“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Now in order to direct this power consciously, you must again get used to the feeling of your own subjective experience....so that you can tell subjectively when this energy is pouring through you and outward. [...] But with practice, there is a subjective knowing that you will recognize and understand. [...]

[...] but the experience is personal and the experience is subjective and the journey is one that you must make and that you must make alone. [...]

Now in order to direct this power consciously, you must again get used to the feeling of your own subjective experience—so that you can tell subjectively when this energy is pouring through you and outward. [...] But with practice, there is a subjective knowing that you will recognize and understand. [...]

[...] I can point you in the direction—but the experience is personal and the experience is subjective and the journey is one that you must make and that you must make alone. [...]

[...] It worked out okay, yet it reflected my state of mind often these days — my fears, probably on a lot of subjects.

^* In Jane/Seth’s The Individual and the Nature of Mass Events, which was published in 1981, I wrote: “Seth maintains that Framework 2, or inner reality, contains the creative source from which we form all events, and that by the proper focusing of attention we can draw from that vast subjective medium everything we need for a constructive, positive life in Framework 1, or physical reality.” [...]

[...] The writing represents strong portions of Frank’s personality that are intently concerned with the expression of subjective feelings—feelings that appear nebulous at times because they cannot be expressed—so it seems to him—in a direct fashion.

When he learned to write, he thought of writing to express such thoughts, and was always tempted to use writing as an expression of those subjective feelings he felt were forbidden—not just directed toward his father, but feelings of which he felt his father would disapprove. [...]

3. I’ve known Seth planned to discuss evolution—that sensitized subject—ever since Jane tuned into the title of his new book a couple of months ago. However, my interest in one of my favorite fields of inquiry lay relatively dormant until Seth confirmed the title earlier this month (September); then I felt the impulse to jump right into producing notes on the subject. [...]

[...] The universe emerged into actuality in the same way (underlined), but to a different degree, that any idea emerges from what you think of as subjectivity into physical expression.

[...] Her little essay is given as Note 2. Then see Note 3 for my own comments about evolution as I discussed that subject in Volume 2 of “Unknown” Reality.)

[...] We’d rather let it stand as is, representing our best knowledge and feeling of that time, including the way we put to use Seth’s own information on the subject. [...]

[...] Science as you think of it separates itself from the subject at hand. Art identifies with the subject. [...]

Dictation: You must first of all understand that your own greater reality exists whether you are in flesh or out of it, and that your subjective experience has a far greater scope than the physical brain itself allows.

[...] Then he² becomes sensitive to the different subjective alterations that occur when dreams begin, happen, and end. [...]

[...] The therapist should also assure the client that on many subjects and topics of thought and conversation, the client operates quite well. The subject itself is so vast that, of course, an entire book could easily be devoted to it, so it is impossible to cover all the issues that may be involved with such cases here.

[...] I relied largely on my own simply because I was intimately familiar with the subjective feelings involved in each case and did not want to depend upon reports that were necessarily secondhand.

The nature of this book also meant that the Seth material was chosen exactly because it related to subjective experiences such as dreams and consciousness. [...]

[...] As I mentioned earlier (in the 652nd session in Chapter Thirteen, for instance), the division is largely the result of your mass and private beliefs in the nature of reality, and in the habits the race has acquired of separating “objective” data from subjective.

[...] Since you are part of it, this also leads you to try to place yourself apart from your own subjective reality. [...]

[...] Disastrous events thought to originate in a god’s wrath could at least be understood in that context, but many of you live in a subjective world in which the events of your lives appear to have no particular reason — or indeed sometimes seem to happen in direct opposition to your wishes….

[...] I hope Seth comes through with more on the subject before he finishes Mass Events.)

I will interrupt whenever I can be of benefit — and I will also provide sometimes short but pithy session material (with humor) that can be used sometimes as subject matter for free association. You can begin of course by free associating with any appropriate subject — his mother, his father, your relationship, your individual or joint sexual feelings, his ideas about his psychic material, his writing, or whatever — and I will also provide guidelines.

[...] With your resolve in mind, almost any subject matter you begin with will start to lead in the proper direction. [...]

[...] The subjective experience of these personalities, the psychological existence of these personalities (long pause), is composed of (pause, frown) dimensions of value fulfillment, as considering your time, hours are composed of moments.

As a sort of shock treatment, we must almost forcibly rip out your stereotyped ideas of time before we can carry this particular subject matter further.

Now behind that simple explanation, you see, there are many subjects that we have not as yet embarked upon. [...]

I have often mentioned that the divisions in our subject matter are often arbitrary, and for practical purposes of discussion only. The word suggestion is in itself so bound in your minds with other matters that even I find it difficult not to let the subject matter become suggestive of matters that do not really belong under discussion.

[...] It is difficult, even though we are so far into our sessions, to give you any full understanding yet of what is involved in the basic nature of suggestion, but as we go deeper into the subject there will be experiments that you both can try.

This whole subject is much more complicated than you may at first suppose.

[...] We will continue along these lines for some time, even while the subject leads us into others.

[...] The subjective evidence of dreaming, for example, is far more “convincing” and irrefutable than is the evidence for an expanding universe, black holes, or even atoms and molecules themselves. Although instruments can indeed be most advantageous in many ways, they still present you with secondary rather than primary tools of investigation—and they distort the nature of reality far more than the subjective attributes of thoughts, feelings, and intuitions do.

You are taught not to trust your subjective experience, which means that you are told not to trust your initial and primary connection with reality.

In a way, it is meant to familiarize you with elements of your own reality of which you may have been unaware, and to introduce you to certain subjective states of mind that are automatically aroused because of the manner in which the book was produced. [...]

[...] The subject matter itself entices your imagination. [...]

Your ready answers end up limiting your own experience, because you try to fit your subjective behavior into the cramped boot of preconceived ideas. [...]

[...] The unknown reality exists as a challenge, an exciting endeavor, as each individual becomes consciously aware of intimate subjective feeling. [...]

[...] Yet some languages have had sounds for feelings and subjective states, and they had no subjects or predicates, nor even a sentence structure that you would recognize.

[...] The emotional reaches of his subjective life, then, leapt far beyond what you think of as private experience. [...]

Again, you speak for yourselves; yet in doing so you speak a language that is not yours alone, but the result of inner communications too swift for you to follow, involving corporal and subjective realities alike. [...]

[...] He said, “You will not be swallowed by subjectivity. [...]

[...] If there is to be any hope of world communication, then each of you must understand where your potentials are as individual subjective creatures.

[...] Several more times this happened, aura changes taking place while I subjectively experienced this extension—the same feeling I have in the new sessions with Rob. [...]

[...] (Don’t know if I felt the subjective feeling before or after their comments, but no suggestions as to hand was given by me, and I asked no questions, sitting with eyes closed, concentrating, rather in good trance, but aware of their comments. [...]

[...] I believe three of them also mentioned a finger extension, that is, my fingers seemed to get longer and bonier; this was my subjective definite feeling; as definite as the extension sensation earlier over the head. [...]

[...] So both of you form subjective extensions that you must one way or another put together in physical time. (With gentle humor:) My books represent vast creativity, and yet you perform your own additional subjective leaps, forming subjective platforms that then deal with the circumstances of the books.

[...] Most artist, painters, do not feel the need, then, to “later” examine the moments of creativity themselves, nor to form still another subjective platform from which to examine the creative process.

[...] If one of my cells tried to comprehend my own subjective reality, it might feel the same way. I think that I’m alive in Seth’s subjective ‘body’ in the same way that one of my cells is alive in my physical body. [...]

[...] Seth gave no headings for individual sessions, so after each one as it’s listed in the Table of Contents (in each volume), Jane plans to insert a few words indicating at least some of the subjects discussed in that session.

[...] They can, for instance, be used to explore different perspectives of the same subject — in this case, time, the quality that’s just been under discussion. [...]

[...] As an example, I’ll continue with the subject of time — but Seth’s time now — and couple it with his notions of a durability that is at the same time spontaneous and simultaneous, as he’s explained to us more than once. [...]