“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] The subconscious will then break the physical data given to it down into its psychic components, translate it into symbols; and the inner self, at the request of the subconscious, will then focus all of the energies at its command to deliver the most acceptable solution, taking the entire needs of the whole self into consideration.

[...] In the intense focus of awareness that occurs within the dream state, the inner self is able to direct all of its energies for the purpose of solving a given problem.

[...] Literally, the whole inner personality is able to focus upon any given problem, completely free of distractions, using the subconscious language of symbols. [...] For as we have explained, each symbol has various meanings to all layers of the self.

[...] With my inner eye I saw the face of an older man, facing to the left in full color. [...]

The Christ figure represents the exaggerated, idealized version of the inner self that the individual feels incapable of living up to. [...] He may—or of course she may—on other occasions receive messages from the devil, or demons, which on their part represent the person’s feelings about the physical self that seems to be so evil and contradictory in contrast to the idealistic image. [...]

[...] The contrasts between, say, the superior self or the idealized self, and the debased self, may vary. [...]

(Pause.) Communications between various scattered portions of the self often appear, again, in such situations as automatic writing, speaking, the hearing of voices, or through what the person believes to be telepathic messages from others.

[...] In most cases, what you have here are expressions of strong portions of the self that are more or less purposefully kept in isolation. [...]

They are meant to enkindle you, and program the self that you know in line with the purposes of the inner self. [...]

Your inner perceptions will often come in this manner then. [...] Ruburt’s inner perceptions often take the auditory, you see. [...] Therefore inner data is directed, often, into that channel, for it will impress him vividly.

You are being given directions and suggestions. (Pause.) You are of course amiable to inner visual stimuli, and used to interpreting reality in highly specialized forms, through visual data.

[...] That does not mean that all inner perceptions will be restricted to these particular channels. [...]

To begin with, Augustus was brought up to believe that the inner self was dangerous, that individuals reacted because of inner conflicts over which they had little conscious control. [...]

[...] It does not originate within the inner self. [...]

Augustus had been taught to fear his own thoughts, to avoid self-examination. [...]

Because like ideas do attract like, both electromagnetically and emotionally, the conscious mind found itself with two complete contradictory systems of belief, and two self-images. [...]

[...] There are connections between an individual and his photograph, and there are connections between the physical individual and the inner self, but the person must recognize the image in the photograph, for it will not recognize him.

[...] The inner fabric of reality is far more complicated than outer camouflage as you know it.

The physical body is but one small aspect of the various inner forms of which you are personally composed. [...]

[...] You do operate simultaneously within all levels of reality and if you become familiar with various coordinates, the self that you know could become aware of your own other existences.

[...] Remember he is to trust the inner self. [...]

[...] This gives the inner self freedom. [...]

Your materials must always serve your inner vision or you will be dissatisfied with them. You must be bold in following the inner vision, free enough to follow it. [...]

The inner gains have been made. [...]

“Every nerve and fiber within the body has an inner purpose that is not seen, and that serves to connect the inner self with physical reality, that allows the inner self to create physical reality. In one respect, the body and physical objects go flying out in all directions from the inner core of the whole self.”

“Suggestion is no more and no less than an inner willingness and consent to allow a particular action to occur; and this consent is the trigger which sets off the subconscious mechanisms that allow you to construct inner data into physical reality.

[...] You are supposed to get a clear picture of your inner development by perceiving the exterior environment. What seems to be a perception, an objective concrete event independent from you, is instead the materialization of your own inner emotions, energy, and mental environment.”

“Because I say that you create physical matter by use of the inner vitality of the universe, in the same way that you form a pattern with your breath on a glass pane, I do not mean that you are the creators of the universe. [...]

[...] A gray day becomes therefore a symbol that the sunny inner self is clouded, and he feared he could not change himself any more than he could the weather.

[...] Concentration upon the problem to such an extent does not allow the inner self the freedom to help you solve it, and a condition arises where you expect the worst and bring it therefore about.

[...] The conscious mind is fascinated and the inner self free then to act constructively. [...]

Now he adjusted very well to these, but an inner portion of his self, you see, is thoroughly outraged, considering all parents enemies from whom one should and must legitimately run. [...]

[...] As an example, you may believe that you want to understand the nature of your inner self — you may tell yourself you want to remember your dreams, but at the same time still hold a belief in the basic unworthiness of the self, and be quite frightened of remembering your dreams because of what you might find there.

[...] You must stop believing that the inner self is a dungeon of unsavory repressed emotion. [...]

[...] ² Now that is an excellent suggestion, given by the conscious self to other portions of your being. [...]

In the past, when Seth told me to trust the spontaneous self, I said “Okay,” and imagined some hypothetical inner self somehow apart from my conscious intents. [...] This distant-seeming inner self wasn’t so distant after all; “it” communicated through my impulses. [...]

[...] It represents a turning away of consciousness from ordinary reality toward an inner one. [...]

[...] Those theories, along with religion’s belief in the flawed self, have left their marks on all of our lives. [...]

When Seth began this manuscript, I was personally working with the idea of “heroic impulses” (those separate from our usual ones) that would operate as inner impetuses toward constructive action. [...]

[...] In your language it is indeed, and yet the inner self and the intuitive self will be able to leap that seeming gap but you cannot force it to do so. [...]

[...] The intuitive self, being a part of All That Is, understands this when you leave it alone. [...]

