“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] There is indeed an expanding universe, and it is formed in the eternal present. [...]

(Long pause.) The precious privacy of your existence, and indeed of your universe, is all the more miraculous, so to speak, precisely because its probable reality emerges from an infinite field of probabilities, each forever inviolate. [...]

It is almost impossible to begin with concepts of one isolated universe, one self at the mercy of its past, one time sequence, and end up with any acceptable theory of a multidimensional soul or godhead that is anything else but a glorified personified concept of what you think man is.⁶

[...] Man has produced some fine works: The high level of verbal communication, the multitudinous varieties of emotional interactions and of cultural exchange, the facility with exteriorization of ideas and concepts, the reaches of the imagination — all of these, and many others, are unique in the universe.

Whatever your scientists think, your body and your consciousness and your universe spring constantly into actualization. [...]

[...] That primary sense data, while pinpointed in the present, providing you with the necessary stance in time, still can open up to you the timelessness from which all time emerges, can bring you intuitive intimations, hinting at the true nature of the ever-present coming-to-be of the universe.

[...] You have been taught to concentrate upon criticisms and faults in your society; and in your times it seems that everything will work out wrong — that left alone the world will run down, the universe will die, man will destroy himself; and these beliefs so infiltrate your behavior that they organize much of your experience and rob you of the benefits nature itself everywhere provides in direct primary experience.

“If you remember what I said about the way in which the universe expands, that it has nothing to do with space, then you may perhaps dimly perceive the existence of a psychic pyramid of interrelated, ever-expanding consciousness that creates, simultaneously and instantaneously, universes and individuals that are given—through the gifts of personal perspective—duration, psychic comprehension, intelligence, and eternal validity.

“Its energy is so unbelievable that it does indeed form all universes; and because its energy is within and behind all universes, systems, and fields, it is indeed aware of each sparrow that falls, for it is each sparrow that falls.”

“Had It not solved it, All That Is would have faced insanity, and there would have been, literally, a reality without reason and a universe run wild.

[...] He initiated our exploration into the universe of dreams, for example, and is therefore largely responsible for this book. [...]

Here I will stress subjective experience itself as it is turned toward the dreaming state in particular, and deal with Seth’s conceptions of the dream universe through excerpts from his continuing manuscript. [...]

Seth maintains that the dream universe has its own basic laws or “root assumptions” — mental equivalents to our laws of gravity, space and time. [...]

[...] These phenomena are only evidences of the greater creative consciousness that is inherent and active in each of us — the interior universe of which we know so little.

[...] In actuality this is an inner universe rather than an inner world. [...]

[...] We have achieved a situation beneficial to all—for Jane’s will and my own each declares that upon the death of the survivor of the two of us, our estate is to be donated to the Manuscripts and Archives division of Yale University Library, in New Haven, Connecticut. [...]

(Seth II:) In your terms we remember our part in the creation of your universe, but you are not aware of your part in the creation of other universes into which you also peer. [...]

I have said that the electrical universe is, again, a materialization of a sort of inner vitality, of which everything is composed. [...]

[...] But our discussions concerning the electrical universe should have led you into intangibles.

All depth, all dimension and all distance is therein contained within the electrical universe. [...]

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. [...]

Nevertheless primaries also exist within the physical universe, and secondaries appear often as props within the dream world.

[...] Relax in the way that is natural to you and forget all ideas of tension and, for now, forget all ideas of trying to ferret out the secrets of the universe. [...]

The secrets of the universe are within you. [...]

You will not force secrets from the universe. [...]

[...] The responsibility of dealing with manipulation within the physical universe remains, but in some respects the nature of this manipulation changes. [...]

To any of them, the others would seem to exist in a probable universe. [...]

[...] Such a venture would also help Ruburt feel that he was holding his own financially in the universe. [...]

[...] I can feel the vitality of the universe as I breathe in and out. [...]

Your morning suggestions, however given, should include the assurances that the universe is indeed inclined in your direction—that you impress it with the feelings of your heart and emotions—that it is alert and responsive to your needs, since at certain levels you and the universe are inseparable, so see yourselves and your private environment not only as safe and secure, but magically touched by that great vitality that is the wellspring of life, so that each day all events work for your advantage. [...]

[...] This in turn reminded her of her own manuscript, The Physical Universe As Idea Construction, which she discusses in the Introduction. [...]

Now: The Physical Universe as Idea Construction, mentioned by Ruburt in his Introduction, did indeed represent our first formal contact, although Ruburt was not aware of it at that time.

[...] All who wish to look within themselves, to find their own answers, to encounter their own “appointment with the universe,” should therefore become well acquainted with the intimate workings of their own personality.

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. [...]

Exploration of the Interior Universe

[...] Most psychologists would not admit the existence of a definite structured universe in which dream acts, rather than physical acts, happen. [...]

I was fascinated with Seth’s material on the dream universe. [...]

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

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

(The class discussed the Cornell University crisis [the armed “take-over”], including some facts which had previously appeared in the various media in distorted form.)

Each of you individually creates the reality that you know—and en masse, altogether, you create the reality of your world and your universe. [...]

[...] As I have said before, according to psychology and science, you are a living conglomeration of elements and chemicals, spawned by a universe without purpose, itself accidentally formed, and you are given a life in which all the “primitive and animalistic” drives of your evolutionary past ever lurk within you, awaiting expression and undermining your control.

[...] You were born with an inner recognition of your rightness in the universe. [...]

While you have highly limited concepts about the nature of the self, you cannot begin to conceive of a multidimensional godhood, or a universal reality in which all consciousness is unique, inviolate — and yet given to the formation of infinite gestalts of organization and meaning.

[...] Your religions do not explain your greater reality, and your sciences leave you [just] as ignorant about the nature of the universe in which you dwell.

[...] As your paintings are solidified feeling on board or paper, apparent in the physical universe and therefore vulnerable to the laws of that universe, so is the universe itself on your plane physical materialized feeling, only with more dimension than a drawing or a painting. [...]

[...] He felt strongly his connection with the universe as a whole and with nature as he understood it. [...]

As far as the ink sketch is concerned, do not forget that while your man was imprisoned by his senses, in trying to reach beyond them in your physical universe your man could not perceive anything at all; and yet it is through these very earthy senses that he has a chance to glimpse beyond, or indeed realize that there is a beyond to glimpse.

I have said also that this feeling of vitality, and I prefer the term vitality, is moving and itself a part of the living stuff of the universe. [...]

The brain looks out upon the physical universe, and consciousness then reacts, again creatively, to that environment. [...]

The physical self extends outward, literally, to the ends of your universe, but the physical brain could not handle this amount of manipulation, and it has become subconscious. [...]