“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] In a way, you perceive your consciousness almost as you perceive the smooth surface of the coffee table (indicated). [...]

[...] You perceive events in the same fashion, almost surface-wise. [...]

Once someone gets through your surface restrictive tendencies, obvious ones, then your spontaneity flows to the surface. [...]

[...] But behind Ruburt’s outgoing characteristics you run into some rather restrictive ones that are more on the surface, generally speaking, in your personality.

[...] Often past-life memories come to the surface but are not recognized as such, since they appear in fantasy form, or are projected into art creations.

[...] Such instances represent an excellent working rapport between the present self and the unconscious, which brings these memories to the surface in such a way that current life is enriched. [...]

Artists use perspective on a flat surface to try to capture there the feelings and experiences of depth that are, in themselves, alien to the flat canvas, or paper or board. [...] An ant crawling upon such a canvas would hasten across just another flat surface, and be quite unaware of the inviting avenue and any painted fields or mountains.

[...] So far, your ideas of space travel involve that kind of surface navigation. Earth trips, however, are made with the recognition of their surface nature.² When you think in terms of traveling to other planets or to other galaxies, though, the same kind of surface travel is involved. [...]

2. Just as he talks here about the surface nature of our travel, in Volume 1 of “Unknown” Reality Seth had a similar observation to make about our ideas of time; see the 688th session after 10:26: “Again, you live on the surface of the moments, with no understanding of the unrecognized and unofficial realities that lie beneath.”

[...] However, it would not have been nearly as helpful earlier for you would have accepted it in a surface manner.

[...] You would have thought it a surface book, because you would not have understood clearly the premises beneath. [...]

[...] Sometimes they spring to the surface of the mind, but often they are in the background, beneath the thoughts to which you are currently giving attention.

[...] The oceans rise and fall also, and in some cases the floor of the ocean becomes the surface of the planet, only to be covered again by water. [...]

[...] As the physical properties of the earth distribute themselves in a certain given fashion about the surface of the planet, so do the properties of the earth-tuned psyches distribute themselves. [...]

[...] In such a way, one part of the body knows what is happening in every other part, and the body as a whole knows its precise position on the surface of the planet. [...]

[...] In this little session she spoke with Seth “just below the surface” in a crowded room, without attracting attention, and delivered for Raymond Van Over some excellent data which he verified on the spot. [...]

[...] I am now closely allied with Ruburt, and yet in another way, a new way, there is a balance so that his personality can be the surface, dominant one. [...]

(When break was over, Jane once again spoke in the first-effect voice, where Seth hovered just beneath the surface of her own personality. [...]

The thing is, of course, that I have only been able to describe the surface of such activities. [...]

[...] In the overall, again, the reasons behind Ruburt’s difficulty should be encouraged to rise to the surface of the mind, where they can be encountered—but the idea is not to concentrate upon those reasons but to let them be one part of a larger therapeutic motion or movement in which they show themselves in order to be orchestrated away. [...]

[...] More than that, the interview —friendly enough, good humored enough, as it seemed on the surface, made Ruburt realize in an immediate practical fashion the limitations of medical science. [...]

[...] Ruburt’s decisions also mean of course that he is opening up psychically, also spiritually—more than willing to accept those intuitions and insights that will begin to surface more and more. [...]

(With emphasis:) In a matter of speaking (underlined), the birds and the insects are indeed living portions of the earth flying, even as, again in a matter of speaking (in parentheses) (with a smile and again with an emphasis upon the word “matter”), bears and wolves and cows and cats represent the earth turning itself into creatures that live upon its own surface. [...]

[...] In the sort of work you are doing, both creatively in your arts and in your psychic work, the inner activities and developments run below surface and are unseen. You seem to be on a plateau or level area, and then the work that has been going on beneath springs released to the surface. [...]

[...] And admit also those misgivings that you have and that rise to the surface of your mind for even those can lead you somewhere. [...]

[...] The abilities that you show are quite your own, and I would like to see you bring them to the surface and use them but then I am certain that you will do so. [...]

[...] Some will come to the surface, so to speak, and be used consciously. [...]

[...] In times of overpopulation, so-called homosexual and lesbian tendencies come to the surface — but also there is the tendency to express love in other than physical ways, and the emergence of large social issues and challenges into which men and women can throw their energies. [...]

[...] At the same time, it seemed obvious that these memories surfacing represented a therapeutic instance of what Seth had said would happen: memories bubbling to the surface where they could be examined and defused, instead of being kept repressed in the past. [...]

(Long pause in an intent delivery.) The entire idea of evolution, of course, requires strict adherence to the concept of continuing time, and the changes that time brings, and such concepts can at best provide the most surface kind of explanation for the existence of your species or any other.

In the terms of evolution as you like to think of it, ideas are more important than genes (quietly), for we are again dealing with more than the surfaces of events. [...]

[...] It allowed earlier pleasant associations to rise to the surface instead. [...]

[...] Strange, it seems, on the surface at least, that events involving us and Spain should arise, seemingly without our conscious participation or awareness at all. [...]

[...] A natural-enough resentment comes to the surface at times, natural enough under the circumstances, in which he objects to taking special time out, but largely he is overcoming that attitude and a more pliable attitude toward the body is being set up.

[...] I’d even found myself exploring the town dump of Elmira — only the landscape looked volcanic, beautiful in its own way, heaped with gray fine ash like the surface of the moon, almost.)