“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

As the present life of any individual rises from hidden dimensions beyond those easily accessible in physical terms, and as it draws its energy and power to act from unconscious sources, so does the present physical universe as you know it rise from other dimensions. [...]

[...] All probable materializations of life and consciousness have their day, and create those conditions within which they can flourish; and their day, in your terms, is eternal.

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. [...]

(9:53.) If you have any intuitive understanding as yet concerning the nature of the entity or whole self, you will see that it has placed you in a position in which certain abilities, insights, and experience can be realized, and in which your unique kind of consciousness can be nurtured. [...]

The basis and firm groundwork of the material, and its primary contribution, lies in the concept that consciousness itself indeed creates matter, that consciousness is not imprisoned by matter but forms it, and that consciousness is not limited or bound by time or space; time and space in your terms being necessary distortions, or adopted conditions, forming a strata for physical existence.

The difference between value fulfillment and growth, the fifth dimension, and the expanding universe portions should also be stressed. When man realizes that he himself creates his personal and universal environment in concrete terms, then he can begin to create a private and universal environment much superior to the one that is the result of haphazard and unenlightened constructions.

[...] It is theoretically, but definitely, possible for an individual to suddenly perform an art for which he has in the past achieved no conscious knowledge or mastery, and to do it well. But usually expectations are just not that strong, and a conscious and unconscious preparation is necessary.

[...] She thought the title should be The Physical Universe as Idea Construction. [...]

It seems that although this is somehow connected with the university, that their particular conversation has to do with a matter that will be carried on without official university knowledge. [...]

[...] 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.

Those realities however which appear only in certain stages of consciousness, are secondaries. [...]

[...] What you cannot escape within any range of consciousness, can be called a Primary Condition, and you may capitalize the term.

[...] The chemical, biological, electrical and psychic functions of the self are directly connected to the physical universe as a whole. Theoretically the influence of a particular given self is endless, and not only in so far as your own physical camouflage time universe is concerned. [...]

If you then realize that every physical particle contains its own inner and initial consciousness, then you will see that we have come full circle. [...] It operates to form as complicated a gestalt as possible, following the law of value fulfillment, and yet in so doing it does not either invade, deny or negate other individual consciousness. [...]

Now, you should see from this that your universe is therefore itself a gestalt. As an individual cell can be considered to be apart from the rest of the body, as its outer rim can be considered as something that divides it from the rest of the body, so the self can be considered as apart from the universe, and its outer skin thought of as dividing it from the rest of the body.

[...] I have said that each individual helps to construct the physical universe. [...]

[...] And when you have learned it, then you have begun to learn how to handle the consciousness that is yours intelligently and well. [...] And then you can continue, you can continue to enlarge the scope of your understanding and consciousness...and as you do this, you take on a more conscious awareness of your responsibility. [...]

Consciousness left to itself is like April left to itself. [...] And it is you who project disasters into consciousness when those disasters occur.

[...] Open up the gates of your consciousness while you sleep! You know you are more than what you refer to as your conscious I. But you should know it through experience! [...]

[...] The universe in which I dwell is the universe in which all of you dwell. [...]

And when you have learned it, then you have begun to learn how to handle the consciousness that is yours intelligently and well. [...] And then you can continue, you can continue to enlarge the scope of your understanding and consciousness—and as you do this, you take on a more conscious awareness of your responsibility. [...]

Consciousness left to itself is like April left to itself. [...] And it is you who projects disasters into consciousness when those disasters occur. [...]

Open up the gates of your consciousness while you sleep! You know you are more than what you refer to as your “conscious I,” but you should know it through experience! [...]

[...] The universe in which I dwell is the universe in which all of you dwell.Some of you have better eyesight than others and the vision is not physical. [...]

[...] I have said earlier that the individual could not exist in a physical universe if he did not also exist in the dream universe. Again, there are chemical and electromagnetic connections that cannot be severed between all these states of consciousness.

[...] For in the dream state the personality is molded and changed through actions that do not exist within the physical universe. [...]

[...] These changes are not caused because of a physical event, but because of an event occurring within a dream condition which has no reality in your physical universe.

[...] But then these dreams in turn affect the personality in general, and affect the actions of that personality in a physical universe. [...]

You stop, each of you, and think “Actually, how safe is this universe in which we dwell?” The money, or the need of it, in your particular situation, becomes merely a symbol for an inner sense that the universe is not safe, and so money becomes a needed security. [...]

Each of you built up your own set of defenses, because you did not believe that the universe was safe for creativity. [...] But he also needed your help, because while the main method was his, your intents were in unison and the same—to protect yourselves and your creativity from an unsafe universe. [...]

You live in a safe universe. [...]

