“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

First of all, diet-wise, your idea of a normal diet is quite adequate. [...]

In Ruburt’s case more normal food is sufficient as far as diet itself is concerned. [...]

[...] I do think that we have a supraconscious that is as far “above” the normal self as the subconscious is “below” it, though Seth maintains there are no real levels to the self—the terms just make things simpler. I ascribe ESP abilities to this supraconscious and think that it has access to information regarding the nature of reality not normally available to the egotistical portions of the personality. It may be that Seth is the psychological personification of that supraconscious extension of my normal self.

If we could remove these blind spots and enlarge the focus of our attention, I think that we would become aware of these other events, and that telepathy, precognition, and clairvoyance would be normal, practical methods of obtaining information. [...]

[...] These reasons often have to do with circumstances usually beyond normal control: electromagnetic conditions, psychological circumstances. [...]

Seth goes on to give examples of the various kinds of distortion that can occur in normal and extrasensory perception. [...]

[...] She started it in a “normal” state of consciousness and ended up in an altered one — “immersed in a high state of inner concentration,” she said. [...]

[...] (See the 620th session in Chapter Four.) Only when particular procedures are assigned to it, and when it is set aside from normal life, does hypnotic suggestion seem so esoteric. [...]

Hypnosis clearly shows in concentrated form the way in which your beliefs affect your behavior in normal life. [...]

Watching the hand in transition, changes apparent as they happened, joints and knuckles becoming very thick and large, flesh seeming to disappear so that hand became thinner otherwise,hand taking on the look of a very old woman’s, exceedingly bony, with the large, they said, exceptionally large, joints obvious; Rose frightened; Sally said the hand looked so stiff that it was here she asked me if I could bend the fingers, it was here I couldn’t answer her but did try to bend the hand; and at this point decided to give myself suggestions to come out of trance and for hand to return to normal. Afterwards, a comparison of hand as it was normally, with what they saw. [...] My own hands are bony—but no, Rose said that my hand now was the normal hand of a young woman and it definitely had been an old woman’s hand; a very old woman’s hand. [...]

In sleep your ordinary brain waves as you understand them register a chaotic jungle of experience not normally processed. [...] The normal waking consciousness, with its characteristic patterns, can indeed follow [into sleep]. [...]

[...] In normal sleep, the “conscious” wave rides beneath the others, with the face of consciousness turned inward, so to speak. [...]

[...] Walking normally, delighted, telling R.

Again, when you are in a state that is not the normal waking one, when you have forsaken this daily self, you are nevertheless conscious and alert. You merely block out the memory from the normal waking ego. [...] We will differentiate between normal ego consciousness then, and consciousness that only appears unconscious to that ego. [...]

[...] When such knowledge is gained, the ego can accept it, for it finds to its surprise that it is not less conscious, but more conscious, that its limitations are dissipated; now it is not true, and I emphasize this strongly, that so-called unconscious material, given any freedom, will draw energy away from the egotistically organized self in a normal personality.

[...] This same man, however, who would not purposely entertain fantasies of such nature under normal conditions, may in time of war imagine himself killing the enemy with the greatest feelings of holy joy and righteousness.

Normal aggressiveness flows with strong patterns of energy, giving motive power to all of your thoughts whether you consciously regard them as positive or negative, good or bad. [...]

[...] Your problem then is not how to deal with normal aggressiveness, but how to handle it when it has remained unexpressed, ignored, and denied over a long period of time. [...]

[...] But in your fear of negative thoughts you often attempt to deny all normal aggressiveness, and at the first glimpse of it bring up your mental antibodies prepared for action. [...]

(Her Seth voice was good—more “separated” from her normal voice, more distinctive, perhaps more sure, and a bit louder.)

(Pause.) I told you some time ago that miracles were simply nature unimpeded, and Ruburt is learning to give his nature freedom, so that it can follow the greater ways of its own knowledge —therefore freeing his body so that it can behave in a more natural and normal fashion. [...]

[...] Indeed, though he dislikes the word, he is finishing the first portion of his apprenticeship, in which he became acquainted with a different kind of reality, and had to learn how to equate it with the “normal one.”

[...] My consciousness does not normally operate at the same speeds as yours, either, so what I am saying has long ago, in my terms, been said, while in your present it is new, or just reaching you.

[...] They may be perfectly normal people—even gifted in other fields rather than in the specific field of their dreams. [...] Again, on occasion he promised himself that if he walked normally he would be only too glad to perform in such ways. [...]

[...] They also adhere to a greater order that is far superior to ideas of responsibility as they are usually interpreted at normal levels. [...]

[...] The “dreaming” psyche is actually as awake as you are in your normal waking life. [...]

Now: Your normal waking reality can be compared to a kind of television drama in which you participate directly in all of the dramas presented. [...]

When you are dealing with normal waking reality, you are operating at one level of the many that are native to your psyche. [...]

[...] For one thing, the critical abilities are functioning and in normal dreams they are not. [...]

[...] I had no actual memory of leaving my body, and I must have fallen off into normal sleep for a moment, because the next thing I knew, I found myself out of my body, hovering just above my sleeping physical image.

[...] I walked out to the center of the room which now was perfectly normal, but had difficulty walking and remembered that in my case, at least, this sometimes happens when I’m close to my body. [...]

[...] I felt it hard and round, perfectly normal in my astral hand. [...]

[...] He equated then a normal physical performance, from the standpoint of his condition, as an impossible perfect performance, while feeling that nothing short of perfection would please you.

[...] Instead, reignite the normal spontaneous desires he had to go out, despite the responsibility he felt he had to stay in. [...]

[...] Both of you often try to hide in your work from normal daily intercourse with others, and to make your work carry the burden of your humanity. [...]

While the large proportion remain relatively hidden, however, the average person often meets with dream fragments just below the normal threshold of consciousness — not recognizing them as what they are — experiencing instead the impulse to do this or that on a given day; to eat this or that, or to refrain from something else. [...] On the other hand the impulse might appear as a normal, logical change of plan.

[...] For one thing, your concepts of time, realistically or practically speaking, as utilized, would become more difficult to maintain in normal life. [...]

[...] But you cannot become completely aware of your dreams in their entirety, and maintain your normal physical stance.

You see, then, that while the personality can act in a more or less normal manner while in the dream state, he can also act in ways that are denied him in periods of so-called normal consciousness. [...]

[...] We will here consider the dream reality in an isolated manner, as if it were a thing disconnected from normal consciousness, although in reality it is not so disconnected.

[...] The personality will be seen to operate in some manners that would be considered quite normal, if he were in the waking state.

[...] The personality also operates within the dream state in ways that would not be considered normal in the waking state. [...]

[...] It largely works independently of normal time. [...]

[...] I also noticed that the skin on her right elbow—the only one I could see—looked much more normal in texture and color than it had, as though a deeper rejuvenation was taking place; that transparent, fragile look was disappearing. [...]

His temperature has returned to normal. His feet are returning to normal coloration, and his urine is cleansed.

[...] His balance is continually working toward normality. [...]

The eyes have improved enough so that he can work near normally enough at his writing, and they will continue to improve. [...]

[...] But there are also fluctuations in normal waking consciousness, rhythms of intense activity followed by a much less active period of consciousness.

[...] You are asking too much of normal waking consciousness, smoothing out the valleys and peaks of its activity, demanding in some cases that it go full blast ahead when it is actually at a minimal period, denying yourself the great mobility of consciousness that is possible.