returns to normal—normal health and function. [...]

[...] All of this is now returning to normal. [...]

[...] Set up your life situation about a normal pattern, and because Ruburt has lost a clear idea of what this is you can help him here. Your financial situation is increasing beyond your early dreams, because of a change in belief—so begin acting as if the normal pattern exists. [...]

[...] So let your normality serve as a sounding board for him. [...]

If you try simply to spontaneously express your own normal feelings in terms of going out, etc., he is now more able to follow your lead. [...]

If a normal physical routine is followed in the household, naturally all else will follow.

[...] This also encourages various kinds of hysterical reactions, as well as a larger frequency of “contagious diseases” than is experienced by the normal population.

[...] The children are strictly raised, and a lack of normal spontaneity is the rule rather than the exception. [...]

[...] If you believe that the body is somehow evil, you may punish it by nearly starving to death, even though your diet might be considered normal by usual standards. [...]

[...] Leanne came in to check Jane’s vitals — they were all normal — and to give her Darvoset. [...]

So there was an exaggerated idea of the effect of normally expressed aggression. A normal child at times can slap its parent back, and the parent is obviously immune. The child’s strength is nothing against the parent's. In Ruburt’s case such normal reactions were out of the question.

When Ruburt finds himself concentrating upon his symptoms, then let it be a sign that normal aggressions are not being recognized, that he is afraid of hurting someone else, and that this is blocking his normal enjoyment of daily activities.

[...] Often in such situations he will hurt himself because he has an exaggerated (underlined) idea of the hurt any normal aggressive reaction, from a frown to a verbal one, can have.

[...] Only when it is not allowed normal (underlined) outlets. [...]

Now there is a difference between the normal action of such stress hormones in healthy periods as opposed to times of abnormal exaggerated stress. [...] Too much normal adrenaline, for example, places the body in abnormal stress that itself triggers, finally, more adrenaline, but the quality of overproduced adrenaline has a different effect. [...] Then the kind of condition just mentioned initiates a new normal adrenaline whose effects, again, are different.

[...] With this comes a lessening of tension, muscular tension, in all areas, and also the initiation of certain hormones produced in times of normal healthy stress, that help combat imbalances.

That determination and that faith also let him see (long pause) how far from healthy, normal behavior he had come. [...] This did arouse still more faith and determination, but he was then faced with that realization he had not encountered earlier, and he saw how long it had been since he had enjoyed anything like normal mobility.

(Jane’s temperature has been in the normal range. [...]

(Pause at 4:27.) In the same way, Ruburt encountered the hospital surroundings from another viewpoint, seeing how apart that environment was from a normal situation. [...]

[...] Then she said, her voice breaking, “It wasn’t until the other day that I really realized — felt — just how far I’d strayed from normal motion, or life, after all this time. [...]

[...] Your firewalker inserts another probability, and hence reacts to and with that reality of the fire in ways that are not considered normal. [...]

(10:29.) He is beginning to release the desire to walk normally, rather just to ask for improvements—for before, he was not sure where he wanted those improvements to lead. [...]

In many cases of health problems, energy is actually being applied to block the body’s normal healing processes. [...]

(11:10.) I do not want you to put Ruburt’s normal walking in some indistinct distant future. [...]

[...] The actual transition itself to normal walking is being assured by those changes that are occurring now, making the correct positions finally possible.

[...] It was brief, but enough to reawaken certain motor responses, which will then show themselves in normal rather than exaggerated activity.

His heart action was also quickened, and certain pressures put upon the capillaries and blood vessels, that are needed for normal activity. [...]

There are some notes I wanted to give you concerning dreams in which you feel certain you are normally awake. [...] As you know, you can become critically alert, but when you do so, you realize that you are not in your normal waking condition.

[...] Usually the chemical access is used in normal dreaming. In periods of exuberant energy and well being, a more than normal excess accumulates. [...]

[...] And I do believe that we are in contact with a source quite beyond our normal comprehension.

[...] It serves no purpose to include all of the many dreams of this nature that I recorded — dreams in which I managed to regain my critical senses, sometimes only to fall back into normal dreaming and sometimes to embark upon conscious experiments. [...]

[...] I also mentioned my Boy Scout dream of May 22, in which I saw her walking normally, and my vivid dream impressions of my father, of May 15, in which I woke up crying. [...]

[...] Sue Watkins visited us last night, and related several recent dreams in which she saw Jane functioning normally physically. [...]

[...] You see him operating normally. [...]

When Ruburt has such dreams, his muscles and joints react in sleep, mimicking normal actions—and he well might be sorer than usual upon awakening, because in sleep, at such times, now, without the weight of his body, standing and so forth, the muscles and joints will make motions of a releasing nature quite painlessly in the dream state. [...]

[...] His creative abilities work, no matter what he is doing, and they will work better and reach further when his body is normally flexible, able to relax normally as it should. [...]

[...] Her vision, while not normal in all respects yet, has greatly improved. [...]

[...] The inner organizations immediately trigger all the necessary actions required, from Framework 2. This applies to any issue – but again, your creative abilities, used on behalf of Ruburt’s physical condition will give him a normally cooperating body.

Since you did not clearly state your intents for, say, normal walking and flexibility, and had little faith in it, then you feared that improvements could not be trusted, for in your experience they went so far and no further. [...]

Feelings of violence accumulated early, but in his family there were no acceptable ways of releasing normal aggressive feelings. [...] For some time in his normal state as a teenager, he tried harder and harder to be “good.” [...]

In his normal condition Augustus thought of his own powerlessness — for he had denied himself normal aggressive action — and felt this weak. [...]

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In his normal state he accepted only the beliefs he considered were expected of him. [...]

Ruburt’s physical performance this afternoon should certainly show him that his body is indeed capable of normal motion. [...]

This afternoon’s physical performance does indeed represent another important breakthrough, for he felt within him that ease and motion, that release of tension that is so vital for his body’s normal, healthy performance. [...]

[...] Almost like normal people.” [...]

(“Lots of ‘normal’ people can’t move their head like that,” I said. [...]