“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] I asked her now to dictate to me exactly what she wanted me to record: “Now he’s telling us that to take conscious control of your beliefs and life and everything does involve a new manipulation of consciousness, where I’d been knocking my guts out thinking it should be something you can do real easy. [...] All of this is my interpretation,” she said, “based on what I remember I said in trance.” [...]

I may have slipped up, but I do not think so: I do not believe I gave the information about you and George in book dictation (for “Unknown” Reality), in order to keep the material simple enough for the reader. [...]

[...] Most of all, however, he has identified of late with what he thinks of as his failure.

[...] Your beliefs become self-evident realities. [...] Ideas are transmitted from generation to generation—and those ideas are the carriers of all of your reality, its joys and its agonies. [...]

[...] He knew what Jane was up to, but had only a peripheral interest in “psychic phenomena.” [...]

Each time someone we know gets in serious trouble, Jane and I start questioning anew our own values, and those of the society we live in, for such challenges seem to come unbidden and unwanted from way out in some far corner of each person’s reality. [...]

The church’s view of reality was the accepted one. [...]

[...] Like other experiences of this nature, it was intrusive, in that it seemed to have no connection with what he was doing or thinking at the time.

[...] He remembers having learned to read, but he does not remember having learned to see, and what he cannot consciously remember, he fears.

[...] The part of himself that did ‘teach’ him to see still guides his movements, still moves the muscles of his eyes, still becomes conscious despite him when he sleeps, still breathes for him without thanks or recognition and still carries on his task of transforming energy from an inner reality into an outer one. [...]

Then, just as Rob was about to ask how we could really perceive the inner realities, Seth began to discuss the second inner sense, giving us a valuable tool for our subjective dissections. [...]

He felt himself to be a portion of the storm, however, and felt the storm as a vast magnification of his own emotional reality—even as he felt the body of the earth itself to be, beside itself, the magnification of his own emotional reality and that of others.

[...] None of this has anything to do with natural guilt, as described in Personal Reality. [...]

When you look for “what is wrong,” you are feeding self-disapproval. [...]

[...] Make sure you do not look for what is wrong, however, but for reasons behind behavior.

[...] Today Jane and I sort of disagreed [I think] on what Seth was saying. She seems to think the actual episode of Father Darren chasing her around the bed when she was in that hotel room with him as a teen-ager is changed, whereas I thought Seth meant that the original event remained, but that her psychological understanding of what had transpired changed a good deal. [...] Jane doesn’t create a reality in which the event is absent from her memory, or never happened, that I know of.

[...] The TV show had ended at 3:00 p.m. Jane also said she “saw,” or remembered, what the insect trap looked like, but she couldn’t make a drawing of it. [...]

(5:00 p.m. “Don’t be worried — I’m not going to go on with the session, but as he said, you always go back and change the past from the present — your focus point, you know — I know what he’s going to say next …” I said she was welcome to resume the session.

(I had to ask Jane to repeat what she said because the Russian patient in the room next door, Karina, was yelling out in the hall, as she has been all afternoon. [...]

[...] You dwell within its reality as a cell dwells within the reality of an organ. [...]

[...] In a book we must use words, but such analogies can, if you let them, conjure up within your imagination some feeling of your intimate relationship with all other reality. [...]

[...] All of this may seem to have little to do with your personal reality. [...]

[...] Your idea of reality and its experience is much different than that of any cell, yet each is interconnected.

[...] Seeing that his own ability is greater than our Seagull’s—in certain, now, important areas—he realizes what can be done when he does go ahead.

[...] The psycho-cybernetics that he also began because I told him to do what he had done last summer also helped. [...]

[...] He knows what that is. [...]

[...] Using Richard as a case in point, Ruburt sees what happens when full consent is given. [...]

[...] His consciousness left his body only after he was in the throes of what seemed to him to be inspiration of almost unbearable intensity. [...]

Above all, individuals who receive such information in states of expanded consciousness are already those who feel deeply within themselves connections not only with the earth itself, but with deeper realities. [...]

[...] The individual now realizes that he is indeed a living web of reality, and this becomes immediate conscious knowledge.

(This of course, is what happened to Jane. [...]

(Our lives continue to expand in unexpected ways among an incredible variety of probable realities. [...] When I got home from 330 last night I found in the mail a letter from Maude Cardwell of Reality Change, the Seth newsletter she publishes in Austin, Texas. [...]

[...] I do not know what he was to do on the street, or ground level, with the notebooks. [...]

[...] They want to feel that they can have some part in what they certainly believe is a great, bold venture. [...]

The reality of dreams themselves can only be investigated through direct contact. Their reality cannot be probed by scientific devices, for dreams in this respect are as nebulous as the spirit, or soul, or inner self. [...]

[...] Since Seth has dealt with dreams to some extent Jane and I have a somewhat different slant on sleep and dreaming, and what is involved.

This is indeed an example of an endeavor of the sort that is too often carried on, with energy expended in a search for a reality that is known by any nincompoop to exist.

