“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] She sees you in a physical reality as people she respects and admires. Through the probable experience, she was able to see what could have happened to you in this system, had you given in to negative thoughts and feelings and not been persistent in your work and efforts.

[...] I didn’t know what to think of this explanation at the time. Later as we explained the nature of personality and its creative potentials, I saw that this was precisely what we had done.

[...] Quite frankly, I didn’t expect any of us to have practical experience along these lines, thinking that any probable realities were beyond our reach. [...] Through our experiences, the concept became a reality with which we were confronted.

[...] “What?” I said.

From Session 610 for June 7, 1972: “You always know what you are doing, even when you do not realize it. [...] In the same way the world as you see it is a reflection of what you are, a reflection not in glass but in three-dimensional reality. You project your thoughts, feelings, and expectations outward, then you perceive them as the outside reality. [...]

When in the earlier days of our marriage I used to tell her that she had her “symptoms” regardless of what I thought or wanted, she would deny it. [...] I believe implicitly now that each one of us does create our own reality. [...] (In Chapter 1 of The Nature of Personal Reality, see the 613th session, for September 11, 1972.) And Jane and I are still exploring, still searching—together—for the factors within those larger frameworks of existence which make qualities like illness possible and understandable.

[...] Many questions arise: Even granting our personal reservations about influences being exerted within our current lives through past, future, as well as other present existences, what about exchanges on dream levels concerning Jane’s symptoms between or among any of our reincarnational selves, our counterpart selves, or various combinations of the two? [...] To what extent does Jane’s physical infirmity mushroom into other probable realities through the dream state? [...]

[...] What they really signify for the long term is (as I wrote in the essay for April 16) a continuing program of intense study for Jane and me—and yes, for Seth, too—as we seek to better understand our chosen commitments in our present physical lives. [...] You create your own reality. [...] I won’t claim that residues of it may not be buried within my psyche (and within Jane’s), but it’s very difficult to stay mad when one agrees with the simple but most basic and profound idea that you do create your own reality.

[...] It will lead you into the understanding that your hopes, as you think of them in the present, exist not only in what you think of as the present, but in the past and future as well. [...] Anymore than my reality is no more than it appears to you in this room, for your reality is far more than it seems to be to you as you sit within this room. [...] You think that there is something very esoteric, mysterious and strange often in what I say and there is not. What I say is as intimate to you as your own breath is if you would but feel your breath. If you would but once give up the defenses that you have set between what you think of as your intellect and what you think of as the rest of the self. [...]

[...] At one time, bear with me, (long pause) there was what we may call a federation of consciousness, though that is not the best term. [...] They remembered that they formed physicial reality from the vitality of their own thoughts and fellings and images. [...]

[...] I will tell you their benefits and meanings as you learn what they are, for I would like the knowledge to come from you. [...]

It would involve a look and an examination of your system of reality as it appears to me. It would include my statements as to how these communications take place, and what manipulations are necessary from my side.

[...] For what you have during sessions is not really my complete identity. (Pause.) Your reality cannot include all that I am. [...]

—the problems involved in educating what your friends refer to as the Buttses, and the various interchanges between you, Ruburt and myself. It would include the ways in which perceptive mechanisms operate, the manners by which I must activate Ruburt’s associative patterns in the case of clairvoyant information, and what your life looks like to me who observes it from such a unique perspective.

—what it is like to speak through Ruburt. [...]

Your mother is facing realities she would not face in the past, and seeing in physical terms the results of her own inner actions. [...] What may seem a disaster to you in your scrutiny of her life, is a well-learned lesson in reality, and a victory.

Now I hope that you will understand me intuitively, for what I have said confounds the intellect to some considerable degree. [...] This in no way minimizes my reality, or Ruburt’s. So your father’s use of his own energies does not minimize what he is, nor his overall sense of direction.

[...] Through various reincarnations the entity attempts to express itself more and more competently within the framework of physical reality.

[...] In these cases the personality gradually makes inroads into the next reality. [...]

It is one thing to recognize that your particular camouflage patterns are part of reality and another to realize that there is a reality that is independent of your camouflage patterns. One of my purposes is to enable you not only to recognize but experience this independent reality, and again the use of psychological time in a correct manner will be an invaluable aid.

[...] I have said before that the inner senses experience reality as it exists beneath camouflage pattern, though of course camouflage pattern is in itself part of this reality.

[...] Often the personality does receive a rewarding glimpse of the inner reality, but more often the ego is merely sent tumbling through frightening images of chaotic phantom realities formed by a suddenly-released subconscious, and with no guide. [...]

[...] At 8:30 she had no idea of what Seth would talk about for the session, but she was increasingly aware of a feeling that Seth wanted her to ask Leonard in as a witness. [...]

