“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

My reality includes all of this, and yet that reality which is my self constantly changes as the coordinates themselves fulfill their values. [...]

The personality ego structure had to be strong, for the whole personality is in many respects a transparent one through which we can speak and through which other realities can be seen. [...] The personality in itself is formed from components existing in many realities…

[...] We adopt whatever personality characteristics seem pertinent, for in our own reality we have a bank of complete inner selves, and we are all Seth.

[...] We attempt to translate realities into terms that you can comprehend. [...]

(Pause at 10:01.) This exercise is a mental and biological doorway that can expand both your concepts of yourself and reality. [...] During the day, however, having made an important decision in one direction, you may begin to feel the reality of the opposite decision and its ramifications. The exercise may also result in a different kind of a dream, one that is recognized within the dream state, at least, as an introduction to a probable reality. [...] (Pause.) For example, in a series of dreams you may try out various solutions to a given problem, and choose one of these.¹ That choice becomes your physical reality.

[...] Whether or not you have any great success, the exercise will begin a neurological reorientation that will be most important if you hope to glimpse realities that are outside of your present neurologically accepted sense-reality.

(In chapters 3 and 12 of Personal Reality, I inserted notes describing how Jane and I had seen geese during their migrations south, then north, respectively, in 1972 and 1973. [...]

[...] Those birds, I thought, knew where they were going — they knew what they were doing, in ways man could barely comprehend. [...]

We know what he still gets out of them. You form your private and joint realities. [...]

[...] What did I give up to get what I’ve got? [...] Do I really want to end up as an invalid with R. devoting time to me and anything left over to his work, what would this get either of us?

[...] This in itself is good, but his idea of “work” was what limited him, and what is still limiting him. [...]

[...] What purposes are Ruburt’s symptoms serving for you? In other words, what joint purpose are those symptoms serving?

[...] Forget what you have heard, again, about what the body can and cannot do, or what must happen before such and such a performance appears, for the body itself exults in creative unpredictability, and given the chance loves to perform.

[...] I’m typing Session 74l for “Unknown” Reality. [...]

Ruburt might go on television for example 50 times—to be met by applause, acclaim and understanding, but in his reality, imaginatively, he would be met by scorn and derision. [...]

[...] What he is feeling now is the natural energy that comes through his physical being.

[...] The strong self-conscious self of which I have spoken, the self-conscious self of which your own personality is not aware, this self that faces into the inner world of reality, quite consciously draws upon the vitality and stuff of what is.

[...] In some respects art creations are a meeting of the dream world and the world of camouflage patterns, but in a deeper way art creations represent the appearance or materialization in the actual element of physical time of inner realities. That is, the inner individualistic self forces its vision and knowledge into the world of camouflage pattern, giving its dreams a physical reality denied to the usual dream. And here the use of energy for this purpose is conscious, that is the strong hidden self actually makes use of the camouflage conscious self and molds the two into a reality that combines two planes. [...]

[...] That is, paintings would have no reality in your present stage of development as long as they remained simply in your mind, even to you. You are driven to give them “reality,” and put that word in quotes, through materializing them in terms of camouflage pattern. You do this to the best of your ability, but in order for the painting to have a reality in your world it must be materialized to some degree on the physical plane.

[...] At 8:45 she had “no idea what he’s going to talk about tonight.” [...]

[...] What do they think of their art themselves? To what purpose do they use it? What does their wife or husband think? What does the boss think? [...] What does the artist think of the subject matter? What are the artist’s standards of excellence?

(Jane also through the day received from Seth some material in answer to my remarks at breakfast this morning about the jacket colors chosen for Volume 2 of “Unknown” Reality. [...] It lacks what I call good taste, as I’d feared it would, and is too cold and creepy. [...]

(10:25.) I want to emphasize that your brother and sister-in-law have their own purposes, and I am not putting down their realities. I want you to realize also, however, that like many others, they have no handle on the world, so to speak, no perspective outside of their experience, from which they can view their lives, and I want you to appreciate those dimensions in your own reality.

[...] She realized that she was reacting to what she’d taken to be all of the negative suggestions and circumstances surrounding Bill and Ida’s lives and beliefs. [...]

In waking reality you obviously share a mass world experience as well as a physical world environment.

[...] They are events that are what they seem to be, and they are equally events that do not “immediately” show themselves. [...]

[...] They grow out of each other in a kind of spontaneous expansion, a profusion of creativity, while the conscious mind chooses which aspects to experience — and those aspects then become what you call an objective event.

