“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

People must be able to share their views of reality with their fellows, of course—but in your society you are taught to substitute a stylized version for the highly individualistic and unique view of reality that is your own. [...]

[...] These postcard messages usually bear the stylized (long pause) versions of reality that are sent out by various religions or organizations. Each person is born, however, with his or her—let me correct that—each person is born there with a private natural religion—one that rises from the springs of the individual psyche, and one that provides an easy, custom-made method of dealing with inner and outer reality. [...]

[...] He’s to talk to them and let me know what he finds out. [...]

Each person has a unique, natural, native way of dealing with the universe, and of relating to inner and outer reality. [...]

[...] This is why it is vital that you examine your beliefs for yourself and understand what they mean to you personally. [...] It may take them a while to understand your reactions, but as the old reality had a cohesiveness so will the new.

[...] You may meet with some misunderstanding when you suddenly decide to change your reality by changing your beliefs — according to the circumstances, you may be going in a completely different direction than the group to which you belong. [...] Each individual has his or her own ideas about reality for reasons that seem valid. [...]

[...] I hadn’t really expected her to have a session tonight — but then, was my belief influencing reality? [...]

When someone who has been ill starts on the road to recovery through changing his beliefs, he may be quite surprised to find even his dearest allies suddenly upset, reminding him of the “reality” of his dire state for the same reasons.

[...] “Waking” again, I become consciously aware of those activities, and use them to add to the dimensions of my usual state, creatively expanding my experience of reality. What I learn is transmitted automatically to others like me, and their knowledge is transmitted to me.

[...] When you use all of these minds, then and only then do you become fully aware of your surroundings: You perceive reality more clearly than you do now, more sharply, brilliantly, and concisely. [...] You comprehend what it is apart from your physical perception of it. [...]

[...] If I said to you, “I control my dream state,” you might have an idea of what I mean. [...] What you could call my dreaming state is involved with the levels I spoke of that exist beneath your remembered dreams.

[...] A mind is a psychic pattern through which you interpret and form reality. [...] Each one can organize reality in a different fashion. [...]

[...] “I really felt it was great material, and that if you understood what it meant you’d understand a lot,” she said. “You know what I mean?”)

[...] But to what end? [...]

All realities are the result of idea construction. [...]

(10:05.) Those processes, however, contain the basic mental structures from which ideas and concepts as you understand them come, and they are also responsible for the inner mental and psychological processes, individually and worldwide, that form private and mass physical reality.

[...] For my presence and the sessions both do indeed imply a promise of knowledge beyond what is generally known, and, hopefully, of wisdom beyond that which is generally possessed. The sessions also imply the promise of a contact with a larger reality than your own—one large enough to contain the world that you normally recognize.

My continuing “presence” serves to remind you of your ever-vital connections with other realities, and of your existence in those realities. New comprehensions are available at any time, new breakthroughs in any area, for those realities contain the sources of your world’s action.

The sessions imply contact with an emotional and psychological existence that has its reality outside of your physical laws. [...]

[...] You would share what you learned with the world —but he who seeks knowledge must first of all be himself or herself, for most members of the world cannot follow such a course.

[...] He looks at physical reality for the rest of physical reality: He is earth coming alive to view itself through conscious eyes—but that consciousness is graced to be because it is so intimately a part of earth’s framework.

[...] The animals became physically effective, therefore, while to some degree man still lingered in that dream reality.

[...] Those affiliations fell into being as all of the consciousnesses that were embarked upon physical reality divided up (long pause) the almost unimaginable creative achievements that would be responsible for the physically effective world.

[...] Part of consciousness, then, transformed itself into what you think of as nature—the vast sweep of the continents, the oceans and the rivers, the mountains and the valleys, the body of the land. [...]

[...] The inner psychological state is projected outward, gaining physical reality. [...] You can use this for your own benefit and change your conditions, once you realize what the rules are.

