“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] This is possible, feasible, since you are all portions, in our analogy, of this same inner self who maintains all of the rooms. While each of you are egotistically focused within your own reality, the deeper layers of the self are aware of the quote “family” relationship. [...]

[...] Other portions of the self are focused within different dimensions than you own. [...]

[...] On our rather bulky analogy the guests are all portions of the inner self, who is the unseen attendant who maintains the building.

There is another portion of your whole inner self, another more advanced. [...]

Until then the ego and the intuitive self had not come into conflict, as far as basic philosophy was concerned. The intuitive self presented the ego however with a new line of development that it was not prepared to follow.

[...] (Pause.) Through easy success, through in fact a far more shallow route, but the intuitive self would have suffered drastically in your future, and there would have been severe difficulties.

The symbols have great meaning to the inner self. [...]

[...] Ruburt chose a strong ego as a necessary guardian in adolescence, and as a balance to the strong spontaneous self, until a mission made itself known, and the correct mission. [...]

[...] The whole self, the soul, knows of its reality in all such systems, and you, as a part of it, are working toward the same state of self-awareness and development.

[...] Starting with the ego or waking consciousness as the outer self focused toward exterior reality, these states are broad, more like plains to be explored. [...]

In many cases memory remains unconscious as far as waking self is concerned, but the experiences themselves can completely change the structure of an individual life. [...]

[...] They may appear in the form of fantasy, fiction, or art work, without the conscious self realizing their origin. [...]

It has been dammed up and directed against the self. [...]

The intuitive self is now freed enough to make this possible, and provide the way, you see. [...]

[...] The self shows its true face. [...]

The struggle between the ego and intuitional self follows here as I have told you, but with the correct use of energy these elements are balanced.

[...] The subconscious is of course a hypothetical terms that stands for the portions of the self at which normal consciousness and the source self meet. [...]

However, the source self always attempts to send new information, inspiration, or whatever help is required. [...] The source self, sending out all assistance that it can, will still not attempt to override the conscious personality, for such actions would ultimately deny the conscious personality its powers of decision and control.

[...] The self knows it has many lives to live. [...]

[...] In the following deep protected areas of sleep, the higher centers of the inner self are allowed to function and come to the aid of the three-dimensionally oriented portion of the personality. This more liberated self sees the situation much more clearly, suggests a given line of action (but does not order it), and informs the dreaming self. The dreaming self then manufactures a group of dreams in which the solution is stated within a symbolic dream situation.

(10:11.) The final and more specific interpretation is done in areas of dreaming closer to the waking self, when the symbols grow more and more specific. [...]

[...] I wanted to know what her sinful self thought about what it was doing to her body, if it cared, if it even understood that it’s protective actions threatened its own existence. Or was her death the ultimate goal of the sinful self? [...] I told Jane it would be a joke if those portions of the self we’re blaming for her condition, really are the truest, most simple and honest portions after all, and that their roles in bringing about her natural death were being subverted by our conscious-mind meddling and interference. [...]

[...] I think this means that her sinful self, or whatever, has once again clamped down. [...] The great question, then, is why those portions of the self would — and do — continue their terribly destructive ways, even to the point of bringing about their own death — for if allowed to, I think, death would be the end result, the final step along their chosen path.

These levels of the self have known self-consciousness in other existences, before the present one. [...]

[...] The ego is not the most powerful or the most knowledgeable portion of the self. [...]

When these circumstances no longer exist, then other layers of the self take over the dominant position, and the personality realigns its psychological components. [...]

[...] The ego is now under the control of what may be loosely called the inner self. [...]

The ego however is not an afterthought disconnected from the whole self, and when the intellect becomes aware of data given to it by the intuitions or the inner self, it is then capable of informing the ego, which then changes its attitude accordingly. This way we are assured of the cooperation of the whole self, and avoid any possibility of splitting one self, one part of the self, against another.

He spoke of the undiscovered man in terms of the whole self, whose abilities are so little known, and this is precisely what we are here attempting to bring to light: the vast areas within the self which have been left undiscovered and unknown.

[...] We are attempting to work in such a manner that added knowledge from the intuitional inner self is also made known to the intellect.

[...] From the beginning of our sessions you have been learning the method with which we will explore the whole self, but we have not plunged headlong into any foolhardy expeditions.

[...] (See Chapter Six, and the 633rd session in Chapter Eight.) Augustus felt powerless, considering power in terms of aggression and violence, so he isolated that portion of himself from himself and projected it into a “second self.” Only when this second self became operative could he display any power. [...]

[...] This usually means that no time is allowed for necessary inner dialogues of self questioning, and the self-healing that might otherwise occur is brought about through belief in another. [...]

[...] Normal aggression, seen as evil, is therefore segregated within the self — and also seen everywhere outside. [...]

The point of power, again, is in the present, when your nonphysical self merges with corporeal reality. [...]

