“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

We will for now, however, confine ourselves to a discussion of consciousness in the beginning of the world, stressing that the first basis of physical life was largely subjective, and that the state of dreaming not only helped shape the consciousness of your species, but also in those terms served to provide a steady source of information to man about his physical environment, and served as an inner web of communication among all species. [...]

[...] People are not aware of this, and so they are unfamiliar with the great healing benefits provided by the body.

[...] Enough of them would be followed however to provide some kind of inner program, that would at least head you in the proper directions.

(To Alison.) And you, also, should have no difficulty with it at all and it will provide a good meeting place for the both of you. [...]

[...] It also provides that consciousness with firsthand knowledge psychically and directly. [...]

(The letter from the Jungian psychologist evidently provided the immediate impetus for the fly episode and for Monday evening’s events, though. [...]

[...] This section [of “Unknown” Reality] deals with the various exercises that will, I hope, provide you with your own intimate glimpses into previously unknown realities.

[...] Actually, the structure provided continuity and stability, but also was flexible enough to nurture latent developments of which we were then completely unaware. [...]

Our own tests gave me a standard against which to measure my performance and Seth’s, providing an immediate check of accuracy and teaching me to sharpen my subjective focus to go from the general to the specific. [...]

[...] Even the intent to know yourself, to face the reality of your experience, can be of great benefit, generating emotions that will provide an energy, an impetus to begin.

[...] This provides an overall reservoir of psychic characteristics, leanings, abilities, knowledge, that is as much a part of the individual’s heritage as the genetic structure is a part of the physical heritage.

However, if given a choice, Jane and I now would forgo the “benefits” stemming from animal experimentation, even if our own future welfares were to suffer because of a subsequent lack of knowledge—and providing that at a time of crisis we didn’t weaken in our joint resolve! [...]

[...] The tendencies operate in all areas, and they provide very constructive guidelines, and are beneficial when they are not carried to extremes, and when the focus is on maintaining the balance between. [...]

[...] Yet in its emergence it provided the inner self with a new kind of feedback, a different view not only of itself; but through this, the inner self was able to glimpse possibilities of development of which it had not previously been aware. [...]

[...] The earlier instructions on handling emotions, in Chapter Eleven, provide a framework in which hate can be faced and understood. [...]

[...] So there are inner psychic “races” to which you belong, or psychic stocks, so to speak, each providing physical variations.⁹

[...] The emotional charge provides the pattern and impetus for such creations. [...]

[...] Instead, for example, for news or for advice you watch your morning television news, which provides you with a kind of manufactured dream that to some extent technologically serves the same purpose. [...]

The selves who ride the wheel therefore also provide some of the power that runs the wheel. [...]

[...] I see nothing amiss with us having some fun on our own in the meantime, though—provided we’re both willing, and understand the terms of the “games.”)

[...] Nebene prayed and meditated often, so his framework, you see, is often the same as yours, and those meditative periods provide the necessary conditions on both of your parts.