“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Now there is something you do not understand, and so I will set you straight. It has been given in our material—I do not want to upset any of you. You have all seen, I suppose, educational TV. Now when you turn on your miraculous contrivance and you see the teacher on the screen, that does not mean that at that moment, the teacher is on the screen. Do you follow me? The teacher is quite legitimate but he is not there when you see him.

Now when your teacher appears on the TV screen, he is not aware consciously of himself within the image that you see. It is completely a taped production. When the same thing happens in our classes, however, I am here—but to a lesser extent than I am at this moment. I am aware of myself, going with our analogy, within the image that you would see on your TV screen.

And so sometimes you are given a recording. Now this does not mean that I am not present in such sessions, anymore than it does not mean that the information you are given by the teacher, on the screen, is not legitimate. It is a reasonable facsimile.

You may, instead, just lie quietly and concentrate on a dark screen until images or lights appear on it. [...]

Since we can’t concentrate fully on two things at once, you may focus your attention on the screen again or on any imaginary image—this will banish the annoying worries. [...]

[...] Yet that larger inner system of communications is far more powerful in scope, and each mental act is imprinted in the multidimensional screen of Framework 2. That screen is available to all, and in other levels of consciousness, particularly in the sleep and dreaming stages, the events of that inner reality are as ever-present and easily accessible as physical events are when you are awake.

[...] You watch all of these dramas, hardly understanding how it is that they appear on your screen to begin with. [...]

[...] The programming for Channel 9, for example, does not suddenly intrude on Channel 6. Even the actors themselves, taking part in such sagas, have but the remotest idea of events that are involved in order that their own images will appear on your television screen. [...]

(Slowly:) The simple picture of the universe that you see on our screen, therefore, represents a view from your own now perspective — but each star, planet, galaxy or whatever is made up of other reference points in which, to put it simply, the same patterns have different kinds of reality. [...] Otherwise you are simply flying like an insect around the outside of the television set, trying to light on the fruit, say, that is shown upon the screen — and wondering, like a poor bemused fly, why you cannot. [...] That physical program is the one you are acting in, alive in, and it is the one shown on the screen. The screen is the part of your psyche upon which you are concentrating. [...]

Now imagine that the picture on the television screen shows your own universe. Your idea of space travel would be to send a ship from one planet, earth, outward into the rest of space that you perceive on that “flat” screen. [...] Imagine here, now, that the screen’s picture is off-center to begin with, so that everything is distorted to some extent, and going out into space seems to be going backward into time.

[...] In what seems to be the small space of the screen many programs are going on, though you can tune in to only one at a time.

(The TV screen entered the data because Jane used an analogy in the first couple of pages of chapter five of the dream book, involving a TV screen; she mentioned it quite extensively on two pages. [...] It is found instead in the second draft; rewriting the chapter, Jane then inserted the television screen analogy to help make some points clear.

(“Also a small screen.” [...] Association a couple of days later reminded her that she had indeed had one mental picture—that of a small television screen, and quite clearly. [...]

[...] Coming across the TV analogy made Seth’s data about a screen clear to her—particularly when it also reminded her that she’d had a good image of a TV screen while giving the envelope data. [...]

[...] Some kind of connection with a screen, or with a motion picture screen, or camera screen.

(“Some kind of connection with a screen, or with a motion picture screen, or camera screen.” [...]

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(Pause.) Now in medieval times organized religion, or organized Christianity, presented each individual with a screen of beliefs through which the personal self was perceived. Portions of the self that were not perceivable through that screen were almost invisible to the private person. [...] The mechanics of experience were hidden behind that screen.

Now: The beliefs of [Charles] Darwin and of [Sigmund] Freud³ alike have formed together to give you a different screen. Experience is accepted and perceived only as it is sieved through that screen. [...]

[...] This time I saw within quite clearly a kind of framed screen with rounded corners, such as a TV screen. The vision was of a bald male head, off center on this screen to my right as I looked at it. The border of the screen cut off a portion of the head but I could see both eyes clearly. The rest of the screen, to my left, was empty, appearing to be a milky white blankness.

(This bald head just about filled the screen from top to bottom, although I was aware of a rather thin neck. [...]

[...] You put up what you could loosely term a psychic screen to protect yourself in your parents’ home. On several occasions you almost allowed yourself to see through the screen to become aware consciously of telepathic data received from them.

You should however do very well now in periods of quiet in any telepathic experiments, for the screen is no longer needed and you have largely discarded it. [...]

Dream 2—Don’t recall the beginning but it was in a huge amphitheater and there was a picture in great color on a giant screen to the left. [...]

The teacher transforms the TV screen until the TV screen becomes momentarily the teacher. [...]

[...] So now see Ruburt as my TV screen. [...]

[...] Planets can explode on the television screen, and Ruburt will not spill one drop of coffee. [...]

In this case, the frightened perceiver knows full well that the terrible events on the screen will not suddenly explode into the living room. [...]

[...] I woke up hearing her voice as she called out to someone who was evidently at the back screen door, which I’d locked as usual. [...]

Standing outside the screen door, Fred closed his eyes and dropped his head down to his chest. [...]

[...] I opened the screen door. [...]

[...] To some extent then language operates as a screening device, enabling you to communicate certain data while effectively blocking out other kinds.

Those experienced events, however, are also the result of a screening process. [...]

(“It is a universal truth that whatever you impress on your subconscious mind is expressed on the screen of space as condition, experience, and event. [...]

(It is a universal truth that whatever you impress on your subconscious mind is expressed on the screen of space as condition, experience and event. [...]

[...] The same child might see the image of a merry-go-round on the television screen, or be told about another youngster’s visit to a playground, and a subsequent ride on a merry-go-round.

[...] Earlier caught myself stewing over my windows new room being accessible that is, noticeable; then cleared that up saying that Frank, etc., will be gone; phone book won’t have address; winter coming—but if I have to, I’ll lock the screen door or put up a note working hours no guests; but anyhow I’ll make conscious decisions and take steps. [...]

Familiar images become imprinted, as your television games can be imprinted upon your TV screen.