“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Individuals can go from psychologist to psychologist, from self-therapy to self-therapy, always with the same question: “What is wrong?” The question itself becomes a format through which experience is seen, and itself represents one of the main reasons for all limitations, physical, psychic or spiritual. [...]

[...] Your only effective point of changing any aspect of your world lies in that miraculous instant connection of spirit and self through neurological impact.

[...] They are other expressions of yourself, interacting, but with each conscious self possessing the point of power in its own present.

[...] There is a constant interaction in this multidimensional point of power, therefore, so that in your terms one incarnated self draws from all of the others what abilities it wants, according to its own specific, localized beliefs.

[...] All of these do imply a whole, but the very term whole would again be meaningless if the whole, through self-conscious individual parts, were not conscious of itself.

[...] There is therefore a freedom for the inner self.

[...] In all our work we have been allowing the nonphysical self more and more freedom. [...]

[...] Any expansion of consciousness must also include this portion of the self.

And that self tells you that there is a reality beyond human reality, beyond human characteristics that you know... [...] in which the inner self condenses all human knowledge that has been received by you through your various existences and reincarnations... [...]

[...] Go out, completely and fully, or if you are pussyfooting, then send your imaginative self out but go. [...]

[...] Close your eyes for this other self has also looked out through them. [...]

(In Session 725 Seth discussed the spiritual aspects of our biological nature, and in Note 4 for that session I presented brief excerpts from the material he’d given in ESP class the night before, on the truly limitless “ceilings to the self” or identity.

(Seth has always cautioned us against being too self-righteous; warned us against considering silence, seriousness, or piety as synonymous with goodness or “truth.” [...]

[...] He gives his past self his current knowledge. The two selves momentarily become merged in a psychological synthesis, and the past self, no longer at that point momentarily immobilized by fear, instead follows through and performs adequately.

[...] In Ruburt’s case it actually reassures the past self of any doubts or fears—doubts and fears that are also reflected, but that it has already chosen a framework or a given frame of existence that emphasizes certain kinds of experience over others. [...]

[...] Generally speaking, in Western society the conscious mind is seen as coming into its own in early adulthood, as the self rises from the bed of childhood unconsciousness into its critical awareness and differentiation. [...]

In your society therefore the black race has represented what you think of as the chaotic, primitive, spontaneous, savage, unconscious portions of the self, the underside of the “proper American citizen.”

[...] There was always a great fear that the blacks as a race would escape their bounds — given an inch they would take a yard — simply because the whites so greatly feared the nature of the inner self, and recognized the power that they tried so desperately to strangle within themselves.

[...] The conscious mind is better able to remember and assimilate its dreaming experience, and in dreams the self can use its waking experience more efficiently.

[...] In his mind religion was connected with self-mortification. [...]

The particular problems were set by the inner self as challenges and learning guides. [...]

[...] In helping Ruburt free and use his own strong spontaneous nature, you also free your own spontaneous self. [...]

[...] The spontaneous portions of the self have come to the aid of other portions. [...]

[...] For the sake of analogy only now, imagine your present self at the center of a circle of endless spirals. [...]

They are to a large degree, but not entirely, self-perpetuating, as if the seeds of an apple, instead of falling down to the ground, fell backward into some mysterious dimension within the core of the apple itself. [...]

[...] In the simplest of terms I have tried to suggest through analogy the multidimensional aspects of a basic self.

[...] To me that is your personality, but this is only a small part of your overall self. [...]

[...] A gray day becomes therefore a symbol that the sunny inner self is clouded, and he feared he could not change himself any more than he could the weather.

[...] Concentration upon the problem to such an extent does not allow the inner self the freedom to help you solve it, and a condition arises where you expect the worst and bring it therefore about.

[...] The conscious mind is fascinated and the inner self free then to act constructively. [...]

The pattern had always included a strong tendency of withdrawal superimposed and enforced upon a very spontaneous self. [...]

[...] Seemingly outside of the self, they were meant to lead the self into its greatest area of fulfillment. [...]