What you call dreaming is obviously dependent upon this cellular communication, which distributes the life force throughout the planet. [...]

(9:41.) In those periods of nonphysical projection, the off periods of fluctuation, the atoms “appear” in another system of reality. In that system they are perceived in what are “on” points of fluctuation, and in that system also then the atoms (seem to) appear steadily. [...]

[...] Its greater reality completely escapes them.

[...] Your system of physical reality is not dense in comparison with some others. [...]

[...] You are used to thinking in single-line thoughts, so you think of events that you know as complete things or actions, not realizing that what you perceive is but a fraction of their entire multidimensional existence.

What he sees is something between a horse and a dog and resembles neither. The craft retains what it can of its original structure and changes what it must. [...]

[...] My voice had been undergoing changes, becoming more similar to what we now call the Seth voice — deeper, lower, richer in tone than mine and more masculine. But on this particular night, Rob watched, amused, while Seth told him in no uncertain terms what he thought of my experiment — using my own lips to do it! [...]

[...] On the other hand, I only knew what had been said when the trance (or the fun) was over. It was a terrific change for me to suddenly have to rely on someone else — even Rob — to tell me what “I” had been saying for a period of two or three hours.

[...] The earthly viewer attempts to correlate what he sees with what he supposedly knows or imagines possible, in the little he understands of the universe.

[...] Thinking in terms of the conventional world, however, you feel sometimes at a loss, for you want to say, “What am I?” in those terms (underlined)—an artist, or a writer, or a combination of the two? Ruburt wonders, what is he—a writer, a psychic, a combination of the two? The books bear his name, so you feel that they are primarily his, and yet all of those feelings ignore completely the larger realities of your lives and of your work.

(“Tonight the pendulum says just what it did yesterday—that I feel poorly because I estimated a high income when we don’t have it in sight; that I think I should be working on Mass Reality instead of Through My Eyes because the former will bring in sure money; that I think I don’t contribute enough financially; that I feel lousy because I want something definite to work on —that at this time I’m not contributing enough. [...]

[...] It does not rest in either of you alone, but rises from joint psychological structures (intently) that you have formed together, each using what characteristics you could—psychological structures that you then can use to gain a viewpoint upon reality that is so unique. [...]

[...] Pendulum tells me the side bothers because I’m not working on Mass Reality, which will get us money, whereas Through My Eyes is a less-certain project, would take longer, and the time I spend on it is time lost on Mass Reality. [...]

[...] You may for example request before sleep that you project into your own future, to see what occurs there. [...] For what you see will influence what you do in the present. [...]

[...] You are indeed exercising what amounts to an added ability. [...]

[...] In the beginning you are safer perhaps in those projections that involve your own reality.

During projection you are dealing with environments and realities with which you are not acquainted on a conscious level. [...]

[...] There is, believe it or not, no particular and specific and definite boundary between what is self and not self. If we isolate such portions of reality for the sake of discussion, such isolation is artificial, and in no way affects the nature of reality itself.

[...] We are speaking of it this evening mainly in terms of its reality as a part of action. As we speak of such subjects in their relation to various phenomena, again it must be kept in mind that such realities are being considered often from one aspect only, but that their reality extends into many other dimensions.

We find once again a basic reality, that of the personality, which is accepted and recognized within the physical field, even while it does not appear there as a definite physical unit. [...] For the personality, true to the roles of action, will seize upon the new action and form of it new realities and unities with itself.

[...] But you will see, indeed, that the nature of action, or the nature of any reality, is greatly colored by the viewpoint or dimension from which it is examined. It is my purpose here to examine for you reality from as many different aspects as possible, lifting you from the limitations of your own dimensions, and allowing you the advantage of others.

[...] From your viewpoint in three-dimensional reality it is safe, most advantageous, to journey into other dimensions only when you have a reliable vehicle in which to travel. [...] This is what happened.

[...] There are those who are so tightly meshed within physical reality that the soul is squeezed dry. [...] For our friend however the inner self has been overly involved with wandering, and but lightly held within the limits of the intense focus demanded by physical reality. [...]

It is now important that he relearn the objective nature of your reality, the simple sanity of an apple as an apple. After this then perhaps he can begin to wonder at the reality behind the objective universe. [...]

[...] He has disrupted the part of the self that usually deals with physical reality, and its manipulation. [...]

[...] It may take him a while to receive the money when it is sold, but all of this is dependent upon the first and basic reality—the idea for the book. Therefore know that your positive ideas of health and abundance are the basic realities, the most important.

