“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

The ego skims the topmost surface of reality and experience.

[...] This having to do with the disappearance of early youth, and having superficial meaning to the surface female personality.

[...] Here Ruburt was led backward to the first level momentarily, being reassured, saying “I will not be the old tub, she was and is,” therefore on a surface level overcoming jealousy because the former administrator spent so much money on clothes and appearance.

[...] It gave him information, it helped overcome his jealousy, and it was a transition from surface significance to deeper knowledge.

[...] Hardly an original idea, yet one that I often see ignored in the surface activities of our daily lives. [...]

[...] Beneath the surface of events you felt unfulfilled, and felt that you had great courage and abilities with never a chance to use them, and no “heroic” episodes then to rouse you to fuller understanding, and no real impetus to lift you or to bring excitement into your days. [...]

[...] If we were often badly frightened, we also felt surges of grim elation (when we allowed them to surface) that we were survivors. [...]

(Saturday, May 16, 5:00 PM: Possibly a dream: In a view from above I had a panoramic glimpse of the curving surface of a planet, something like the moon, covered with protuberances that seemed to be craters in reverse.

[...] The topmost layers of the subconscious hold then, first of all, almost conscious just-under-the-surface needs and desires; and under these those more deeply buried, reaching backward to birth, even as the loose dry autumn leaves still contain traces of earlier pigment.

The second layer, still of the personal subconscious, contains those elements most deeply feared for personal psychological reasons, those which somewhat frequently arise as in an earthquake, to shatter the seemingly solid surface of the ego.

[...] When circumstances are at their best then he allows me to come through clearly, but he is concerned over issues that are only of surface importance as far as the volume of the voice is concerned, and he is only now learning control. [...]

(To Dennis and Giselle.) You both have been learning very much and when you are ready to become consciously aware of what you have learned in the past week it will rise to the surface of your consciousness. [...]

This is not an uncaring universe or nature operating, but portions of consciousness who choose at whatever levels certain experiences that nourish the living environment, and bring satisfactions that may never show on life’s surface.

([Jane:] “Yes, you’ve only done it at a pretty surface level. [...]

[...] Following the instructions in the book, I traced the outline of my hand in pencil while pressing the inked surface against the white paper. [...]

[...] His spherical time is like the surface of a sphere only.

They are surface contradictions, not worth exploring. [...]

[...] Let them come to the surface. [...]

[...] The stonelike or rough surface and the dark color enter into the experimental results.

[...] I don’t know whether Seth uses printed here to mean an ink applied to paper or newsprint, or just some other substance applied to a surface as in the case of the object.

[...] Seth has dealt with the machinations below the surface at Searle in various sessions. John now feels also that things are percolating below the surface, and he requested Jane and I find out what we could about the current state of affairs involving Searle, from Seth tonight.

[...] When Ruburt forgot to worry because “he wasn’t working,” his natural playful creativity bubbled to the surface, and today he wrote poetry. [...]

[...] His body is responding, however, so let him remember that creativity is playful, and that it always surfaces when he allows his mind to drop its worries.

[...] Often these spring to the surface through events that may seem bizarre. [...]

In the same way, when you look at the current state of the world, or at history, you often structure your perceptions so that only the topmost surfaces of events are seen. [...]

[...] The trances this night were exceedingly deep and she had more than usual difficulty “surfacing. [...]

[...] (Pause.) On the surface level, such methods appear sometimes regrettable but necessary, but the deeper implications far outdo any temporary benefits, for through such methods men lose sight of life’s sacredness, and begin to treat it contemptuously.