“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Your present is the result of your own poised consciousness, choosing its perception and the nature of its life from a field that is at all predictable only because of the greater area of organization available to it.

For example: It is truer to say that heredity operates from the future backward into the past, than it is to say that it operates from the past into the present. Neither statement would be precisely correct in any case, because your present is a poised balance affected as much by the probable future as the probable past.

From your viewpoint, however, an examination of a cell will not show you that, but only its present condition. It should appear obvious from what I am saying that neither future nor past is predetermined. From your platform of poised now-experience, you alter both the past and the future, and that alteration, that change, that action, causes your point of immediate sense life.⁵

[...] She is relaxed and at peace, poised, balanced, serene, and calm. [...]

[...] In certain states of consciousness, particularly in projections from the dream state, we achieve a peculiar poise of alertness. [...]

[...] After the layoff, there was Seth poised psychologically once again (for over the thousandth time). [...] Bare legs propped up on the coffee table Rob sat, pen poised, and the session started.

[...] You hold in your mind the thought of your individuality, and of its deep source, so that both thoughts are beautifully poised, bringing about an interaction between the two, that results in a kind of energy, an attraction, an electromagnetic recognition, that refreshes the entire being.

(Pause at 11:51 — then with much emphasis.) The fact is that in life you poise delicately and yet perfectly between realities, and after death you do the same. [...]

[...] It is however highly specific, poised in the moment, but so completely that in your terms past and future are largely meaningless.

[...] The technical ability gives a poised point through which these realities can emerge. [...]

[...] The picture can be from the past or the present, but try to see it as a snapshot of a self poised in perfect focus, emerging from an underneath dimension in which other probable pictures could have been taken. [...]

[...] The conscious mind is often drugged with sleep just when it could be deriving its greatest benefits from the unconscious, and be able to poise most meaningfully in the reality that you know. [...]

[...] At times the table tipped up on two legs, then would poise there, seemingly balanced by itself. [...]

[...] That being exists in a psychological dimension (long pause), a spacious present, in which everything that was or is or will be (in your terms) is kept in immediate attention, poised in a divine context that is characterized (long pause, eyes closed) by such a brilliant concentration that the grandest and the lowliest, the largest and the smallest, are equally held in a multiloving constant focus.

[...] In one way, a state of grace or illumination happens where there is the greatest poised balance of the conscious mind with other levels of the psyche and body — a biological and spiritual recognition of the individual’s wholeness within himself and his relationship with the universe at large.

[...] They maintain the body’s structure in your poised time only by manipulating themselves in a rich medium of probabilities. [...]

[...] Consciousness poised between exquisite points of imbalance. [...]

[...] To do this you must understand, again, that man must move beyond the concepts of one god, one self, one body, one world, as these ideas are currently understood.⁵ You are now poised, in your terms, upon a threshold from which the race can go many ways. [...]

[...] Your material form is alive through natural aggression, the poised, forceful and directed action that is the carrier for creativity.

[...] Even your atomic structure, then, is poised between probabilities. [...]

[...] The poised framework of physical existence requires a particular platform of experience that you accept as valid and real. [...]

It may interest you to know that your athletic tendencies are somewhat involved in your out-of-body travel, in that it seems to you that the body must be poised and balanced, and have support — hence the hallucinations you use. [...]