“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] Much more is involved than even the nature of the dream state and man’s fascinating ability to withdraw consciousness from the body. [...]

[...] I would like to make it plain that your mother literally prods your father enough to keep him from withdrawing completely, and he has much to thank her for regardless of their differences.

[...] It appears to hang over her, but since it is too much to handle at once, she feels Seth withdrawing it, to release it to her a little at a time in the form of connected words.

[...] Withdrawal into dissociation as a hiding place from the world could, of course, have dire consequences. [...]

[...] To do this, however, he has to alter his own consciousness, withdraw momentarily from the official station to bring in this one. [...]

In sleep, not only do you withdraw from the physical field of actuality but you also enter other systems.

In such instances, you are withdrawing your perceptive abilities from the physical body. [...]

(“We’re just wondering if her process of withdrawal from this plane is continuing smoothly, as she wanted it to.”)

[...] It took great effort for me to withdraw that much energy away from what I was doing. [...]

[...] Withdrawal into dissociation as a hiding place from the world could, of course, have dire consequences. [...]

Even a quick and automatic rejection or withdrawal from such a stimulus is, in itself, a way by which consciousness knows itself. [...]

(In Note 3 for the 688th session, in Volume 1, I quoted my own note from the 24th session for February 10, 1964: I described how Jane could sense the whole of whatever concept Seth was discussing — and how, since such a structure was too much for her to handle at once, she could feel Seth “withdrawing it, to release it to her a little at a time in the form of connected words.”

There is no danger, and I will repeat this: There is no danger of dissociation grabbing a hold of him like some black, vague and furry monster, carrying him away to the netherlands of hysteria, schizophrenia, or insanity … Withdrawal into dissociation as a hiding place from the world could, of course, have dire consequences. [...]

[...] I tried not to alarm her as we talked, while mentally I speculated about whether the vocal changes could be a further sign of her withdrawal from the world. [...]