[...] You must completely accept the fact that you do indeed dwell in a safe universe—one in which you are free to develop, say, your painting abilities to the fullest, without fearing that that development will dull the weapon that brings you money.

[...] With the hospital experience, I’m telling myself that if I can write about the storms of consciousness involving whole nations, I can certainly describe and reflect upon our own storms of consciousness. Jane and I must still have an unbelievable amount to learn, even though I think that in more basic terms certain portions of each individual’s reality are consciously unknowable. As Seth said three years ago: “Consciousness attempts to grow toward its own ideal development, which also promotes the ideal development of all organizations in which it takes part.⁹

[...] “We don’t want it thought,” I wrote when I got back to the hill house, “that the overall consciousness of Iran is playing with the individual consciousnesses of its people, say, as with toy soldiers, setting its citizens up against the world only to have them knocked down. [...] Rather, we want to relay to the reader that the great consciousness of Iran is made up of the individual consciousnesses of its people—that within that chosen national context the individual does have whatever freedom of creativity is possible. [...]

Yet from the very day of the accident, this question has existed along with each step of the cleanup process, and will continue to do so: What to do with Three Mile Island, that enormously complicated human creation that now has its own consciousness, and that has in its own way exerted the force of that consciousness throughout our civilized world? To dismantle TMI seemingly would solve the “problem”—but only partially, for once born its consciousness will (like all others) continue to live. [...]

That inner psychological universe is a psychic gestalt, propelled, formed, sustained or driven by value fulfillment, love and desire, by the loving values that have no limit (intently). The universe does not give up on itself, or on any of its creatures. [...]

[...] Some psychological difficulties need clear conscious light and understanding. Others, however, operate even without conscious participation, and those are often solved, or remedied, at the same level without interfering with the conscious mind. As the body handles many physical manipulations without your own conscious knowledge of what is being done, or how, so the workings of your own psychological systems often automatically solve “their own problems” through dreams of which you are not aware.

The conscious mind, however, can only hold so much. Life as you know it could not exist if everything was conscious in those terms. [...] You can make great strides by understanding and recalling dreams, and by consciously participating in them to a far greater degree. [...]

[...] This does not mean that any of those people could bear consciously knowing their own decisions — or could board that plane with the conscious consequences in mind.

Nor is such an inner decision forced upon the conscious personality, for in all such instances, the conscious personality has at various times come close to accepting the idea of death at the particular time in life.

The interior universe is at least as rich, varied and complicated as the exterior one. Dream reality is only one aspect of this inner universe, in the same way that our planet is only one of many others in a physical sky. [...]

[...] This does not mean that we do not repress fears and desires beneath consciousness. [...] As you will see later in this book, dreams can often release such repressed material for your conscious examination.

Exploration of the Interior Universe

[...] Though Seth told us that the experiments in dream recall would automatically make our consciousness more flexible, his real meaning didn’t come through to me until I found myself manipulating dreams and later having out-of-body experiences from the dream state.

You will know God’s actions, however, through the manifestations of the universe. [...] The universe is supportive. There is a force, if you prefer, that actively loves each individual, each consciousness, and actively works to help that consciousness attain the fulfillment inherent in its nature. Despite all misinterpretations, therefore, the universe is caring, and so is nature.

He is quite correct: the universe is not neutral. [...]

You wondered, really, if such a reality were possible, and if some people were really so blind—but the inner self provides certain safeguards, and the universe is a caring one, so that even those people are given some inner version. [...]

[...] Each portion of the universe carries the knowledge of all other parts, and each point of a reality is (underlined) that reality’s center. You are, then, centered in the universe.

If you stand
at your porchstep
you can sense the
universe
at your fingertips.

[...] As it does, so the speakers within each of you can rise to the surface of ordinary consciousness without being considered blabbermouths or mad men and women, or fools, without having to distort their information simply to bring it to your attention. [...]

[...] Each spoon that you touch, each flower that you rearrange, each syllable that you speak, each room you attend to, automatically brings you in touch with your natural feeling for the universe—for each object, however homey or mundane, is alive with changes and comprehension.

[...] (Pause.) It is also composed of highly charged consciousness that operates almost in a leapfrog fashion, with great bursts of exuberance and vitality. [...] Instead, ever-new virgin energy, so to speak, is created constantly, and appears at every conceivable point within your universal system.

The universe actively loves itself and all of its parts. [...]

[...] I have said that the second one resulted in—and constantly results in—consciousness of self. This is not ego consciousness. Consciousness of self is still consciousness directly connected with action. Ego consciousness is a state resulting from the third creative dilemma, which happens when consciousness of self attempts to separate itself from action. Since this is obviously impossible, since no consciousness or identity can exist without action, we have the third dilemma.

