“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] Feel its reality in your body. [...] They will take you through many aspects of your own reality that you must face and explore. [...]

[...] I think I know what Seth’s going to talk about. [...]

[...] In their way the hateful or revengeful thoughts are natural therapeutic devices, for if you follow them, accepting them with their own validity as feelings, they will automatically lead you beyond themselves; they will change into other feelings, carrying you from hatred into what may seem to be the quicksands of fear — which is always behind hatred.

[...] When you try to fight or deny them, you divorce yourself from the reality of your being. [...]

[...] Again, you have a joint reality, in all aspects. Apply what I said about wealth to health. [...]

[...] But what you have is a learned pattern of face-saving self-deception and nefarious (with amusement) techniques, taught by parents to children; so often you pretend to want one thing, and you may say that you “will it” to happen—perhaps because what you really want is unacceptable, or so you have been taught: it is demeaning, or evil, or whatever. [...]

It is very important to know what you want. You may discard or dismiss “what you want” as unworthy, evil, but you must first be aware of your motives. [...]

The imagination usually gives you a pretty good picture of what you really want. [...] It is a mirror of your wants, and it is also the mirror of your will — for in it you see what you want to see, even if afterward you say that its pictures are unbidden, or against your conscious intent.

There is great cooperation behind such momentous productions, and in playing his role, each actor first actualizes himself within three-dimensional reality. The multidimensional self cannot act within three-dimensional reality until it materializes a portion of itself within it. [...]

You are so focused in your roles, however; so intrigued by the reality that you have created, so entranced by the problems, challenges, hopes, and sorrows of your particular roles that you have forgotten they are of your own creation. [...]

[...] You do not understand your own multidimensional reality; therefore it seems strange or unbelievable when I tell you that you live many existences at one time. [...]

[...] Now these various plays, these creative period pieces represent what you would call reincarnational lives.

[...] In those trance hours I ‘turn into someone else.’ At least I am not myself to myself; I become Seth, or a part of what Seth is. [...] Instead it’s as if I’m practicing some precise psychological art, one that is ancient and poorly understood in our culture; or as if I’m learning a psychological science that helps me map the contours of consciousness itself … after all this time, I’m finally examining the trance view of reality and comparing it to the official views of science and religion. [...]

As Seth I’ve produced five previous books: Seth Speaks; The Nature of Personal Reality; The “Unknown” Reality, Volumes I and II; The Nature of the Psyche; and The Individual and the Nature of Mass Events, and Seth is halfway through a sixth book: Dreams, “Evolution,” and Value Fulfillment. [...]

A DAY IN WHICH MAGIC COMES TO LIFE AND SETH DESCRIBES WHAT “THE MAGICAL APPROACH” TO LIFE IS

[...] He was saying that we were immersed in “magic” no matter what we called it, that manifestations of telepathy, and so forth, were just places where our magic “showed.” [...]

[...] Your scientists presently have little idea of what this means, for comparatively speaking they conceive of energy in one-dimensional terms. You know what antimatter is. You know what positive matter is. Both of these represent realities that you can understand rather easily.

What they “see” (in quotes) is of course distorted. What they see has no physical mass however, but only electrical mass and intensity, which is a different thing.

Now, even the home skies about you are filled with other realities, as I have said often. You will perceive the existence of these realities with various instruments in the future, but only their existence. [...]

Our friend is not at his best this evening, but we shall see what we can do.

[...] Since we cannot bear to face the great raw power of nuclear energy either, I’ve often wondered whether this situation can be an earthly, imperfect and time-ridden analog to what must be the reality of All That Is.

Last month, in the opening notes for Session 931, in Chapter 9, I recorded that on July 8 Jane spontaneously wrote “a complete outline for a book on Seth’s magical approach to reality.” Actually, we’ve been quite aware of the potential of such an idea ever since Seth began that material a year ago.³ After supper this evening we went over the loose-leaf notebook of information Jane has accumulated for The Magical Approach to Reality: A Seth Book, and discussed how she could follow her outline in putting all of that material—on our dreams, psychic events and insights, her poetry and our essays—together with Seth’s private sessions on the magical approach. [...]

“All That Is creates its reality as it goes along. [...] Each is a reality in itself, with its own potentials, and with no individual consciousness, however minute, ever lost.”)

[...] Since 1925 scientists have been steadily reducing their estimates of what a “safe” dose for human beings really is, however, and many now believe that there’s no such thing as a completely harmless amount of even low-level radiation. [...]

[...] You send the reality of yourself from your present into what you think of as the future.

[...] They cannot themselves interpret the reality beneath them. [...] They may feel the grass or sidewalk or the road, but the peculiar individual sensate life of the grass itself, or of the ant, escapes the feet, which are involved in their own reality and concerned with these other things only in their relationship to feethood.

