“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] The electric reality of it, coded in a particular range of intensities, is now in my possession, in what you may call capsule form, though this is not a good analogy. But an explanation will have to wait until you understand more clearly the nature of electrical reality itself.

[...] You do not see the dream itself, for even here, after giving a dream reality, electrical existence, you must break it down into simpler terms so that you can perceive what you have indeed created.

Realities existing within this electrical universe are built up through counteractions with the human personality and others. All psychological realities and experiences which are not materialized within the physical universe have their actual reality and existence within the electrical universe.

At a later date I will explain the true nature of this electrical reality, since your idea of electrical reality is extremely limited, and within your field it is perceived but dimly, as a mere shadow of itself.

For that reason, science—after its first great adventurous era—had its own flaws built in, and so it must expand its definitions of reality or become a tin-can caricature of itself, a prostituted handmaiden to an outworn technology, and quite give up its early claims of investigating the nature of truth or reality. It could become as secondary to life as, say, the Roman Catholic Church is now, losing its hold upon world dominance, losing its claim of being the one official arbiter of reality.

[...] “If we’d had any inkling of what we were getting into with the Seth material, I’d never have done it,” Jane said. [...]

No matter what science says about certain values being outside of its frame of reference, science implies that those values are therefore without basis. [...]

The control panels of the nuclear plants, many of them, were designed as if consciousness did not enter into the picture at all, as if the plants were [to be] run by other machines, not men—with controls that are not handily within reach, or physically inaccessible, as if the men who drew up the plans had completely forgotten what the species [is] like mentally or physically.

These probable realities exist within what may be generally termed your own sphere of activity, your own plane. There are many other realities that are far divorced from your own however. [...] You are literally surrounded by other realities that you do not perceive consciously. [...]

What they are now, so to speak, also exists, and as something distinct and different from what they were. The personality has experienced new realities since death, and is no longer precisely the person that was. [...]

The psychedelic experience, or any mystical experience, is sometimes apt to put you in touch with what may seem to you to be a future self. [...] The inner self has the ability to delve beneath all your camouflage data to perceive these other reality systems. [...]

I can perceive much that you do not for example, but I hardly perceive all, and what I do perceive is but a fraction of All That Is. [...] What they were still exists, and under certain conditions can be perceived.

In the first stage, Ruburt projected through physical reality and saw personalities who had very recently died in physical terms. Now, it is very difficult to tell you simply what happens at physical death, for the conditions vary considerably, according to the individual; his abilities and beliefs will largely determine what happens in those terms.

[...] He was then led by me into a further dimension of reality in which his third form was used. [...]

Since these selves exist simultaneously, it is then possible for consciousness to enter, or really form, such an image, undergo experiences within the characteristic pattern of reality, and then project to another image. [...]

However that portion will not always be physically oriented, and so its consciousness does become aware of certain other realities. [...]

[...] Startled, I drew back for just a moment before asking what was wrong. [...] What would I ever do if I lost my sight?”

[...] I tried to explain what had happened, realizing for the first time the vast gulf between words and subjective feelings. [...] What did the whole thing mean? [...]

[...] The third was a dream that gave me a startling glimpse into another kind of reality.

I didn’t know what to say because I was still so startled. [...]

[...] What you see of form is only that part that can be effectively active or materialized within your system of reality. So the entity in its own way possesses what you can think of as future neuronal structures. [...]

As a rule you have enough difficulty dealing with the day’s occurrences, much less next week’s, and so in the sequence of events the reality of probable actions is usually hidden from your view. (Pause.) This more complex reality is an ever-existing property of your personal creaturehood. [...]

You would have an individual who displayed within himself [or herself] all of those great abilities known to the race, fulfilled according to his own unique temper — the artist, mathematician, athlete, the inventor — all the extraordinary qualities of creaturedom; the emotional realities would be used to their capacity, and any of the racial qualities or characteristics of the species would be given their complete freedom.

[...] In each individual case the options will be different, of course, yet you can draw into your present life some knowledge and intimate connection with your own probable realities.

[...] To help you imagine what I am speaking of, you might think of them as ghost images, or shadow images, though this is only for the sake of analogy — forms, for example, just beneath, that have not emerged completely into physical reality as you know it, but are nevertheless vivid enough to be constructed. [...]