[...] The direct experience of the developing dream is what they should be concerned with.

Obviously, physical reality only happens to be the portion of reality you recognize. [...] This is what I am trying to tell you.

[...] If you treat it as a reality however, then you must deal with it as such, until you realize its origin, or return to the ordinary dream state.

But the reality of all of these constructions will be equally vivid, you see, for they are indeed equally real. [...]

[...] The room and the people exist, but they do not exist in the manner which you endorse as reality. [...]

I was already beginning to study my own psychological behavior, though, and the question of Seth’s independent reality came more and more into my mind. [...] Who or what was he? [...] What was there about Seth that so convinced him that Seth was more than a dissociated part of my own subconscious?

[...] Our ideas of what was possible were being turned topsy-turvy. We decided to hold one other session to see what Seth had to say about the affair, and again we considered dropping the experiments, book or no book. [...]

[...] We had only the foggiest idea of what a séance was, never having attended one. [...]

[...] With considerable relish Seth, through Jane’s voice, described in detail each effect that followed—so that, he said, there would be no doubt as to what happened.

[...] They merely represent interpretations that you can understand in your reality. [...]

(Part of my surprise stemmed from what I’d taken to be my knowledge of Jane’s relationship with her father. [...]

2. In Volume 1 of “Unknown” Reality there are several sources of information on Jane’s parents and her early background in general. [...]

[...] She was restless and quite nervous, lapsing—for the first time—into periods of what approached a sleep state. “What if I try to have the session and nothing happens?” she asked. [...] I really believed what I said, and still do. [...]

[...] What’s happened in between would make a book in itself. [...] I’ve just reread the last session, as has Jane, and will merely note here that I agree with much of it, especially with what I said in the notes —yet, rereading them, I can see how our attitudes brought about that material and its consequences. [...]

(Today we resumed the vitamin and cod-liver-oil therapies, which we’d let go last week, in the face of what I had taken to be Jane’s resistance. [...] I felt it offered hope, simple as it really is, and I couldn’t figure out what she was going to do without hope—without the sessions, without using her own abilities, without accepting some kind of reinforcement from anyone else. [...]

(Yesterday Jane had what was probably her worst day yet—very uncomfortable indeed; she was in “a crisis situation,” as she put it. [...] If prolonged it meant the hospital, or God knows what, but we had to do something. [...]

[...] I said it wasn’t what others said so much, as her reaction to what they said. [...]

[...] Although we are more than glad to get those precious letters — where would we be if people didn’t care about what we’re trying to do? [...]

[...] I told Jane the dream almost sounded like an exercise in exploring a probable reality.

[...] I read to Jane what she’d given so far.

[...] You were also intrigued, determined to travel into the nature of reality, and at least glimpse a vague picture of what it could be. [...]

[...] All of the power of your being is mobilized by your will, and your will makes its deductions according to your beliefs about reality. [...]

[...] The will, again, operates according to the personality’s beliefs about reality, so its desires are sometimes tempered as those beliefs change. [...]

[...] It was quite intrusive and cut through what she was talking about and thinking—which was on the discouraged side re her condition.

You should together discuss your plans so that they become more a part of your reality now. [...]

To what extent you can afford it, eat out fairly often on your vacation. [...]

Often when the child cries about a bogeyman, what he has seen is such an image production or fibrous projection, formed by vivid desire or fear on the part of the subconscious. These powers to project realities of this sort, or pseudorealities of this sort, are meant to be suspended for all intents and purposes during the earth plane. [...]

(Jane dictates:) However, you had no way of knowing what had happened, and your abilities at that time would not give any permanence to the image. Subconsciously, there is no limit, really, to what mind can accomplish.

[...] What are they but projections or fragments from the entity itself? What the entity does however it does consciously and with purpose, since it is by definition beneath consciousness, and without consciousness there is no purpose.

(“What was the name of that river?”)

[...] If you will recall our early sessions dealing with value fulfillment, let us now consider what I prefer to call a moment point. [...]

[...] Value fulfillment, or the value climate of psychological reality, is the first basic law of the inner universe; Seth presented it in the 45th session in some detail. [...]

[...] It must be clearly understood however that these other portions of the self are incapable of the ego’s intense focus within physical reality. [...]

[...] Handing her the two envelopes and the two pieces of Bristol, I had asked her to pick a test object, seal it up, and give it to me the next time we saw her, without telling me what the test object was. [...]

[...] There is an interpretation to the meaning of the fall, in Biblical terms, and on another occasion I will tell you what it is but do not expect the philosophy that tells you automatically that by becoming human you have degraded yourselves. [...]

[...] You need to vocalize them because by hearing the words you realize what you actually feel and believe. [...]

[...] Now, let us see what answers you come up with, and I will be listening. [...]

(To Dennis and Giselle.) You both have been learning very much and when you are ready to become consciously aware of what you have learned in the past week it will rise to the surface of your consciousness. [...]