“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

In their own ways children are quite aware of their counterparts, and of other portions of their individual realities. [...] You dream of your own counterparts frequently, but you are so afraid of maintaining what you think of as the rational adult self that you ignore such communications.

The unknown reality. [...] What are they? [...]

[...] Neither of us could tell what went with what, though; perhaps we’ll get information that will help us make some connections; perhaps I can present a list of such correlations in a note.

(Neither Jane or I could remember what Monday evening’s session is all about — even though I’d read part of it from my “shorthand” notes to the members of ESP class last night. [...]

Your ego is now focused within this reality. You have other egos focused in other realities. The inner self is aware of what is being done in all of these realities. [...]

[...] You are also involved in other realities and other experiments. There is more, and there are trends now in your own reality that you do not see.

[...] In no other field of reality are the terms so drastic. [...] You must believe in the physical reality and accept the vulnerability.

[...] What they do learn however is always retained. [...]

Simply recognize that they exist as realities, whether or not, intellectually, you accept them. [...] The universe knows what to do with them. [...]

[...] It is the most supreme egotism to imagine that any of your secrets can stand between you and any reality that is. You form your reality. [...]

[...] But these are words that you use easily without ever thinking what they mean, or more important, without feeling what you think they mean, and then separating that from your inner feelings about the words involved. [...]

[...] You realize when you avoid the verbal terms you are also avoiding coming to face with what the terms mean, not only to yourself, but what the terms mean to other people. [...]

The subconscious—to finish what I began—the subconscious cushions the outer ego really against the shock of true reality. [...] You are not strong enough yet to bear the brunt of basic reality, and you construct complicated dream worlds in order to find shelter from what would appear to you as savage, uncontrolled and undisciplined chaos.

[...] It alone is capable of experiencing inner and basic reality directly and immediately. It alone can cope with the tumultuous nature of such direct reality experience.

[...] Gradually direct experience of inner reality is spoon-fed by the inner ego through the mouth of the subconscious to the outer ego. [...] That is, the outer ego is shielded from direct experience of reality because it could not take the impact of such experience. [...]

Basic reality is not uncontrolled, savage, undisciplined or chaotic, but if you were suddenly confronted with it at your present state of development you would be like a straw in a hurricane. But because of your weakness, the various levels of existence merely prepare you and equip you for the experience of true reality, of which you have but a glimmering.

[...] Seth has yet to explain what he means by “preparing” our new house for us. During break we tried to give the Pipers a brief resume of what the Seth material involves. [...]

The depth of this reality cannot be plunged into in the same manner that one plunges into a river or a stream. The depth of this reality can, again, be compared to the depth of a sleep or a trance, or the depth of any common psychological experience.

(Jane then resumed; but now her voice was much stronger and some-what deeper, quite different from the easygoing tone and volume she had used to open the session.)

[...] Now the chair represents a subdivision in matter, being what you term dead matter, though we know that consciousness is everywhere.

(10:49.) Now: In ordinary terms, this book has included no esoteric instructions to help you achieve what you may think of as spiritual development or psychic expertise. Yet it is a preliminary for all of those who want to use creaturehood as a framework through which to perceive and experience other realities.

[...] If you use the methods given in this book, you should know yourself far more intimately than you did before, and be better equipped to handle your personal reality. Simply knowing that you form your reality can free you from some limiting concepts that have held you back in the past. [...]

[...] By doing so, other realities will make themselves known. They will add dimension and depth to your present reality.

As soon as you begin to compare what you are with some idealized concept of yourself, you automatically feel guilty. [...]

[...] You create outer senses to perceive the appearances, and so what you perceive through the outer senses seems logical indeed. But again, there are infinite realities, as vivid, and some indescribably more vivid than your own, but presently you are not focused upon them.

There is no one reality. There are many, in fact infinite, realities. [...] When beginnings and endings are spoken of, the implication is always there, that there must be but one reality, and that it must have a beginning in time and an ending in time.

Realities merge, one into the other. Personalities, or any type of individualized energy, may pass through various realities. The appearance of energy in one form could be said to end in that form were it not for the existence of the spacious present, in which all realities are simultaneous.

This primary energy gestalt may be thought of as straddling all realities, or existing in the infinite realities of which we have spoken. [...]

[...] What will he say and what will he do—his joy and release, and forget the how.

[...] When two individuals with strong negative thoughts are together, then their reality has strong negative aspects.

[...] Imagine what you will do as you sell so many paintings that you need more time to produce them, and how you will then leave your job in order to paint, and the sort of place you will live, and the feeling of contentment and creative challenge that will fill you.

[...] In other words, it is already accomplished, and it will then be fulfilled in physical reality. [...]

