“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] Esoteric literature has mentioned various levels of reality, numbered and named them. [...] They represent other kinds of mental experience, in which reality is organized differently. [...]

[...] No matter what you said, he felt that he did not want to add to your work until then.

[...] In certain areas, however, invisible beliefs may operate for some time because they are accepted as reality within the framework. [...]

[...] They are disturbing because at one stage they are only felt but not understood for what they are. [...]

[...] Science’s reasons are given as the only true statements of reality, with which no student is expected to quarrel. Any strong intellectual explorations of counter-versions of reality have appeared in science fiction, for example. [...]

Some of this is difficult to explain, but as the world of appearances presents its own evidence, on the level of sense, so your inner reality presents as strong evidence of its reality. [...]

[...] When I asked her what she meant, Jane said she’d been blue lately, wondering what good the work on Seth’s books could do in the world.)

[...] It also made him think, however, that he was not changing the world in any way that mattered in any important degree—that those in authority did not even read them, and that even my latest work (Mass Reality) would make no inroads. [...]

[...] Now, in our sessions I am sure that by now you are at least to some extent aware of what would seem to be something quite strange: the emergence of a self that observes the self of which you have been ordinarily aware; a self with a slightly different time system, a slightly different viewpoint of reality, a self with greater control over the physical material that composes your physical image, a self with some quite effective control over your personal future.

[...] They would keep a record of the chosen objects for a month, without telling us what they were, then we would compare the list with Seth’s data after the experiment ended. [...]

(We had some reservations however about trying it now, but decided to see what Seth would say. [...]

[...] Inversion in terms of value interwound upon value, energy compressed, contained, working upon itself, contained but with momentum—this comes much closer to reality.

[...] Indeed, though he dislikes the word, he is finishing the first portion of his apprenticeship, in which he became acquainted with a different kind of reality, and had to learn how to equate it with the “normal one.”

[...] When the new sensed reality is strong enough to provide not only greater comprehensions but also to construct a new framework, then the old framework is seen as limiting, and discarded.

What I am saying will make greater sense when you read his paper. [...]

[...] My consciousness does not normally operate at the same speeds as yours, either, so what I am saying has long ago, in my terms, been said, while in your present it is new, or just reaching you.

You have an excellent grasp of “Unknown” Reality, and of all the material contained therein. [...] It can deliver it to you in the same way as your crossword puzzle exercises, but you have not thoroughly understood, in that regard, that the point of power is in the present, and that you do there also create your own reality.

[...] What I have said tonight, again, can be most important if you allow yourselves to really let the significance of the words sink in. And above all, remember what I have said in the past about self-approval, for when you allow yourselves to disapprove of yourselves, you automatically darken your day and its accomplishments.

[...] You make your own reality.

There is no separate field that combines all of that information, or applies the facts of one discipline to the facts of another discipline, so overall, science, with its brand of rational thought, can offer no even, suggestive, hypothetical, comprehensive ideas of what reality is. [...]

[...] Although he did not believe in metaphysical realities, he had heard the book was the best of it’s kind, and they found it in a used-book store in Seattle, Washington. [...] What interesting timing.…

[...] Science tries to stick to what it can prove.¹

[...] You end up with separate disciplines: biology, psychology, physics, mathematics, and so forth, each with its own group of facts, jealously guarded, each providing its own world view: the world as seen through biology, or reality as seen through the eyes of physics.

Many of your misconceptions about the nature of reality are directly related to the division you place between your sleeping and waking experience, your conscious and unconscious activity. [...] Myths, symbols and rationalizations all become necessary to explain the seeming divergences, the seeming contradictions between realities that appear to be so different.

[...] (Pause.) Such a change in your waking and sleeping patterns very nicely helps cut through your habitual ways of looking at the nature of your own personal world, and so alters your conception of reality in general.

To some extent, there is a natural and spontaneous merging of what you would think of as conscious and unconscious activity. [...]

[...] Important therapeutic information that is given in dreams, and meant to be recalled, is not remembered because your sleep habits plunge you into what you think of as unconsciousness far too long.

Exactly what were the mechanisms of such defense systems, as individuals used them? [...] (Pause.) You are not simply trying to look at the world differently, for example, or to change a hypothetical reality, but to creatively bring about some version of a creative and artistic vision that results not simply in greater poems or paintings, but in greater renditions of reality (all very intently.

