“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] It is also connected with what we were talking about this evening, since the initiation for this particular event was dream oriented.

[...] The existence of Sumari physicians will make sense when we finish our discussion of inward orders of reality and the dream state.

I bid you then a hearty good evening, and this book will open up even further your own private understanding of your own reality, and your private experience. [...]

Electromagnetic reality belongs to the inner self. [...] (Pause.) The second and third projection forms have electromagnetic realities. [...]

[...] Indeed, within a different framework of reality.

[...] It is a kind of pseudo- image, materialistically speaking, but it has definite electromagnetic reality, and chemical properties.

[...] The chemical composition of a storm perhaps will give you an idea of what I mean. [...]

[...] You simply are not aware of what your consciousness is doing. [...] The dimensions of it can only be sensed by those determined enough to take the time and effort required to journey through their own subjective realities. [...]

[...] These other stages of consciousness create their own realities as you create your own. The realities are, therefore, byproducts of consciousness itself. [...]

[...] Almost every individual has had bizarre experiences with consciousness, and knows intuitively that their greater experience is not limited to physical reality. [...] Your consciousness is already oriented again to physical reality; the dream, an attempt to translate the deeper experience into recognizable forms. [...]

[...] In the most protected areas of sleep, the apparent barriers between many layers of reality vanish. You are aware, for example, of some probable realities. [...]

Now: the favorable remarks made this morning by various members of the staff show that you are indeed changing your realities, and also beginning to change the larger environment. [...] You will end up changing your reality, and your reality in other people’s eyes as well, so the affair marks the beginning of that alteration of environment. [...]

[...] “I can’t even explain what I mean sometimes, but I see what Seth means,” Jane said. [...]

[...] I told her I was about to ask Seth what he thought about the compliments she’d received from three different people this morning about her improving physical condition. [...]

[...] This is accomplished through what you might call a changing of frequencies or vibrations: a transformation of vitality from one particular pattern or aspect to another. In some ways, your dream world gives you a closer experience with basic inner reality than does your waking world, where the Inner Senses are so shielded from your awareness.”

Your ego, in common ordinary terms, has changed as a result of our sessions, in that it is now concerned with other realities also. In common sense terms, the ego handles manipulations within physical reality, and focuses brilliantly within a rather narrow range.

(Humorously.) My telepathic abilities must not be operating well this evening, for I took it for granted that this is what you meant by your question; knowing what I did of your use of the psychic knowledge in your present works.

For that matter the book has changed you see from what it was, as he has changed from what he was. [...]

[...] Naturally we wondered what, if anything, Seth might say about the experience. [...]

Now: in The Nature of Personal Reality we discussed the nature of private beliefs. Some day there can be a book called The Nature of Cultural Reality.

I do not want to frighten you—but if we ever do The Nature of Cultural Reality, it will be a fine book.

[...] It was a method of operation that allowed him to go ahead with what he felt was reasonable caution. [...]

[...] Ruburt tried to hide what he thought of as characteristics that would frighten you—but the need itself was only camouflaged.

People could physically only see what was presently before their eyes—no postcards with pictures of the Alps, or far places. Visual data consisted of what the eye could see—and that was indeed a different kind of a world, a world in which a sketched object was of considerable value. [...]

2. For a brief description of Jane’s encounter with Mrs. Steffans, see Note 13 for Session 744, in Volume 2 of “Unknown” Reality. Seth, and Jane and I, described a number of our house-hunting adventures in the two volumes of that work. [...] We think that the events surrounding our purchase of the hill house furnish many clues to the spontaneous and creative workings of individual consciousnesses in our chosen physical reality.

[...] Your established fields of knowledge do not grant any subjective reality to c-e-l-l-s (spelled).

[...] When they draw circles or squares, they are trying to reproduce those inner shapes, transposing those images outward into the environment—a creative act, highly significant, for it gives children experience in translating inner perceived events of a personal nature into a shared physical reality apparent to all.

(And: “A chapter on a person’s ‘Effective Personal Reality’ — about the private purposes in one’s life, and the bounds of creaturehood as set by your body; what you choose to be born with as far as health, disease, poverty or wealth, ability, etc., are concerned.”

[...] The work is close to the way Seth would present it; it probably stems from her efforts last night, we think, to see what she could do with “book work” on her own:

[...] You think you are overweight and accept this as reality. [...]

[...] It is not that your thoughts just trigger chemical reactions in the body, but that your thoughts have a chemical reality besides their recognizable mental aspects. [...]

[...] The smallest c-e-l-l (spelled) within your body contributes to that emotional reality, and reacts instantly to your thoughts.

[...] We’re also eager to learn what we can about Jane or Seth per se. [...]

[...] I consider myself an exuberant psychological explorer, finding myself, at my own request, happily set adrift among universes, able to shout with a loud hearty voice from the hypothetical shore of one to another, news of what I have found and am still finding.”

(Jane and I have been reviewing the original manuscript for Volume I of “Unknown” Reality, which was returned to us for this purpose by Prentice-Hall after the editor and copyeditor had gone over it. [...] Later, for example, the page proofs — those set in the actual type — for “Unknown” Reality will also be sent to us for minute checking.

[...] Taking that for granted, then, you are each born with the conscious knowledge of what has come before. [...] Instead, you draw upon what has gone before: the experiences of your ancestors, back — in your terms now — through time immemorial.

[...] He knows what human voices sound like even before his ear physically hears those sounds. [...]

Certain chemicals may affect dreaming by altering the cells’ reality. [...]