[...] The first man is my primary self, who discovers that he must bear the burdens of the second man imposed upon him through cultural beliefs involving taxes, success, the male breadwinner role, and so forth. [...]

(My own activities, then, have aroused in Jane the urge to try the same approach, and I’ve suggested she think of her own women numbers 1 and 2. It seems that she confronts the same basic challenges I do, I told her, so she could delineate the two opposing portions of her personality well enough to understand that many of her cultural beliefs have been imposed upon her natural, spontaneous, free, creative self, and to such an extent that the acquired beliefs have turned into detriments rather than aids, that she envisioned as helping her obtain what she wants in life. [...]

[...] They led you to fill out your creative self, to open new doors. [...]

His creative spontaneous self created the body to begin with, and all of its physical desires were precisely those that his creative abilities needed—a quickness of body and mind working together, a quick perception mentally and physically, a natural exhilaration that is supported by (underlined) the power, of his own nature.

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

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

[...] (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. [...]

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

I have told you often that you do yourselves a grave injustice by limiting your conception of the self. Your sense of identity, freedom, power, and love would be immeasurably enhanced if you could understand that what you are does not end at the boundaries of your skin, but continues outward through the physical environment that seems to be impersonal, or not-self.

[...] No — no form of matter, however potent, will be self-evolved into consciousness, no matter what other bits of matter are added to it. [...]

You are biologically connected, chemically connected with the earth that you know; but since it is also formed naturally and spontaneously from your own projected psychic energy, since you and the seasons even have a psychic interaction, then the self must be understood in a far greater context. [...]

[...] Since I haven’t painted any self-portraits I wouldn’t have been included in the list anyhow, but Seth did neglect to mention my painting of Jane. [...]

(To Gert.) Now, first of all, over here to our profiled friend you are already the self that you want to be so do not let it bother you so. Relax more with what you are doing and let the perceptions from the whole self become your own. [...] The self that you are is already good. [...]

[...] The deeper self wants you to become familiar with its own identity. [...]

(Slowly at 9:53:) Each self must experience itself in temporal terms. But every self is also a part of its own greater being, a part of the energy from which it continually comes. [...]

[...] In the dreaming state, when consciousness relates opaquely to physical concerns, glimpses of the multidimensional self can appear in dream imagery and fantasies that will symbolically express your greater existence.

[...] (See the 668th session in Chapter Nineteen.) You would call each of these immersions into three-dimensional existence a life, with its own self. [...]

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. [...]

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. [...]

[...] This part of his beliefs, therefore, and this particular self-image, took over his conscious mind and became what we will here call Augustus Two. [...]

[...] Unless he studies himself most thoroughly, he must take great pains to see that the commitment is followed up by self-discipline. You should see to it that your self-discipline follows the dictates of intuition. If you will excuse the comment, Ruburt is either all self-discipline or all intuition.

Psychological time is indeed the only medium, or framework, within which exploration of the inner self can be carried on. [...]

[...] As particular portions of matter are transformed, as the inner self, through the inner senses creates a simple material object that is picked up by the outer senses clearly as, say, a table, so are these other constructions that closely mirror inner reality that are perceived by the outer senses as effects.

When I speak of bettering material constructions, I speak of more perfect constructions, more faithful replicas of thought into matter, and hence I speak of the breaking up of unfortunate cycles caused by the influence of shoddy physical constructions in environment, that in turn color the inner self’s notion of the material world.

[...] What psychologists do not understand, however, is that in deep levels of subconscious activity associations may spring from the inner self’s latent knowledge and experience of past lives.

[...] These may be called self-unifying associations, since merely by their presence in the uppermost layers of the subconscious they provide a unifying sense of psychic continuity; of which however the ego is not aware.

The ego cannot so change its focus, but the inner ego of which we have spoken is indeed the self that dreams, and is the “I” who experiences when the ego “I” sleeps.

[...] In any case this level represents the last division of what we may call the present personal subconscious, and still only accounts for a small dimension of the inner self, being composed of only the most easily accessible portions.

What Seth is saying here is that the inner self uses this sense to initiate the birth of one of its personalities in physical life. [...]

[...] … What is not understood is that self-investigation initiates states of consciousness with which you are usually not familiar. [...]

[...] … The inner core of the self has telepathic and clairvoyant abilities that greatly affect family relationships—and your civilization. [...]

Quite literally, the “inner self” forms the body by magically transforming thoughts and emotions into physical counterparts. [...]

[...] The inner self, therefore, individually and en masse, sends its psychic energy out, forming tentacles that coalesce into form.

[...] Even subjectively you focus upon and indeed manufacture the idea of a relatively stable, relatively permanent conscious self. [...]

You try to maintain a constant, relatively permanent physical and subjective self in order to maintain a relatively constant, relatively permanent environment. [...]