“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] The molecular structure of the projecting self is of a different nature than that of the physical body. [...] The molecular structure of the traveling self changes.

[...] You will be certain of your identity, realize that the physical self is sleeping or in a dream state and that the inner self is fully awake. [...]

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

[...] When you have induced the trance state, then begin to examine your own subjective feelings until you find recognition of the inner self.

[...] The atoms and molecules possess a self-consciousness to some degree, as well as a generalized consciousness. The self-awareness of a human being is partially composed of the combination of self-aware individual atoms and molecules that compose it. The generalized consciousness which you call the subconscious, is composed of the combination of generalized consciousness from the individual cells and molecules, but now we come down to the source of the self-aware conscious individual behind or within each molecule. [...]

[...] That is, it would seem that self-consciousness was the result of this combination. [...]

[...] Everything that exists on any plane and under any circumstances contains consciousness, condensed knowledge, and even self-awareness to some degree.

The inner self is aware of all of your existences, in other words. [...] It is only because you are so oriented outward from birth that this inner self can sometimes seem alien or distant and unrelated to the self that you know. [...]

“Another great dream of Rob’s. In our sessions lately Seth has been talking about the natural self or natural person, saying that it is also the magical person. [...] At dream’s end Rob says that the head was almost too youthful for the body he’d drawn — maybe a reminder that the natural person is younger in ways than the intellectual self. I think that Rob is himself in the dream, represented by the super character as the magical self; and also that he is the assistant who had prepared the figure’s head.

[...] When you think such thoughts, you think of them at the most strained level of intellectual speculation — that is, the thoughts seem self-evident to the intellect that is forced to operate by itself, relatively speaking, divorced from the self’s other faculties. [...]

[...] I reminded Jane that I think it’s an excellent one, and that I want to type copies for us of the material between 9:15 and 9:36, wherein Seth explains that the intellect needs to realize that it doesn’t have to go it alone, that it is supported and aided by other portions of the self. [...]

[...] A goodly number of those mistaken decisions, or “poor moves,” often represent self-corrective actions, decisions taken on knowledge not consciously perceived, but this escapes your consciousness.

Now (eyes open): In the same way the most infinitesimal self is infinite, and the most finite self, carried to the extremes of itself, is infinite. Each of you is part of an infinite self. That infinite self appears as a series of finite selves in your reality.

Give us a moment … The self, as I have said [many times] before, is not limited. [...]

Give us a moment … (A one-minute pause.) You are not a miniature self, an adjunct to some superbeing, never to share fully in its reality. [...]

Now: We will see if we can express some concepts about the self in a new way. [...]

I have tried to explain the distortions which make such questions seem intrinsically valid, but it is only from your own perspective that you think in terms of beginning and end, and only because of your self-adopted limitations that you continue along these lines.

[...] He is a son, and then a father, and always within him he feels that part or inner self which cannot be seen by another, which is neither father nor son, but which is within him while he is father, and while he is son.

[...] When he attempted to further formulate his God concept he then projected upon it those mysteries of self.

[...] But it does not vanish when the ego blots out the inner light from the whole self. [...]

[...] Basically the names and dates are meaningless to the inner self. [...]

[...] You insist that the names be neatly placed, and yet often the inner self has great difficulty in this regard, for names simply do not matter. [...]

[...] There may be great temperamental differences in some cases, between your personality in one given life and another — so that your present self simply could not relate to the other’s experience.

[...] In your terms, a reincarnational self can be aware of your environment, and interact sometimes through your own relationships.

Such an exercise is not some theoretical, esoteric, impractical method, but a very precise, volatile, and dynamic way of helping the present self by calming the fears of a past self. That past self is not hypothetical, either, but still exists, capable of being reached and of changing its reactions. [...]

It is not that the inner self is not aware of all of this, but that it has already chosen a framework, or a given frame of existence, that emphasizes certain kinds of experience over others.

[...] Now Seth went into the more personal Part 2 of the session, explaining how in her own case Jane could give her past self in this life her current knowledge, so that through the resulting “psychological synthesis” she would be better equipped to handle certain challenges.

[...] The fact remains that answers sought by a personality can only be found through a traveling within the actions that compose the self. [...]

[...] It still fights for survival, of course; but the consciousness of plant life involves a consciousness of self as it operates within action. [...]

[...] We have explained the fact that the potentialities of the personality and of the self are basically unlimited. [...]

[...] Consciousness of self, alone, is unaware of your physical time. [...]

[...] He also looked much younger and more self-possessed than I’d ever seen him be.

[...] He was redeemed in your mind, and appeared as his ideal self. [...]