[...] The actual work involved in the selection of data is still made according to the beliefs in the artist’s conscious mind as to who he is, how good an artist he is, what kind of artist he is, what “school” of artistic beliefs he subscribes to, his ideas of society and his place in it, and esthetic and economic values, to name but a few.

(10:19.) You will do this by concentrating upon what you want, but feeling no conflict between that and what you have, because one will not contradict the other; each will be seen as a reflection of belief in daily life. [...]

(With a smile:) Probable dictation: What you must understand is this: Each of the events in each of your lives was “once” probable. [...]

[...] Such beliefs attract their own reality. [...]

[...] What you see are your own constructions. This does not mean however that there is not something within or behind what you perceive. All thoughts are composed of energy, and from our discussions you realize that there are electrical intensities within whose range all reality exists.

What you perceive with your physical senses is of course real. It is one of the forms that reality takes. But if you insist upon believing that only physical data is real, then you see you will never learn what is within it.

Every thought therefore has this kind of reality, which is the only reality, basically speaking. (Long pause.) Sense data itself has a reality independent of any given object. [...]

Reality changes its form in order to become known to itself. [...] Each consciousness then perceives reality in a different fashion. [...] But the mental or psychic energy behind all this is the one basic reality.

[...] They will always be psychic structures, however, existing apart from any given system of reality, but at least partially perceived by many. Some exist in what you might term the astral plane, and you perceive them in visits during the sleep state.

[...] This merely means that you understand your multidimensional reality in practical terms. I have used the word multidimensional often, and you see I mean it quite literally, for your reality exists not only in terms of reincarnational existences but also in the probable realities mentioned earlier.

[...] What you would call time is manipulated as an artist would manipulate pigment. What you would call space is gathered together in different ways.

Such a work would be perceived in your system as one thing, for example, but would also be perceived in probable realities, though perhaps in an entirely different way — a multidimensional art, you see, so free and elemental that it would appear simultaneously in many realities.

Now: it is fruitless to go back to old sessions seeking to find out what is wrong, or what was wrong and self-defeating. [...]

[...] Your purpose is in what you are, and when you do not approve of what you are, you cannot see it. [...]

[...] I could list many more, but probably won’t. I still don’t think Seth would want to spend much time discussing that old material in any detail, since he’s said many times that focusing on what was wrong in the past is negative and self-defeating. [...]

[...] When I speak so, I am isolating a certain portion of your subjective reality, and labeling it for convenience. [...]

[...] Within a more reasonable context the technique will take its place in our medical systems, but in each case what we learn will surely point up the need to understand our individual inner realities; i.e., what caused the high blood pressure, or whatever, in the first place?

Ultimately your use of instruments, and your preoccupation with them as tools to study the greater nature of reality, will teach you one important lesson: The instruments are useful only in measuring the level of reality in which they themselves exist.¹ Period.

(Pause.) The blueprints for reality lie even beneath the electrons’ activity. [...] In all of these cases you are ignoring the reality of consciousness, and its gestalt formations and manifestations. [...]

2. Seth’s material about technology and science leading to inner realities reminds me of two related examples that I’ve become aware of recently through my own reading. The first one involves a more intimate inner reality than the second, yet both pose interesting questions. [...]

Now at times I will be using the term “camouflage,” referring to the physical world to which the outer ego relates, for physical form is one of the camouflages that reality adopts. The camouflage is real, and yet there is a much greater reality within it — the vitality that gave it form. [...] But to sense the reality within the form requires a different sort of attention, and more delicate manipulations than the physical senses provide.

[...] It is the inner perceiver of reality that exists beyond the three-dimensional. [...] It looks into subjective dimensions that are literally infinite, and from these subjective dimensions all objective realities flow. [...]

If you have a limited conception of the nature of reality, then your ego will do its best to keep you in the small enclosed area of your accepted reality. [...]

Consciousness is a way of perceiving the various dimensions of reality. [...]

[...] The piece was written by John Beloff: Psi Phenomena: Causal Versus Acausal Interpretation. Beloff is one to whom I want to send a copy of “Unknown” Reality when we receive copies from Prentice-Hall.

[...] In a manner of speaking, some portion of your mental, physical, or spiritual reality is in correspondence with a “like” portion of the universe.

[...] It is beyond all questions of beginning and ending, for out of its framework spring such concepts and realities. [...]

Your world is full, however, of hints and clues that are relatively invisible simply because you do not look for them, since they do not fit the overall view of reality that currently rules the civilization.

It will enlarge your concepts, change your ideas of what is real and what is not real and what can be and what cannot be; and what you are and what you can be. [...]

You have never seen what design is until you see a spider’s web when you are out of the body. You have never seen what design is until you see a spider’s web from the spider’s viewpoint. [...]