“Again: consciousness of self involves a consciousness of self within—and as a part of—action. Ego consciousness, on the other hand, involves a state in which consciousness of self attempts to divorce self from action—an attempt on the part of consciousness to perceive action as an object … and to perceive action as initiated by the ego as a result, rather than as a cause, of ego’s own existence.

[...] Seth calls the universe as we know it a “camouflage” system, since physical matter is simply the form that vitality—action—takes within it. Other realities are also camouflage systems, and within them consciousness also has specialized equipment tailored to their peculiar characteristics. [...]

[...] Identities are never constant as you yourselves are not the same consciously or unconsciously from one moment to the next. [...] And yet without the termination, identity would cease to exist, for consciousness without action would cease to be conscious.

[...] The most minute cell within your brain has been made from the patterns of consciousness, which we have given you. We gave you the pattern upon which you formed your entire physical universe... [...]

Know that within your physical atoms now the origins of all consciousness still sings and that all the human characteristics by which you know yourselves still exist within the eye of all our consciousness never diminished but always present; your individualities never diminished... [...]

[...] We want you to realize that there is consciousness without form, that there is consciousness with will and vitality that comes to you from beyond even those places that your Seth knows. [...]

[...] And it exists as light and as the impetus for other dimensions and consciousness. [...]

[...] When the world-view enlarges to include more sophisticated cultural environments then, however, the body must rely upon the conscious mind’s interpretation of events. [...] The body might object, but it still must rely upon the conscious mind’s interpretation of events, that it realizes are beyond its realm.

[...] In all cases a misinterpretation is being made on the part of the conscious mind, that then triggers bodily responses. [...] Whatever the issue might be, the conscious world-view is bringing about biological activity. [...]

[...] In the past you have reinforced each other’s beliefs in an unsafe universe. [...]

[...] You live in a safe universe. [...]

(Slowly:) The simple picture of the universe that you see on our screen, therefore, represents a view from your own now perspective — but each star, planet, galaxy or whatever is made up of other reference points in which, to put it simply, the same patterns have different kinds of reality. True space travel would of course be time-space travel,⁵ in which you learned how to use points in your own universe as “dimensional clues” that would serve as entry points into other worlds. [...]

(10:18.) Now: If you alter that picture a little so that the images are somewhat scrambled — and you do this by altering the focus of your consciousness — then the familiar coordination is gone. [...] (Pause.) If you did change the focus of your consciousness still further, you might then “bring in” another picture entirely. [...]

[...] The universe that you know is full of microscopic black holes and white holes,⁷ for example. Since your scientists have themselves given these labels, then using those terms I will say (with much gentle humor) that there are red, green, orange and purple holes — that is, the so-called black holes and white holes only represent what physicists have so far deduced about the deeper properties of your universe, and the way that certain coordinate points in one world operate, as providing feed-through into another.

Now imagine that the picture on the television screen shows your own universe. [...]

Consciousness of self involves a consciousness of self within, amid, and as a part of action. Ego consciousness, on the other hand, involves a state in which consciousness of self attempts to divorce itself from action, an attempt on the part of consciousness to perceive action as an object. Here we see that ego consciousness, in this attempt, strives to perceive action not only as separate, but to perceive it in such a fashion that it appears to ego that action is not only separate from itself, that is separate from the ego, but that action is initiated by the ego, and a result rather than a cause of ego’s own existence.

[...] I have said that the second dilemma resulted in, and constantly results in, consciousness of self. [...] Consciousness of self is not the same thing as consciousness of ego self. Consciousness of self is still consciousness directly connected with action.

Identities are never constant, as you yourselves are not the same consciously or unconsciously from one moment to another. [...] And yet without the termination, identity would cease to exist, for consciousness without action would cease to be conscious.

(Groping for words, Jane explained that she feels as though she is “wresting” material [not implying a struggle however] from Seth or some other source with a deep part of her consciousness that is below her ego consciousness. She feels that just recently she has in some manner begun to experience concepts in a more involved, different dimension of consciousness. [...]

The true [mental] physicist² will be a bold explorer — not picking at the universe with small tools, but allowing his consciousness to flow into the many open doors that can be found with no instrument, but with the mind.

[...] The structures are formed by organizations of consciousness, or CU’s. You have the most intimate knowledge of the nature of a cell, for example, or of an atom. [...] There is, in certain terms, a continuum of consciousness there of which your present physical life is a part. You are in certain kinds of communication and communion with your own cells, and at certain levels of consciousness you know this. A true physicist would learn to reach that level of consciousness at will. [...]

Using your conscious mind as a threshold, however, you can discover still more. [...] Think of that moment of conscious awareness as a path. [...] To some small extent you are “altering” your consciousness. [...]

[...] That exterior world is thrust outward, however, and projected into reality in line with your conscious desires, beliefs, and intent. It is important that you remember this position of the conscious mind as you think of it. [...]