“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] In these states, consciousness operates within definite conditions, within an ordered system of experience. [...]

This knowledge automatically changes the dream state into another in which the critical faculties are aroused and operating. [...]

[...] The intuitive portions of the personality are not so formed, and these will operate to advantage in any inner exploration.

[...] We always operate with the ego’s consent. [...]

“These portions of the self simply operate in a different dimension of reality, with different fields of activity. [...] They are all members of the same family unit and operate out of the same house. [...]

[...] The drug allows for regulated periods of highly intensified consciousness, operating at peak levels, with all the mental faculties accelerated. [...]

[...] Here we have several personalities, all operating within one self, each unaware of the other, and each going his own separate way.

[...] These effects, these various seemingly separate selves that can be demonstrated through hypnosis, operate continually and quite normally in both the waking and the dream states. [...]

[...] The nature of reality, uncamouflaged, can be glimpsed to some degree as you study the personality in the dream state, where awareness does not operate in an ego-directed manner.

Now these abilities operate whether you know it or not, but often they operate in spite of you rather than with your conscious cooperation; and often when you do find yourself using them, you become frightened, disoriented, or confused. [...]

[...] It involves conditions in which direct knowing primarily operates.

Dreams, then, operate as vast mass communicative networks, far more effective at certain levels of the psyche than, for example, television is at a physical level.

Now: as I believe I have told you often, your creativity is one of your best clues as to how you operate, yourselves, in inner reality. [...]

[...] Now because, if you’ll excuse the pun, a certain cause will usually give a certain effect in your physical universe, you may be justified in saying that these apparent results are laws that operate within your physical universe. [...]

[...] The enzyme part of our little equation therefore permits vitality to operate successfully under diverse mental and physical situations, and to form the basis for each particular plane. [...]

[...] Certain kinds of sciences cannot operate without it. [...]

[...] She is a female personality but does not operate sexually.

[...] The inner senses are not accustomed to operating so freely, and this sometimes upsets the all-present ego. Usually in our sessions, one inner sense is in strong operation. [...]

[...] Psychological time operates during sleep and quiet hours of consciousness. [...]

[...] Schizophrenia is caused by a personality fragment that is broken off, so to speak, from the primary acting personality, operating often in direct opposition to the primary personality, but in any case operating as a secondary personality.

So you see that the laws operate in such a manner that we are more or less kept in our place. [...]

This operates in individual and mass terms. [...]

(Long pause.) The same sort of thing operates in the actualization of any event in which you are involved. [...]

[...] Your thoughts direct the overall functioning of your body’s cells, even though you do not consciously know how those cells operate. [...]

[...] In your terms this means that each cell operates with an innate picture of the body’s entire history — past, present, and future.

[...] It seems you could not operate your world on feelings — but you are not doing very well trying to operate with diagrams, either!

[...] There is no doubt that the whole self is a composite formed by the various aspects of the personality as it is seen in the waking and dream states, and at other levels of operation.

The energy used in constructing dreams is every bit as intense as the energy used in the waking state, but there is no depletion because the sleeping self uses energy more naturally, realizing that it is available, and being more free in its operation.

Lack of this last factor can cause a personality to be reborn more times on your plane than would be necessary if only the role requirement operated. [...]

The part of you who dreams is the “I” as much as the part of you that operates in any other manner. [...]

[...] In other words breathing and dreaming are not automatic, nor do they operate without your knowledge. [...]

[...] I have been speaking here only, if you will believe it, of personalities in their particular lives as they operate on your plane, and I have much to say.

The physical body is a camouflage pattern operating in a larger camouflage pattern. But the body and all camouflage patterns are also transformers of the vital inner stuff of the universe, enabling it to operate under new and various conditions.

The subconscious, however, also contains the undistorted material of the mind, which is uncamouflaged and which operates between planes, knowing no boundaries.

Now those tendencies are not natural to the intellect, but only appear when it is forced to operate in such an isolated fashion — isolated not only in time and space, but psychologically isolated from other portions of the personality that are meant to bring it additional information that it does not possess, and a kind of magical support.

Now: In one dream when you were asleep, when you were seemingly not rational, when your intellect was seemingly not operating, you perceived information about your past physical environment. [...]

[...] As if to say, “Yes, the magical approach does indeed operate, and this is how.”

[...] There is a growth principle operating in the realm of ideas and in the construction of these ideas into camouflage patterns.

The inner senses operate on all planes and under all circumstances. [...]

I intend to go into more material about various planes, and soon to give a comprehensive view of the inner senses and their mechanism and operation. [...]

[...] In one manner of speaking, then, the suggestions you give yourselves constantly operate overall as beliefs that are reflected in your experience.

[...] It is a fact that fears were hidden, that caused body beliefs to operate.

[...] I named several beliefs that could be operating, ranging all the way from a fear of failure to our not wanting to see the symptoms go. [...]