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“You take it for granted that interpretations of events change, but that certain definite events occurred that are beyond alteration. Instead, the events themselves are not nearly that concrete. You accept one probable event. Someone else may experience instead a version of that event, which then becomes that individual’s felt reality.”

Jane Roberts

Session 729, Page 520
The “Unknown” Reality: Volume Two, (1979)

Reality , Change

“If Utrillo's paintings depicted actual scenes from life, if they were not imaginative pictorial fantasies, then the whole world would have had to be completely different. If Utrillo's representation was valid, then it would mean that mankind had regressed to an astonishing, almost unbelievable degree. All the things that Fitch believed man capable of enjoying -- dignity, solitude, integrity -- would have been experienced in the past. And that, he thought, was impossible. If men had ever possessed these benefits, they would never have given them up.”

Jane Roberts

Source: The Rebellers (1963), p. 12

Life , Men , World , Imagination

“You get what you concentrate upon. There is no other main rule.”

Jane Roberts

Source: The Nature of Personal Reality (1974), p. 77: Session 617: September 25, 1972

“Human consciousness was inherent and latent from the beginning of your physical universe.”

Jane Roberts

Source: Seth, Dreams & Projections of Consciousness, (1986), p. 159, quoting from Seth Session 26

Universe

“This leads me of course to at least mention here the cruel methods used in the slaughtering of animals and fowls for human consumption. The creatures are treated as if they possessed no feeling or consciousness of their own - and such attitudes show a most unfortunate misreading of natural events. As a direct result, at least as many diseases develop through such procedures as would exist in a highly primitive society with unsanitary conditions.”

Jane Roberts

Source: The Way Toward Health (1997), p. 197

Disease , Feeling , Nature , Animals

“Pretend that you are a writer of fiction, and you create a character. This character is so independent, alive and real, that it in turn forms other characters -- and each writes its own book, or forms its own reality. That is a truer picture of your position.”

Jane Roberts

Session 511
The “Unknown” Reality: Volume Two, (1979)

Books , Reality

“The Crucifixion story represented, in your terms, now, the self-destructive aspect of the species at the time. And it represents the self-destructive elements of the species in this time for those who still accept it.”

Jane Roberts

Source: The God of Jane: A Psychic Manifesto (1981), p. 203

Time

“You do not understand the dimensions into which your own thoughts drop, for they continue their own existence, and others look up to them and view them like stars. I am telling you that your own thoughts and mental actions appear to inhabitants of other systems like the stars and planets within your own; and those inhabitants do not perceive what lies within and behind the stars in their own heavens.”

Jane Roberts

Source: The Seth Material (1970), p. 312

Star , Understanding , Appearance

“It may also strike you, my readers, as quite shocking when I tell you that there is no such thing, basically, as disease. There are instead only processes. What you think of disease is instead the result of an exaggeration or overextension of perfectly normal body processes. You are not attacked by viruses, for instance, for all kinds of viruses exist normally in the body. There are no KILLER viruses, then but viruses that go beyond their usual bounds.”

Jane Roberts

Source: The Way Toward Health (1997), p. 71

Disease , Thinking

“The inner ego always identifies with its source-identity as a beloved, individualized portion of the universe. It is aware of the universal love that is its heritage. It is also aware of the infinite power and strength that composes the very fabric of its being. Through being made aware of these facts, the exterior ego can begin to feel a quicker sense of support and nourishment. The knowledge can let it relax, let go, so that it feels its life couched and safe, and knows itself to be indeed a beloved child of the universe, both ancient and young at once, with an identity far beyond the annals of time. It is of great value, then, that each person remember this universal affiliation.”

Jane Roberts

Source: The Way Toward Health (1997), p. 148

Love , Life , Feeling , Support

“It is fashionable to say: You must not eat meat because you are killing the animals, and this is wrong. But in deeper terms, physically and biologically the animals are born from the body of the earth, which is composed of the corpses of men and women as much as it is of other matter. The animals consume you, then, as often as you consume them, and they are as much a part of your humanity as you are a part of their so called animal nature.”

Jane Roberts

Session 725, Page 483
The “Unknown” Reality: Volume Two, (1979)

Women , Men , Fashion , Nature

“Civilizations, both past and present represent projections of inner selfhood, and mirror the state of the mass psyche at any given time.”

Jane Roberts

Source: Psychic Politics: An Aspect Psychology Book (1976), p. 277

Time , Past

“Plants will react quite sharply to an abortion. The fetus, however, will also react to the death of an animal in the family, and will be acquainted with the unconscious psychic relationships within the family long before it reaches the sixth month. The plants in a house are also quite aware of the growing fetus; the plants will also pick up the fact that a member of the family is ill, often in advance of physical symptoms. They are that sensitive to the consciousness within cellular structure. Plants will also know whether a fetus is male or female.”

Jane Roberts

Source: The Seth Material (1970), p. 318

Death , Family , Animals , Housing

“If Seth had read Mark's mind, this was an excellent progression. If not, then Mark had deceived himself, and Seth had gone along and taken advantage of the deception. And if Seth was a personification of my subconscious, then this would be an excellent example of subconscious fraud.”

Jane Roberts

Source: Seth, Dreams & Projections of Consciousness, (1986), p. 164

Fraud , Reading

“Your modern methods of communication are in fact modeled after your inner ones.”

Jane Roberts

Session 932, Page 456
Dreams, Evolution and Value Fulfillment, Volume Two (1986)

Communication

“However, suicides and would-be suicides often have such a great literal lust for life that they constantly put it into jeopardy, so that they can experience what it is in heightened form.”

Jane Roberts

Session 735, Page 574
The “Unknown” Reality: Volume Two, (1979)

Life , Suicide

“In Framework 2, extra-natural help, energy, impetus, and knowledge are 'naturally' available.... But only when your own beliefs are clear enough so that the help is not blocked.”

Jane Roberts

Source: The God of Jane: A Psychic Manifesto (1981), p. 10

Nature , Knowledge , Help

“Telepathy accounts for the usefulness of spoken language. Without telepathy no language would be intelligible.”

Jane Roberts

Session 57, Page 119
The Early Sessions: Sessions 1-42, 1997, The Early Sessions: Book 2

Intelligence

“When the race is in deepest stress and faced with great problems, it will call upon someone like Christ. It will seek out and indeed from itself produce the very personalities necessary to give it the strength it needs.”

Jane Roberts

Session 491, Page 335
The Early Sessions: Sessions 1-42, 1997, The Early Sessions: Book 9

Problem , Christ , Personality

“Part of the unknown reality, then, is hidden beneath language and the enforced pattern of accustomed words-so, for an exercise, look about your environment. Make up new, different 'words' for the objects that you see about you. Pick up any object, for example. Hold it for a few seconds, feel its texture, look at its color, and spontaneously give it a new name by uttering the sounds that come into your mind. See how the sounds bring out certain aspects of the object that you may not have noticed before. The new word will fit as much as the old one did. It may, in fact, fit better. Do this with many objects, following the same procedure. You can instead say the name of any object backwards. In such ways you break up to some extent the automatic patterning of familiar phrases, so that you can perceive the individuality that is within each object.”

Jane Roberts

Session 726, p. 460
The “Unknown” Reality: Volume Two, (1979)

Color , Way , Feeling , Exercises