“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] They also represent direct experience, as the inner self once more reenters the physical body. [...]

There are root dreams that represent basic inner experiences. [...]

There is a strong connection between what I have been saying and the way in which you translate inner reality into symbolic form, either in the waking life, as objects, or in the dreaming state as dream images. [...]

Your outward physical experiences are also symbolic interpretations of inner reality. [...]

Now, seven years later, I realize that this was an excellent example of the ways in which the inner self can suddenly regenerate and revitalize the personality, open up new methods of perception, shatter barriers and flood the personality with energy that sets it right, reorganizing it in more meaningful directions. [...]

[...] The revelation was that there were no real boundaries to the self; skin did not separate us from others but connected us in a webwork of energy; what we thought of as Self and Not-Self were interrelated; and that, in this life at least, ideas were constantly being transformed into matter.

The individual is the part of the entity or whole self of which we are conscious in daily life. It is that part of the whole self which we are able to express or make “real” through our idea constructions on a physical level.

[...] A species at any given time is the materialization of the inner images or ideas of its individual members, each of whom forms their own idea constructions.

[...] The inner self, however, realizes that in much larger terms, evil is simply ignorance, that “up” and “down” are neat terms applied to space which knows no such directions.

[...] Their need, in other words, more quickly opens up the inner doorways of knowledge. [...]

(9:38.) The conditions connected with an act of suicide are also important, and the inner reality and realization of the individual. [...]

Those who understand thoroughly that reality is self-created will have least difficulty. [...]

(Pause.) Your impulses are your closest communication with your inner self, because in the waking state they are the spontaneous urgings toward action, rising from that deep inner knowledge of yourself that you have in dreams. [...]

Now your ideals, whatever they may be, initially emerge from your inner experience, and this applies to the species as a whole. [...] Your civilizations are your splendid, creative, exterior renditions of the inner social groupings of the cells of the body, and the cooperative processes of nature that give you physical life. This does not mean that the intellect is any less, but that it uses its abilities to help you form physical civilizations that are the reflections of mental, spiritual, and biological inner civilizations. [...]

Many of your technological advances — all of them, for that matter — are rather interpretations of the inner mechanisms of nature: sonar, radar, and so forth, as you attempt to physically or objectively reproduce the inner realities of nature. [...]

Study and practice with psychological time will show you the validity and strength of that inner self, so that you will clearly see that it is not completely bound to the so-called objective universe by any means. [...]

Value fulfillment represents an extension of the inner self in its journey into this reality. [...]

[...] The matter of this reality, of which you know so little, will be the basis for future discussions, and indeed your inner senses will aid you in the perception of some of its facets.

(To Arnold.) You can experience it, and then let the intellect figure out what the inner self has learned. [...]

[...] And you can feel as an echo within my words the energy of the interior self that is your true identity. [...]

Now you have been given a small insight into the ways in which your inner memories work. [...]

[...] Follow minutely, even in class, the reactions that you have one to another, and they will lead you to inner pathways. [...]

[...] The senses are indeed often used by the inner self as a constant method of acquainting it with circumstances pertinent to the survival and interests of the physical body, but the inner self is not entirely dependent on them for its entire data by any means. [...]

The self does not remain as permanently attached to the physical body as you imagine, during physical existence.

The ego is much more dependent upon the physical self than are other portions of the personality. [...]

[...] In other cases the experience is simply not recorded in any way within the physical organism, but it is recorded to deeper layers of the self that are divorced to a large degree from any physical manipulations.

The fact also remains that on other levels but conscious ones, you know and every individual knows that the dream world that the conscious mind believes so foolish and irrational, is indeed constructed by the inner self with utmost care, with a precision known only by the intuitions. And each individual knows that such a splendid creation as this then exists beyond the self that was its origin.

[...] They, such dream objects, may be the method or means with which the inner self warns the personality of future possible disappointments or disasters.

[...] They possess an inner familiarity, a cohesiveness that belonged to a more or less specific period, and to periods before, where they inhabited the same sort of physical universe.

[...] He suffered from the attacks of “magicians” who were stealing his energy: “Plates” of energy were being stripped away from his chest in layers, until he feared his inner self would be exposed. [...]

[...] His inner self was exposed and vulnerable. [...]

[...] Here we will call the author the whole self, and the characters are real. [...] The plot is left open, but in the deepest terms the whole self, through its personalities, probes deeply into the meaning of life in all of its manifestations. [...]

By now it must be plain to the reader that Seth’s material on the sinful self—any sinful self, or all of them—could very well be considered the other side of his information on the magical approach to reality. [...] Indeed, how irritating it was, I thought, that for Jane and me at least the magical self seemed to be so far removed from daily reality, while the sinful self was so close! Reaching out to the magical self could be thought of as some theoretically attainable goal—but the sinful self was right there, functioning within the most intimate areas of personal life. [...] Seth, I knew, would simply say that the magical self is just as real and close as any other self. The challenge for the individual is to know and to believe that, to clear unwanted growth from around the magical self so that it can bloom unimpeded….

“When Ruburt left the church, the concept of the sinful self was still there, but the methods that earlier served to relieve its pressures were no longer effectively present. The concept was shifted over to the flawed self of scientific vintage. [...] Its only methods of dealing with such guilt involve standard psychoanalytic counseling—which itself deepens the dilemma, for counseling itself is based upon the idea that the inner self is a reservoir of savage impulses. [...]