[...] Again, always consider the thing desired accomplished and projected in present reality, present physical reality, and so it shall be. [...]

[...] You give what you have to give. You receive what others have to give. [...]

Remember that your present reality is the result of years of positive and negative thought patterns. [...]

[...] You count your religions, sciences, archeologies, and triumphs over the environment, and it seems to you that no other consciousness has wrought what man’s has produced. [...]

[...] Their products are the seas upon which you sail your ships, the skies through which your airplanes fly, the land upon which your cities sprawl, and the very reality that makes your culture, or any culture, possible.

[...] Also, part of man’s reality contributes to that trans-species organization, but he has not chosen to focus his practical daily consciousness in that direction, or to identify his individuality with it. [...]

[...] There are connections, then, between man and the animals and the so-called gods (in small letters), that hint at psychological and natural realities.

[...] In a large manner, the physical senses actually form the physical reality they seem to only perceive. They are themselves part of the camouflage, but they are like lenses over your natural inner perceptions that force you to “see” an available field of activity as physical matter; and so they can be relied upon only to tell you what is happening in a superficial manner. You can tell the position of the other actors for example, or time by clock, but these physical senses will not tell you that time is itself a camouflage, or that consciousness forms the other actors, or that realities that you cannot see exist over and beyond the physical matter that is so apparent.

[...] In doing so it creates all reality. Reality, therefore, is always in a state of becoming. [...]

Entities or souls, in other words, send out portions of themselves to open up avenues of reality that would not exist otherwise. (Long pause at 9:39.) The three-dimensional selves, in existing within these realities, must focus their attention there completely. [...]

[...] Your real environment is composed of your thoughts and emotions, for from these you form not only this reality but each reality in which you take part. [...]

[...] I’ve been busy putting my own notes for Seth’s “Unknown” Reality in order, and have also allowed myself some painting time each day. Jane is involved in writing notes of her own — she’s had three dream visits to what certainly seemed to be probable realities, and is describing those in her own records.)

When you are dealing with normal waking reality, you are operating at one level of the many that are native to your psyche. When you are dreaming, from your viewpoint you are entering other levels of reality quite as native to your psyche, but usually you are still experiencing those events through your current “waking station.” [...] Your ideas and beliefs, however, about the nature of reality, and sanity, have resulted in such a schism.

[...] While each person views that reality from a slightly different focus, still it occurs within certain ranges or frequencies. [...] Following this analogy, everyone sees a slightly different picture of reality, and follows his or her own program — yet all of the “sets” are the same.

When you dream, however, you are to some extent experiencing reality from a different “set” entirely. [...]

Imagine if you can the figures or inhabitants in the painting having psychological reality, all within the set limits prescribed by the given space. Imagine in other words consciousness, growth, reality and expansion, having nothing to do with expansion of space in your terms, but an almost complete freedom of psychological realities, and you will come at least within the realm of understanding what I mean by an expanding universe that has nothing to do with the expanding universe of which your scientists speak.

Most realities have absolutely nothing to do with space as you imagine it. Most realities have their growth and existence in something closely akin to what we have called psychological time, and this is completely independent of space as you conceive it to be. [...]

[...] I told you earlier that your scientist’s idea of an expanding universe was in error, although in one important sense the universe was expanding, and this is what I referred to.

There is no method of measurement at your command to enable you to ascertain exactly what I am referring to, yet perhaps this will make it somewhat understandable. [...]

(But I stressed that no matter what she did about books, no matter what hassles we might get involved in about that activity, she just couldn’t give up physical mobility in order to express any lack of psychological mobility that we might become involved in. [...] “You just can’t,” I said, “no matter what happens, professionally....” [...]

[...] It is not possible to say in words what one person or another looks for in life, or what unique features best promote his or her growth and development. [...]

[...] I only know, meanwhile, that what we have been doing so far has led to results that we fear. It will be interesting to see how this little dilemma is resolved, and what the long range results are, if any.)

[...] I mentioned what Seth had said about her father in the last session, and asked her if she thought material on her mother might help. [...]

[...] When that point is reached, you will be able, if you prefer, to experience any “Reality-Illusion" at your will, but the self who experiences these “reality-illusions" will know itself as reality. There is no place for it to go, because it is the only reality and will create its own environment.

[...] I am one with what reality I create. [...]

[...] Is there any way to distinguish between illusion and reality other than by a creation of my own mind?”)

[...] Knowing they are illusory with full knowledge of their nature and still know that the basic reality is yourself. [...]