“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(9:51.) The physical body all the while is greatly benefitted, because the beneficial feelings automatically renew and replenish its recuperative abilities. The feelings of joy now may lead to images of Christ, Buddha, or the prophets. These symbols are the changing scenes characteristic of consciousness at various stages. The experiences are to be considered as creations; creative acts all native to consciousness at various stages.

Those stages of consciousness that occur after death still all deal with symbols, though there is much greater freedom in their use, and greater understanding of their meaning. But in higher stages of consciousness, the symbols are no longer necessary, and creativity takes place completely without their use.

Obviously you cannot become aware of that stage of consciousness now, but you can keep track of the way symbols appear to you in both waking life and the dream state, and learn to connect them with the feelings they represent. You will learn that certain symbols will appear personally to you at various stages of consciousness, and these can serve as points of recognition in your own explorations. When Ruburt is about to leave his body from the dream state for example, he will often find himself in a strange house or apartment that offers opportunities for exploration.

“You” presently have a once-centered consciousness, in that “you” close off from your experience these other stages of consciousness in which other portions of your entire identity are intimately involved. These other stages of consciousness create their own realities as you create your own. [...]

Consciousness at different levels or stages perceives different kinds of events. [...] There are minute chemical and electromagnetic alterations that accompany these stages of consciousness, and certain physical changes within the body itself in hormone production and pineal activity.

[...] It is a cushioning, supportive, and expansive stage of consciousness. [...] Following this period there is an active state, that can occur, of pseudodreaming, where the mind busies itself with physical concerns that have managed to cling through the first two stages.

There are innumerable stages of health, from high, sheer, energetic exuberance (long pause) to dwindling lethargy and discomfort. [...] There are, in fact, an almost infinite number of stages connected with the state of health. You could invent a completely different way of regarding human health by numbering and defining each of those stages. Instead, of course, your society has chosen to recognize and define all of those stages that are detrimental to health — stages that are recognizable because of health’s absence to one degree or another.

[...] and the front of the amphitheater moved so that a ledge lowered to meet her so she could make it safely to the stage. [...] that now I’ve forgotten because the stage looked somewhat like an altar, and she was saved from falling, and deposited on the stage, she stood in the center, wearing slacks and a blouse, arms out, waving at the people. [...]

(Just before supper I told Jane about my dream of last night, involving Bill Gallagher: He’d been a white-haired stage performer, and I looked down on him from a box seat in the loge of an intimate, dramatically-lit theater. [...] He stood helplessly on stage in the spotlight, wearing brightly colored stage clothes like a comedian might. Someone may have helped him leave the stage. [...]

[...] In your various stages of consciousness you pass through areas that can be correlated with many of these systems. Some stages through which you pass are native stages to other kinds of consciousness, and while passing through these you will find yourself using symbols in the way that is characteristic of that level.

(Patty enthusiastically told us that Seth’s material on the various stages of consciousness, in the 569th and 570th sessions in Chapter Seventeen, closely agreed with her recent studies. [...]

[...] At various stages of consciousness you will perceive the symbols in different terms. [...]

The soreness comes in stages. [...] The legs are entering their final stages of adequate-enough recovery, so that the walking can be far smoother and his posture erect. [...]

Now, pretend that you are on a lighted stage, the stage being the room in which you now sit. [...]

[...] It changes its form to suit its expression, and it forms environments like stage settings, and worlds to suit its purposes. [...]

Within him there are methods of perception that allow him to see through the camouflage settings, to see beyond the stage. [...]

Nor is it any coincidence that this freedom and emergence on your part coincides with Ruburt’s sure stages of recovery. [...]

[...] Then they begin to move, though weakly; there are sensations of course of heat in all stages. [...]

[...] Ruburt should look over his dream material again, to find further correlations between it and the stages of his recovery, further correlations between the inward and outward sequence of events.

If the stages of waking consciousness were examined as sleep stages are presently being examined, for example, you would find a much greater range of activity than is suspected. Certain transition stages are completely ignored. [...]

Now some night for a small demonstration I will have Ruburt come up from his present state through the various stages of consciousness so you can see them. He is plunged so quickly to the level that we want, you see, that oftentimes he is not aware of the intervening stages. But you will have no difficulty starting with the stage that was discussed here this evening, and each of you know intuitively what that stage is. [...]

[...] And I hope you learn to follow the changes in your own symbolisms that occur in these various stages. [...]

The important thing is for him not to worry at any given stage, for there will be many fleeting stages—very fleeting—as long as he trusts the process. [...]

(10:55.) Any given individual may experience any of these stages, you see; except for the self-examination, many may be sidestepped entirely. [...] In many instances, however, these friends have progressed to other stages of activity, and often a guide will take the guise of a friend for a while, so that you will feel more confident.

(9:55.) I am speaking now of the events immediately following death, for there are other stages. [...]

A friend and I, with some others, staged the ceremony, and from opposite clouds in the sky Allah and I shouted out our claims upon his soul — while he, poor man, cowered on the ground between us. [...]

[...] I said that even if the new innocence was achieved by the Sinful Self, it would be a different kind of innocence because it would contain all of the “Sinful Self’s earlier convolutions” as it went through its stages, striving toward that renewed innocence. [...]

[...] The taboos within lose their power, and the Sinful Self is seen as (long pause)representing the stage of growth through which the self is passing (intently). [...]

[...] You actually have the innocent self in a kind of second stage, for now it has the experience of the Sinful Self behind it. [...]

[...] Now at any of these various stages of consciousness, other phenomena may also be perceived — thought-forms for example, energy manifestations, projections from the personal subconscious, and projections from the collective unconscious. [...]

[...] The stages are there for those who know what they are and how to use them. [...]

[...] When you are sleeping, therefore, your consciousness turns itself in many of these directions, often perceiving, willy-nilly, bits and pieces of reality that are available to it at its different stages. [...]

[...] The prayer at this stage is beneficial, and so does Edwards help. [...]

These various stages of consciousness and fluctuations of psychic activity can also be examined through direct experience from the waking state. [...]

(Long pause.) Increased motion at certain stages can also be interpreted as irritation—a stage that quickly passes. [...]

[...] You perceive it at a certain “stage.” [...]

[...] Now the behavior of atoms and molecules is involved here, for again these are only present within your universe during certain stages. [...]

[...] Those states also automatically help bring about necessary physical relaxation, for the relaxation of course first exists at that other stage.