“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] There is a self into which you shall grow, a strong intuitive self in full control of its own destiny so far as is possible. This is the self that you cannot deny, and this should be the object of your search for now.

There is a strong and rather aggressive nature beneath the surface personality of the questioner, of which the questioner is frightened, to some extent therefore a divided self. [...]

The proper purpose should be the development of the self, and the development of abilities, and it is to elude this responsibility that the chase was originated. [...]

[...] Then you see you search for the someone else, neatly labeled, but the capabilities and personality developments must be pursued within the self. [...]

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 whole self retains experience that it would not otherwise. [...]

[...] Unless the structure of personality, or of the self, is clearly understood, projection itself will not seem possible. A self that is conceived of as a physical composition only would never be able to project, nor survive physical death.

Before we speak any further about projections, the structure of the self must be more thoroughly discussed.

[...] While we speak of the ego, this part of the self is hardly permanent or constant, but ever-changing. [...]

[...] Now this portion of the self is indeed self-conscious in the highest meaning of the term—aware of the subconscious portion of the personality, aware of the primary conscious framework that you call your ego, and constantly directs the overall activities. [...]

[...] It is this portion of the self that is with you in the most excellent projections. [...] It has been called by psychologists the subliminal self.

[...] Intimacy with your self and with your own identity, that is intimate knowledge of your own identity, resides in all portions of the self, and is not dependent upon a survival based upon the survival of the physically-oriented ego. [...]

[...] You are your subconscious self, and oftentimes what makes no sense to the ego makes good sense to the overall personality. [...]

[...] The new self unit must be free and not hampered by the demands that could otherwise be put upon it. The new individual has a deeply buried memory of its past lives, but the personal consciousness of the last reincarnated self must not be superimposed upon this new identity. [...] It is even given lessons of a kind, but it is very much its own self.

[...] As quickly as the new data forms the fetus and physical structure, the self from the previous reincarnation must begin to withdraw its hold. [...]

[...] Your creative self, your spontaneous, creative self—that self that speaks through your impulses—keeps you alive.”

[...] On the other hand there are no boundaries to that identity, so that each self is not like a definite unit, always the same. And to some extent one self or identity cannot be equated with any other.

[...] In basic terms, however, you cannot equate one self with another self—or for that matter one life with another life, for the subjective realities of people involve dimensions that do not show physically.

This simply means that his self-confidence is greater than any doubts he has. In the past his doubts about his body have greatly outweighed his self-confidence, and that is the reason for this material and that given in our last session.

[...] But in all cases the entity is simply the part of the self that cannot fit into one life alone. [...]

When I look at you, I see a multidimensional form in motion, a geometrical collection of highly intensified energy, with a nucleus that is your whole self. The self that you know is only a small portion of that self, boxed in, so to speak, by its limited perception.

[...] If the self accepts the symptoms, and in all cases of illness to some extent or another this is true, then paradoxically a portion of the self identifies with the symptoms.

To rip away the symptoms becomes a ripping away of a portion of the self, even if a most disagreeable portion. The procedures immediately call for new growth on the part of the self, to replace what is being taken away, and to replace it in a more constructive fashion.

[...] The symptoms have been a defense against the sort of self-enlightenment that I am now giving in the sessions. [...]

[...] Using this sense, you penetrate through the capsule that encloses the self. This Inner Sense, like all others, is being used constantly by the inner self, but very little of the data received is sifted through to the subconscious or ego. [...]

[...] It is similar to the fourth sense in that it is free from past, present, and future, and involves an intimate becoming, or transformation of self into something else.

[...] The inner self attempts to construct a physical image in line with its own self-image. Any errors of construction have their origin not in the inner self, but in either the personal subconscious or in the ego.

[...] Each molecule has its own self-image, without which it could not exist as a physical construction. The subconscious has its own self- image, the ego has its own self-image. [...]

[...] What you call suggestion should ideally come from within the self, and not from outside the self.

The personal subconscious can be thought of as a threshold between the ego and the inner self; not only can glimmerings of the inner self be glimpsed through the subconscious, but also the diverse characteristics of the ego touch this personal subconscious. [...]

It is possible to treat such disorders from a chemical standpoint, as is sometimes being done, but the acquired artificial chemical balance will in most cases not be maintained, because the inner self, the deep subconscious, has not been signaled that an error is being made. [...] There are also reasons why the deep subconscious has allowed such difficulties to come about, and in most cases the basic reason here is a lack of understanding and communication between the various portions of the self, so that seemingly the left hand does not know what the right hand is doing.

As you know, at one time it was necessary for the ego to focus exclusively upon outer data, but the channels never closed between the inner self and the ego. [...] The inner self will make itself known. [...]

[...] One, a continued lack of acceptance of the inner self could lead to worldwide catastrophe, as the ego runs wild. Two, the inner self, restrained and denied for too long a period, could explosively overwhelm the ego so that existence in the physical field was made most difficult, since the ego is equipped to handle such manipulation. [...]

[...] The study of the inner workings of the self is closely connected to the study of the universe as it exists in all its levels of reality.

[...] Finally, last night she made her intuitive connection: She had been working on the book the entire time. Heroics isn’t to be on how to reach some unattainable superself, but on the barriers that stand in the way of practical self-realization. [...] “You can’t find your heroic self unless you trust the self you have,” she told me. [...]

[...] The self, so spectacularly alive, seemed equipped with reason to understand the great import of its own certain extinction. [...]

