“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] It makes little difference what circumstances are involved. The myth will grow to a reality, and the reality is far stronger than any purely physical event could be. [...]

[...] But understand (smile) that others are forming their own clay of realities simultaneously. If they do not like what they have created often they throw it away; but always with the idea of learning from their errors, and forming another from the knowledge they have gained.

It is not necessary that you know what is going on in these other systems of reality. [...]

Now, remember: in one way your reality is a probable system. In some other realities mankind has taken different roads.

[...] I hope in this book not only to assure you of the eternal validity of your soul or entity, but to help you sense its vital reality within yourself. [...] When you understand to some extent who and what you are, then I can explain more clearly who and what I am. [...]

[...] Each of my readers plays a game in which the egotistical conscious self pretends not to know what the whole self definitely does know. [...] In its intense focus in physical reality, however, it pretends not to know, until it feels able to utilize the information in physical terms.

[...] How many of you would want to limit your reality, your entire reality, to the experience you now know? [...]

[...] It is what you are. [...]

You must perceive what you do of reality through your physical senses, but your physical senses distort reality. They present reality to you in their own way. The physical senses can only perceive reality a little bit at a time, and so it seems to you that one moment exists, and is gone forever, and the next moment comes, and like the one before it disappears. [...]

Reality is not limited. [...] These only appear to those who exist within three-dimensional reality. Since I am no longer within it, I can perceive what you do not see. But there is a part of you that is not imprisoned within three-dimensional reality, and that part of you knows that there is no time, that there is only an eternal now; and that part of you that knows is the whole self, the inner personality that knows all of your lives.

[...] It is much easier if your theories fit reality, but if they do not, then you do not change reality one iota. [...]

(“For what?”)

[...] The excerpts show not only something of Seth’s connections on the “other side” of Jane, but in one case her violent reactions of surprise and panic when she attempted to translate something of Seth Two’s reality in terms of our own camouflage world: She found herself deeply involved in an unexpected experience with “massiveness” — one of the subjects I want to refer to in these preliminary notes. And Seth Two — or our imperfect grasp of what such an energy gestalt can mean or represent — comprises at least one of the sources of the Seth material itself.

(Unlike Seth, Seth Two has never been physical in our terms, and only partially comprehends our reality even while helping to form it. Very quickly, and perhaps simplifying too much, here’s Seth Two from the 407th session, speaking in Jane’s high, distant, deliberate and asexual interpretation of what such an energy gestalt’s “voice” might sound like:)

“The relaxation involves a curious sense of dropping down inwardly, of going slowly beneath the realities we usually recognize. [...] In that kind of relaxation the body itself perceives differently; that’s what I’m trying to emphasize. [...]

[...] In my opinion, she offers a most important insight here toward understanding the formation of our mundane physical reality. Besides Jane’s material in appendixes 4 and 5 for Volume 1 of “Unknown” Reality, see Seth’s deliveries on inner sound, light, and electromagnetic patterns in the four sessions (623–26) making up Chapter 5 of Personal Reality.

(“Well, I know you said in the last session [just before 10:33] that from her nonphysical reality my mother isn’t trying to coerce Jane and me into buying Mr. Markle’s house — yet I keep wondering what others will think about the idea of influence being felt in our reality from ‘the other side,’ you might say — ”)

[...] I told her I thought “Unknown” Reality was excellent. “But I’m out of it on this one,” she said, explaining that she didn’t know it well consciously, had little idea of its structure, and couldn’t particularly say what was to come in it. In contrast, her involvement with Seth’s last book, Personal Reality, had been much more intimate during its production.

[...] Other quite-as-valid events do not seem significant — they do not rise into perception, or reality. [...] In one reality, for example, Joseph’s mother married Mr. Markle. [...] In that reality Mr. Markle died before Joseph’s mother did, so there was no need for a Joseph, here, to even look for a house; he had one. In that reality Joseph did not marry Ruburt. And in this reality [the one you and Ruburt know] Ruburt instinctively felt apart from that house.

[...] As your intimate daily reality can be involved with and colored by probabilities, brought into your experience by your own desires and beliefs, so is your mass culture, world history, and species orientation colored by probable events that do not fit into your officially recognized idea of physical reality.

What happens to a thought when it leaves your conscious mind? [...] Therefore to protect yourself, to protect your subjectivity from drifting, you erect various psychological barriers at what you suppose to be the danger points. Instead, you see, you can follow these thoughts and emotions simply by realizing that your own reality continues in another direction, beside the one with which you mainly identify. [...]

Now you do the same thing when you sit in your living room, but you do not realize what you are doing; and presently you are somewhat restricted. [...] We have what you might call a game, demanding some expertise, where for our own amusement we see which of us can translate any given thought into the most numerous forms. [...]

(With pauses): Your scientists are finally learning what philosophers have known for centuries — that mind can influence matter. [...]

(9:23.) Each emotion and thought has its own electromagnetic reality, completely unique. [...]

[...] By the time he is born he has already learned to accept his parents’ idea of what reality is. In a large sense he begins to train himself to focus only upon what you would call physical reality, though he still partially perceives other fields that you do not accept.