[...] However when there is a distortion, as when an ulcer is created, then we begin what can indeed be a vicious circle, for the idea and the reality of the ulcer is then accepted as part of the self-image. [...]

This we have called the value climate of psychological reality. It is what you may consider your counterpart of physical space. [...]

The following basic subjects are necessary for an understanding of what we are trying to say, particularly for any practical application: the construction of physical matter; the psychological and electrical gestalt that results in the formation of a self; the nature of the dream universe; the electrical system, as it is related to both the physical universe and the inner psychic gestalt; the nature of action; mental enclosures; mental genes; and again, all of these subjects in relationship to their reality as action.

This does not, however, mean that this is the only reality. It is simply the only reality that you perceive with the physical senses. In order to perceive other realities, you must therefore switch from your outer senses to the inner senses, for the inner senses are clearer, and are equipped to perceive action and reality as it exists independently of the distortions given to it by the physical senses.

Now, not only human beings form their own reality, but all consciousness forms its own reality. Now, to fill out what I say, your own personal experience must come. You will understand what I say when the inner self is ready to understand, and I am not speaking in intellectual terms. [...]

[...] You hear the words and yet you do not understand what they really mean, but basically, you do violence to no one. Basically, you cannot hurt anything, but as long as you think that you can, then you must dwell within that reality. Now, in that reality, as you understand it now, there are reasons that you do not as yet perceive. [...]

[...] Now, in this case, the fish was not a probable fish in another reality. [...]

[...] Now what kind of protection would that fish have had against my violent acts?”)

[...] The field that is my reality and yet is your own reality, and you must intellectually probe it, and intuitively probe it, and find your own paths within it. [...] I do have my own individuality yet this in no way means that there is not a meeting ground between what I am and what you are. [...]

[...] And when you look at me and want Seth to come through, and when you don’t want to know what Jane says but you want to know what Seth says, you are denying your own reality. [...]

[...] You to try to experience the fantastic validity of this moment, or any moment in your life, in all its ramifications, and in all its dimensions, what a great thing that would be, and how much you’d have to tell other people. [...] I’m getting conditioned now, I don’t want to say, Sue, what are you getting? Sue, what are you getting?”

[...] The class dream I couldn’t remember was precisely just what you [Jane] were saying right now, and I did mention something this evening before class started that I just remembered. [...] He wanted to know why, just what you said, we all gravitate in that particular area; why we just heard one voice over another, or did we or should we and so on; just exactly what you said ...I told you before class started.”

Your reality is the result of a hallucination, if by this you mean that it is only the picture shown by your senses. [...] In that context corporeal life is an entranced one, with the focus of attention largely concentrated through the senses’ belief in the reality of their sensations. Yet that experience is the image that reality takes for you now, and so in other terms earthly life is one version of reality — not reality in its entirety, but a part of it. It is in itself an avenue through which you perceive what reality is. [...]

What is the reality behind reality? [...] Is there some definable concrete reality, of which your own is a mere shadow?

(This afternoon I reminded Jane that she should read the 657th session in Chapter 15 of Personal Reality. It contains Seth’s material on the present point of power; I came across it while checking out a reference for Volume 2 of “Unknown” Reality. [...]

Now: your friend Tam quite happily gives readings with Ruburt’s experience behind him, and he says “I simply say, I take no responsibility for what James says.” Ruburt, however, takes the responsibility for what I say.

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The material in Personal Reality, however, contains psychological and psychic truths. [...]

[...] The regularly scheduled session for last Wednesday night wasn’t held while we made ready for several approaching events, and as the days went by Jane [and I] simply forgot about what was coming up in “Unknown” Reality. I read her the heading for Section 4 now, while we waited for Seth to come through “I haven’t the vaguest idea, even, of what all that means,” she said. [...] But given that right kind of equanimity, time — our ordinary time — slides by; then, looking back periodically, we discover that we’ve accomplished at least something of what we wanted to do.

[...] He plans to attend ESP class tomorrow night, then stay over Wednesday to read and discuss the two works Jane has in progress, Adventures in Consciousness: An Introduction to Aspect Psychology, and “Unknown” Reality. [...] If Seth comes through with material for “Unknown” Reality, Tam will be the first “outsider” to sit in on a session for this work. [...] That rather formal division in her trance activities suits us well; we enjoy doing most of our work by ourselves, no matter what kind it may be.

[...] He’s remarked more than once that he’ll close a session by dictating the heading for the next chapter, or whatever, “so that Ruburt [Jane] knows what I am doing. [...] But I’d say his procedure also helps satisfy Jane’s spontaneous impatience about learning what’s coming next in the material.