In one manner or another, each person mirrors the experience of the world, while also adding to that experience in an original way, impressing reality as no other individual could. It is true to say that reality as you understand it changes as each individual changes. [...]

[...] Those connections are worked out at all levels of reality, in the waking state through your communication devices and culture, and through the far more complicated arena of the culture of dreams. [...]

[...] Techniques may improve, the work may become more polished, but the quality of the poetry itself is what is important.

[...] realities that they know. And my reality transcends this room. Then so does your reality transcend this room. And if Ruburt has access to my reality and if my reality sings through him...then my vitality is but a hint of All That Is—and that tiny and insignificant echo of the reality of all that exists. [...]

[...] It has a reality as legitimate as this room—but not the same kind of reality. [...] And as they may not see your magic and your consciousness, so there are other magic shadows and other realities that you think beneath you that you do not perceive. [...]

When you berate yourself for your sins, then you do not realize what joy is. [...]

[...] What appears to you as evil is a result of your own ignorance. [...]

Remember what I said earlier, that we form physical reality as a replica of our inner ideas. [...] She felt persecuted, sure that people were talking or gossiping about her when her back was turned—because this was precisely what she did. [...] She projected her ideas of reality outward, and they literally led her to destruction.

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

[...] What you see in others is the materialization—the projection of what you think you are—not necessarily, however, of what you are. [...]

“Once you wholeheartedly accept life on life’s terms, then you may indeed get what you are after, but not while you insist upon it as a condition for continued existence. [...] You forget what you do have—health and vitality. [...] You forget what blessings are yours.

[...] Now you are beginning to perceive what we will, for now, call biological realities in other spheres of reality. [...]

[...] Let it then give you confidence in your own identity and in your own reality. [...]

The root assumptions that govern physical reality are indeed valid, but within physical reality alone. [...] This interpretation of inner reality into physical terms is at first automatic, and far beneath conscious levels. [...]

[...] Your physical mechanisms are equipped to function in such a way that reality is perceived through the lens of particular root assumptions. Using the physical senses alone, it is almost literally impossible for you to perceive reality in any other manner.

[...] All ideas of reality must be glimpsed through the physical net which is the materialized form of these assumptions. You are, in other words, physically able to observe reality in a highly specialized fashion. [...]

The inner senses alone are equipped and able to process and perceive other reality systems. [...] Indiscriminate use of the psychedelic drugs can severely shake up learned patterns of response, that are necessary for effective manipulation within physical reality, break subtle connections and disturb electromagnetic functions.

If scientists think that the inner world is a murky maze of intimate chaos, let them see what happens when they attempt space travel; that is, journeys through a camouflage nonexistent space to begin with, with a camouflage vehicle. They will get no further to the heart of truth or reality than a fly buzzing around the outside, forever-closed-to-him, portion of a round, hard, unripe apple.

These sessions represent what you might call previews of eternity, in that you are to some extent receptors of thought that is not hampered by time, and of a companionship that has not ceased with the stirring of the centuries, and with a valid emotional relationship that has escaped the camouflage aspect of physical reality.

[...] Here you will find, undistorted, uncamouflaged, the innate knowledge of the creation of the camouflage universe, the mechanics involved, much of the material that I have given you, the method and ways by which the inner self as a basic inhabitant of the inner universe, existing in the climate of psychological reality, helps create the various planes of existence, constructs outer senses to project and perceive the various apparent realities or camouflages, how the inner self reincarnates on the various planes. Here you will find your answers as to how the inner self transforms energy for his own purposes, changes his form, adopts other apparent realities, and all this free for the investigation.

What is required is more than a divesting of clothes however. [...] Only by turning your head away for a moment can you see what is beneath the seemingly solid pattern. [...]

[...] He sensed your abilities also, and psychically the two of you pooled your creative resources to reach beyond the reality that you know, to search for some other vaster framework that could help explain the events of your private reality and the events of the public world. [...]

You have both used the material I have given you, and what you have learned on your own through that material very well—some of it so smoothly that you are not even aware of your accomplishments. In some areas you still cling to old beliefs, but there is no end to what you can do, still, with growing comprehension. [...]

