“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(With some humor:) Ruburt and Joseph have recently purchased a color television set, so now their television world is no longer in black and white. [...]

We will call the world as you physically experience it, Framework 1. In Framework 1, you watch television programs, for example. [...]

[...] In the same way you are aware, generally speaking, of the “programs” being physically presented in your own nation and throughout the world. [...]

[...] Your communication systems bring to your living room notices of events that occur throughout the world. [...]

[...] And if it seems to you, because of your beliefs, that you are limited here, then I joyfully challenge each of you to create a city, an environment, and perhaps a world, in which no such limitations occur. What kind of world would you create?

[...] “It’s about this material being far more important than we think it is—that it will really help change the world. [...]

[...] For example, I’ll see Rob’s head, with our floor-stand world globe growing out of it into a new kind of object.... [...]

[...] I can’t think of anything in the world that’s worth it—literally.” [...]

[...] “The world won’t stop turning on its axis....” [...]

[...] He will be known as an excellent writer in his own right, and as one who produces our material, which he will be in a position to give freely to the world.

[...] (See the deleted session for October 2, 1972.) My material and books, and Ruburt’s, and your paintings, will affect the world as you know it. [...]

(Secular means worldly, temporal, not religious, etc., according to dictionary.

(“There really isn’t anything else like the sessions going on in the world today. [...] I should always remember that each time Jane and I sit for a session, it’s a unique event in the world.

[...] She was also working on her own The Afterdeath Journal of an American Philosopher: The World View of William James. [...] It’s always a pleasure to work on a Seth book, to explore with him his unique view of reality, and to try to put at least a few of his ideas to use in our everyday, “practical” world. [...]

(“That isn’t nearly as conceited a statement as it seems to be, of course, for each thing each person does is also unique in the world. [...]

[...] That is, the individual will grow outward toward the world, encountering and forming a practical experience, traveling outward from his center in almost vinelike fashion, forming from the fabric of physical reality a conglomeration of pleasant or aesthetic, and unpleasant or prickly events.

in worlds that whistle and curl.

[...] I had intended, and still will, involve us in a discussion of the parallel development of the physical universe, the world of negative matter, and the dream world. [...]

[...] In your universe they began with the psychic possibility of a world of physical matter, born in consciousness.

[...] There was also therefore from the beginning here a negative field, and as they weaved matter in and out of this psychic beginning meshwork, they formed both the world of matter and of negative matter.

This inwardness is so adaptive and self-generating, seeking all outlets and possibilities, that it not only in your case formed a physical universe, but found new ways, operating through the new physical universe, to construct an additional field or plane within and completely through, or on the other side of while yet within the physical universe; this being your dream world, which is made possible because of the physical mechanisms and involvements themselves.

In some ways you see, your dream world is actually much closer to the direct experience of reality than is your waking world, where the operation of the inner senses is shielded so from your own awareness. This is not to say that the dream world is more important to you in your present situation, merely that it contains more truth about the source of your own existence.

Your own dream world expands constantly. [...]

[...] Again, the dream world, which is a very vivid one and a valid one, does not take up any space at all. [...]

[...] If you live in one country, you often consider natives in other areas of the world as foreigners, while of course they see you in the same light. [...]

If you are traveling around the world, you have to make frequent time adjustments. [...]

(A group of us — Alex, Warren,² and others — had come over to Jane and Rob’s for a casual get-together, and also to talk about that week’s class, which seemed to be one of the “milestone” classes that happen occasionally.³ During the conversation, Alex said that the rise of literacy in the world would spread Seth’s ideas on a scale that had never previously been possible. [...]

[...] Therefore, that world-probability in which telepathy and clairvoyance⁸ would have been common, well-known facts of life, self-evident in any civilization — that probability became latent while the species followed another route.

“I am the voice of your world in its past and its future, and because of that I am your own voice in its past and future. [...]

[...] Even as I worked on this note Jane received a most enthusiastic letter of approval from a young woman who had just read Seth Speaks and Volume 1. To paraphrase a few lines: “Why isn’t the whole world reverberating with these fantastic ideas? [...]

[...] Then slowly imagine other sounds appearing in the world, appearing in the same way that a flower might appear, so that sounds begin to be born in the universe. Imagine, then, the joy of hearing that sound in a world that had known none. [...] And then give thanks for a world of sound, and let yourself revel that you live in this world where sound is a part of your environment and surroundings. [...]

Imagine for an experiment, now, a world in which there is no sound. [...] But imagine that the world itself has no sound for anyone to hear. [...]

[...] When you wanted to retreat from the world, you shut down on your hearing so that you were not distracted. [...]

[...] The physical senses allow you to perceive the three-dimensional world, and yet by their very nature they can inhibit the perception of other equally valid dimensions. [...]

The “outer ego” and the inner ego operate together, the one to enable you to manipulate in the world that you know, the other to bring you those delicate inner perceptions without which physical existence could not be maintained.

Now at times I will be using the term “camouflage,” referring to the physical world to which the outer ego relates, for physical form is one of the camouflages that reality adopts. [...]

[...] The world of inner reality would then be imagined as existing at the other end of this tube. And in the same manner that one end of the tube would represent the extension of the self into the world of physical reality, then so too would the other end of this tube represent the extension of the self into the inner world of reality.

[...] It puts its stamp of approval upon those probabilities that are considered to be actual and real in your world. [...]

(Long pause.) The motion of microscopic events always involves probabilities, which are at the heart of your world, and healings always involve activity at that level also. [...]

[...] They become part of the physical evidence of the world. [...]

(One of the letters, from a doctor in Canada, referred us to an article in Scientific American in which a discussion of the many-worlds view of quantum mechanics clearly vindicated a number of Seth’s ideas. [...]

[...] If you trusted the characteristics of the basic natural person, you would not need such sessions as ours, generally, in the world at all—for such knowledge would be part of it and implied in its cultural organizations, and the daily habits of the people. [...]

[...] You use energy without understanding how it works, so obviously you do not need a detailed map of the inner world to obtain its benefits. [...]

[...] All you have to do is realize that each breath you take ultimately reaches to the ends of the universe and helps uphold your world.”

(Pause at 9:58.) I am not suggesting that you not visit doctors or not take drugs of that nature, as long as you believe in the structure of medical discipline that the Western world has evolved. [...]

[...] The latter is as alive and natural and changing as the exterior world. [...]

[...] The outer ego must concentrate much of its energy toward survival in and manipulation of the outer camouflage world. This world has already been created by the inner self, and its continuing existence is determined by the constant vigilance of the inner self.

[...] If sometimes it seems to you that you are living in a dream world, in many respects you are. You are not strong enough yet to bear the brunt of basic reality, and you construct complicated dream worlds in order to find shelter from what would appear to you as savage, uncontrolled and undisciplined chaos.

You will find, Joseph, that you have acquired added strength and you will be able to act positively in your dealing with the outside world. [...]

In your world, however, and according to your beliefs, some “realistic” events had to prove out the practicality of the safe universe in publishing terms —so you have a creative conflict.

[...] At Ruburt’s level and your own, the events show you that the universe, as it applies to your publishing world is safe—with leeway for action—and also opens up creative relationships with people at Prentice that were latent before. [...]

Now our books themselves released their own energy into your world. [...]

[...] He would not feel it safe to be understood in an unsafe world.