For sometime he literally perceives many levels of reality at once, and part of what seems to be disorientation is simply the result of early confusion with so much data. [...] This adds to the confusion, and it is a matter of physical survival that he largely ignores these messages while he learns to focus in physical reality.

[...] On another level it stated indeed that the psychic reality of the family in a large manner would disappear from physical reality. [...]

[...] Father and myself and the whole family—I don’t believe Jane was in the dream—had all decided to leave physical reality together. [...]

In a reality that is inconceivably multidimensional, the old concepts of God are relatively meaningless. [...] If I told you that God was an idea, you would not understand what I meant, for you do not understand the dimensions in which an idea has its reality, or the energy that it can originate and propel. You do not believe in ideas in the same way that you believe in physical objects, so if I tell you that God is an idea, you will misinterpret this to mean that God is less than real — nebulous, without reality, without purpose, and without motive action.

Now: God is more than the sum of all the probable systems of reality he has created, and yet he is within each one of these, without exception. [...] He is also within each spider, shadow, and frog, and this is what man does not like to admit.

[...] As you learn to turn the focus of your attention away from physical reality and therefore experience some slight evidence of other realities, your consciousness will cling to old ideas that make true explanations impossible for you to understand. [...]

[...] To say that physical life is not real is to deny that reality pervades all appearance, and is a part of all appearance. In the same manner, God does not exist apart from or separate from physical reality, but exists within it and as a part of it, as he exists within and as a part of all other systems of existence.

In the dream state you deal with objects that may or may not have a physical reality. [...] Creativity allows you, while awake, to ignore or even to contradict what seems to be the hard evidence of known reality, either in large or small terms. [...]

I want you both to look at Ruburt’s physical condition in the light of what I have just said about creativity always contradicting the evidence to some degree. [...] To some extent, however, you are both still hypnotized by the evidence of Ruburt’s condition—where instead it should be used as a jumping-off board, as a gap to be filled with reality (emphatically). [...] You do not concentrate on what stands in your way. [...]

To some extent, creativity involves you (pause) in a contradiction with the evidence of reality within your world. [...] In the usual awake state, in the terms now of this discussion, you deal with the available physical evidence of the world as it appears to present perception, that is, or with what you can see or feel or touch, either immediately or through physical instruments. [...]

[...] You recognize the absence in the present of the physical painting you want to produce, and your creativity brings that painting into reality. [...] It has been put together through the centuries, in your terms, in countless ways, bringing pictures of reality, each vivid, each contradicting the other to some extent. [...]

The next chapter will deal with the emotional realities of love, and kinship between personalities; what happens to these during succeeding reincarnations (pause), for some fall by the wayside and some are retained.

The next chapter will deal with your physical reality as it appears to me and others like me. This chapter will contain some rather fascinating points, for not only do you form the physical reality that you know, you are also forming other quite valid environments in other realities by your present thoughts, desires and emotions. [...]

The next chapter will describe my work, and those dimensions of reality into which it takes me, for as I travel into your reality I also travel into others, to fulfill that purpose which is mine to fill. [...]

The next chapter will deal with the eternal validity of dreams as gateways into these other realities, and as open areas through which the inner self glimpses the many facets of its experience, and communicates with other levels of its reality.

[...] I will try to put this as simply as possible: There is within his psyche what amounts to a transparent dimensional warp that serves almost like an open window through which other realities can be perceived, a multidimensional opening that has to some extent escaped being clouded over by the shade of physical focus.

The physical senses usually blind you to these open channels, for they perceive reality only in their own image. To some extent, then, I enter your reality through a psychological warp in your space and time. [...]

[...] I hope to explain what these abilities are, and point out the ways that each individual can use to release these potentials.

[...] Instead there is an expansion of her consciousness and a projection of energy that is directed away from three-dimensional reality.

[...] In your terms the conscious mind is growing toward a realization of the part it has to play in such multidimensional reality. [...] When you fully comprehend that you form what you think of as your current reality, all else will fall into place.

[...] They take it for granted, not knowing what it is or what they do, yet it speaks through all their motions and they dwell in the ancient wisdom of its ways. [...]

[...] Because you perceive a reality of cause and effect, you hypothesize a reality in which one life affects the next one. [...]

The simplicity of natural guilt does not lead to what you think of as conscience, yet conscience is also dependent upon that moment of reflection that in a large measure sets you apart from the animals. [...]

[...] The inner ego is another term for what we call the inner self. As the outer ego manipulates within the physical environment, so the inner ego or self organizes and manipulates with an inner reality. The inner ego creates that physical reality with which the outer ego then deals.

[...] And what he calls the unconscious, not so egotistically organized, he, therefore, considers without consciousness—without consciousness of self. [...] He does not realize, however, nor do your other psychologists, what I have told you often—that there is an inner ego; and it is this inner ego that organizes what Jung would call unconscious material.

[...] It constantly translates the components of its gestalt into reality—either physical reality through the EE units I have mentioned, or into other realities equally as valid.

