“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Now. As I have told you, there is duration of a kind. What would correspond, in any case, to your idea of duration within the spacious present; it is a matter of intensities however. Now the entity is in itself composed of such intensities. Simply for the sake of analogy, imagine the image, a humanoid one, of an entity giant-sized, spread out anywhere in your physical universe. And if the image were projected against a midnight sky, within its apparent boundaries then you would see a multitude of planets and stars. Let these represent moment points. On one hand they are a part of the entity, as your cells are a portion of your body. On the other hand the entity’s consciousness can travel through these. They are doorways within his own psychological makeup, into experiences.

Any personality may become an entity on its own. This involves a highly developed knowledge of the use of energy and its intensities. As atoms have a mobility, so do psychological structures in their own way. They move through the value climate of psychological reality as freely as atoms move through your time.

Now the moment points could also represent various personalities belonging to the entity, portions of its own consciousness that it sends upon the journeys of exploration and discovery. It is as if the nuclei of a cell could travel through itself. The boundaries of the entity would be imaginary, taking in as many moment points as the entity felt it could handle. (Pause.)

The entity and its time are not separate. They are one. Basically time is simply psychological experience, regardless of the lapses between perception or the manner of perception. The entity is its own experience.

Other egos choose instead to become entities of their own, in which case this magnificent outer ego becomes in turn an inner ego, which then from its own unfulfilled desires, abilities and initiatives are formed new outer egos which once again seek fulfillment.

[...] Because you have no children this time you must of necessity then feel, experience, become involved in the world of growth and change, which is your plane. For those who have chosen to become entities the way is not easy, but I am here to tell you that the way is worth it.

[...] Commitment and involvement become the ingredients from which your own work will achieve genius. [...] And this original insight, original comprehension, are the requirements of an entity.

Ruburt and myself were offshoots of the same entity, as I have mentioned. [...] The entity was a particularly strong one, and many of its egos have made the decision to turn into entities.

An entity can indeed in some ways be compared to a tree that brings forth many seeds, the seeds being individuals in themselves, with all the potentialities to become themselves full entities.

[...] That is, many fragment personalities do become entities. We are dealing here with a psychic tree however, and the seeds or personalities that do not develop into entities, do not because they do not choose to do so.

Nothing remains unchanging, personalities and entities least of all. [...] You cannot stop an entity or a personality in time, as you would like to do. [...]

As the physical atoms and molecules combine to form cells, and the cells to form physical organs, and as they do not lose their individuality in so doing, and as the atoms and molecules themselves actually gain and share in higher perceptions because of this gestalt, so do the basic components or fragments of an entity constantly form new and varied personalities; and these in turn form entities of their own.

That probable self can become a whole entity if it so chooses. Now some selves do not choose to become entities. [...]

([Ned:] “Is it up to the probable self whether they become a new entity, or up to the person who creates the probable      self ?”)

([Ned:] “That would create more entities to reincarnate? Instead of having a hundred entities to reincarnate, that hundred can multiply.”)

[...] Do you not realize that by doing this you become more than you think you are? [...] But if you demand the best that is within you then you become more than you realize that you are, and you must also demand more from the other persons within your relationship. [...]

Personalities may indeed become entities. [...]

[...] The father does not rob the artist of free will, nor does the entity rob the personality of free will. [...] The entity may not either aid or prevent any choice that the personality may make. The entity may not like any particular choice made by the personality, but he, the entity, cannot change the course that the personality chooses to take.

If you say that the personality cannot take any choice of which the entity is not aware, then this is true; but it is also true that the entity is utterly incapable of changing that choice made by the personality, even though the entity knows about the choice ahead of time, so to speak.

[...] I have said that any of you and all of you create a dream universe of validity, actuality, durability, and for Philip's benefit, self-determination, in the same manner that the entity projects the reality of its various personalities. As there is no contact between the entity and the ordinary conscious ego, so there is no contact on a conscious level between the self who dreams and the dream world which has its own independent existence.

“Any personality can become an entity on its own. [...]

[...] The three men were a part of one entity, gaining physical existence in one time. [...] There are reasons why the entity did not return as one person. For one thing, the full consciousness of an entity would be too strong for one physical vehicle. For another, the entity wanted a more diversified environment than could otherwise be provided.

“Entities, being action, always shift and change. [...] Some personalities can be a part of more than one entity. [...]

“The entity was born once as John the Baptist, and then he was born in two other forms. [...] There was constant communication between these three portions of one entity, though they were born and buried at different dates. [...]

[...] “ ‘A fragment personality can become an entity.’ What’s the soul, then?”

Actually, the dominant personality, in your terms, can be compared to the dominant entity. [...] As the personality on your plane actually changes, expands and grows to its potentialities, as it presents at various times varied images to the world (such as — if you’ll forgive me for using cliches — a smiling face, a sorrowful face), but is still basically the same personality, so on another level does the entity present at various times a varied appearance and speak in a different voice. As the smiling and sorrowful faces also express and expand the personality, so, too, do the various reincarnated personalities express and expand the entity as a whole.

[...] The entity never dominates a previous personality. Sometimes these personalities also travel divergent ways for their own benefit and with the entity’s full consent.

It is often practical that entities or their various personalities visit one plane before another. [...] … You could say also that an entity visits all planes simultaneously, as it is possible for you to visit one particular state, county and city at one time. [...]

[...] This one has progressed so well, with indeed little experience comparatively, that he most probably will become an entity of his own eventually.

[...] He and she are part of the same entity. His characteristics are a part of those of that entity. [...]

As a change of environment affects twins, Twin A becoming something different again through a given environment from Twin B in another environment, so twins born in different times also develop different portions of a basic personality pattern. [...]

I have somewhat explained your entity status.

Now at various times you have questioned what the entity actually was, and wondered how fragments, or fragment personalities, could ever become entities, if they ever did.

[...] These experiences with psychological time have become so intriguing and numerous that Jane and I devised a method to keep a list of them, in chronological order for quick reference.

[...] This may seem a far cry from a discussion of entities. [...]

[...] This becomes extremely difficult to explain until you learn to feel conceptual patterns directly. [...]

(As early as the 6th session Seth told Jane and me that we were living the last of our physical lives, and that both of us had chosen to become entities. [...]

[...] Not only does the human system for example become influenced chemically, electronically and psychically by physical weather, but also the human system electronically, electromagnetically, chemically and psychically affects and creates the climate in which existence is possible.

[...] Her pace had become quite fast, and sometimes emphatic. [...]

[...] Her pace had become good toward the end of the delivery. [...]

[...] You mentioned that when and if you become an entity, and send forth personalities, that they would gain existence in the first periods of another such cycle; in another newer, say, fourth or fifth century.

[...] He so feared that he lacked discipline that he becomes too stern a keeper of his own inner fires.