[...] Indeed, our only problem was keeping him from constantly nosing after Mitzi, since she usually ran away from him each time he tried to investigate what must have been changed bodily odors of hers. [...]

The psychic abilities are (underlined) the creative abilities—natural extensions of what you think of as the creative abilities. [...]

Now there are, in quotes, “objective” realities that exist, within astral reality itself.

[...] In the same way do you travel in other realities without being aware of your journeys. [...]

It is because of this instantaneous creation and projection of inner reality into form that you experience time within the physical system—to train you literally, to give you time to learn to handle your own creations. [...]

[...] In physical reality a man in a desperate frame of mind is more apt to emphasize horrible aspects in the news, for example, and to see desperation rather than joy in the faces of those he meets. [...]

[...] What I appear to be is your interpretation of what I am, and earlier this evening Ruburt dimly glimpsed that my apparent reality in a quite inferior version. [...]

[...] The kind of reality that you understand forms the least active portion of their actuality, and would represent, for example only, a relatively defective or “inferior” state of consciousness and comprehension, a state like (underlined), perhaps, senility. [...] In ways almost impossible to describe, your realities mix and merge at certain points.

[...] Only his physical condition connected his reality with the known one. [...] Your beliefs form your reality. [...]

(11:15.) In your reality it seems only practical and sane to accept the evidence of your senses. [...]

If ever in a dream experience you defy gravity, then gravity is not a primary reality, but only a manifestation within your own physical system. [...] What you cannot escape within any range of consciousness, can be called a Primary Condition, and you may capitalize the term.

[...] The other point that I wanted to make was that while your physical time, or clock time, has no overall basic reality, and is not a primary reality, that runs through various fields or systems, it is nevertheless an electromagnetic reality within your own system, for you have created it on mental terms.

[...] If it were a primary reality, you would not escape from it even in the sleeping state. Those realities which are primary and basic you can never escape from. This should give you an idea, for those realities which run through all systems, and which are primaries, are those which exist for you in all conditions of consciousness and under any circumstances.

Those realities however which appear only in certain stages of consciousness, are secondaries. This is perhaps one of the most important bits of information I have given you; for if you are bright enough, and I think that you are, then you have a yardstick by which to measure the nature of primary reality, from which all other manifestations are spun.

[...] The electric universe, of which you know so little, is a reality, and yet it is also a symbol of another reality. For behind even this electrical universe there is a reality which cannot be explored in terms of speech; for all consciousness, while having an electric reality, has a reality beyond even this.

When I speak of the electrical universe, indeed this represents but one more facet of reality. [...] Here is the secret, if you could but see it: Even though the electrical universe might seem to you far divorced from what you know, nevertheless you dwell within it. [...]

It is the vitality of the universe, and all universes, which causes the electrical reality, and the vitality of the universe, composing everything that is, cannot be touched. [...]

It has many realities, forming all universes and all fields. [...]

[...] Well, why not, since as Seth describes reality, everything exists at the same “time?” Tricky concepts and questions to wrestle with, I know, and sometimes contradictory. Enough to last for a lifetime in just this mundane reality.

[...] Yet what great, unexpected convolutions we can encounter in those challenges we’ve created! [...]

During all of this time, we told no one in the hospital what we were specifically doing — staff accepted our conventional explanation that we were writers and “just working.” [...]

[...] (I had a number of personal experiences and insights that I thought enhanced concepts of the Seth material, for example.) But what to cut, when to stop? [...]

[...] All of the different variations that can be played upon human consciousness, all of the racial probabilities, are in one way occurring in ages past — but they are also happening in what you think of as your present. As mentioned earlier (in sessions 680–82), your consciousness seizes upon certain events over others and brings these into significance, and therefore into the official reality that you know.

[...] The cells recognized the probable reality involved,⁶ and he, Joseph, felt that he was “at home” (in the Markle place), and yet consciously could not explain the feeling. In certain terms his mother will feel vindicated if Joseph buys that house, but the choice is still his and Ruburt’s. If you pay more attention to what you think of as coincidences, you will discover another kind of order that underlies the recognized order you follow. [...]

The neurologically unrecognized orders can show themselves once you recognize their reality. Then your sense data will begin to confirm what has not been confirmed thus far.

[...] In your idea of reality such clues appear insignificant. They make no sense, particularly in the ordered scheme of reality generally recognized.