You cannot begin to have a true psychology, again, unless you see the living self in a greater context, with greater motives, purposes and meanings than you now assign to it, or for that matter than you assign to nature and its creatures. [...]

[...] Nevertheless, such actions speak only too loudly of your mass beliefs involving the vulnerability of the self and its flesh.

You would learn the instrument far quicker, you see, if the impulse was originating with a probable self. [...] It is very poor policy to dwell negatively on unpleasant aspects of the past that you know, because some portions of the probable self may still be involved in that past. [...]

(10:30.) So can a child then in a dream receive such communications from a probable future self, of such a nature that its life is completely changed. [...] All divisions are merely illusions, so one probable self can hold out a helping hand to another, and through these inner communications the various probable selves in your terms begin to understand the nature of their identity.

They are not “lost”, buried or negated in some superself, without free will, self-determination, or individuality. [...]

Now: One event can be actualized by more than one probable self, however, and you will resemble some probable selves more than others. [...]

[...] The self allows itself to change while retaining knowledge that it is the self who changes. [...]

The self that stabbed you in the back was the self negatively (underlined)developed in this life’s early existence. [...]

Notice however that the knife used could have been a more dangerous, lethal one, for that self did not really want to kill you. It was simply a portion of you, formed by negative inferences, that became an unwitting enemy of the self you had become. [...]

[...] The matter of time is highly important if you have any hopes of understanding the self in its entirety, or other personalities that do not operate within your system. [...]

[...] The belief that the self must be kept in reins—a trust in the spontaneous self directed toward work, but a distrust of the spontaneous self when it is not so directed.

It was never, except for the time mentioned, the writing self that Ruburt distrusted, but he feared for the worthiness of his being. The writing self was obviously a part of his being, and so justified it.

[...] He is already benefiting, and has since our August session, but the final separation of the belief from the self is important. [...]

[...] Now when you feel that you have this new image of your past self before you, then imagine that your consciousness is moving from your astral form into this past self. [...]

Now, with all you have been told about the nature of personality, and of the many of which you are a part, it would now be a help if you could find the center of your larger self.

[...] You are a part of a larger self, an entity, and because you are there is a portion of you that has access to the knowledge of your entity.

If you have succeeded here, then memories and images will flash through your mind in the same way that your present self would ordinarily recall its past.

(With emphasis:) Reincarnation simply represents probabilities in a time context (underlined) — portions of the self that are materialized in historical contexts. [...] Each self born in time will then pursue its own probable realities from that standpoint. Again, each such self is immediate.

[...] In her view, the quality called multipersonhood encompasses all of the inner personifications, or Aspects, of the source self, which she defines in the Glossary of Adventures as “the ‘unknown’ self, soul, or psyche; the fountainhead of our physical being.” In her own case, then, Seth would be a personification of an Aspect of her source self; but he would also have an existence of his own at other levels of reality.

Your idea of one soul, one self, forms a significance and a selectivity that blinds you to these other realities that are as much “here and now” as your present self. [...]

[...] The flower — calling back to the bulb, urging it “ahead” and reminding it of its (probable future) development — is like a future self in your terms, or a more highly advanced self, who has the answers and can indeed be quite practically relied upon. [...]

[...] (See Session 721 in Volume 2 of “Unknown” Reality.) However, neither of us have had such an outright encounter with a future self—that we know of. I’d say that under hypnosis the urge to fantasize the future lives must be a tempting one; but what’s the explanation for achieving little more than a formless future state while “under,” no matter how hard one tries? The failure to get there, to turn time around, could be taken as a sign of resistance on the part of the present self. (Or even a past self or selves, but that’s too complicated a subject to go into here.)

[...] (This isn’t the place to go into it, but Seth maintains that for many reasons we arbitrarily decide what’s living and nonliving.) Each reincarnational self, each counterpart self and probable self has its complement of frameworks. [...]

[...] 3 on that date)—thus prefacing the long quotations from her “sinful self.” So as counterpoint to her writings on the sinful self, I’ll be presenting two excerpts to hint at what Seth does mean by his magical approach.

And how about reaching a future life through the dream state, perhaps abetted by hypnosis or self-suggestion before sleep? [...] Future-life dream recall may be thoroughly disguised so as to not alarm the guardian, conscious present 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.

[...] The force that causes your weather can be thought of as self-generating.

[...] The inner self therefore does not overstep the boundaries of the ego, go against the ego’s wishes, or try to force (underline) the ego. It is up to the ego to learn how to use these vast potentials that lie within the inner self, how to use them to help itself and others.

If the inner self took over completely therefore the present personality would not learn on its own. The inner self does offer advice, intuitional help, inspiration, all of these things, but it does not force the ego to accept them.

Through these maneuvers the inner self does teach the ego the proper use of these inner potentials. The inner self literally carries the ego, and provides life sustenance. [...]

This will effectively have him concentrate his attention where it belongs, while the inner self follows through on the suggestion which he has given.

Now: I bring up these matters here because such changes in habitual patterns would definitely result in greater understanding of the nature of the self. The inner dreaming portions of the personality seem strange to you not only because of a basic difference of focus, but because you clearly devote opposite portions of a twenty-four hour cycle to these areas of the self.

[...] The conscious self would recall more of its dream adventures as a matter of course, and gradually these would be added to the totality of experience as the ego thinks of it.

[...] There would not be such a definite division between the various areas or levels of the self. [...]

[...] The seeming great division between the waking and the sleeping self is largely a result of the division in function, the two being largely separated — a block of time being allotted to the one, and a larger block of time to the other. [...]