Other portions of yourself, therefore, of which you are not consciously aware, do inhabit what you could call a supersystem of reality in which consciousness learns to handle and perceive much stronger concentrations of energy, and to construct “forms” of a different nature indeed.

(10:02 to 10:20.) There are also realities (pause), that are “relatively more valid” than your own; in comparison, strictly for an analogy, for example, your physical table would appear as shadowy in contrast, as [like] those very shadowy tables we imagine. [...] Yours is not a system of reality formed by the most intense concentration of energy, therefore. [...]

[...] You only perceive realities when they achieve a certain “pitch,” when they seem to coalesce into matter. [...]

Physical focus provides you with a magnificent reality, intent and specialized. Were it not for dream activity however you would be, relatively speaking, enclosed within it, afraid to try out new concepts and intuitive realizations in the face of what seems to be such rockbed reality.

[...] Because you are space-time oriented, her realizations, accepted momentarily as physical reality, cause gaps in what you think of as normal experience.

[...] It will go against your idea of reality, thereby preventing the opening and acceptance that is necessary.

New paragraph: While your beliefs do structure much of your dream activity, other issues are also involved simply because the focus of your awareness is not acutely directed toward physical reality, but is only opaquely concerned with it.

Each person makes his or her own reality, again, but each family member also shares the reality of the others. [...]

(4:16 p.m. As I was leaving for the day Jane asked me what I thought of the sessions. [...] It’s what I expected, I told her. [...]

(Long pause at 3:35.) It is not too frequently noticed, but many so-called mentally deficient people possess their own unique learning abilities — that is, often they learn what they do learn in a different manner than most other people. [...]

(Long pause.) It would seem that infants have no belief systems, and therefore could not be in charge of their own realities in any way. [...]

[...] She didn’t feel Seth around and had no idea what he might talk about, or whether the session would be long or short. [...] I thought the session, on the behavior of nations, excellent, and that San Salvador could almost be a test example of what Seth had talked about.

The festival incident of the dream state was highly fascinating, and it did represent a particular state of consciousness above all—one in which reality is perceived in a different fashion. [...]

The dream also served as a framework allowing him to intuitively and psychically and biologically perceive the emotional reality of Framework 2. That is, he participated in its emotional content. [...]

It seems you need certain practical instructions that involve direct experience, immediate feedback, and Ruburt has been receiving some of that in the dream state, and also to some extent in his waking reality, as he begins to trust the feelings of support and relaxation. [...]

Your physical reality does also exist in the media of sound, not as the end product of the world’s noises. But matter is again only one manifestation, one you happen to recognize, of reality. [...]

[...] The statement is, comparatively speaking, a simple one, so that we can see what Ruburt can do with it.

In your language there are words that sound like the reality they try to represent. [...]

[...] What is felt by the organism approximates the meaning of the sounds, and to some extent is the meaning of the sounds.

So don’t make judgments from what you see. Or what you hear, or what you feel. All I know, that within and beyond and through the world that we know, there are other levels of reality, other dimensions of activity, other psychological gestalts that we can explore. [...] I’m going to be quiet for a moment in which time you can explore what you are experiencing. [...]

[...] well, you don’t know what they are, do you? [...] Because we did it in a Creative Writing class without making any suggestions as to what we would meet, or rather than probable selves or anything, I’m going to suggest tonight that we do it with that in mind. [...]

Those of you who are new, just consider it as an adventure in consciousness and see what you can do with it. [...]

[...] You’d flash it all over so that you could see what was before you. [...]

Some dreams as you know are more closely allied with physical reality than others. [...] What Fox called awake-seeming dreams are excellent. [...]

The pure and brilliant quality of the surroundings have much in common with the appearance physical reality has for children. [...] As soon as you realize what type of dream this is, then with practice you can project within it consciously, and explore your environment.

[...] The consciousness as it reasserts itself within physical reality has no memory of the interval in which it did not physically exist. [...] Dreams allow consciousness to disentangle itself from physical reality. [...]

[...] This cycle that psychologists have recently discovered, having to do with the various dream levels, corresponds to the ebb and tide of consciousness as it appears within and disappears from physical reality. It creates physical reality, as you know.

[...] Instead, of course, your intellectual abilities are supported and promoted by that inner mixture of spontaneity and order that so magically combine to form both your reality and the reality of the world.

