“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] This is done, again, by taking into consideration within any given system of reasoning only the evidence that agrees with the system’s premises.

[...] (Long pause.) When any system of reasoning becomes too rigid, however, there are always adjustments made that will allow other information to intrude — otherwise, of course, your belief systems would never change.

[...] Your system has frowned upon many experiences, considering them eccentric behavior in an adverse fashion, since your belief systems have so regimented behavior, and so narrowly defined sanity. [...]

[...] There are backup systems, in other words (amused). [...]

Now the Speakers are familiar with the rules within many systems. Still, however, most of these systems in larger terms are somewhat connected with your own kind of reality. [...] There is something like a chart mapping many of the nearby systems of reality, and I hope some day in your terms to make this available. [...] There are points of coincidence where under certain conditions entry may be made from one of these systems to the other. [...]

From the outside, such systems would seem meaningless to you even if you were able to perceive them. [...] The very definite rules of that system then would be quite obscure to you.

[...] Some of these are geographical in your system, but in all cases, a tuning-in of consciousness is a necessary preliminary. [...]

The physical eruption, while it may appear to be a disaster in the area of the disease, is also, however, a part of the body’s defense system, taken to insure the whole balance of the body. Biologically, illness therefore represents the overall body defense system at work.

The body’s defense system is automatic, and yet to a certain degree it is a secondary rather than primary system, coming into mobilization as such only when the body is threatened.

[...] Usually, now, your entire medical systems literally generate as much disease as is cured — for you are everywhere hounded by the symptoms of various diseases, and filled with the fear of disease, overwhelmed by what seems to be the body’s propensity toward illness — and nowhere is the body’s vitality or natural defense system stressed.

[...] It presupposes a mouth and a tongue, the kind of physical organization necessary; a mind; a certain kind of world in which sounds have meaning; and a very precise, quite practical knowledge of the nature of sounds, the combination of their patterns, the use of repetition, and a knowledge of the nervous system. [...]

[...] It will attempt to construct itself on a physical level, since it is within the physical system of reality. [...] It is obvious that the body is equipped to handle many such distorted actions, but a conflict is hereby brought into play, where constructive energies or actions are not given full reign, and patterns of distortions are set up within the system.

[...] There are methods whereby you can indeed help your own system, and to a large measure determine the constructive nature of action as it operates within the system, and protect the organism from such distortions before they occur.

As errors and mistakes creep into the physical organic system, bringing forth mutant genes and distortions, so also these mutant genes and distortions are, on a smaller scale, the result of inner distortions within the consciousness of the individual genes.

[...] Growth within the physical system is the result of suggestion. [...]

I have been speaking of your present system only, yet there is always progression to other systems. [...]

[...] But with his limited knowledge he did not see that this unconscious would exist outside of your three-dimensional system entirely, holding future as well as past, nor that it has such a cohesive effect upon humanity as a whole. It is the one self with its origins within your system, but its existence outside.

[...] Within your own system, thought becomes materialized, and there is literally no end to the activity of thoughts. [...]

[...] These are all phases of constant creativity within your system. [...]

[...] Some of this is most difficult to explain in any terms that will make sense, because the entire belief system of your times bears physical evidence of course, that such inoculations work.

[...] There are, as I told you, literally endless ways of relating to the body and to the world; each one will work—at least enough so that the system seems to hold.

[...] They are bound to affect the biological system. [...]

[...] In each system of belief, the evidence however is overwhelming, and in the vast nature of reality both notions are equally beside the point, and one is no truer or more false than the other—a hard pill to swallow for modern man.

[...] An inverted time system actually presents us with a system that more closely approximates the true nature of time. [...]

In an inverted time system the momentum is recognized and it is also taken advantage of, in that it is utilized by individual consciousness, so that your so-called present, past and future can be viewed as existing in a spacious now. Again, this sort of a system is very close to the true nature of time.

Even within a given system however all individuals are not at the same point. Now, in our sessions I am sure that by now you are at least to some extent aware of what would seem to be something quite strange: the emergence of a self that observes the self of which you have been ordinarily aware; a self with a slightly different time system, a slightly different viewpoint of reality, a self with greater control over the physical material that composes your physical image, a self with some quite effective control over your personal future.

