“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

The inner self does not know the meaning of time. [...] The inner self knows far better, and the inner self goes its way acting as if time did not exist because it does not exist. [...]

[...] The inner self will put up a caution light. [...]

[...] You deal with the words physically but your inner self has no need of verbalization. [...]

Now what I tell you, to some extent, must be distorted because when I speak I use words, but the inner self interprets the words that are spoken. [...]

Give us a moment … You identify a highly evolved self-consciousness with your own species development, and with your own kind of perceptive mechanisms. [...] Every consciousness is aware of itself as itself.⁵ Each consciousness, then, is self-aware. It may not be self-aware in the same way that you are. [...]

In your terms, consciousness of self did not develop because of any exterior circumstances in which your species won out, so to speak. In fact, that consciousness of self in any person is dependent upon the constant, miraculous cooperations that exist between the mineral, vegetable, and animal worlds.³ The inner intent always forms any exterior alteration. [...]

[...] Tam will also look at my first rough sketches for Jane’s book of poetry, Dialogues of the Soul and Mortal Self in Time.¹ Then on Wednesday night he’ll witness the scheduled 706th session. [...]

[...] The kind of self-awareness you have is unique, but all kinds are unique. [...]

Here the self, by becoming part of greater action, increases its own ability to deal with action. [...] The principle that action is self-generating, and that it cannot be withdrawn, is also vital in connection with psychological action.

It could still do this and retain its own nature, merely by allowing into its awareness the reality of other actions as a part of its self-image. [...] Such communication would result in the acceptance of additional energy and action by the ego, and an expansion of the ego’s self-image.

If you toss a ball in a dream, neither the self that tosses the ball, nor the ball, exist in any space structure as you know it. [...]

[...] Actions may appear to be separate, but they are all part of other actions, this being of course the basis for all organization, including that of the ego and the inner self.

[...] He need not try to be the perfect self, then, the super-image—and in fact to some extent found himself the supplicative (self?), knocking upon creaturehood’s earthly door, as any creature might ask aid from another who found himself wounded through misadventure. [...]

[...] I was eager to get Jane started on a program of self-therapy through the Seth material in order to help her counter—or at least supplement—the standard rigid medical framework we’ve been encountering for the last month, or since she went into the hospital on February 26, 1982. [...]

[...] Ruburt can work with the self-image he has now. [...]

[...] Equally important, too was Seth’s idea that Jane no longer needed to try to be “the perfect self.” [...]

[...] … When he asked it, he was referring to the point at which self-consciousness entered into so-called inert form. You know, now, that all form has consciousness, and so there was no point at which self-consciousness entered with the sound of trumpets, so to speak. [...]

Self-consciousness entered in very shortly after but not what you are pleased to call human self-consciousness. [...]

You are either conscious of self or you are not. [...] What I am trying to point out here is this supreme egotistical presumption that self-consciousness must of necessity involve humanity per se. [...]

The entity itself does not have to keep constant track of its personalities because each one possesses an inner self-conscious part that knows its origin. This part, for now, I will call the self-conscious beyond the subconscious. [...]

The self, the whole self, the entity, that is your true self, does indeed exist now. [...] It is true that in one sense you have never left this self. [...]

[...] Nevertheless the ego is a part of the self. We are acquainting it with other portions of the self. [...] Properly trained and intuitively governed this portion of the self can be of benefit in survival circumstances.

[...] You use them more efficiently, and for the purposes of the inner self. You begin to create physical matter so that it does indeed reflect the inner self, and in so doing, you effect changes that are noticed by others and serve as an example.

Dictation: I am not minimizing the importance of the inner self. [...]

(Pause.) There has been on the one hand a too-great reliance upon the conscious mind — while its characteristics and mechanisms were misunderstood — so that proponents of the “conscious-reasoning-mind-above-all” theories advocate a use of intellect and reasoning powers, while not recognizing their source in the inner self.

On the other hand there are those who stress the great value of the inner self, the emotional being, at the expense of the conscious mind. [...]

[...] In other words, the conscious mind gives its orders and the inner self carries them out.

[...] It will serve as a method of communication between the various portions of the self. It will deliver information concerning past and future, and if proper suggestions are given it, then the self will use the dream drama particularly to better the overall condition of the personality.

[...] Were such experience a part of the physical self, and dependent upon it, the personality could hardly survive physical death. And were dreams so connected to the physical self, then whole areas of the personality would dissolve with physical extinction.

[...] He has freedoms and abilities and talents in the dream state of which his waking self may be unfamiliar.

However the limitations can be diminished, and the waking personality can avail himself of many characteristics shown by the sleeping self.

(9:35.)1. Now: the main issue with Ruburt is the building up of self-trust. [...]

[...] Along with them, however, again, Ruburt should remember the playful, spontaneous attributes of the creative self. [...]

The ideas I have just given will help Ruburt build up self-trust, and in the main that is all that is holding him back right now. [...]

[...] When you are building self-trust, and your body is in any way impaired, then you are learning to do something that you did not do when your body was operating beautifully.