[...] What you see of others is the materialization of what you think, subconsciously, that you are: not necessarily what you are. [...]

You cannot escape your own attitudes, for they will form the nature of what you see. Quite literally, you see what you want to see, and you see your own thoughts, your own emotional attitudes, materialized in physical form. [...]

Now: You are not listening to what your own inner voice says. You are listening to what your ego says, and this I speaks through your mouth and then you hear this I’s words. [...]

Your mother loved physical reality and took the greatest pleasure in its most minute aspects, for all of her complaints. [...] Each of your parents had their strongest reality, this time, and in your terms, in a probable system of reality — and here (in this reality) they were offshoots. [...]

(To me again:) Your birth (in 1919) coincided with the birth of your mother’s child in that other reality, hence her stronger feelings toward you. Your birth, and that of your youngest brother (Richard) were highly charged for her — yours for the reasons just given, and your brother’s because it represented the time of your mother’s hysterectomy in that other reality. In this reality, Richard’s birth represented your father’s final attempt to deal with emotional reality. [...]

[...] Ruburt’s mystical nature was such a strong portion of the entire identity that in his present reality, and in the probable reality chosen — as mentioned when I discussed this picture (of Jane) — the mystic impulses and expressions were given play. Intersections with probable realities occur when one psychic grouping intensifies to a certain point, so that fulfillment as a self results.

(9:44.) Give us a moment … Your parents literally did not share the same reality at all. [...] They met and related in a place between each of their realities. [...]

[...] At various times I have spoken concerning the reality of what you refer to as the astral body. [...]

[...] It is closely allied with the entity, and connects a reality that is purely psychic, the reality of the entity, with a reality that is mainly physical, the reality of the physical self.

[...] Jane learned little about their trip other than that the Gallaghers took many notes to use in checking against Seth’s notes; and that Bill found himself involved in a “strange experience” with a piano player and what he thought was telepathy. [...]

[...] They allow the personality to retain its relationship with nonphysical reality, permitting the material self to focus within its earthly environment.

[...] We follow what rules of form exist within these environments. All of us here are teachers, and we therefore adapt our methods, also, so that they will make sense to personalities with varying ideas of reality.

[...] We are still alert to other quite alien systems of reality that flash on the very outskirts of consciousness as we know it. [...] Yet all of these have inner knowledge of the reality that exists within all camouflage and that composes any reality, by whatever name it is called.

[...] Otherwise what we say would not be understood.

[...] You exist in the midst of many other systems of reality, for example, but you do not perceive them. [...]

Listen to what is being said, and to what is not being said. Now give us a moment and listen to what is being said and to what is not being said and remember what I just told you. [...] In halves you will see what I mean later. Now listen to what is said and to what is not being said. [...]

Now if you would truly learn how to listen, and you are beginning to, then you would know what I am saying and my own speech lately is carefully calculated. In certain terms, and remembering what I told you earlier, in certain terms the Sumari language does exist, and in certain terms you know it well. [...] And since past, present and future exist now in your terms you need bridges, because you do not really understand the nature of time, so you think you need a bridge to get from past to present or from past to future or from one kind of reality to another. [...]

Now if you were not the Sumari you would not be here at this particular time, and if all of you did not know what it was to be Sumari you would not be here at all. [...] And since you have been given it there is a reason for it, and what earthly good is a language that is not a language? An ancient language that never was and within those paradoxes what meanings are there for you to learn? [...] And what is there about a language that has both beginnings and endings in it as you think of them, elements of a distant past and portents of what perhaps languages might be in your future? [...]

[...] In what voices and what languages do truths come and in what packages and in what forms? And what the heart knows needs no translation, and the universe does indeed speak without words and so the truths that come to you do indeed, to some extent, come packaged or you would not perceive them. [...]

“You make your own reality.” [...] What Seth is really saying here is that our impulses are meant to help us create our own realities on a personal basis in a way that will enhance both our private lives and our civilizations.

