“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(Also while on this walk, Jane had the thought that death approaches a personality when the personality becomes less and less able to focus his energies fully on this plane, when he can no longer control his physical image as well as in the past. [...]

[...] However, the main focus of the whole self has already begun to stray, and the energies used in necessary pattern organization for the physical plane are already being returned, taken from their attention to physical matters, and becoming more attuned to the whole self from which they were originally delegated.

Nor have we yet discussed those dream elements which have sufficient energy propulsion to maintain existence in the plane upon which they were created. [...]

[...] Evolution does not of course apply only to the human species, and as I have said consciousness on your plane exists in all things. [...]

[...] Consciousness, to a degree, was inherent in the first materialization physically upon your plane.

[...] On your plane self-consciousness exists as a rule. [...]

(“Are you dead, as we refer to death on this plane?”)

(“What plane are you on now?”

(“Will you be returning to our plane?”)

(“Are you going to incarnate on our plane again?”)

[...] Since entry into your plane or system, as a member of it, cannot be made in any other manner, it must be made in the simplest terms, and later built up—sperm, of course, being an entry in this respect. [...]

Everything within any given plane must follow the laws of the plane. [...]

[...] In discussion Bill mentions that plane changed course because of rocket launching at Cape Kennedy; this seems legitimate to me.)

[...] Fragments not on earth plane at same time as entity. [...]

Knowledge on your physical plane must be applied in human terms and human values, or the possibility of helping someone else either through the sort of a session we held last time, or through a more regular session, should not be ignored.

[...] But its ability to relate to others on the physical plane needs strengthening, particularly since the personality is vitally concerned with psychic investigation.

[...] The appearance of an individual into the physical realm is aided by the psychic collaboration of individuals on your plane. [...] Cooperation on all levels is the necessity on all planes.

[...] The qualities are real, however, and permeate other planes as well as your own. [...]

(Sessions 12 through 15 are briefly quoted in Note 4 for the 680th session, in Volume 1; Seth remarked upon the impossibility of closed systems, his own senses [including something of their limits], his ability to visit other “planes” of reality, and his “incipient” man’s form.

(From the 22nd session for February 4, 1964:) I have never trusted the written word half as much as I trust the spoken word, and on your plane it is difficult to trust either. [...]

[...] It has nothing to do with your particular plane. [...]

[...] One of mankind’s weaknesses has always been his impatience and his preoccupation with camouflage patterns on his plane. [...]

[...] Not only will it help the physical and mental being on your plane, but it will enable you to meet the whole self.

[...] Someone in your plane must want to contact someone on a nonphysical plane badly; and that survival personality must also want to communicate.

[...] He decided to think of his symptoms as an enemy, and to give them form in another plane of reality where he could do battle with them. Now this was not an astral plane, but a lower one.

[...] The stewardess at Denver let me on the plane when I explained to her that I had to meet you—”

[...] was Fred’s suitcoat stolen—maybe in a restroom or on a plane? [...]

[...] You know very well that time as you know it has no meaning except within the domain of your own plane. [...]

You see, your idea of geometry, the circle, triangles and squares, are so based upon your own plane that the apple analogy containing the circle idea will be inadequate, since not enough dimensions are implied. [...]

He will not have to worry about serious physical illness, nor will you, Joseph; as a sideline, often physical illness of a serious nature, or habitual bad health, can often be taken as an indication that the individual involved is in the maelstrom, the center, of his reincarnational cycle upon your plane. [...]

[...] Consciousness was inherent in the first materialization upon your plane.

In my operations in your plane, I must use the materials at hand, but despite any ideas to the contrary, this involves a give and take … Ruburt’s “Idea Construction” was rather amazing under the circumstances. [...]

[...] Now, condensed time is the time felt by the entity, while any of its given personalities live on a plane of physical materialization. [...]

[...] They are independent to various degrees, and they operate on various planes of existence for purposes of overall fulfillment and development.

But, you cannot use this as a rationalization in this plane of activity, which is why I said that this could be misinterpreted. [...]

([Arnold:] “They still exist in another plane?”)

Within your particular plane of activity, and speaking practically, no one fully or completely can use all the energy available to them, or completely materialize the inner sensed identity that is multidimensional. [...]

In my operations in your plane I must use the materials at hand, but despite any ideas to the contrary this involves a give and take with all involved. [...]

To me this is all so obvious that I almost hesitate to mention it, but this is because I tend to forget what human existence on your plane actually involves. [...]

[...] They each have a life ahead of them on this plane. [...]

[...] Usually it cannot operate on all levels of your physical plane.

[...] Consciousness will expand within your plane. [...]

They represent the necessary pause, though this pause understand on the physical plane is imperceivable. [...]

[...] The process is carried out so quickly as to seem simultaneous on your plane, but the pause and resulting pulsation is always present. [...]