“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

In some personalities they will lead to what you call a mystic experience. [...] To some extent you will view some aspects of reality apart from the usual physical structures that you impose upon it as a whole. [...]

Basic reality is not a chaos. [...] These personality structures are like you a portion of basic reality, or All That Is. [...]

[...] This alone can be compared to what Leary calls imprinting. [...]

[...] They organize the basic ground reality into many patterns, and then operate and manipulate within them.

(“What,” I wrote for the 836th session, “is the real relationship between the host organism and disease?” Recently Jane and I talked about the evident worldwide eradication of smallpox, as announced earlier this month by WHO — the World Health Organization — and wondered if the disease has truly been eliminated. [...] What was its role in the whole panoply of life forms? Could the “disease” ever move from whatever probability it now occupies back into our own reality some day, thus appearing to have regenerated itself? What would we humans say if that happened? [...]

(First, on February 12, five days after the 835th session was held, Jane and I received from Prentice-Hall the page proofs for Volume 2 of “Unknown” Reality. [...]

[...] On the next day, March 1, the page proofs for Seth’s Psyche arrived from the publisher, but we could see that going over that much shorter book would be easy compared to our protracted labors for Volume 2 of “Unknown” Reality. [...]

(Vigorously:) You could not live without viruses, nor could your biological reality as you know it now exist.

[...] Is it a view of reality from Seth’s part of the psyche? If so—that in itself is quite legitimate and important; yet I feel, felt, Seth’s personality in a way super-straddle my own as I know it; and that is what the heroic dimensions would do....

I thought I had a few ideas to jot down, now I’ve nearly forgotten what they were. Something about my personal purposes—what I’m trying to do.... [...]

What might be best for me now is.... [...]

[...] Out of these attributes, therefore, you chose what you now consider to be your hard-bed reality.

If you are poor, you chose that reality from many probable ones that did not involve poverty — and that are still open. If you chose illness, again there is a probable reality ready for initiation in which you choose health. [...]

[...] Within your own subjective reality are traces of all those roads not taken, those abilities not used. [...]

You appear in astral form in realities that are comparatively more advanced than your own. [...] They have a reality. [...]

Some dead friends and relatives do visit you, projecting from their own level of reality into yours, but you cannot as a rule perceive their forms. They are not more ghostly, or “dead,” however, than you are when you project into their reality — as you do, from the sleep state.

[...] (Pause.) Such other existences and realities as just described coexist with your own, and in the waking state you are not aware of them. [...]

[...] They are not fully focused in physical reality, however, either in personality or in form, and this is their main distinction. [...]

[...] This is what you are. It is what I am. [...] They merge into other gestalts, but what they are is never destroyed. [...]

[...] He should be clear in his mind as to what I have said about myself, and what I have not said.

[...] There is no conflict between what I am and what he thinks I am. [...]

[...] Since we were somewhat confused as to what course to follow, a session was held this evening.

(I told Jane, before lunch, that at times I see what Seth is talking about, what he’s really saying, quite clearly at times, and that this growing awareness in recent months has had a rather profound effect in my thinking. [...]

[...] But I did go over the whole story with Jane to some extent, so she’d know what I was concerned about. [...]

(“What did you think of my speculations about life and age, births and probabilities?”)

[...] This in turn led me to speculate about probable realities in general as I drove to the hospital this afternoon. [...]

[...] Your active participation now means just what it means. [...] You live in a joint reality. [...]

[...] He forgot what the session was about, remembering only one portion that seemed significant. [...]

[...] He wanted to retain what was said, and sought for methods. [...]

[...] There are classes at other levels of reality that he conducts in that way. [...]

[...] What follows applies more specifically to Jane. [...]

[...] The most important thing at this point is for him to keep in as good spirits as possible—not by being Pollyannaish, but by recognizing the reality of his improvements, and by not overstressing those areas in which improvements have not yet appeared. [...]

[...] This does not mean that you are ignoring reality. [...]

[...] Exaggerate impediments in your mind and in reality they will quickly adopt giant size.

[...] “Unknown” Reality will do far better than even Personal Reality did.

[...] Castaneda speaks of what is really exotic behavior from your cultural viewpoint. [...]

The paperback Personal Reality will be highly important in the ultimate changes that do take place. [...]

To be an overnight financial sensation, however, would present a reality that does not fit into your joint plans and purposes. [...]

What interrupts this inner impetus could be compared to what you call poor suggestion. [...] It interrupts what should be a simultaneous and easy flow of inner impetus outward, in your case outward to physical construction. [...] The break occurs first, and it is for this reason that what you call negative suggestions therefore are acted upon.

The delicate inner mechanisms by which inner reality should be constructed into physical reality therefore become seriously affected. [...]

[...] What you call suggestion is indeed expectation. [...]

[...] What you call suggestion should ideally come from within the self, and not from outside the self.

[...] The individual first manipulates situations within the dream reality, and then transposes his characteristic method of handling them upon the physical reality.

[...] An ego that is overly rigid will inhibit the intellect from perceiving various portions of physical reality, and therefore distort the appearance of reality, limiting the intellect’s abilities.