What truths? That our dreams come alive at midday; that our feelings and beliefs turn into the reality we experience; that, in deeper terms, we are the events in which we participate, and that murder for the sake of an ideal is still murder. [...]

And what is my own part in all of this? I see it as harking back to the poet’s original role; to explore the reaches of his or her private psyche, pushing against usual psychological boundaries until they give, opening up a new mystical territory — the psyche of the people, of the species itself — perceiving a spectacular vision of inner reality that the poet then communicates to the people, translating that vision through words, rhythm, or songs.

[...] It represents a turning away of consciousness from ordinary reality toward an inner one. [...] I am touched by those events and so are you; so even while I sit in trance, dictating books as Seth, I can’t after all stray too far from our joint reality. [...] The glass of wine on the coffee table before me, the cigarettes, and the mass-produced table itself, are all reminders that my most adventuresome journeys into other realities are rooted, for now at least, in the physical world of events that we all share together.

[...] And there are definite realities that exist in both states, and these uniting realities will be what you are looking for. For only by finding these can you discover the nature of the human personality and the nature of reality within which it must operate.

The nature of reality can only be approached by an investigation of reality as it is directly experienced in all levels of awareness: reality as it appears under dream conditions, under other conditions of dissociation, and as it appears in the waking condition.

[...] These as you know will have to do with primary and secondary reality. [...]

You will need to use your wits carefully, for secondary realities will often appear to be primaries. [...]

[...] In your own way, remind him of what I have said. [...] But when he feels as if his efforts physically are getting nowhere, then he thinks “What is the use?” So your very early morning encouragement can be of value.

You are used to “trusting your physical perceptions,” taught to accept physical evidence above all as the mark of reality. [...]

[...] In the Air Force situation, for example, he did not say “I cannot possibly deny physical laws, or know what is going on in another place, or even at another time.” [...]

Again, since you are culturally taught, to accept physical data as your criteria for physical reality, this is to some extent quite understandable. [...]

[...] And what’s my role in all of this, for heaven’s sake (to make a pun)? [...] What part do I play, and have yet to play, in Jane’s redemption—as well as my own—and on what level or levels? [...] But it’s even possible that all together Marie, Jane, her grandfather, and I set up the original situation before the physical births of any of us—and in some probable reality (if not in this one) we did do just that! Words become terribly inadequate tools to express what I feel and am trying to write here, for I want to record at once every combination of relationships I can conceive of….

That all seeming divisions reflect portions of a unified whole is surely one of our oldest concepts, growing, in those terms, with us out of our prehistory as we struggled to grasp the “true” nature of reality. Traditionally we’ve cast that feeling or knowledge in religious terms, for want of a better framework, but I think that more and more now the search is also on within science for a theory—even a hypothesis—that will lock up our often subjective variables into what might be called a more human equivalent of the still-sought-for unified theory in physics. What are human beings, anyhow? From what Jane and I can gather (through our reading especially), at least some of the world’s leading scientists are becoming willing to contend with consciousness itself. [...]

I think the beliefs the three of us hold are very creative ones; we accept them on that basis; they are as good “proofs” as we can currently get, and offer their own answers by sparking us into new ways of trying to make sense out of our reality. [...] Jane and I aren’t so naive as to think that we can offer any hard proofs for what we believe, and certainly Seth doesn’t worry about it. Not even when I play around with his ideas relative to quantum theory can such proof be found—yet I let Jane’s “amazingly strong” will be the measuring and observing device that automatically causes “waves” of knowing or consciousness—in Framework 2, for example—to coalesce into the “particles” that make up the physical forms she perceives as her reality in Framework 1, either psychically from a distance or right here.

[...] I’m noting, then, that we can analyze something right out of our own reality by ultimately declaring it to be impossible—when actually it, and other versions of it, continue to exist in related probable realities.)