[...] You do not have to fear that this sort of experience will take you away from reality. It will show you a greater reality than you imagine.

[...] In one lifetime’s work you can learn what it might otherwise take three reincarnations to learn. [...] You are trying to discover how much energy you can direct, what you can create. [...]

[...] This is, if you will forgive the term, beautifully and cleverly connected in your mind with “Unknown” Reality—the book. Here again you find yourself often in a dilemma of your making, between the ideal and what seems to be; if not the grossly practical, something close to it.

[...] You have not really gotten it through your head that such thoughts do not represent practical reality, but impractical reality. [...]

[...] The deleted material on my stomach which I’d received on February 2, 1976 had already helped resolve my hassles about using old family photos in “Unknown” Reality.)

[...] It is not the fact of the taxes so much that annoys you, as the uses of the taxes, for you resent “being forced” to contribute your money to what you think of as stupid national policies.

I can imagine a lovely scene where bodiless individuals, spiritual psychologists and I, sit in a dark room all dressed in gowns at another level of reality, and they ask me what is wrong with me and I say—I am obsessed. I have it in my head that there is a physical reality somewhere where objects have shape and form—where there are things like trees and people and streetcars and a strange thing called progress. And where people believe in things like ghosts and demons all on the same line, seeing little difference between them and I imagine in my most schizoid (Doug—“that’s what I said”) moments that there is a woman called Jane Butts in a strange, funny little town in a completely fantastic place called Elmira, New York. [...]

[...] I have spoken to our Lady of Florence over here many times and you could have explained to our new student what I mean. [...] You grow in understanding, and if you kill, then it is necessary that you learn what it means to be a victim and so you become a victim if you choose. You may indeed learn what it is to be a victim in other ways. [...]

[...] For you do not understand as yet what personality is, and when you understand what you are, then you will have some small glimmering of what All That Is is and basically you will find All That Is within yourselves. [...]

[...] But only when you try to understand what a leaf and a flower are. [...] But if you realize that a leaf is a portion of All That Is then you will realize what communion is. [...]

As a physical being, your beliefs and concepts form your reality. The psyche from which your identity springs is free of the picture of reality that you have chosen. [...]

[...] What knowledge then resides within those roots, and what precognitive ability, that the plant itself yearns toward fulfillment that is as yet not achieved?⁴

(Leaning forward, speaking intently but half-humorously:) I have memories of being Ruburt — but the Ruburt I was is not the Ruburt that Ruburt is in his reality. [...] In his terms I am a future self, with far greater knowledge, yet he uses that knowledge to alter his present reality; and when I was Ruburt I did not have that knowledge. [...]

(4. Seth also said that it would be “not practical” and “boring” for him to relive his life as a pope, then added: “In those terms, many people do choose to reexperience what you would think of as a past existence in order to change it as they go along.” [...]

Ideas have an electromagnetic reality. Beliefs are strong ideas about the nature of reality. [...]

[...] In so doing, you see, you accept your belief about reality as a characteristic of reality itself, and so the belief is transparent or invisible to you. [...]

[...] They will distort true reality — your own true reality.

[...] It is the portion of the mind, then, that looks out upon physical reality and surveys it in relation to those characteristics of which it is composed at any given time. [...]

(With much humor and irony:) What comic book reader wants to bother with a Clark Kent who, before his transformation, distracts the reader with such beside-the-point questions as “What am I doing? [...] At what point am I me? [...] What are my motives? What is the nature of the reality that lets this miracle occur?”

Or worse—what comic book reader wants Clark Kent to shout out from the phone booth, or wherever “You can do this too, or your version, because we all have a reality in which we are Clark Kent and Superman at one and the same time?” Such people simply want Superman to perform his miracles.

The body is well equipped to handle the reality of the moment, and the reality at any given time holds a considerable amount of refreshment. [...]

(2. How will “Unknown” Reality do? [...] But I was also simply curious about whether “Unknown” Reality was going to do as well as the other Seth books.

Since very often the vitality or stuff of the universe seems as innocuous as air … then look for what you do not see. [...] What you see clearly with the outer senses is camouflage. [...] I am saying that what seems vacant lacks camouflage, and, therefore, if this is explored, it will yield evidence.

[...] The inner senses deal with realities beneath camouflage … and deliver inner information. [...] As the senses of sight, sound and smell appear to reach outward, bringing data to the body from an outside observable camouflage pattern, so the inside senses seem to extend far inward, bringing inner reality data to the body. [...]

[...] It involves immediate perception of a direct nature, whose intensity varies according to what is being sensed. It involves instant cognition through what I can only describe as inner vibrational touch.

[...] We had great trouble with the name ‘Decatur.’ This is my interpretation of what she said, and now I wonder if I made a mistake. [...]