When the ego is of such a rigid nature that it distorts physical reality out of all context, then however the personality had better rely upon the subconscious even in this respect, for the subconscious will at least perceive those elements of physical reality that immediately threaten the whole self.

[...] It was quite clear, especially about the eyes, nose and mouth; and later I realized that I had been “seeing” it for at least a few moments, almost absent-mindedly, before I understood what was happening.

[...] They unite and stimulate his creative abilities so that he does what comes naturally, easily and vitally to him, searching out his own view of reality—but in certain areas the intellect and the emotions begin to separate in their visions of the picture of the world. The intellect (long pause, eyes closed) disapproves of certain feelings and emotions because the intellect, allied with (pause) the social aspects of reality, thinks in terms of a public face, or respectability, of its position with other adults in the world. [...]

[...] The point is not so much to search for what is wrong, but to discover what expression is denied, even while it is sought for. [...]

[...] What a tale of intrigue, personalities, and beliefs it was. [...]

What is perfectly clear to one portion of that world brain may not be perceived at all by the other side, and vice versa. [...]

Seagull also needs friendly assurance, and some help as he learns to go deeper personally into the nature of reality and his own reality, and we can help him there.

[...] No matter what Ruburt said, he thought of himself as working in a highly specialized, misunderstood small field.

[...] It goes on at some level between us, beneath consciousness—this thing of deciding what we’re going to do next.”)

[...] A series of shows now however would mitigate against what we are trying to do. [...]

It plays hopscotch in and out of reality. [...] On such occasions your attention is focused elsewhere, in what you might call mini-dreams or hallucinations, or associative and intuitive processes of thought that go quite beyond normal focus.

Alternate focus is merely a state in which you turn your consciousness in other than its habitual direction, in order to perceive quite legitimate realities that exist simultaneously with your own. You must alter your perception to perceive any reality that is not geared practically toward material form. [...]

[...] In some dream states you may visit a particular location and then perceive the location as it was, say, three centuries ago and five years hence, and never understand what the dream meant. [...]

In these lapses you are perceiving other kinds of reality — with other than normal waking consciousness. [...]

[...] At other levels of reality, atoms behave in a wavelike manner … Give us a moment … Subjectively, you will think of your own thoughts as waves rather than as particles. Yet in the dream level of reality those waves “break” into particles, so to speak. [...] While dreaming you accept that reality as real. [...]

(10:51.) There are psychic structures quite as effective as physical ones, and these underlie the reality of your objective world. [...] In greater terms, the picture of your world at any given time can be compared to the position, behavior, and characteristics of an invisible particle as it is “caught” intruding into your reality.

(Quietly:) I told you to take a moment while you were within a particular dream, and to use it to try to discover what had been happening within the dream before you experienced it.¹

[...] In your system of reality this does not seem to be the case at all, since your senses project a forward kind of motion outward upon events. [...]

It does no good to say that Prentice-Hall exists also outside of your experience with it—and that the people there have their own reality, for in such a way you put part of the responsibility upon another agency. In your world and experience, where your interests are paramount, and do rule, they form your reality.

I cannot resist—it is my own sense of humor—you make your own reality. [...]

Now, I bid you a fond good evening—and if you will really remember what I say, and take it to heart, then your chest would not bother you when you exert yourself or worry; and if you would remind yourself during your naptime that the vitality of the universe is indeed surging through your body as you sleep, then you would rid yourself of that annoying difficulty.

[...] The reality, the physical reality of a given cell, is the focused result of its existence before and after itself in time; and from its knowledge of past and future it receives its present structure.

— and dictation … To be effective within your system of reality, consciousness must of course deal with specializations.

[...] The cells’ practically felt “Now” includes, then, what you would think of as past and future, as simple conditions of Nowness. [...]

[...] On the one hand as a species your present forms your future, but in even deeper terms your precognitive awareness of your own possibilities from the future helps to form the present that will then make that probable future your reality.

(10:56.) The psyche, as it is turned toward physical reality, is a creator of events, and through them it experiences its own reality as through your own speech you hear your voice.

(11:15.) Yet each of those nameless atoms and molecules cooperates in a vast venture, incomprehensible to you, that makes your speech possible, and your reality of events is built up from a cordella of activity in which each spoken word has a history that stretches further back into the annals of time than the most ancient of fossils could remember. I am speaking in your terms of experience, for in each word spoken in your present, you evoke that past time, or you stimulate it into existence so that its reality and yours are coexistent.

[...] As for me, I’m still “grappling” with my notes for “Unknown” Reality.

Your physical senses, again, act almost like a biological alphabet, allowing you to organize and perceive certain kinds of information from which you form the events of your world and the contours of your reality.

I am saying then that some of your interpretations of the relationship were based on what you would call factual reality, but part was also based on your own insecurity.

Now, I am going to take a break while my friend (Rob) reads back what I have said, and then I will return. [...] You will have to face yourselves individually no matter what you do, and you will have to do this before you can see each other with any clearness.

[...] You wanted confirmation of your hopes and of your faith in yourself, but because of your fears these clouded the reality that you perceived.

[...] With what you know now you should realize that in each life you have different abilities. [...]