[...] Like some others we’ve seen, he was so locked into his reality that he was really quite unreachable. [...] I never heard Jane give better advice, though I doubted if an interview was going to do much about changing what seemed to be a lifetime’s habits.

[...] “If you don’t like the reality you’ve created, change your focus. [...] We wondered what he was doing today. [...]

You are concerned with what is wrong with the world. [...] You want to know how reality is created—how and why people create lives that seem to be less than desirable.

[...] Instead we worked on the table of contents for Volume 2 of “Unknown” Reality.

[...] The inward and outward thrust that is not perceived is largely responsible for what you think of as ordinary consecutive time. [...] They can take any form, organize themselves in any kind of time-behavior, hyphen, and seem to form a reality that is completely dependent upon its apparent form and structure. [...]

The physical universe serves then as a threshold for probabilities, and all possible species find their greatest fulfillment within that system, each of them neurologically tuned into their own reality and their own “time.” [...] Nevertheless, your consciousness and your beliefs are what direct this neurological recognition. [...]

Coming together, the units actually form the systems of reality in which they have their experience. [...] They will always come under the guise of any particular pattern of reality, then. [...]

2. In general, given the nature of the CU’s — Seth’s postulated “basic” units of consciousness that make up all realities — closed systems cannot exist. [...] It appears to be a reality only within your own framework and because of your limited focus.”

[...] The set criteria of reality, therefore, operate as organizing, psychic, and physical frameworks. [...] You still try to carry your own cultural versions of reality into the dream state, for example, but the natural heritage of both body and mind escapes such repression — and despite yourselves, in your dreams you come in touch with a greater picture of reality that will not be shunted aside.

Each character, however, or portion of a scene, would represent in fragmented form another quite valid program [or reality, in brackets]. [...] When you try to make them fit into your recognized picture of reality, they may seem chaotic. [...]

Using an analogy again, the brain is quite capable of operating on innumerable “frequencies,” each presenting its own picture of reality to the individual, each playing upon the physical senses in a certain manner, organizing available data in its own specialized way, and each dealing somewhat differently with the body itself and with the contents of the mind.

[...] Therefore it seems there is no other reality than the one you recognize — and no greater data available than those with which you are normally familiar.

(“With the puddle creature I saw both realities — the puddle in physical terms, and the creature in larger than physical terms — and could switch from one reality to the other if I wanted to, I think. [...] I think it came … from that other reality directly here, because I had my ‘windows’ open.”

He was filled with joy as he observed this reality. He knew that in the physical world the puddle was flat, but that he was perceiving another just-as-solid reality; a larger one, in fact, in which that rain creature had its being.

(Now here are excerpts from the account she wrote for me of her experiences involving the rain-puddle creature and the light on the evening of February 2. Jane’s narrative and poetry supplement Seth’s own words, and show how she became consciously aware of the unique transformation of her original poetic ideas into visual reality — and how she then carried the creative process another step by converting her new perceptions into more poetry. We think these bleed-throughs between realities are common, if largely automatic in most cases, in any area of “life.” [...]

[...] In a part of his reality he did die that winter. In your reality, you kept him alive. [...]

[...] Sexuality in your time means what is American. [...] What are women? [...] And the same applies to our Reverend Jones, and to any fanatic, for the fanatic speaks in exaggerated terms, but he or she speaks beliefs that to some extent each of you hold, but to what degree? [...] You form your own reality. [...]

(Seth:) Now, if you really believed what I said then, then you would bank upon yourselves. [...] You would, without repressing anything, experience your own reality without impediments. [...] That is what I am speaking of. [...]

[...] Ruburt never said “Will the people in Elmira understand what I am saying?” He wrote because he had to write what he wrote. Now if you (Sue) have to write what you have to write, write it. [...] And if you write what you feel it must not matter, for your message wilt reach people all over the world. And if you do not write what you feel then the message has no meaning.

[...] Instinctively; whether or not you can say what it is. [...] There dwells your reality and your meaning, and therein lies the validity of your soul.