“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] The inner self has a much richer and deeper heritage than the intellect or ego. [...]

[...] The inner self has the knowledge behind these physical perceptions. [...]

[...] The physical self can, it is true, become somewhat bewildered, but the ego also learns and expands so that it is able to accept and use the new information, and benefit from it. [...]

This allows the inner self to work much more quickly and effectively. You can trick normal consciousness quite easily with baubles, take its attention into other areas so that the inner self is left alone to do its work. [...]

[...] There are three days left during which communication is most likely between you and your probable self. [...]

[...] I still want to know what role the sinful self—to use the appellation Seth gave us—plays in all of this, for I’m more convinced than ever that it is still the dominant force behind all of it. [...]

[...] I reminded Jane that I was interested in sinful-self material above all else. [...]

(Long pause at 8:43.) Deplorable as world conditions seem, for example, as man’s desperate need for self-understanding is made known to himself, so in that world also there is a time of sensed change: new values that “will take this time.” [...]

[...] We want a concentration outward now, away from the self, so that the self can heal itself. [...]

The concentration away from the self is the most important point I can give him now. [...]

(12:21.) In other terms, the self that you have projected into the future is sending you back encouragement from a probable reality that you still can create. That focused self operates from its present, however, and some day in your own future you may find yourself thinking nostalgically of a moment back in your own past, when you were indecisive and irresolute, but took the proper course.

(10:45.) A certain kind of affirmation of self allows the brain to tune into these more spacious methods of perception that are the natural characteristics of the mind. [...]

[...] Many people have at one time or another changed their present behavior in response to the advice of a “future” probable self, without ever knowing they have done so.

[...] And in that moment you are the future self that “once” spoke encouragingly to the person of the past. [...]

Now: In somewhat the same manner, the self that you know is the mountain, and the rock layers forming it are past lives.

[...] It attains that form, however, because it responds to a future time,² a future self not as yet physically created.

The fetus itself, before its conception, responds to a self not yet physically apparent; and the future, in those terms, draws new life from the past. [...]

To a future self no more illuminated than you are, you appear dead and lifeless — a dim memory. [...]

These informal tests are an excellent method of building up his self-confidence. And his self-confidence is absolutely necessary to us.

[...] There are no boundaries to the self except those boundaries which the self arbitrarily creates and perpetuates. [...]

The inquiring intuitions and the searching self, like summer winds, can travel in small and large spaces, can know of actualities that are more minute than pinheads and more massive than galaxies.

[...] If you do not trust your waking self you will not trust your dreaming self, and the landscape of your dreams will appear threatening. [...]

[...] It very willingly looks inward toward those areas of the inner self’s experience to see what it can find for its own use, quite like an explorer searching for resources in virgin territory.

[...] During them, the self or consciousness literally travels to the source of its own energy. [...]

All I said was that I had been with you in many of your endeavors, when you were alone at home and when your inner self went traveling. [...]

[...] Your self is not a closed door. [...]

[...] I ask you to sense within yourselves the energy in this voice that you hear, to realize that this energy is also a portion of your own energy—the energy of individuality, the energy of the universe, the energy that grows you from a fetus to the self that you know. [...]

[...] I entreat you to find within yourselves echoes of this energy that now fills this voice and to use that energy to prepare you, to prepare you in the journey towards self-realization. [...]

You shut them off any time they do not conform to current beliefs about the nature of the self, or about reality in general. [...]

[...] This does not mean that you become entirely self-centered, blind to the rest of the world. [...]

[...] This is simply the self growing in different directions, spreading its seeds.

In fact, you move into new areas of the self all of the time. [...]

[...] But here he feels is the best part of himself, unprotected, and the self he tried really to hide, now displayed.

[...] He should remember here that he is not the person who lived in Saratoga now, unless he chooses in a self-limiting way to be so. [...]

[...] The moderate drinking helped reunite the conscious and subconscious as a total self, knocking out the unwholesome identification with the mother. [...]