[...] She discussed her “own” works in her Introduction to Personal Reality. I mention them in various notes in that book, and selections of poetry from Dialogues itself are presented in chapters 10 and 11; in the latter chapter Seth used one of those excerpts in connection with his own material. Then in Volume 1 of “Unknown” Reality, Seth refers to Adventures on occasion, while I give information about it in Note 3 for his Preface, and Note 5 for Session 680, among others.

The distinctions formed by the outer senses therefore actually limit perception as a whole, while intensifying it into a small but vivid, seemingly enclosed radius of reality. When conceptual thought develops far enough, then it is imagined that all energy originates from what seems to be a closed system; and this misconception then colors all deductions made concerning the nature of energy itself.

[...] From within the room inhabitants watching would be able, through mathematical deductions, to deduce exactly how long the ball would keep its continuous bouncing activities, at what rate the motion of the ball would lessen, and at what future time the motion would cease entirely.

The structure of reality, including all physical phenomena, is composed of mental energy, expanding in terms of psychological value fulfillment. In this sort of reality there can be no closed systems.

[...] A closed system is, in other words, the result of the limitations of the outward senses, whose nature it is to distinguish as a meaningful reality only one portion of an open infinite system.

Other psychological structures beside your own have their being in realities you will find difficult to comprehend, even though they may be connected with your own, and you unknowingly, may be part of them. What you may term the reality of possibilities is an example. [...] In this system, all the other yous seem to exist in a probable reality.

Emotional charged feeling immediately sets up what you may think of as a tangent. It is expressed in some reality system. [...]

In two probable realities, your mother, for example, did not have children. [...] A psychological connection exists between the first son in that reality, and yourself.

[...] This altered ego is aware of large portions of inner reality that were previously denied. [...]

What gives life to chemicals now? [...] (Long pause.) There was a day when the dreaming world, in your terms, suddenly awakened to full reality as far as physical materialization is concerned. [...]

[...] Actually, what I got was — my feeling is — that we don’t have the concepts yet for something that seems so alien to our ordinary reality. [...]

[...] By evidence in this case I mean drawings, based upon the best scientific assumptions as to what all of those intermediate creatures must have looked like. [...] As far as I’ve been able to learn, no such transitional fossils have been found, like the discrete forms of reptiles and birds that have been discovered, so I decided to search out the next best thing: the visual representations as to what they must have looked like. But what good were the developing stages of a wing, I wondered, and how many uncounted generations of reptiles-turning-into-birds had to carry those appendages, before a fully-formed bird was finally hatched that could fly? [...]

[...] What kind of intermediate forms were there? [...] So what I really want to ask you for are references to later textbooks, that are more clear and precise than those I have on the origin of major new species. [...]

Consciousness or action forms all realities. What is not simply represents a possibility which consciousness may bring to life. [...]

The physical with its multitudinous and astonishing complexity, merely hints at the full nature of inner reality however, for all of inner reality cannot be translated in physical terms. [...]

You understand now what space is, or is not, in physical terms. [...]

The beginning of your physical universe occurred when conscious energy directed enough of its attention (long pause) in what was generalized dimension, to spark the formation of physical properties. [...]

[...] Pretend with me that you sit here in a physical reality in one tiny unspeakably and unutterably small dot upon the physical planet called Earth. [...] We imagined a physical reality and we imagined this moment and this time and there is no end to this children’s tale. [...] And imagine also, therefore, that within yourselves now are other far more wise selves and that within your eyes are other eyes as old as mine and other selves quite as ancient and quite as new and that these selves, within yourselves, look out at me and wink and in winking know what they know. [...]

[...] What you fear most you draw to yourself. Instead you must concentrate upon what you want and do not be so worried about where I am, just listen to what I have to say for now. You can learn to concentrate upon what you want and draw that to yourself and you can learn and without too much difficulty, to completely restructure the health habits of your family. [...]

(After break:) I will say good evening but what information you get here increases the nature of reality as you know it and frees you from time. [...]

[...] You use the energy of the universe to heal yourselves constantly, but you have very definite conceptions of how this healing can take place and what is possible and what is not possible. [...]

Now if you are delightfully free, and if you are following, you can follow that path into that other reality and to that other consciousness. [...] You can, to some extent, or another sense its reality, its subjective vitality. [...]

What we did tonight is just a starter and (words missed due to noise) bugging you to do this, but try and do this in your dreams. [...] And, of course, get all the way back, but I know that’s what he was going to say. [...]

(During a class experiment to find the reality of our own probable selves, Seth came through.)

Now if you are able to go even further imaginatively, you can open those other eyes and look into that other room and that is what I would like you to do. [...]