“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] These in large measure help form the physically oriented ego, or at least form its characteristic manner.

[...] Directly its experiences must be physically oriented, and yet with training it can also learn to appreciate realities that are not physical. [...]

[...] Consciousness itself, when physically oriented, burns up chemicals. [...]

[...] They are socially oriented, dealing with lively discourse. [...]

[...] Verbally oriented, Ruburt hears only an implied order, or criticism. [...]

[...] The child may think “My teeth are fine, why yell at me to brush them?” Ruburt thinks “What is there that allows you to speak your concern more actively than your love?” He is verbally oriented. [...]

[...] Here were the two of you, doing what in the world’s eyes he felt was in direct opposition to its standards—the brawny, outdoorsy, hearty, family oriented males involved.

[...] It is also connected with what we were talking about this evening, since the initiation for this particular event was dream oriented.

Any real psychology must take all these levels of the self into consideration, for the physically-oriented self that you know is largely formed by the subjective self of which you know so little.

However that portion will not always be physically oriented, and so its consciousness does become aware of certain other realities. [...]

[...] The mode of orientation is simply not the same.

[...] “I almost feel as if I’ve made some kind of completely different kind of orientation....”)

[...] Your consciousness is already oriented again to physical reality; the dream, an attempt to translate the deeper experience into recognizable forms. [...]

[...] He will then return toward physical reality in an area marked as REM sleep by your scientists, where physically oriented dream productions will be created, putting the knowledge he has gained into use.

[...] You have a conscious mind whether you are in flesh or out of it, but when you are physically oriented, then it is connected to the physical brain.

[...] It orients you toward the environment in which you must operate, and it is because of the mind’s allegiance with the temporal brain that you perceive, for example, time as a series of moments.

[...] These are directional beliefs that you receive from your parents, orienting you in ways that they feel are safe. [...]

[...] It will be remembered that Jane’s entity name is Ruburt, and that Seth refers to Ruburt as “he”; our interpretation of this being that Jane’s entity is male-oriented in the overall sense. Many sessions ago however Seth explained that this male or female orientation had little if anything to do with sex as we conceive it.

[...] Seth has given little information on Peg’s entity, but his use of “he” evidently means that Peg’s entity, like Jane’s, is male-oriented.

[...] Those Italian villages exemplified really a kind of consciousness, or an orientation of consciousness, that existed before modern psychology and Darwinian belief: a framework of consciousness and experience that was overall similar in the recent past and in the time of the Romans—one, in other words, that existed up into the present. [...]

The towns represent to you that different kind of orientation, however. [...]

[...] (On his visit Dick told us he has embarked upon the practice of transcendental meditation recently.) You saw also an Oriental version because his daughter (Teresa), who was also connected to him in an Oriental existence, was about to bear a male child.

[...] You merely focus upon the one to which you are oriented. [...]

[...] They must act on a minute-to-minute, second-to-second, microsecond-to-microsecond basis, even though their own orientation is not familiar with your time concept.

[...] For that reason you also lose the special kind of precise orientation with which you are familiar. [...]

Individually and en masse, in the dream state you change the orientation of your consciousness, and deal with the birth of events which are only later time-structured or physically experienced.

[...] In them, however, my own consciousness was still physically oriented since I “went out” to check the reliability of my perceptions against physical reality.

[...] In the beginning of the world there were numberless groupings, however, and affiliations of consciousness, many other organizations of identity that were recognized, as well as the kind of psychological orientation you have now—but [your] kind of orientation was not the paramount one. [...]

[...] The inner self still related to dream reality, while the body’s orientation and the body consciousness attained, as was intended, a great sense of physical adventure, curiosity, speculation, wonder—and so once again the inner self put a portion of its consciousness in a different parcel, so to speak. As once it had formed the body consciousness, now it formed a physically attuned consciousness, a self whose desires and intents would be oriented in a way that, alone, the inner self could not be.

[...] Adults censor many of their own dreams so that the frequent changes in sexual orientation are not remembered.

The human personality is therefore endowed sexually and psychologically with a freedom from strict sexual orientation. [...]

[...] This should be kept in mind whenever we discuss beliefs that are specifically sexually oriented.

Now: In the dream state your specialized focus need not be as precise or time-oriented as in the waking state.

[...] (Intently:) Because of the particular kind of ego-orientation that the race decided upon, however, many probabilities of development inherent in the species have been latent. [...]

[...] They orient to their bodies in their own particular manners. [...]