“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

In surface terms the sense of “I” that you possess is the result of constantly emerging probable identities, given continuity in time through the physical apparatus of the body with its built-in intervals of nerve reaction. [...]

[...] When Seth mentioned shingles, Jane felt she was so far away from these buildings that she could “see” only a roughened surface. [...]

[...] Later the old fears, if they surfaced, were not encountered. [...]

[...] It is somewhat like teaching a child to walk, except in this case (smile) you cannot see the surface.

In normal memory you recall, obviously, but a slight percentage of your dreams, and usually these are from more surface levels.

[...] These periods mark not the onset of dreams but the return of the personality from deeper layers of dream awareness to more surface ones. The self is actually returning to more surface levels to check upon physical environment. [...]

[...] Ruburt’s material last night in the dream state was excellent, bringing feelings to the surface, and rearousing some attitudes he had forgotten. [...]

There were frequent peepholes, so to speak, through to the surface, from which they could make observations, and cameras situated there that kept the most precise pictures not only of the earth, but of the stars.

The comics acquainted you with what I will call a kind of surface art, and also in a way acquainted you with caricatures of social reality. [...]

[...] You form your image constantly; as many of the artistic processes are hidden, so the inner mechanisms by which you create your material self lie beneath the surface of your conscious mind. [...]

You barely touch the surfaces of the kind of freedom that I am speaking of, though you certainly do far better than most.

[...] I use the term “conscious mind” as you define it, for you allow it to accept as evidence only those physical data available for the five senses—while the five senses, of course, represent only a relatively flat² view of reality, that deals with the most apparent surface.

For some time, in your terms, the sleepwalkers remained more or less at that level of activity, and for many centuries they used the surface of the earth as a kind of background for other activity.Their real life was what you would now call the dreaming one. [...]

[...] Both projects had been underway for a long time before surfacing to the public. [...]

[...] Your fears, brought to the forefront by the Gallagher episode the week earlier, again surfaced with the event of the chair and Frank’s return. [...]

[...] On the surface there will be balance.

This is on the most surface level, however. [...]

[...] He allowed the impulse to surface initially, and then he allowed himself to act upon it, in a sense “throwing caution to the wind.” [...]

[...] The stream has its own reality then, and the ego sees only the surface.

Magic as we call it represents (reflects) a basic part of our natural heritage … We permit distorted versions of the psyche’s attributes — clairvoyant, telepathic, and precognitive abilities — which surface as magic.²