“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Again, while the conscious mind is meant to direct the flow of your experience through your beliefs, and to materialize them, the actual mechanics are taken care of automatically by other portions of the self. [...]

In the next chapter, let us consider more closely your ideas about good and evil, the morality of the self, and examine the ways in which your ideas are reflected in your lives.

[...] Birth and death contain between them the earthly experience that you perceive as happening within a given period of time, through various seasons, and involving unique perceptions within areas of space — encountered with other human beings, all to one extent or another sharing with you events caused by the intersection of the self and time and space.

[...] Spiritually the death sentence given you is another chance at life, if you are freely able to accept life with all of its conditions and to feel its full dimensions, for that alone will rejuvenate your spiritual and physical self.

Ruburt is himself and this self is a writer and this self has strong psychic abilities. These are all part of the self. It is dangerous to attempt to make the self into what it is not.

The subconscious is a doorway into other portions of the self and it must be entered, and free access must exist to it. [...]

[...] First, as Ruburt surmised today, he did not earlier understand the statement, “there are no divisions to the self,” on an emotional level, or apply it in that way to himself. Instead, “the writer” was seen in his mind as the dominant part of the self, definitely apart from other portions, and with different goals and purposes.

[...] Early, some divisions occurred when Ruburt picked up the idea that womanhood was no help in being a writer, so certain aspects of the self were watched. [...] All other portions of the self were pared down so that the writer, he thought, could function better.

[...] There is one self.

His fear of the spontaneous self originally developed simply because that self seemed so different from other people that he tried to keep it within bounds. [...]

The pendulum suggestions are meant to reinforce the basic trust in the self, and in the self’s abilities to handle experience without enforcing artificial armor. [...]

[...] It goes its own way, concentrated in day-to-day reality, while the inner portions of the self amass great information, perhaps, try out new organizations, and utilize the inner senses. [...]

He did not want to be put in the position in which he felt he had to put his self-respect on the line. [...]

[...] The Freudian, Darwinian dictates quite emphatically degrade man’s capacity for “greatness,” for heroic action in those terms, and greatly devalue the entire meaning connected with an individual self. [...]

[...] Creative people are not self-destructive, but if they sometimes appear so in the western world, it is because of that division, that artificial barrier. [...]

[...] When you leave that framework of belief, such self-protecting defensive mechanisms are no longer necessary. [...]

[...] In the old system, you must almost fear personal improvement, lest you become self-deluded—another irony in that old system. [...]

You believed the painting self had to be protected. For one reason, you identified your painting creative self with your father, and you felt that he had had to protect his creative self in the household from your mother. [...]

[...] The writing self became latent as the sportsman did, yet the writer self and the artist were closely bound. [...]

(Notes before session: My sportsman self. [...]

[...] Earlier, it was all that you knew—that is, both of you more and more in young years began to identify with what you thought of as your artistic selves, more or less to the exclusion of other portions of the self.

All layers of the personality are ‘conscious.’ They simply operate like compartments, so that often one portion of the self is not aware of other portions. As a rule, when you are awake you do not know your sleeping self; you know your neighbor far better, so your sleeping self seems mysterious indeed. [...]

In your sleep, you may have greeted friends who are strangers to your waking self. [...] For when you are asleep, you usually cannot find the street upon which you live your waking hours, and when you are asleep, you do not know your waking self. The sleeping self is your identity.

Much later, there will be other suggestions for you in which you will direct your sleeping self to perform certain activities, visit certain locations and bring back information. This is obviously still very much in the future, but it is well within the abilities of the inner self.

[...] Most of the dreams I’d recalled until then had been nightmares — the self gone mad, I thought — so I wasn’t prepared for Seth’s emphasis on the importance of dreams.

(Then at 10:09:) Now: Right now, self-disapproval is involved. [...]

[...] You do not approve of yourself because you think you should be a better artist, or a better writer—but in any case, you do not let yourself appreciate the self that you are. [...]

[...] Behind this is still the idea that self-disapproval is somehow valuable—it will somehow make you better. [...]

(Pause.) This self-disapproval does not hound you more than other men. [...]

[...] Like so many others they believe that self-expression is dangerous, evil, and bound to lead to suffering — self-inflicted or otherwise.

These beliefs are centered around artists, writers, poets, musicians, actors and actresses, or others who seem unusually gifted in the arts or in various other methods of self-expression. The beliefs lead to the most dire legends, in which the gifted person always pays in one way or another for the valued gifts of self-expression — through disaster, misfortune, or death.

(Then, not long before the session this evening, I mentioned to Jane my question about the Sinful Self’s reaction to our latest efforts. We haven’t seen the kind of physical response we want yet, and I wanted to know if our efforts were prompting the Sinful Self to step up its own protective behavior to keep Jane “under control.” I explained to Jane that my own idea of why Seth’s statements over the years, that she was on the way to recovery, were always negated was that these very statements alerted the Sinful Self to redouble its efforts to prevent Jane’s recovery because of its own fears. I added that when I used the term Sinful Self, I only meant certain blocks of ideas that we’ve personified for convenience’s sake.

Your earlier comments about Jane’s Sinful Self is pertinent. (Long pause.) Remember, again, that the Sinful-Self designation is a method of identifying certain attitudes. [...]