[...] It is the result of your ability to step out of your own system to some small extent, for you cannot do this until you are ready. For the very attempt, or successful attempt, results in an extension of the self out of the system in which you were nurtured.

[...] Now: the entire physical system is being cleared. [...] The circulatory system is being rejuvenated and repaired. Work on many physical systems is being carried on at once, while balance overall is maintained. [...]

(9:29.) A man believing he has heart trouble will finally, through his own anxiety, affect the functioning of his “involuntary” system until his heart is definitely harmed if the belief goes unchecked. The conscious mind directs the so-called involuntary systems of the body, and not the other way around. No idea slips insidiously past your awareness to affect your involuntary system unless it fits in with your own conscious beliefs. [...]

[...] It is your most intimate feedback system, changing with your thought and experience, giving you in flesh the physical counterpart of your thought. [...]

[...] In corporeal existence it is intertwined with the brain, and during physical life your earthly perceptions — your precise and steady focus within your particular space and time system — are dependent upon that fine alliance.

[...] That [latter] part forms what you think of as the involuntary system of the body.

Your Ruburt experienced a transmigration of systems. [...] He then entered your own system of physical blocks, and by contrast that system then appeared huge and monstrous.

In all ways we protect all such systems. [...] Our basic and ancient knowledge and energy automatically reaches out to nourish all systems that grow—

The source and the power of your present consciousness is not and has never been physical, and where I am many are not even aware that such a physical system exists. [...]

[...] Yours is simply not one that I have pursued, and one of the purposes of my appearance at these sessions is to acquaint the one you call Ruburt with inner travel, for he must leave the system as you know it, and in doing so set up habits and paths that can be used to advantage.

[...] There is a field that combines both perceiver and perceived event, a communication and a system of similarities set up between them. [...]

[...] They may be transformed and emerge as realities or events within entirely different systems, in which they are then accepted by the inhabitants as vivid events. [...]

[...] There are certain similarities here both to the behavior of electricity as you understand it, and the behavior of the nervous system as you understand it, and I have tried to hint at this through the vocabulary that is available to me through Ruburt.

[...] You do not understand as yet the prime part played by the nervous system in the transformation of psychic material into physical matter.

[...] The other point that I wanted to make was that while your physical time, or clock time, has no overall basic reality, and is not a primary reality, that runs through various fields or systems, it is nevertheless an electromagnetic reality within your own system, for you have created it on mental terms.

[...] Again, this does not mean that secondary conditions such as aging and gravity and clock time, do not have effects within your system, obviously. It is only that these must be recognized as secondary conditions that do not therefore basically (underlined) affect the inner self, which is to a large degree independent of your system.

[...] This should give you an idea, for those realities which run through all systems, and which are primaries, are those which exist for you in all conditions of consciousness and under any circumstances.

If ever in a dream experience you defy gravity, then gravity is not a primary reality, but only a manifestation within your own physical system. [...]

The energy of your being exists outside of your system, however, and impinges upon it in your terms, becoming “alive” physically at certain points of time and space. [...] Within that system then it leaves a life-trace. [...]

[...] (Slowly:) You must remember that beginnings and endings are realities only within your own system of three-dimensional life.

[...] Consider this analogy: Taking it for granted that you are indeed multidimensional, you can perceive only so much of your own experience at a time because of the characteristics of physical creaturehood; the three-dimensional system automatically specializes in before-and-after effects.

(9:26.) Again, what actually happens is that the energy of your being impinges, say, at seven [moment] points² into the three-dimensional system. [...]

Now: all in all, the overall systems of conventional belief are relatively simple, and serve to define reality by numbering as truths or facts certain kinds of events, therefore accepting them as legitimate furniture for the mind. [...]

[...] All of those questions make sense in a framework in which the dictums of one belief system—Christianity—are accepted as true, and everything that does not agree with them is accepted as falsehood. [...]