[...] On the other hand, the young Del was also a symbol for your own inner self, acting as a guide and companion.

[...] When man’s ego turns instead into a shell, when instead of interpreting outside conditions it reacts too violently against them, then it hardens, becomes an imprisoning form that begins to snuff out important data, and to keep enlarging information from the inner self. [...] It is also a device to enable the inner self to inhabit the physical plane. [...]

It is the physical materialization of the inner self, but it is not meant to snuff out the inner self. [...]

[...] The inner self, and I will make these differentiations for you clearly either now or later, the inner self is nourished by many springs. [...]

The confident inner self will let the ego manipulate in the physical world, but will not allow it to become fiercely overprotective. Your work contains the strength of your inner self in many ways. [...]

[...] I’d always thought the sessions themselves were a form of self-hypnosis. We’d talked about self-hypnosis as a way of breaking through today.

[...] Self-hypnosis can indeed be invaluable in terms of accelerating bodily motion and healing. [...]

[...] It can serve well as a basis for self-hypnosis, but I also plan to help my wife here, and we can see what we can accomplish in the afternoons.

This end would then represent the extension of the self outward toward the physical universe. [...] And in the same manner that one end of the tube would represent the extension of the self into the world of physical reality, then so too would the other end of this tube represent the extension of the self into the inner world of reality.

[...] Communication with the inner self, communication with entities on another level can be approached from one or the other of two methods. [...]

[...] a cellar door to your mind—to your inner self. [...]

[...] step outside of the self that you know—and you will solve your difficulties! [...]

You must try to forget for a period of time each day the self that you think of as yourself ... [...]

[...] Forget the self that has the theories...and begin to experience. [...]

[...] (With my probable self and Dr. Pietra in another more advanced reality.) What happened was a very momentary merging on deeper-than-conscious levels.

[...] This happened as you picked up on a deep level the presence of your probable self.

[...] Therefore even though your probable self is within reaching distance, so to speak, he is sometimes involved in such blackout-nourishment periods.

[...] There have been no such difficulties however in the case of your probable self. [...]

[...] You still fear, as our Lady of Florence, that there is a cellar door—a cellar door to your mind—to your inner self. [...]

[...] Open up the barriers in your daily lives—step outside of the self that you know—and you will solve your difficulties! [...]

You must try to forget for a period of time each day the self that you think of as yourself the adult pretensions, the adult bignesses. [...]

[...] Forget the self that has the theories—and begin to experience. [...]

Through these openings whole groupings of self-structures experience, and reexperience in different ways, the dimensions within those coordinates. [...]

[...] There is general and mass focus of all self-structures within that system, binding enough and cohesive enough so that the appearance of a permanent and all-pervading physical reality is maintained. [...]

[...] Some of my own self-structures were never physical. [...]

[...] (Pause.) No experience is ever like any other, no individual or no self structure.

[...] I feel (as Seth mentioned in the 721st session) that I wasn’t Nebene, or two different Roman soldiers per se, but rather that my whole self chose to manifest such personalities together; that I, too, am such a manifestation at a “later” time, then, and that from my own vantage point I can tune in to those other lives. [...] At this writing, I think that I am living my only one hundred percent life now, with the privilege of occasionally being able to focus upon scattered portions of those other existences emanating from my whole self, which has its basic reality outside of our space-time concepts.¹⁰

For another thing, what was my nameless Roman self doing on that tower? [...] Then I “picked up” that my soldier-self was killed by his countrymen because he’d traitorously sought to warn Zealot leaders of a planned search of the lower city of Jerusalem by Roman troops. [...]

10. I note with some amusement that my rather vehement statement may simply reflect the natural, protective attitude of my currently focused consciousness: Even though I find them fascinating, I may be quite reluctant to embrace other equally valid portions of what I conveniently call my whole self. Yet that whole self may not consider that any more than a tiny segment of itself “belongs” to me!

“There was something very contradictory about the affair: The soldier-self I saw atop the tower was a Roman — whereas, according to the little I know of those times, such a position should have been occupied by a native Jew, who was perhaps a lookout for the city behind him. [...]

[...] If anything in that physical image or world needs changing, the change must first be made in the atmosphere of the inner self.

[...] The physical self seems (underlined) to react to physical stimuli. [...]

[...] The change of course comes before this in the inner self. [...]

[...] This seventh inner sense represents an extension of the self, a widening of its conscious comprehension … or a pulling together into … a minute capsule that enables the self to enter other fields.

(And from the 40th session:) The tissue capsule is actually an energy field boundary … At the same time it protects the whole self from certain radiations which do not here concern you. [...]