On April 12 the space shuttle Columbia was launched into orbit around the earth, and I thought that Jane was complementing that obvious exploration of outside space by exploring inner space with the only vehicle she had available—her own mind. [...] During this time, we had been often rereading Seth’s information on the sinful self as he’d given it on March 11. [...] The result was that on April 14, the day Columbia landed, Seth initiated a long series of sessions on both Jane’s own sinful self, and that quality in general. [...]

“After supper I discussed with Jane the question I’ve been keeping in mind for Seth, concerning what her sinful self may have learned since we began this series of sessions. I said it was essential to communicate to her sinful self [so named by Seth for convenience’s sake only] that its performance has been very destructive to Jane, and that it must release its hold. I want to know that self’s attitude toward the fact that Jane is now helpless as far as her physical survival is concerned—she can no longer take care of herself without my help, and this obviously implies that if her condition continues to worsen to the point of death, her sinful self will die also. [...] No matter how it must reason or react, that self has to be concerned about its own survival—but in what ways, and based upon what knowledge and reasons? [...]

[...] The inner self exists in quite a different fashion than that seen by Dunne. For the inner self can indeed perceive events that will occur after physical death. [...] The inner self can perceive events that will occur to itself after physical death, and it also can see events that will occur in which it is not involved.

[...] So the inner self does not wash its hands, but his ego does not realize this most of the time. [...]

[...] Of all of you, she has had the fewest inner experiences, so it would seem, yet she is forbidding her own purposes by being here. [...] And she fulfills a purpose in this class, and in this group, that is highly important, at the same time she is indeed fulfilling inner possibilities and opening roads. [...]

You are meant to look at your physical condition—to compare it against what you want and what is good—and change the inner self accordingly. Any evils in the world are symptoms of you own inner disorders and are meant to lead you to cure them. [...]

[...] I challenge you to open your inner eyes, to use your minds, to use your inner intuitions. [...]

[...] Freedom is the inner realization that you are an individual. [...]

[...] I can see your potentials and your abilities and your promise—and you could see your own potentials and promise if you would open your inner eyes, if you would look within yourselves. [...]

The inner self alone, at rest, in meditation, can at times glimpse portions of these inner realities that cannot be physically expressed. [...]

[...] Allegorically, he represented a warring faction of the self that fights against his own knowledge and is oriented in a highly physical manner. [...] But the inner vehemence was always present, the inner fire, and the recognition that he tried for so long to hide.

The third personality of Christ will indeed be known as a great psychic, for it is he who will teach humanity to use those inner senses that alone make true spirituality possible. [...]

(10:27.) In the next century, the inner nature of man, with these developments, will free itself from many constraints that have bound it. [...]

Both of you, remembering the article you read this evening (about Picasso), should keep in mind the immense energies of the inner self to solve such problems, to set the personality aright, and literally get it back on its feet. [...]

[...] When you concentrate upon the symptoms you often then forget the abilities of the inner self and the vast reservoir of help available. [...]

8. As she lay down for a nap last Friday afternoon, Jane asked her inner self to let her know what to do — specifically — about buying the house on Foster Avenue. [...]

[...] Note 8 covers Jane’s inner experience and the details surrounding our house offer. [...]

[...] The authorities turned the contract down — but the authorities stood for the inner disciplinarians, and you did not want to share your road with the world; nor did you want, later, to share your driveway (for the Sayre house) with your neighbor.

Give us a moment … Because there are such inner connections as mentioned (at 11:25), your intents are going outward, to be picked up by others. [...]

The dream images are indeed extensions, not only of the psychic or inner self, but a definite extension of the electromagnetic and chemical properties that operate through the physical self. It is indeed as if extensions of nerve endings reached out in self-expansion, making new connections, and this is indeed what occurs in the creation of dream images.

[...] For there are various balances, or rather various delicate imbalances, which must be maintained; and there are differences also in the makeup of dream images, which are usually seen only by the dreamer, and some other more physical materializations which may be created by the semi-waking self, and under certain circumstances seen by others.

The protoplasm is not entirely physical, however, but in a basic manner is a meeting ground between physical matter and inner vitality. [...]

[...] (Pause.) All of the abilities of the inner self will be brought to bear to materialize the image of your beliefs, regardless of what they ought to be. [...]

[...] She was lost in self-pity and self-condemnation. [...]

[...] The whole physical self expected rebuffs. [...]

[...] All of these ideas obtain their charge from a basic belief in the powerlessness of the conscious self to form and regulate its experience.

[...] Dreams, also being electric actualities, depend upon an electric system of patterns to communicate their data to the various levels or areas of the inner self.

[...] Dreams are particularly interesting from this viewpoint, as the original dream experience is a direct electrical experience, decoded electrically, subjectively then translated for the various areas of the inner self. [...]

[...] Such depletions minimize the ability of the inner self to draw upon all the available information from other layers of the self, concerning the field of probabilities.

[...] Unless he narrows his focus and concentration to concentrate upon the present individual during a session, Seth told us he sees a composite image, an energy reality that is composed of past personalities, and in many cases also of future personalities that will be adopted by the inner self.)

[...] The experiences that are encountered there by other portions of the self are used by the whole self, and the knowledge thus gains is invaluable. [...]

[...] The dreaming self sees both fields, and operates in each. It should be realized that the probable self also has its dreams.