“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

However, efforts were being made then to map inner reality in ways that have not been attempted since. It is true that in the dream state and in some other levels of existence close to your own, there is strong individual play in the creation of images, and a magnificent use of symbolism, but all of this takes place, again, in an “objective” definite environment, an environment whose characteristics make such phenomena possible — a field of activity, then, with its own rules. Now the Speakers are familiar with those rules, and often serve as guides. They have at times worked within organizations as in Egypt, where they worked through the temples and became involved with the power structures. As a rule, however, they are far more solitary.

Now: The rules within physical reality say that objects appear to be stationary and permanent. The rules of other realities are often far different, however. The nature of mental activities will follow different lines, and “continuity” in terms of time will not exist. Perceptual organization will exist by the use of different psychological groupings. (Pause.)

From the outside, such systems would seem meaningless to you even if you were able to perceive them. You would not be able to observe the pivot points about which actions occurred. The very definite rules of that system then would be quite obscure to you.

Dream of last night**** I dreamed that my entire head was being completely cleared, despite all laws or rules to the contrary... [...] Don’t know what was meant by: all rules to the contrary... [...]

[...] And each of you, in your heart, thinks you are an exception to the rule. And there are no exceptions to the rule. And I was no exception to the rule. And Ruburt is no exception to the rule. [...]

[...] You are not free when you say: “The idea works for everyone but me—but my symptoms are caused by something else—and when I am violent, different rules apply. [...]

[...] You will not get it by saying: “I am the exception to the rule!” You will not get it by running away from yourself. [...]

[...] Again, there are exceptions where memory is retained, but as a rule ghosts and apparitions are not any more aware of their effect upon others than you are when you appear quite unconsciously as ghosts in worlds that would be quite strange to you.

(9:55.) All of these forms are called secondary constructions, for as a rule full consciousness of the personality is not in them. [...]

Some dead friends and relatives do visit you, projecting from their own level of reality into yours, but you cannot as a rule perceive their forms. [...]

The rules of physics are no more than gentlemen’s rules of the game but the firewalker plays a different game, with different rules, and they work also.

[...] They are the ground rules of your reality—but not the ground rules of all realities or of all probabilities. [...]

The rules are that you create your universe—that you create within the system that you know the world that you know. The rules are that within you there is knowledge... [...] The rules are that this universe is created by the thoughts that exist within each of your minds... [...] And these are the only rules, for you have been given what you always say you want... [...]

[...] He passes through it so quickly as a rule. [...]

The state into which Ruburt fell as a rule allows no such focus in either reality, but a suspension. [...]

[...] It is passed through very quickly as a rule, both on the way into a trance and on the way out of one. [...]

[...] We follow what rules of form exist within these environments. [...]

[...] In so doing I immediately experience — and fully — your past, present, and future (in your terms), and all of those strong or determining emotions and motivations that have ruled you. [...]

[...] Only through the use of the intuitions and in sleep and dream states, as a rule, can you perceive the joyfully changing nature of your own, and any, consciousness.

[...] However there is no rule, then, saying that the reincarnating personality must take over the new form prepared for it either at the point of conception, in the very earliest months of the fetus’s growth, or even at the point of birth.

[...] They are manipulators of matter as a rule.

As a rule, now, those who do not enter your plane of existence until the point of birth are less able manipulators in those particular terms. [...]

As a rule you have enough difficulty dealing with the day’s occurrences, much less next week’s, and so in the sequence of events the reality of probable actions is usually hidden from your view. [...]

[...] As a rule most of you wake up in the same bed in the same house or town, but certainly you wake up as the same person in the same century. [...]

[...] It manipulates with rules of cause and effect and consecutive moments. [...]

[...] Since “the rules” of Framework 2 are different, that reality is not at all bound by your physical assumptions. [...]

[...] As a general rule, the inner ego depends upon your assessment of physical events. [...]

[...] The manuscript of The Rule Book of Love: A Seth Book, is written on the back of heavy white stationery from Howard Johnson’s motor lodge in Coraopolis, PA, which may be near Philadelphia. [...] Their set of rules of the game are just as strict as ours are—at least that’s the way it seems to be in Fred’s case. [...]

[...] I have here the Christ Book, as well as another Seth book, The Rules of Love: A Seth Book. [...]

[...] From the attaché case Fred took the handwritten manuscript of The Rules of Love. “Please. [...]

[...] Nevertheless if you can believe it this siege is about over, the energy itself finding much more beneficial outlet in the poetry which comes with a splurge at the end of March as a rule.

[...] As a rule you will usually have such experiences to begin with through one inner sense. [...]

[...] What I should perhaps add for the sake of clearness is that you will not as a rule be aware of data that comes to you through more than one sense, inner sense, at a time.

[...] My saying that such a course of bodily harm is pointless is beside the point, when one considers how deeply they have ruled Jane for many years. [...]

(The session reinforced much of what I wrote in my notes before it was held — that fear rules, and whether by choice or not, has for many years. [...]

[...] Incidentally, his system automatically as a rule seeks those foods that tend to build up the particular sort of energy that he uses in the main. As a rule therefore, proteins are indeed a most beneficial food to him, and it is for this reason that he automatically seeks them out.

[...] There are no exceptions to this rule. [...]

You can know what happened in the past and have histories, because according to the rules of the game that you accepted, you believe that the past, but not the future, can be perceived. You could have histories of the future in the present, if the rules of the game were different. [...]

(Long pause at 11:11.) In other levels of reality, the rules of the game change. [...]

(Pause.) When you examine the state of dreams, however, you do it as a rule from the framework of waking reality. You try to measure the dimension of dream experience by applying the rules of reality that are your usual criteria for judging events. [...]

Six weeks ago in Tehran, the capital city of Iran, over 150 officials of the ruling Islamic Republican Party were killed by bomb explosions which destroyed their headquarters building. [...] [The most powerful one, the Mujahedin-e Khalq, for example, is a Marxist-based guerrilla organization of “People’s Crusaders” that espouses its own brand of radical Islamic republicanism.] The mass killing resulted in an immediate increase in the government’s campaign to eliminate opponents of clerical [Shiite] rule in Iran. [...]

[...] (Pause.) As your private conscious life is lived in a community setting of one kind or another as a rule, so do your dreams take place in the same context, so that as you dream for yourself, to some extent you also dream for your own family, for your community, and for the world.

[...] Those rules do not change. [...]

[...] Those who set up laws and rules and regulations often find themselves confronted with those laws and rules and regulations in other lives and through their own struggle then, to escape from these, then they learn that the laws and rules and regulations were not beneficial. [...]

[...] Jane kept on speaking as Seth.) You could say that various time systems are like games, and there are many of them; and in each one the rules and the goals are different. In your system one of the rules is that you forget you are playing a game in order to concentrate better on the affairs at hand.

You cannot apply the rules of your game to the universe however, nor project them in such a manner and expect any valid results. [...]