[...] There would be no way for you to perceive them from within (underlined) your system of reality. [...]

[...] I am not saying that there are no greater facts, but that those greater facts cannot be contained within your system as themselves. [...]

In the experience of personalities outside of your system, events are not recalled nor held in such a manner. A personality outside of your system does not therefore recall events from so-called previous lives in any serial form. [...]

[...] Because of your time misconceptions you make serious errors whenever you attempt any predictions into life after death, or life within other systems than your own. [...]

[...] If such is the case with personalities so closely allied with your own, then you can perhaps understand how alien your idea of time is to personalities that have never existed within your physical system. [...]

In some systems therefore exterior camouflage is not needed.

Unfortunately, the system itself began to impede the very abilities it was meant to protect. Such abilities must have freedom, and insist upon it, and so the security system itself always felt in jeopardy. [...]

[...] As given in the last session, the cost of running the security system was finally becoming too great, and at different times strong efforts were made to dispense with it. The old beliefs were still there, however, and between the two of you, at the first hint of “danger” Ruburt hastily put the system back together again.

The millionaire checks all of the locks, perhaps, or has the bank president show him the latest security measures that are being taken—and to some degree, now, Ruburt, and you to a lesser degree, have checked Ruburt’s security system. [...]

[...] Not trusting that, however, or understanding this, Ruburt constructed a security system of his own, and with the best of misguided intentions.

In actuality all of the seemingly erratic genetic variances that often crop up in human development are vital to the elasticity of the entire genetic system.

[...] The physical system would become too rigid, lose the power of its natural diversity, and eventually bring a dead-end to human survival.

There is hardly any danger of that possibility, however, since it would be nearly impossible to perform such a task even with the most developed of technologies — and indeed, the very attempt to do so might well immediately trigger a response on the part of the whole genetic system, so that new divergences appeared with even greater frequency, as compensation.

(Long pause.) It would seem that infants have no belief systems, and therefore could not be in charge of their own realities in any way. [...]

(9:35.) There are, therefore, many other equally valid, equally real evolutionary developments that have occurred and are occurring and will occur, all within other probable systems of physical reality. [...]

With splendid innocence and exuberant pride, you imagine that the evolutionary system as you know it is the only one, that physically there can be no more. [...]

[...] Therefore if in your system it disappears, it emerges within another. [...]

I am speaking now, in this chapter, mainly about your own planet and solar system, but the same applies to all aspects of your physical universe. [...]

In the same way, beneath your conscious use of language there lies a vast inner communication, a mental system upon whose basis language must rest. [...] This is the most complex of systems, in which each detail has meaning—not only because of its unique individual nature, but because of the greater meaning that any one detail has in the larger mental structure of the universe.

Now: this basic mental system provides the infant’s natural mental environment, and nurtures it so that the infant is anything but strictly programmed mentally. It is provided with endless variations of probable reality systems, to which it will be able to mentally relate, and into whose framework it will be able to pour its curiosity.

In that mental system, therefore, each detail is known with all of its probable variations, and in its relationship to all of the other multitudinous and indeed infinite living details that compose any given day. [...]

[...] It may also of course mean that other, perhaps more desirable events that you have not thought of may not happen—because you have been so specific, and perhaps determined your desire from your own level of understanding only—where the reservoirs of this deeper mental system might have been able to tell you that the event you want so badly is not, after all, to your best interest.

The nervous system itself must, you see, be so constituted, and the nervous system reacts definitely to visual block images. [...] The whole system is highly complicated and organized, and organized to react to specific patterns that are formed from these basic root assumptions.

The fact that this does occur does show that the systems of perception are not basically biologically a form of overall structure however, but learned secondary responses. It is disturbing to the whole physical system however to break up the strong pattern of perception. [...] Changes that are not yet known occur within the nervous system under such circumstances, both electromagnetic and chemical.

[...] These root assumptions are the framework of your camouflage system. As you attempt to explore other realities you almost automatically interpret such data in terms of the root assumptions of your own system.

[...] Root assumptions represent the basic premises upon which a given existence-system is formed.