“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

What you perceive, using other portions of yourself, can be far more vivid than the reality in which you usually focus your attention. These other realities are not shadowy or dim. You must simply learn to use your inner eyesight—a different kind of eye—a different kind of vision.

It is true that some physical relaxation is of great benefit. It is true also that certain methods—and I have given some of these to you—are necessary to allow you to switch your focus of attention from physical reality to other realities. It is true, also, that it takes some training to use these other conscious portions of yourself. But remember that these other portions of your identity are portions of your identity—they are a part of you. Your perceptions can be vivid using them. There is no need for you to feel that any reincarnational information must come in a murky, shadowy way through vast areas of a self that you neither know nor understand. Memories of other childhoods can be fresh and bright. You can indeed feel a sense of recognition and familiarity.

When you turn off what you think of as your conscious mind, then another conscious mind clicks into focus. You have more than one conscious mind. You can experience them only one at a time, although they exist simultaneously. When you cease using the conscious mind that you know, there is another one that will take over—you do not sink into a limbo. You are used to thinking of hypnosis in this following manner: You seem to think, most of you, that the conscious mind is blocked out, and then what follows is a murky and a shadowy version of the normal conscious mind—that the subconscious, for example, deals with material that you cannot understand consciously.

And so when I speak to you, I speak to you often in sympathy and compassion that you know so little and have so far to go, and yet you travel a road that I have also traveled and so I can, to some extent, enter into your experience and understand reality as it now appears to you, and yet it is a limited and indeed a shadowy reality.

(10:02 to 10:20.) There are also realities (pause), that are “relatively more valid” than your own; in comparison, strictly for an analogy, for example, your physical table would appear as shadowy in contrast, as [like] those very shadowy tables we imagine. [...]

Each individual actually sends such replica images of himself out frequently, though the degree of the materialization may differ, some forms, for example, being more or less shadowy than others. [...]

[...] Sometime, immediately or after a few tries, a particular portion of the scene will become gray or shadowy. [...]

Instead of a shadowy element, you yourself may feel unsubstantial — “ghostly,” as Ruburt did. [...]

[...] At one point a shadowy effect — grayness, or other characteristics just mentioned — will occur. [...]

There seems to be a rather shadowy connection with a woman, perhaps an aunt, that does not seem beneficial. [...]

(After coming out, kept feeling inclined to go right; as if partially moving out of my body but not nearly that strong or vivid; merely a feeling that I wasn’t entirely inside body but half out to the right in a shadowy rather than substantial fashion. [...]

[...] The dream state appears chaotic, shadowy, suspicious, or even meaningless, precisely because in life you are so brilliantly focused in daily reality that dreams appear to be staticky objective background noise, left over from when you sleep. [...]

[...] Usually the perceptions glide to one or the other: that one becomes shadowy or indistinct as the other becomes stronger and appears three-dimensionally.

Personalities within, that are not dominant within the ego, are dominant within other fields of actuality, though they appear as mere shadowy influences within your own.

[...] He was more shadowy all through the dream, however, not nearly as substantial and real as his mother was. [...]

On the other hand, areas of ordinary behavior that may have seemed opaque before, cloudy or dark — personal characteristic behavior that was not understood, for instance — may suddenly become quite clear as a result of this transformation, in which the shadowy aspects of the unconscious are perceived as brilliant.

[...] You have only a shadowy understanding of what the world means. [...]

[...] Dark and shadowy in the center, with suggestions of motion, and late afternoon.

(“Dark and shadowy in the center”, Jane said, is another reference to my smudges on the back of the drawing, and refer back to the ribbonlike shapes on page 321. [...]

[...] Something partially blank, dots, an assemblage of something, it seems of shadowy form. [...]

[...] Although you have chosen to form a particular group of qualities into a field pattern of a particular personality, upon which you focus the bulk of your energy, there are also other more shadowy, less well-constructed possibilities of personality selves that exist loosely within the psychic framework of the dominant personality, and these also have their influence. [...]

[...] My life is far the better, and you two are only poor shadowy counterparts of me.”

[...] “Just a shadowy feeling.”

[...] Nor have I resumed the midnight walks I used to take over the hilly streets of our neighborhood; I used to look forward to seeing the shadowy deer as they moved down into the streets from the woods north of the hill house. [...]

[...] I found two sources in Seth Speaks. In Chapter 7, see the 530th session for May 20, 1970, at 10:02: “There are realities that are ‘relatively more valid’ than your own … your physical table [for example] would appear as shadowy in contrast … You would have a sort of “supertable” in those terms. [...]

[...] We had crawled halfway along the avenue, between its dim corner streetlights, when my car’s headlights brushed over a shadowy feminine figure walking in our direction. [...]