[...] I’m still shocked to realize that while I was laboring over Mass Events, and Jane was doing God of Jane, that those two books had stirred up even more resistance on the part of that personified Sinful Self, and that when they were finished we were then confronted with a new barrage of symptoms that ended up restricting [and protecting?] Jane’s physical manipulability even more. [...]

[...] Help him to trust the spontaneous self, and as you shall see, these ideas are indeed directly opposite to those of your educations, so do not be impatient.

Fear of the self, itself, can lead people to the horrendous experiences mentioned in tonight’s session, so you are working with some revolutionary ideas, and trying to apply them to daily living.

[...] The portion of yourself that you think of as a higher self exists now only awaiting your recognition and while it seems to you that you are looking for it I tell you again it is within, and it is within the self that you already know. [...]

(To Florence.) And I would like you, dear Lady of Florence, to be aware of the questions asked by your inner self and not follow the intellect around like a puppy following its tail from one circle without answer to another for you limit the extent of your imagination in such a way. [...]

[...] The inner self keeps propelling you to class, however, even though your intellect becomes more frenzied. [...]

[...] You see me in the guise of my most timely self, and I will answer your question in the terms in which you ask it since I cannot coax you to ask another question in its stead. [...]

(10:26.) You are the multidimensional self who has these existences, who creates and takes part in these cosmic passion plays, so to speak. [...] And consciousness is in a state of becoming, and so this multidimensional self of which I speak is not a psychological structure completed and done with. [...]

(11:08.) To the extent, therefore, that you allow the intuitions and knowledge of the multidimensional self to flow through the conscious self, to that extent not only do you perform your role in the play more effectively, but also you add new energy, insights, and creativity to the entire dimension.

[...] Consider your present self as an actor in a play; hardly a new analogy, but a suitable one. [...]

[...] In these he is informed through the inner senses of his other roles, and he realizes that he is far more than the self appearing in any given play.

I have told you that through many existences you don egos for the purposes set by the inner self. [...] The difficulty is that you must believe in your role, and yet also realize that it is a role that you, the inner self, have chosen. Otherwise your connections with the inner self are nearly forgotten. [...]

[...] Generally in your society, you grow up taught by many sources that self-disapproval is a virtue. [...]

Behind all of my suggestions and attempts to help you lie realms of historical culture, or personal episodes, that go back to that main unfortunate habit of self-disapproval regarded as virtue. [...]

[...] When you really believe disapproval to be a virtue, and you believe in virtue, then you obviously find yourselves in a position where the more you disapprove of yourself the better person you think you are—a contradiction of the most insidious nature, for how can you approve of a self you disapprove of?

In such a quandary all you can do is add disapproval to disapproval, in some twisted hope that somehow some trust or love of the self will ensue.

The fact is that the whole self is constantly experiencing data from all of the inner senses. [...] This world has already been created by the inner self, and its continuing existence is determined by the constant vigilance of the inner self.

The inner ego or the inner self-conscious self directs such experiences and uses the inner senses in much the same way that you use the outer senses, except that the inner ego knows all of the mechanics involved in the use of the inner senses, and you know little of the mechanics involved with the outer senses.

[...] His inner self knew, as the inner self is always aware of such endings.

[...] At your stage of development the inner ego is by far the most self-conscious part of the whole self, and has the greatest ability for perception and organization. [...]

All projections involve literally an extension of identity and self. The usual limitations set upon the self by the ego vanish. [...]

[...] They are fused however with your inner self. They are not physical, but they do exist in the whole package of the self, perhaps like the skins of an onion, you see. [...]

[...] Note that I speak only now of projections in which you are self-consciously aware.

[...] In some dreams individuals see what they imagine to be the image of their own dead self. [...]

And if the life force did not sustain you, then you could cry, “I am I!” to nothing, for there would be no self to cry. [...]

[...] And the inner self of each personality cooperates to maintain the physical world that you know. [...]

The intellect was meant to be an aid—you are using your intellect as a dictator (to Florence)—and you are allowing this dictator to send your intuitional self into exile. [...]

[...] Your self is infinite. [...]

At least partially because of their brutal history, Iranians—Persians—are strongly self-centered; preservation of the self is given an overriding impetus. [...]

[...] / No journey is worth /
disturbing our harmony, / the self’s unity, /
and to the undivided / self / all journeys / are possible.”

I cherished Jane’s ending for her poem, for in it she’d reaffirmed at least the possibility of her self healing itself. [...] hope was tempered even as my fear lessened, for she hadn’t mentioned outright the integration of a more understanding sinful self into her psyche. [...]

[...] The sinful-self material is doing its work, opening the necessary doorways of desire and intent. [...] The innocent self is being uncovered.

[...] Now, in our sessions I am sure that by now you are at least to some extent aware of what would seem to be something quite strange: the emergence of a self that observes the self of which you have been ordinarily aware; a self with a slightly different time system, a slightly different viewpoint of reality, a self with greater control over the physical material that composes your physical image, a self with some quite effective control over your personal future.

From the viewpoint of this emerging self you can view to some extent the system in which the earlier self was mainly imprisoned. [...]

[...] For the very attempt, or successful attempt, results in an extension of the self out of the system in which you were nurtured.

[...] We will first relate them to this emerging self that you can sense personally, and then we shall go further.