[...] But what you have is a learned pattern of face-saving self-deception and nefarious (with amusement) techniques, taught by parents to children; so often you pretend to want one thing, and you may say that you “will it” to happen—perhaps because what you really want is unacceptable, or so you have been taught: it is demeaning, or evil, or whatever. [...]

Imagination and will, working together, are miracle-makers, because self-deception does not stand between them.

[...] (Almost with a laugh:) Under certain conditions it may be a mark of sanity—but it is highly self-defeating to put yourself in a position where you cannot go out into the world—or more importantly, where you cannot navigate as a creature.

Every nerve and fiber within the physical image has an inner purpose that is not seen, and that serves to connect the inner self with physical reality—in other words, that allows the inner self to create physical reality.

[...] This should not be overlooked, when speaking of the self. In one respect the physical image and physical objects go flying out in all directions from the inner core of the whole self. [...]

The physical environment can be seen in many ways as direct extensions from the physical self. [...]

[...] You obviously did not fall for that to the extent Ruburt did —and all of this must be considered also in the light of the religious and scientific views, with Ruburt particularly, in which the spontaneous self was considered the psychological villain of the society and the individual. The spontaneous self is the guardian—that is what Ruburt is learning.

[...] All of this, you see, must be considered in the light of our last session, for it involves varying degrees of self-disapproval and polarities of thought, so that the contradictions occurred in your experience—though there were more, of course, in basic terms.

[...] Your feelings of hopelessness were the result, as given in the last session, but nowhere did you thoroughly work out in the past the problems of self-disapproval; or if one managed to attain a foothold, the other did not, so you could not properly reinforce each other creatively, and became quickly discouraged.

[...] You can see how Ruburt’s body responds when he suspends self-disapproval, and when he allies himself with his nature, and when you both suspend your sense of hopelessness in that area. [...]

There are close psychological connections in all cases—psychological web-works, and psychic recognitions that bring together the slayer and his victim, and these are known to the inner self. [...]

[...] Do you need the permission of your writing self in order to paint?

[...] The murders are symptoms, but without symptoms the patient will not realize that anything is wrong with the inner self.

[...] (Eyes closed, Jane made gestures.) Draperies behind a self-portrait he did of himself. [...]

[...] In other words, they will encounter obstructions that are self-generated. If such a person begins to succeed, then he or she is forcibly reminded of the equally dominant need for lack of success — for again, the person believes that self-expression is necessary and desirable while also being highly dangerous, and thus to be avoided.

[...] You do it by realizing emotionally two things: your relationship with everything else that exists and your miraculous uniqueness; and the meeting place between the two is where the self is and you think of the self. [...]

The ulcer simply can be cured, but this will involve on the part of the personality a disciplined program of self-understanding. [...]

[...] It will involve perhaps more than anything else the task of slowly changing the focus of his attention and energies, of turning energies that are being used in a self-destructive manner into constructive channels.

[...] The reason that these energies are being used against the self must and will be uncovered. [...]

[...] A sufferer has adopted an illness into his own self-image, through suggestion, which to a large degree he himself has given. [...]

[...] It is much more important that you understand the meshworks that exist, and the importance of integrity in dealings with the self.

This would have operated as a self-punishment for the symptoms inflicted upon Ruburt, had they continued throughout any period of years. [...]

[...] Now his own background, with its self-denial and early religious esthetic training, also played its part, you see.

[...] You have the windows covered (with the plastic winter weatherproofing material) as a self-punishment. [...]

[...] Behind the importance of the letter as a triggering agent, however, there is, as he knows, much material still dealing with the so-called sinful-self material that I will be giving you shortly. [...]

[...] Otherwise, I said, the whole process becomes self-defeating not only for the conscious portions of the personality, but for the very body itself. [...]

[...] Somewhere along the line you have to decide upon a cutoff point—that is, all portions of the personality have to do that together, or the conscious self is dragged along unwilling to cooperate....” [...]

(Such ideas refer back, of course, to the sinful-self ideas—material we still need. [...]