Now, the inner self knows the answers and often- times the inner self brings you to this error, this action, or this symptom, so that you will look inward. [...]

[...] They have their own business to attend to and their own reality to meet and their own challenges to accept, but, they are coming to you so that you will be aware of their continued existence; and also so that you will be aware of the nature of your own inner self which is as free of your physical body now as they are. [...]

[...] It is very important to understand the nature of your own inner self and symbolism behind action. [...]

(To Ned.) I was in your last experience as a probable self of my own and you did not recognize me, but that is all right and I will not hold it against you. [...]

[...] As a personality itself is an action gestalt, within the inner self there is a capsule comprehension of the purposes and intents of the whole personality. [...] The ego, on its own as a separate unit, does not have such data, although since it is after all a portion of the whole self, it does have such information available. [...]

The personality itself, as you know, is a gestalt of action, and as such it is necessary that the flow of action within it follow the overall directives of the entity and the inner self. [...]

The inner self here, through intuitive insight, can usually recognize whether an action is an impeding or a constructive one for the purposes of the personality involved. [...]

[...] When there is good communication between all areas of the self, and this is a big when, then the judgment of the ego can be trusted to some greater extent.

I want to begin by reminding you that these divisions to the self are rather arbitrary, for the sake of discussion. [...] The source self, or inner ego, has its prime reality in Framework 2. Between the ego and the inner ego, you have what you think of as the unconscious. It gets its energy of course from the source self, and its primary directives to insure the fulfillment and the survival of the person. [...]

[...] Whenever our sessions, your own efforts, or other events, have convinced Ruburt either of the personal safe universe or of the basic safety of the self, that reassurance helped quiet the unconscious fears, and allowed him then to direct his will toward physical improvements.

[...] Remind the subconscious that its origin is with the source self; which will indeed provide it automatically with the necessary conditions for safety and survival.

All of this goes back, forgive me, to fears that the spontaneous self will in one way or another get him in trouble.

[...] If you think in terms of a multidimensional self, then you will realize that you have many more avenues open to expression and fulfillment than you have been using. [...]

[...] There are no boundaries, again, set about the self. [...]

[...] Alter the beliefs and any probable self can, within certain limitations, be actualized.

Instead, the inner self is intimately connected with each reality, though you are not aware of it; and the inner self can trace its own connections through the network of any existence and still keep its identity.

[...] The inner self is aware of this integrity of identity, but the ego, focused so securely in physical reality, cannot afford this luxury.

[...] The inner self knows what is behind the physical stars and planets that the eye views, but the ego would be swept aside in panic at such realization.

—Now there are no limitations to the self. There is no top nor bottom to the self... I will say at least that you are limited as a self only by what you perceive. [...]

[...] You have a whole self, a multidimensional self of which your present personality is a small part. [...]

[...] Now that it is developed let the inner self guide its use, and it will serve you as it was meant to serve your intuitive self.

[...] Do not be afraid of making errors in your paintings, but trust your inner self. [...]

[...] Do not be overly concerned with the methods by which they will be accomplished however, for the inner self will take care of these methods. [...]

[...] Give the inner self spontaneity and freedom to work out solutions. [...]

[...] You must learn to listen to the voice of the inner self. [...] You have allowed the ego to become a counterfeit self, and you take its word because you will not hear the muffled voice that is within it.

“True self-knowledge is indispensable for health or vitality. The recognition of the truth about the self simply means that you must first discover what you think about yourself, subconsciously. [...]

“All illness is momentarily accepted by the personality as a part of the self, and here lies its danger. [...] The self does not want to give up a portion of itself, even while that portion may be painful or disadvantageous. [...]

Over and over again Seth tells us that physical symptoms are communications from the inner self, indications that we are making mental errors of one kind or another. He compares the body in one session to a sculpture “never really completed, the inner self trying out various techniques on its test piece. [...]

[...] They simply operate in the manner of 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 neighbors far better, so your sleeping self appears mysterious indeed. [...]

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

[...] A portion of the self will be investigating other portions of the self. [...]

Most studies even dealing with the conscious state are extremely superficial, dealing only with those upper layers of egotistical awareness that are immediately concerned with the manipulation of the self within physical reality.

When it accepts an illness as a part of its own self-image, then the illness becomes an actual part of the reality that is the self. [...]

[...] He can relate to the inner self or the outer self, but he has not learned to unite the two, nor allowed for any understanding or communication between them.

In all cases that I know of, these women are indeed neurotic and misled and self-deluded. [...]

[...] But the thought of him baiting an elderly 72-year-old self-deluded woman is too much.

The symbolic journey of the spirit, and the finding finally of the self always involves the journey of the self through fear, and its emergence. [...]

[...] The physical image is indeed a replica in many ways of the inner self. [...] He is ill often—always in fact—because of a distortion that is occurring within the self, and materialized in physical form.

[...] In projections most of all the self must be mobile. [...]

[...] In projections the inner self is free to travel within its capabilities—underlined, within its capabilities.