“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] In another scale of time, how many ages might it seem to take for your shadow to cross from one side of the room to another? The analogy is not as farfetched as it may seem, for certainly your shadow will affect the temperature of the room minutely, and alter other conditions there in ways you would never comprehend, often causing gigantic variations to a consciousness on another scale.

[...] If you looked at that same landscape one summer and then the next, you might say: “Ah, the violets always grow there, and it is good to see the lilies of the valley in the shadow of the same rock.” [...]

5. As an artist I’m so used to observing our physical world in terms of forms, colors, shadows, shapes, and “negative shapes” — the patterns formed by areas between and around shadows or objects — that I sometimes have to remind myself of the obvious: that each individual in the world perceives it from his or her own viewpoint. [...]

The play of sunlight or shadow upon any given rock may utterly escape you.⁵ You will simply pass it by under the category of “rock.” [...]

[...] Is there some definable concrete reality, of which your own is a mere shadow?

[...] He is aware of light and shadow, of shape and form, though he must learn to distinguish these portions from the available field of reality that you accept as objects, from the available field that you do not accept as objects.

[...] At times the moving shadows gave us the illusion that the ring did move. [...] Again, the changing shadows gave us the illusion that the rocker did move slightly at times.

[...] Shadows were active; the room was rather well lighted by lights from passing traffic.

[...] Men act, then, in relationship to events that have, historically speaking, not yet occurred — but those events happening, say, in the future, in certain terms cast their shadows back into the present, or illuminate the past according to the events’ characteristics. [...]

[...] This future shadowing the present, or future illuminating the present, represents a vital element in the formation of events as they are perceived in time. [...]

If the world seems too unsafe, you set up projections often against shadows, because you have accepted those shadows unthinkingly as facts. [...]

The room does not seem to be well lighted, for this piece of furniture is in shadow. [...] Some also in shadow. [...]

Timewise and symbolically, the third scene brings us to the point where Ruburt is determined to defend his art, his dedication, to such an extent that he hides from the world, and symbolically crawls on his belly, all the while seeking to escape the dilemma by finding an open door, or by hiding from pursuers in the shadows. [...]

[...] the conscious alert self of which your present conscious mind is but a shadow. [...]

[...] Within these, Seth as you know him is a shadow within my awareness. [...]

[...] However, each of you are here because you realize you are shadows of your own true selves. [...] There is no reason why, following the material and following your own individual ways, you cannot step out of the shadows of yourselves and become the inner selves that you know that you are. [...]

[...] They are shadows given substance only because they are denied. [...]

[...] There are gradations in matter as there are gradations in your color, realities that blend one into the other, and probable systems in which various representations, reflections, shadows and echoes, all probable creations of any given self, mature.

Here the ego cannot go, but it can benefit from the information that is given to it, and perhaps in time even a shadow of the ego may pass through that strange land, and feel in some small way at home.

[...] The figure was perhaps three feet tall, standing facing me but with the light coming from the doorway behind so that the face was in shadow.

[...] I became aware that another figure was seated at a table just in front of the robed figure, with its head, also shadowed, turned toward the robed one. [...]

[...] All That Is composes the fabric of the universe—which is everywhere unified, since nothing exists outside of it, and every wave or particle, or field or whatever within it, consists of a divine psychological fabric that is populated by individuation, sensation, meaning, intent, in which the most innocuous shadow of an electron rises up joyfully and shouts “I am I, and not you.” [...]

Smaller shapes, fairly dark perhaps like leaves in shadow. [...]

(“Smaller shapes, fairly dark, perhaps like leaves in shadow. [...]

[...] I am telling you again, therefore, that many of your ideas of good and evil are highly distortive, and shadow all understanding you have of the nature of reality.

[...] It is indeed a dark glass that shadows all of your experience. [...]

You must understand, again, that your ideas and thoughts do not exist as phantoms or shadow images without substance. [...]

[...] In others they remain psychological shadows, while in others they may retain strong drives, but serve as springboards for the prime operating personality. [...]