(Jane’s Seth voice was a bit stronger than usual, and carried what seemed like extra energy.)

[...] It is true that your thoughts and emotions and beliefs form the reality that you experience — but it is also true that this creative construction is, in a manner of speaking, magically formed. [...]

You think, for example, without consciously knowing how you do so, and you speak long sentences without consciously being aware at the beginning of the sentence what the conclusion will be.

[...] Yet I also felt that he meant just what he’d said—and that even from our human positions alone the ramifications of our individual and joint realities are enormously greater than we ordinarily conceive them to be. [...]

[...] What a pleasure it is to see her walk more easily, if only for a few steps at a time—and even if she leans upon a table for support, or whatever else may be handy.

[...] Even as I took notes I couldn’t help noticing how amazingly quick the cats’ reflexes were—how joyously they operated within their chosen physical realities.)

There are what I will call “intervals of perception.” [...]

[...] As you do not know what happens in the television studio before you observe a program, however, so you do not know what happens in the creative framework of reality before you experience physical events. [...]

In this book I will try to tell you what goes on behind the scenes — to show you the ways in which you choose your daily physical programs, and to describe how those personal choices mix and merge to form a mass reality. [...]

Actors visit casting agencies so that they know what plays need their services. [...] All of these will be encountered in full-blown physical reality.

[...] Second, if one keeps in mind Seth’s ideas about simultaneous time, that basically all happens at once [even considering Seth’s own acknowledgment that time “…is therefore still a reality of some kind to me”], then it hardly matters how long a break transpires between particular sessions; there is no real separation; dictation on any subject or project can be resumed whenever all involved — Jane, Seth, and myself — choose, and it will be as though the break never existed. [...]

[...] What happened? [...] What difference could it make that we ever sat in this room, or had sessions, or moved furniture, or stroked the cat? [...]

[...] Consciousness was independent of the body — Seth was right — and if that was true, then there was no reason why he couldn’t be what he said he was: an independent personality, out of the flesh. [...] I couldn’t wait till Rob came home so I could tell him what happened.

[...] “And what excuse could I use? If I knew what the street was, I could at least say, ‘I thought I saw you on such-and-such a street.’ “

[...] What you get is a hasty twisting of channels, a rather inept and sometimes rather disastrous attempt to pick up such information with the outer senses.

[...] Examine what you see there. Then contemplate what is not seen. Imagine the emotional reality of each person present, in the time that the photograph was taken. [...]

(9:27.) In simple terms, you will not try to achieve something that you believe impossible within your concepts of reality. [...] You will literally see only what you want to see.² If the race believed that space travel was impossible, you would not have it. [...]

In Personal Reality, too, Seth tells us: “Information does not exist by itself. [...] See the notes following the 618th session, in Chapter 3 of Personal Reality.

[...] The structure of probabilities provides on the one hand a system of barriers, in which practical growth is not chosen or significant; and on the other hand it insures a safe, creative, rich environment — a reality — in which the idealization can choose from an almost infinite variety of possible actions those best suited to its own fulfillment.

[...] Different languages use sounds in their own peculiar manners, with their own rhythms, one emphasizing what another ignores. Other probabilities, therefore, emphasize events that are only implied (as pauses) in your reality, so that your physical events become the implied probable ones upon which other worlds reside.

[...] In any case, Jane and I were safe and dry on our little hill this time — a far cry from our experiences in the great flood of 1972, as described in The Nature of Personal Reality. After that event, we decided that a flood was one reality we could do without!)

Through ordinary methods of communication you are able to tell what is going on in other countries beside your own, even without traveling to them. [...]

[...] You are so a part of the world that your slightest action contributes to its reality. [...]

[...] You on your plane cannot experience such reality except in a very limited manner, and you cannot experience such reality spontaneously, and spontaneity is the quality of the spacious present. [...]

As long as your theories are only concerned with your own camouflage universe, then of course you are limited by those ideas in your search for reality itself. When fifth dimension is understood, it in itself will show the existence of other realities not on your own horizontal plane. [...]

[...] “I like to keep busy right up to the session,” she said, “especially when I don’t know what he’s going to talk about.” [...]

In your terms, the rate at which you discover the facets and realities of the spacious present becomes your camouflage time. [...]