“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] The voice seemed at times to be merely an automatic, unaware reaction to whatever obscure mental processes were going on within her mind or brain—vocal signals broadcast out into the world, perhaps without meaning to others but probably of significance to their originator on certain levels. [...]

(This attitude also fit in with that which Joe had expressed to me during last fall’s World Series in baseball: Looking at the ballplayers with their long hair, mustaches and beards, Joe had asked me where the youth of America was. [...]

[...] He encounters his consciousness first, and then he encounters the world—so I am saying, of course, that each person has an identity that is larger than the framework of consciousness with which you are usually familiar in life.

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[...] Now, one of these roses leaves the familiar world that it knows and embarks upon out-of-body experiences quite frequently, but this rose has a beautiful memory. [...]

[...] Traveling can be external, but you can travel around the world and go nowhere and you can sit in your chair and travel beyond the universe, so do not be taken in by conventional habits of thought regardless of which conventions the patterns follow. [...]

[...] This applies not only individually, so that the cell knows its future pattern, for example; but in the same way, an entire species will unconsciously have the knowledge of its own “ideal” fulfillment in its overall world environment.

The emerging consciousness had to have, latently at least, the capacity to become aware of world conditions. [...]

[...] It’s not a Seth book, but one of the three “world view” books from highly creative people in the arts that Jane tuned into on her own as gifts for me. The other two are The World View of Paul Cézanne (1977), and The Afterdeath Journal of an American Philosopher: The World View of William James (1978). When we get to the Rembrandt material in this series I’ll offer my interpretation of Jane’s very interesting world-view material.

[...] I too am a World War II veteran; after three years of service in the Air Force Transport Command I was discharged in 1942. [...] I told myself that I had to get back into the world out there.

[...] Add to those early fears her later fears of rejection not only by the mainstream publishing world because of the “psychic” nature of her work, no matter how good it was—but also by most of the world in general because of her chosen and unique way of expressing her great creativity: the Seth material. [...]

[...] Jane was living her challenges just like each one of us does, and her efforts were inextricably bound up with the world even as, I was sure, we were creating our human versions of the earth and its own reality. [...]

Probabilities always go off from points of psychological tension here, of course, and so they have a psychological validity for the individual involved in the world that you know. [...]

of the world

It is true that it is difficult for you to take me at my word when I suggest action in the practical world, particularly when such suggested action may seem neither practical nor possible. [...]

[...] Now Ruburt, again, suspects strongly that my remark concerning my hope that this material be read throughout the world is the result of some inhibited egomania on his part. [...]

[...] In spite of this state, she did remember the material, especially the part about the material making its way around the world.

[...] Although Jane enjoys the sessions, as Seth himself said in the session for February 1, 1981 She is still somewhat afraid of what he will produce in the future—new theories and ideas that either might or will place her in further confrontation with the major tenets of our ordinary world—meaning science, religion, medicine, history, whatever. [...] This fear of future developments ties in very well with her natural concerns about becoming a public figure, one that should be able to solve the world’s problems. [...]

[...] Jane and me, Prentice-Hall, the world, critics, the post office?”

The other exercises, in fact, will result in a clearer picture of the world, for they will facilitate the very motion of your perceptions, allowing you to perceive nuances in the physical situation that before would have escaped your notice. [...]

[...] Such exercises are not to be used to supersede the world you know, but to supplement it, to complete it, and to allow you to perceive its true dimensions.

[...] Your entire familiarity with the world of symbols arises directly from the dreaming self.

[...] They hint at the true dimensions of consciousness that are usually unavailable to you, for you actually form your own historical world in the same manner, in that above all other experiences that one world is predominant, and played on the screen of your brain.

[...] The brain, of course, and other portions of the body, tune into your planet and connect you with numberless time sequences — molecular, cellular, and so forth — so that they are synchronized with the world’s events.

[...] Am I afraid of the world? [...] Do I trust the world or inspiration or whatever?—but your questions themselves are now loaded with built-in negative suggestions. [...]

After breakfast, use the pendulum to insert positive suggestions of a specific nature—not about the world, but psychological supports and directions for the specific day. [...]

[...] I spent the next day rearranging all of Jane’s working paraphernalia in her writing room, following her directions, and that re-creation of her world helped also. [...]

[...] 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. Before we held the private session for last December 1, I had admitted to her my fear that she was gradually cutting down on her communication with the world.¹¹

[...] On the other hand, the life clouds can seed their own worlds completely. [...]

Probabilities may be swirling everywhere, yet remain of course unperceived in any given instant, so that you might in this odd strange analogy (pause) hear a dim brief whirr, as in the whirling of winds, and think it unimportant—while what you heard instead was an entire world of probabilities speed past where you stood (intently).

[...] Now if you would change an individual, change your thoughts toward him, and changes will appear in the sense data world.

[...] If an individual sees only evil and desolation in the physical world, it is because he is obsessed with evil and desolation and projects them outward and closes his eyes to all else. [...]

[...] The camouflage world is beautiful, but more exists that you do not see. [...]

[...] Therefore, to change your world you change that which you project. [...]

Now: in Ruburt’s story of Emir, he presents a theoretical new earth, yet in the truest meaning of that term, earth is ever-new, for fresh energy comes into the exterior world from an interior source.

The spontaneous self, the creative self, is also immersed in Framework 2, and the creative conscious mind springs from there also, even though its focus must of necessity be in Framework 1’s world of space and time.

[...] You must use them as our friend here did, not only for your own benefit and edification, but so that you can change the world in which you live for no one will change it for you. [...] No God can change it for you for He has given you the creative energy to form your own world, and you can change it through joy and not through dignity. [...]

[...] In a chaotic world of twisted reasoning he thinks his symptoms will take your mind off your own problems, and relieve you to some extent. [...]

[...] This also means that you show your devotion more obviously, gallantly offering him assistance, thus always showing the world that what he is doing has your blessing.

[...] It forms the flesh and the world that you know, and it is in a state of becoming.

[...] It contains potentials unlimited, but it must work out its own identity and form its own worlds. [...]

[...] In your system, for example, they are within the phenomenal world. [...]

[...] The experience of forward time and the appearance of physical matter in space and time, and all the phenomenal world, results. [...]

[...] In the exterior world certain animals “kill” others. [...]

(Seth, in the 512th session in Chapter 1 of Seth Speaks: “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.”)