The mind can interpret the experiences that the legs and the feet have, however, and by imaginatively using that sensual data can perceive the ant’s reality to some extent. Now when the mind races and runs, it sometimes has great difficulty interpreting its activities to the brain, which is usually concerned with other realities only to the extent that they impinge upon it.

Now: Ruburt’s mind is far more aware of other realities than his brain is, but he consciously believes in the greater reality of himself and his perceptions. [...]

(Jane had no idea of what Seth would discuss during the session. [...]

[...] Now they do have much more than an imaginative reality, and they do possess consciousness, but a fragmentary consciousness, that can however further develop.

[...] You act out many possibilities within dream reality, and within dreams you try out alternatives, and not necessarily short term ones.

[...] In your terms you worked out this possibility by weaving, over a period of three years, a dream framework in which you learned exactly what your life would have been, had you gone into medicine.

[...] You cannot force reality to give you what you want. [...] You must want what is best for your own development and the development of others rather than specifically determining what you think consciously is better for you and then trying to force or coerce fate to get this for you. If you want what is best for your own development and what is best for the development of others, then you shall attain it. [...] You are not always aware of what is best for you on a conscious level. [...] When you drive your car you often attempt to speed through reality as quickly as you can, and you are pleased with yourself as the driver of the vehicle. [...]

[...] And that is why you have given yourself a traffic ticket now and then, What you are learning is a technique for self-development. [...] You must not try to use what you have learned in a narrow, limiting way. [...] It is natural, perhaps, to want to use what you have learned, this information, as a technique to achieve what you at any particular time think desirable, a particular person, a particular thing. But what is important is the inner development. [...] If you then egotistically, say—No—this particular situation is what I want, then you may be blocking the inner direction which has been meant for you. [...]

[...] No human being could ever deliver what you expect a man to deliver in a relationship. [...] Your terror as a child gave you an inner idea of reality and family group whereby you saw yourself completely powerless and helpless under the domination of this father figure. [...]

[...] That imagined image is real in your mind, it is reality. But you cannot project that image upon another human being and deny him his own reality. [...]

[...] I was pleased to have tuned in to a probable reality, even if so briefly. More and more I appreciate the fantastic reality of dreams—the tremendous knowledge and variety, literally unending, that’s embodied within them. [...] Look what they’re missing....” Later I thought that I should have asked Seth what kind of interpretation of the dream a conventional psychologist would have given. [...]

[...] That sense of identity follows you in any and all realities. [...]

I referred to that, I thought, in my preliminary statement about time references—that you recognize yourself in a dream even if the other references do not agree with known reality. [...]

In a strange way, determinism has always seemed lacking as a concept to Jane and me—for if it means what it’s supposed to mean, then surely human beings set up the parameters within which determinism is said to operate. [...] In other words, on joint and individual scales, vast though they may be, we do create our joint and individual realities.

[...] In putting together the Seth books most of my decisions concern what to leave out, rather than what to include.

[...] They also have different kinds of immediate perceptions of reality. [...] It is not just that all species of life have feeling, but that all participate in dimensions of emotional reality. [...]

[...] In a sense, painting is man’s natural attempt to create an original but coherent, mental yet physical interpretation of his own reality—and by extension to create a new version of reality for his species.”

In our terms, All That Is exists in Framework 2 as elsewhere, but Framework 2 represents the source of your known physical reality. [...] Christ well knew that that statement was indeed true, but men who condemned themselves, who considered themselves sinners, would not know what to ask for, except punishment to relieve their guilt. [...]

Christ dealt with myths, once again—potent ones that stood for inner realities. Christ clothed those realities in colorful stories geared to people’s understanding. I am using the name here, Christ, as one person for the sake of discussion, for that entity touched many lives, each leaping into a kind of super-reality as it joyfully played its part in the religious drama.

He also stressed the importance of a childlike belief, knowing that the adult mind was apt to question “How, and when, and in what manner can my request be granted?”

(I should have asked Seth what he meant by nearly.)

(Seth did give much unexpected material about the brain — and about his own reality, incidentally — but the session turned out to be so long and closely interrelated that I found it very difficult to excerpt; most of the portions I picked out were left hanging, or were too incomplete. Naturally, Seth said what he said from his own viewpoint. [...]

(Our curiosity about such speculations led me to plan this appendix shortly after the 711th session was held, and I asked Jane if Seth could eventually offer some insights about the brain’s electrical reality. He finished dictating Volume 2 of “Unknown” Reality in April 1975, and we finally got around to the session I wanted six and a half months later.

He is combining and alternating frequencies so that he literally brings forth a different creature of consciousness — one that in your terms is not alive, yet one whose very reality straddles the life that you know. The most elemental portions of my reality begin at the furthest reaches of your own.

[...] It’s not that she’s against that procedure — just that she’s much more interested in what she feels and does than she is in the mechanical records offered by the machine.