[...] Such people as a rule, however, have an exaggerated version of the self (pause), so idealized (long pause) that its very existence intimidates practical action. They are afraid of making mistakes, terrified of betraying this sensed inner psychological superior. Usually, such an idealized inner self comes from the acceptance of highly distorted beliefs—again, concerning good and evil. You end up with what can amount to two main inner antagonists: a superior self and a debased self. The qualities considered good are attracted to the superior self as if it were a magnet. The qualities that seem bad (underlined) are in the same fashion attracted to the debased self. [...]

The self becomes operationally scattered or divided, so that if one portion of it is attacked, the other portions can rise up in defense. Such persons use the various elements of the personality as spies or soldiers, scattering their forces (pause), and forced under those conditions to set up elaborate communication systems to keep those portions of the self in contact with each other. In times of stress, they set up an even greater isolation of one part of the self from another, which puts stress upon the system of communication, of course, so that it must be used constantly.

[...] If the messages were to be clearly deciphered and understood, then of course the game would be over, for the one to understand the message would be the united self who [had] felt the need of such camouflaged self-troops (hyphen) to begin with.

[...] It becomes assigned on the one hand as a possession of the superior self—in which case it must be used for great adventures, heroic deeds. On the other hand, the person feels unable to use energy in a normal fashion, since in the ordinary world no venture could live up to the superior self’s exaggerated ideals. [...]

You are quite aware of these constructions as the inner self keeps track of them. [...]

[...] Many root dreams are literal interpretations of abilities used by the inner self.

[...] The self who pursues these divergent paths is actual however. [...]

[...] Such root dreams serve as a method of maintaining inner identity, and of communication. [...]

[...] Being an artist and being successful were opposites for your inner self. [...]

The book became a sore point, and the focus in his work of the inner problem, a symbol. [...] There was an inner refusal to make concessions. [...]

[...] In doing so you change the self, by choosing from past experience those elements to which you shall and shall not react. [...]

[...] The last on time is connected, incidentally, with what we have been speaking of, for it can lead to an insistence upon outer realities, and result in a lack of inner intuitional development, which alone is the fountainhead of true art.

[...] You will be certain of your identity, realize that the physical self is sleeping or in a dream state and that the inner self is fully awake. [...]

Projections involve many more aspects of the whole self and are a mark that the personality is progressing in important ways. The inner senses are allowed their greatest freedom in projection states, and the self retains experience that it would not otherwise. [...]

[...] When you have induced the trance state, then begin to examine your own subjective feelings until you find recognition of the inner self.

[...] Then, begin to imagine this inner self rising upward. [...]

[...] The hows and wherefores and the ultimate product were left to the inner self.

As emotional storms may be the result of a lack of discipline or of knowledge, or of control of one or more portions of the self, bringing about a corresponding exaggeration or growth of other portions of the self, so also erratic physical storms come from the same causes on a collective basis, but with the energy directed outward and often turned to a constructive purpose. [...]

[...] It contains portions of the self that are—I hesitate, you see, to say superior, for he is not to get conceited—but portions of the self that contain more abilities than those usually held by the ego.

His egotistical decisions therefore now more faithfully reflect the whole self, or the whole personality. [...] It is for this reason that his suggestions are taking hold so well, for they do not conflict with other layers of the self.

[...] But there must be a place within you where these do not exist, or the freedom of the inner self will be hampered, as far as its connection with the ego is concerned. [...]

In regard to your illness, no healing of any sort can ever take place without inner understanding and psychic comprehension. [...]

[...] Basically however in your case the illness was not serious, and the advantage that you would derive from my help in a healing capacity would have been outweighed entirely by several disadvantages that are almost always present, in the case of healing that does not originate from inner comprehension.

(Seth has discussed this inner comprehension and physical illness in the 98th, 99th and 120th sessions, among others.)

This book is Seth’s way of demonstrating that human personality is multidimensional, that we exist in many realities at once, that the soul or inner self is not something apart from us, but the very medium in which we exist. He emphasizes that “truth” is not found by going from teacher to teacher, church to church, or discipline to discipline, but by looking within the self. [...]

The next chapter will deal with the eternal validity of dreams as gateways into these other realities, and as open areas through which the “inner self” glimpses the many facets of its experience and communicates with other levels of its reality.

Looked at merely as an example of unconscious production, however, Seth’s book clearly shows that organization, discrimination, and reasoning are certainly not qualities of the conscious mind alone, and demonstrates the range and activity of which the inner self is capable. [...]

[...] This will lead up to the basic communication used by human personalities as you understand them, and point out these inner communications as existing independently of the physical senses, which are merely physical extensions of inner perception.

The overall efficiency of the inner self, or prime identity, is best displayed of course when it adopts an ego that mirrors its own characteristics and intents as closely as possible. There is bound to be a difference however, between the purposes of the inner identity and the ego.

There is simply the simultaneous expression of a prime identity or inner self within the physical system. [...]

For one thing the self is usually thought of in terms of existence only within one particular time sequence pattern. [...] Since there is actually only a spacious present this means that the self is rooted both in the past and in the future, using your terms.

Now, the ego, the dominant ego, does indeed affect the inner identity, and changes it even as it affects and changes the dominant ego. [...]

[...] But your identity and your inner self is independent of these reincarnations. [...]

[...] Therefore, at no particular point is your entity, your inner self, done and completed. [...]

[...] However, I hope to reinforce your inner knowledge that you do have the ability to make decisions, and good ones. [...] But your inner problem does not have to do with work, but why you did not find work in the past. [...]

The relationship can indeed be begun again, but only under completely new terms, and only with self-knowledge on our friends part. [...] Self-knowledge on both of your parts is extremely necessary. [...]