[...] She has clothed a basic idea of reality in certain garments, and he has chosen other garments. Both are necessarily distortive, but beneath both is the same reality.

(“What do you think of my sculp?” See page 189)

It is indeed what you saw, and has for you a deep meaning. [...]

[...] Our studies and any true expression of the inner self, should lead to a joyous encounter with reality and the everyday moment, out of which eternity is spun.

(9:26.) When I speak of an inner psychological universe, it is very difficult to explain what I mean. (Pause.) In that reality, however, psychological activity is not limited by any of the physical laws that you know. Thought, for example, has properties that you do not perceive—properties that not only affect matter, but that form their own greater patterns outside of your reality. [...] You add on to, or build up your own reality, in other dimensions throughout your physical life.

[...] The physical senses are relatively easy to distinguish: You know what you see from what you hear. [...]

It is not just that such an inner universe is different from your own, but that any real or practical explanation of its reality would require the birth of an entirely new physics—and such a development would first of all necessitate the birth of an entirely new philosophy. [...]

The next morning Jane had quite an unexpected insight to add to my own understanding of what those lampshades stood for. [...]

These three dilemmas represent three areas of reality within which inner reality, or inner vitality, can experience itself. [...]

(Jane has been studying psy-time regularly, and reports that almost as a matter of routine now she attains what she calls an “excellent state”, involving a feeling of much lightness and separation from her physical self. [...]

The reality of such an identity then exists within the action. [...]

[...] For consciousness and existence do not exist because of delicate balances, so much as they are made possible by lacks of balances, so richly creative there would be no reality as it is understood to be, if balance were ever maintained.

Once more, as I’ve done often in recent years, I expressed the hope to myself that in another probable reality very similar to this one I opted for the outdoor life in a much stronger way—even to living outside night and day for most of the year. [...] What a different life! [...] Not that I want to copy Cézanne, for instance [I couldn’t even if I wanted to], but in that other reality I too chose to live the natural life in a more naive or clear-eyed manner—to sublimate myself before nature while at the same time trying to become master of whatever means of expression I can achieve.

[...] But no matter what we may accomplish as a species, or how far we may travel, in those terms we started out utterly dependent upon our earth, with its fantastic variety of resources and life forms. That sublime framework still exists for us in all of its great beauty, and I want to always return to it: We create our human version of it each day, and I think that even now we’ve hardly begun to understand what we are and have. [...] Of course, what I’m really stressing here is living the independent life as much as possible within our ever-more-complicated national and world cultures. [...]

[...] Those forces or consciousnesses must also constantly replenish themselves: Iran’s religious leaders devoutly nourish their country’s hatred for the United States, while here at home no less than six separate teams or commissions have begun investigations—on private, state, and federal levels—of what went wrong at Three Mile Island. [...] And most older people avoid seriously considering what nuclear war would really mean for them, out of fear closing their minds to certain aspects of that psychic atmosphere.

[...] Especially do I like to interpret his material tonight as meaning that Jane is “a psychic or a mystic,” for to me, at least, this means that in this physical life she’s chosen to penetrate as deeply as she can the depths of reality, or consciousness.

(I must have reached the point where I truly don’t think she wants anything but what she’s got — for after all, doesn’t each of us create our own reality? And what’s my part in all of this? [...]

[...] She again could not tell me what their source was, although we were pretty sure the same things were involved — mostly her mother. [...]

[...] I wondered what good it would do. [...]

[...] Since time does not exist in such a manner, then you must not project your ideas of time upon basic reality.

You must understand that in any way your situation, and any that you know of physical reality, is highly artificial. [...]

Therefore you are hampered in your attempt to understand personalities who do not exist within your system, for identity is not therefore structured in any kind of a time sequence, and what you call memory flies out the window.

[...] Since many of the building plans involved the construction of various kinds of temples, the personality has always been interested in acquiring knowledge concerning the nature of reality. [...]

[...] She’s going to go over the recent sessions to see what portions of them fit into Mass Reality. [...]

(Yesterday I finished typing up the 841st session, so now I’m all caught up on the sessions that had piled up while Jane and I worked checking the page proofs for Volume 2 of “Unknown” Reality, Psyche, and similar matters. [...]

[...] And wondered what the child was picking up from the parents. [...]

(My remarks came about in response to Jane’s wondering comments about what, if any, part beliefs could play in one getting so ill at such a young age. [...]

Some of these systems do touch upon legitimate portions of reality, but they all overlook the great individualistic and highly private nature of your dreams, and the fact that you create your own reality.

[...] There is some difference here, which was mentioned earlier (in the 636th session in Chapter Nine), between you and the animals and the particular way in which you create your reality….

[...] Seth-Jane’s flow of cadences had been uneven since the beginning of the session, and I’d started to wonder if I should interrupt to ask what was going on. [...]

[...] You can close the eyes of your conscious mind also, and pretend not to see what is there. [...]

[...] All experiences have an electrical reality. Your experiences at York Beach had such a reality, and having met you, not Dr. Instream but his wife unconsciously picked up this connection, and responded to it.

[...] The chemical percentages are important here; that is, the chemical percentages vary from those found in the body during what you call normal states of consciousness.

[...] Since all things have an electrical and chemical reality, the food that you eat is also important, and it is for this reason that I made certain suggestions concerning your diet.

[...] It is indeed as if extensions of nerve endings reached out in self-expansion, making new connections, and this is indeed what occurs in the creation of dream images.