The individual inner self, then, through constant massive effort of great creative intensity, cooperates with all other inner selves to form and maintain the physical reality that you know, so that physical reality is an offshoot or by-product of the highly conscious inner self.

[...] What has actually been your own experience with war, with prejudice, with hatred? How much of your view of reality has been formed by direct experience, and now much has been formed through secondary sources, such as communications media, or tales brought to you by others?

[...] This seemingly contradictory state of affairs may be the best evidence of all that Seth is truly what he says he is—“a personality energy essence, no longer focused in physical reality.”)

Now what I want and what I get from you two is sometimes different. [...]

(She had no idea what Seth would talk about tonight. [...]

You have been taught that you are at the mercy of previous events, so your idea of looking for the source of personal difficulty is to examine the past, but — to find what you did wrong there, or what mistakes occurred there, or what inadequate interpretations were made there! Again, regardless of what you have been taught, the point of power is in the present; and again, your present beliefs will be used to structure your recollections.

You must look within yourself for evidences of what you want in terms of positive experience. [...] It is only natural to contrast what you want with what you have, and it is very easy to become discouraged in so doing, but looking for errors in the past will not help you. [...] Feel and dwell upon the certainty that your emotional, spiritual and psychic abilities are focused through the flesh, and for five minutes only direct all of your attention toward what you want. [...]

(A note: My own hunch is that there’s a good connection between Seth’s reincarnational points of power, cellular memory, and the coordinate points he discusses in Chapter Five of Seth Speaks: “These coordinate points act as channels through which energy flows, and as warps or invisible paths from one reality to another. [...] These points impinge upon what you call time, as well as space….” [...]

[...] When you search it looking for what is wrong, then you become blind to what was right, in those terms, so that the past only mirrors the shortcomings that now face you.

[...] Now the same thing applies to each of your great religions, though as I have said in the past, the Buddhists come closer, generally speaking, to a description of the nature of reality. [...] But Buddha, like Christ, interpreted what he almost knew in terms of your own reality. Not only of your own physical reality, but your own probable physical reality.

You must understand that each mental act is a reality for which you are responsible. That is what you are in this particular system of reality for. [...]

[...] They concentrate upon not what they think of as the power of good, but fearfully upon what they think of as the power of evil.

[...] The Crucifixion and attendant drama made sense within your reality at the time. It arose into the world of physical actuality out of the inner reality from which your deepest intuitions and insights also spring.

[...] It is an integral part of that universe, and yet it is also quite its own reality. That reality is dependent upon the perceptions of each kind of life that composes it. It is a creation of consciousness, rising into one unique kind of expression from that divine gestalt of being—and that divine gestalt of being is of such unimaginable dimensions that its entire reality cannot appear within any one of its own realities, its own worlds.

[...] We hadn’t asked Dr. Guy what he intended to do. For that matter, we hadn’t even asked him exactly what Dr. Camper wanted him to find out about Jane and Seth—or even me. [...]

[...] This interrelationship always exists in any system of reality and at any level of activity. [...]

Quite apart from that, however, there is what we will call for now the collective unconscious of all of the electrons that compose the entire seemingly separate event of the scientists observing the electron. [...]

The inner self is embarked upon an exciting endeavor, in which it learns how to translate its reality into physical terms. The conscious mind is brilliantly attuned to physical reality, then, and often so dazzled by what it perceives that it is tempted to think physical phenomena is a cause, rather than a result. [...] When this situation arises the conscious mind feels itself assailed by a reality that seems greater than itself, over which it has no control. [...]

Its beliefs about the nature of reality are then given to inner portions of the self. These rely mainly upon the conscious mind’s interpretation of temporal reality. [...]

(Jane was quite ready for her regular session at 9:00, although because of the call we weren’t sure what it would cover. [...]

The realization that you form your own reality should be a liberating one. [...]

[...] They are energy formed and directed, formulations of interior and exterior patterns of reality. They are a part of the creative force from which all realities spring. Again, we run into difficulties in explanation simply because there are few verbal equivalents for what I am trying to say.

Consciously you react to the physical data — the noise, the squeal of brakes perhaps, the visual shock of seeing the car so close, but the entire inner reality of that scene or event is instantly “recognized” by what I refer to as your inner senses. [...]

Your own thoughts and beliefs, having the same kind of inner reality, also transform the interior environments of others. [...] It existed in this nontemporal reality then before, in your terms, it was physically materialized, perceived and reacted to.

It was propelled from inner reality to outward reality through belief, emotion and imagination. [...]

(“Our perception of time is limited and we only focus on a fairly small portion of reality. [...] We’ve given up some of that intensity because we’ve taken on more reality, but next we’ll get both more intensity and reality together.”)

You understand the basic reality of subjective life. [...] You will not need to see thoughts materialized in physical matter, for you will have long since learned that the thoughts and not the matter are the basic reality. [...]

There are realities that are used no longer. [...] In your terms again there are incipient time structures and realities, probable systems that may or may not become a part of any mass venture.

(As we sat talking I asked Jane what she remembered about Willy’s strange actions. [...] This is what she said, verbatim: