“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Now I am only speaking because many of you have known that I was here. And it ill behooves me not to bid you welcome when you felt my presence. But in many of your discussions, there has only been surface thought and surface feelings... and we do not walk on the surface in this class. I would push your heads collectively and individually underneath... for you still do not understand that you create your physical reality! You form your blocks and shove them up upon the surface of the earth. You cannot solve the problems of your world on a surface level. If you could, you would have done it centuries ago. You must step out of your present perspective in order to see your world clearly. Here you are not to hide within the closet of 3 dimensionality and cry, “It is dark and I cannot see!” And refuse to use the inner light that can alone aid your vision.

[...] But in many of your discussions, there has only been surface thought and surface feelings—and we do not walk on the surface in this class. [...] You form your blocks and shove them up upon the surface of the earth. You cannot solve the problems of your world on a surface level. [...]

(I seemed to briefly hover just above the two men after they had left the spindly ladder of the landing craft, & stepped onto the moon surface. [...]

(I saw him fall to, or lying, on the moon surface, in some kind of trouble. [...]

(I do not think that in my experience I ever “stood” on the moon surface. [...]

[...] I let myself float along, knowing that if I held my breath I would rise to the surface. [...] It was like a pillar or barrier, dark and rough, reaching up high toward the surface. Still under water, I opened my eyes in plenty of time to see it ahead, and avoided hurting myself against its rough surface.

(My account of the dream doesn’t mention my actually coming to the surface of the water, but does deal with my holding my breath so that I will automatically rise to the surface; I had no doubt in the dream that I would do so. [...]

[...] We were in a stream above a high and rapid waterfall, with the surface of the water about us broken by rocks. [...]

[...] You come to the surface because you realize that you would never in actuality let that kind of a situation keep you under for long. [...]

Remind him that all his nature does indeed work to his benefit, and that signs of creative alterations and feeling begin to surface, like tiny shoots.

[...] Without doubt, my own frustrations and resentments were surfacing probably for my own safety.

[...] For if you are intensely preoccupied with what may seem to be one infinitesimally minute aspect of reality, and while you seem to be completely embedded within it, only the most “surface” elements of the self are so entranced. I do not like the term “surface” in this regard, though I have used it to suggest the multitudinous portions of the self that are otherwise engaged — some of them as entranced in their reality as you are in yours.

(9:37.) Ruburt needs your help once again to reassure him that relaxation is safe, that it is safe to let go, that he will not fall into darkness, that his muscles will actually become stronger as they relax, and that his creativity rises to the surface when his body and mind are more relaxed. [...]

[...] It cannot stand to have anything hidden, but the very mechanism of its own behavior is hidden from itself, and it knows only the feel of its own surfaces.

In many respects it is a reflector, the surface of the self looking outward. [...]

When the outer ego, from the surface of its consciousness, reflects the outer world, it sees reflections of the inner ego which are the images within its own eye; and as the self creates matter subconsciously within its own eye, and as the self creates matter subconsciously and not consciously, and as the self creates matter in line with inner and not outer expectations, so then does the ego, in viewing the material universe, come face to face with the face of its own inner ego; and the outer ego cannot escape from this inner self.

[...] The subconscious contains a collection of diverse, varied and vital personalities who represent the losers when the time arrived to send one of them to the topmost level, or to the surface of the self.

[...] Then it surfaces with its productions. [...]

[...] Your dream brought your fears to the surface of your mind, and when those fears became conscious both of you determined to show yourselves that Ruburt was indeed safe and protected. [...]

[...] But the conventional version says, really, that those are surface moments; that you, say, run from one to the next, as if time were a moving sidewalk with the past moment vanishing forever. [...]

Each physical moment is literally filled to the brim with the unceasing vitality of Framework 2. Regardless of what you are doing at any given time, the creative abilities are always active, and they seize upon the most mundane circumstances as well as the most profound, seeking to bring to the surface of consciousness the greater dimensions of awareness that are possible. [...]

[...] The attitude turns beloved projects into pursuits that must be performed along the surface of the moments. [...]

[...] Strong creative health-giving elements are surfacing. [...]

[...] Mankind still deals with surfaces, depending mainly as he does upon the powers of the outer ego, whose purpose it is to deal only with surface reality.

This is not to say that such surface reality is not vital and important, or that some information about its own nature cannot be gleaned from its study; but only a small amount can be so obtained. [...]

[...] So you only recognize the surface of that activity.

[...] The psyche forms events in the same way that the ocean forms waves — except that the ocean’s waves are confined to its surface or to its basin, while the psyche’s events are instantly translated, and splash out into mass psychological reality. [...]

(Long pause at 10:24.) Cordellas are invisible symbols that surface. As they surface they show the universe in a new light by the very nature of their relationships. [...]

[...] The kitten was a way of bringing attitudes and problems to the surface, while incidentally helping a young animal. [...]

[...] Instead, experienced events usually involve only surface perceptions. You observe a table’s surface as smooth and solid, even though you realize it is composed of atoms and molecules full of motion.

In the same way you experience a birthday party, an automobile accident, a bridge game, or any psychological event as psychologically solid, with a smooth experienced surface that holds together in space and time. [...]

This surface is the home of a rather unusual variety of, I presume you say, fish. But they are different than the fish near the surface, and there is algae here that exudes nitrogen, which is not usual.

[...] It is to be found directly beneath the moon’s rays at a time when Venus is in the ascendancy, and forms on the surface of the lake an acute angle.

[...] Blame was projected by him upon other areas, because only when he allowed his thoughts to really surface would he blame you in any way. [...]

[...] We had asked for the session yesterday, in light of what had come to the surface regarding our problems in previous days this week. [...]

[...] And your reaction is a surface one, and you are playing with it, and you know it well. [...]

[...] And you will all learn what true communication is, for you will learn to communicate in various levels of consciousness and you will learn to listen to me in various levels of consciousness, and you will learn to know me in various levels of consciousness so that you can see (feel?)[sic] beneath the words as well as hear the surface of the words. [...]

[...] They have a beautiful surface relationship.”)

[...] You must be able to let it operate and yet perceive beneath its surface the other conditions, the projection conditions, that are also operating.

[...] Another portion of the self catches it unaware, leaves no ripple upon its surface, and looks beneath it to other layers of reality. [...]

It is not true, of course, that before the time of modern psychology man had a concept of himself that dealt with conscious exterior aspects only, although it has been written that until that time man thought of himself as a kind of flat-surfaced self — minus, for example, subconscious or unconscious complexity.

[...] Psychological reality, for all of the religious (pause) dangers placed upon it, was anything but a flat-surfaced experience. [...]