(Long pause.) Historically, it seems to you that mankind was born from an animal’s undifferentiated kind of consciousness into egotistical self-awareness. [...]

Your dreaming self possesses pyschological dimensions that escape you, and they serve to connect genetic and reincarnational systems. You must, again, realize that the self that you know is only a part of your larger identity—an identity that is [also] historically actualized in other times than your own. [...]

If you are having a dream as yourself from your own perspective, another reincarnational self may be having the same dream from its perspective—in which, of course, you play a minor role. In your dream, that reincarnational self may appear as a minor character, quite on the periphery of your attention, and if the dream were to include an idea, say, for a play or an invention, then that play or invention might appear as a physical event in both historic times, to whatever degree it would be possible for the two individuals living in time to interpret that information. [...]

[...] 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 the physical structure, the self from the previous reincarnation must begin to withdraw its hold. [...]

[...] Now feel the inner self remedy the condition.” [...] Give your inner self a chance.” [...]

Your trip (Sunday, April 13; we drove to Cortland, NY) was beneficial, but it was impeded by negative thoughts of Ruburt’s, and also to some degree by the fact that you pointed out his symptoms without reminding him that the inner self could and would minimize them. [...]

[...] Remember your inner self is helping you relax, and be flexible.” [...]

[...] As mentioned earlier, he exaggerated the power of aggression, so that the simplest self-protective act frightened him, and resentments built up. [...]

[...] You do not feel that they are as much a part of your self as your other work. You do not feel that they tell as much about you, or that they contain self-revelations.

[...] Ruburt saw today that the intellectual portions of the self, and even the literal-mindedness, served an excellent purpose in allowing him to objectify highly intuitive material, and to give it actuality in the world that you know. [...]

You were therefore expected by him to keep the sessions from getting out of hand, to help in quotes “police” his spontaneous self here, as you did in the sexual area and in your personal relationship. [...]

He then got into the habit of checking the spontaneous self at every point, and setting up opposing muscular reactions and tensions. [...]

[...] This does not mean that in a beloved person you react only to your own idealized self, for you are also able to see in the other, the beloved’s potential idealized self. [...]

Now: Love and hate are both based upon self-identification in your experience. [...]

[...] Followed, your emotions will lead you to deep understandings, but you cannot have a physical self without emotions any more than you can have a day without weather.

[...] You often do love another individual because such a person evokes within you glimpses of your own “idealized” self.

(Intently:) I am saying that the individual self must become consciously aware of far more reality; that it must allow its recognition of identity to expand so that it includes previously unconscious knowledge. To do this you must understand, again, that man must move beyond the concepts of one god, one self, one body, one world, as these ideas are currently understood.⁵ You are now poised, in your terms, upon a threshold from which the race can go many ways. [...]

[...] Your conscious concepts must enlarge so that the conscious self can understand its true nature. [...]

[...] Always, however, there was the undeniable inner self in the background: man’s dreams, his biological and spiritual integrity, and these in one way or another were always before him.

In your probability you did allow the inner self some freedom. [...]

[...] Here the hypnosis, the suggestions, were self-applied, although many came from society’s beliefs. [...]

[...] He believed that physical exertion was life itself, and he little appreciated the world of the mind, so little by little the self-suggestions took effect. [...]

(10:02.) Your friend Bob McClure believes that the self cannot be trusted, these beliefs coming from his parents’ interpretation of Christianity. [...]

The spontaneous self, the creative self, is also immersed in Framework 2, and the creative conscious mind springs from there also, even though its focus must of necessity be in Framework 1’s world of space and time.

[...] There are too many people who expect the worst from you, yet even then the creative self will try from Framework 2 to bring all resources possible, through dreams and intuitions, to alter that pessimistic progress.

In science as it stands, it is necessary that self-contradictions do not arise. [...]

Through such feelings the psyche breaks through all misconceptions, hinting at the nature of the self and of the universe at once.

[...] At night, in sleep, the self’s consciousness takes longer, freer recesses from physical reality, and does this as spontaneously as the body itself walks. [...]