[...] Those personalities are not locked up inside of what I am, however. [...] In my terms, they coexist with me, but at another layer of reality.

[...] I give you this information hoping to help you understand the true nature of your own reality. My reincarnational existences do not define what I am, however, nor do yours define you.

[...] I believed and did not believe, as you [to a class member] earlier believed and did not believe, and I did a good job of hiding from myself what I believed and what I did not believe. [...]

(“I don’t know what to do now, about continuing,” she said after we’d talked briefly. “I know what Seth’s got planned, but I don’t know how he’s going to go about it.

From one end of reality you shout: “Where is God?” and from the other end the answer comes: “I am Me.” [...] From the other end of reality, God goes shouting: “Who am I?” and finds himself in you. [...]

Its “nouns” become what they signify. [...]

In the same manner, when you ask: “Is there a master language?” it is apparent that you do not understand what language itself is. [...]

[...] “So what do I call the book?” she asked. [...]

[...] Reality possibilities are endless. You are familiar with very small portions of reality. [...]

Yet as you can see, what it was when we spoke of it is still present in what it will by now have become. [...]

The self then, unknown to the ego, perceives itself in a vast variety of experiences, and in, indeed, a vast number of realities. Each of these so-called realities, for one blends into the other, could be termed, or viewed as, a separate field. [...]

[...] For without them, whole portions of reality would never be perceived. [...]

Jane’s nature has even led me to speculate more than once that in most basic terms she may be visiting our probable reality from one that’s actually far more native to her nonphysical entity, or whole self. I don’t mean that as a physical creature she has magically switched temporal realities, but that she’s closely allied with that version of herself in that other reality. [...] Jane’s “mission” (a term she wouldn’t use) would be to give us not only greater insight into what our species has done within our historical context, both for better and for worse, but to signal what we can do—to open up unexpected vistas before us, to encourage us to explore those realms far more actively than we have so far.

[...] And that trust always reflects, I’m sure, Seth’s own larger view of reality, as I just quoted him from Session 915. Our challenges echo throughout all of our probable realities simultaneously, and through all of them together the largest picture of Jane and myself is presented. In this probable reality we work with what we can pick up from that great whole. [...]

[...] I was glad to reassure her, for I believed what I said. If she has hassles, I added, they’re quite understandable: Not only is she offering our world creative new ways by which to understand reality, but in her uncertainty about what she’s doing, she feels that she must prove her ideas to the world all by herself—something that few people have to do in such an all-encompassing manner. At the same time she has to protect herself, for both of us are caught in the uneasy notion that every time Jane gets too close to any sort of basic truth, she automatically threatens many of the deeply entrenched, rigid belief systems people have built up in our reality. [...]

“They were these: that the entire world with its organization was kept together by certain stories, like those of the Roman Catholic Church; that it was dangerous beyond all knowing to look through the stories or examine them for the truth, and that all kinds of taboos existed to keep us from doing this, since … on the other side, so to speak, there was an incomprehensible frightening chaotic dimension, malevolent; powers beyond our imagining; and that to question the stories was to threaten not just personal survival but the fabric of reality as we know it. So excommunication was the punishment, or damnation … which meant more than mere ostracism, but the complete isolation of a person from those belief systems, with nothing between him or her and those frightening realities … without a framework in which to even organize meaning. This was what damnation really meant. [...]

[...] It will serve a purpose and be a reality in your time. In a like manner can personality structures be of assistance and be realities to you within your time, although they have long since entered other dimensions.

[...] This does not mean that what I am as you know me, ends, or is finished, in what he is.

I do not know now to what the following refers exactly: a connection with Miss L. Were you in a class together? [...]

(See page 24, 426th session for August 5. My question: What frameworks, left behind by the traveling self A can be used by others?)

All of you have abilities and potentials but you are held in bond by preconceived ideas of reality. [...] Reality is the table that moved, the table that shattered! Reality is the energy you have. [...] How can you close yourselves off in rooms of limited reality. [...]

If you have questions, I shall answer them but all of this is meant to show you that reality is more than you thought reality to be… I am not here as the host of a party. [...]

I can say to you what you have not said to yourselves in your private moments. [...]

[...] But look beyond what you have seen and question it in your own minds. [...]

In a considerable number of ghost or apparition cases this is what is involved. Here the emotional energy is at such a pitch that the individual appears out of context within your physical reality, but has no freedom within it.

[...] The psychological reality, the psychic reality, always forms it own environment. [...]

As some of your reading material of late suggests, the more you know of the nature of reality the better equipped you are to deal with the point of transition. Here your inner beliefs are your only contact with reality. [...]

[...] And while the discussions will begin with material giving specifics in your terms, this will be supplemented by other material in terms of electromagnetic realities, and also moment points.