“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] This does not prevent the unmazed portion of the self from watching, giving helpful hints of a kind to ward off discouragement. [...]

(“Does error enter in here on the part of the personality, or the inner self?”)

[...] Now Ruburt’s ego had been hit over the head, so to speak, so many times in his childhood that it became very sensitive, developing a rigidity out of self-protection.

[...] Tremendous self-control was exerted. [...]

[...] Various types of bodies may be chosen, but there will still be overall preferences on the part of the whole self, and characteristics that will lead the whole self, so that generally the various lives lived will still have their own individual flavor.

[...] It is particularly dependent upon emotional characteristics — not necessarily of the last incarnated self, but the emotional tensions present as a result of a group of past existences.

[...] Even here, however, large portions of self-awareness continue to operate in the between-life dimension.

3. Seth says the childlike self is

“But beyond that self there is another self and still another self of which I am fully aware. And to that self, physical reality is like a breath of smoke in air … and that self does not need the characteristics that you know and think of as mine.”

[...] At these points, whole conglomerations of new self-units come into being, their origin sparked, as given in the last sentence. [...]

[...] “And that self tells you that there is a reality beyond human reality and experience that cannot be verbal nor translated in human terms. [...]

“Although this type of experience may seem cold to you, it is a clear and crystal-like existence in which no time is needed for experience … in which the inner self condenses all human knowledge that has been received through various existences and reincarnations … for all this has been coded and exists indelibly. [...]

Many people realize intuitively that the self is multitudinous and not singular. The realization is usually put in reincarnational terms, so that the self is seen as traveling through the centuries, moving through doors of death and life into other times and places.

The great natural cooperation that exists between the waking and the dreaming self has been mostly set aside. [...]

[...] The greater self “divides” itself, materializing in flesh as several individuals, with entirely different backgrounds — yet with each embarked upon the same kind of creative challenge.

(“Well,” I said after discussing the session with her, “it’s my understanding that our whole self or entity experiences a group of simultaneous physical lives in various historical periods, and that in ordinary terms we think of those lives as following one after another. [...]

Indeed, these are some of the reasons why Ruburt distrusted the spontaneous self—because it was feminine, he believed, and therefore more flawed than the spontaneous self of the male.

[...] (Pause.) It was a state when the species became aware of its own thoughts as its own thoughts, and became conscious of the self who thinks. [...]

[...] The moment as you think of it, then, is the creative framework through which you, the nonphysical self, constantly form corporeal reality; and through that window into earthly existence you form both its future and its past.

Now: In purely physical terms, what you think of as consciousness of the self arises from a certain peak of intensity reached by the gestalt consciousness of the atoms and molecules, and cells and organs, that compose the body.

(Pause.) The peculiarly physically oriented self that you know has its reality in that context, but even in physical terms its reality is more than any analysis of its entirety would show. [...]

You are quite aware of these constructions as the inner self keeps track of them. [...]

[...] The self who pursues these divergent paths is actual however. [...]

[...] Many root dreams are literal interpretations of abilities used by the inner self.

Van Gogh, for your information, was (underlined) obsessed personally with ideas of self-mutilation, and underwent great inner torture. [...]

Personally then he took upon himself what you would say perhaps were great problems—too great for the personality to handle, but his inner tendencies for self-mutilation always kept his vision true to his main image of the world.

Van Gogh was true to his vision, which means he was true to the self he created for himself in that time, and so must you be. [...]

I am not suggesting that you relinquish conscious concern and control, but you will be amazed at how the intuitive self will use your hands, and to your conscious advantage, in experiments.

[...] The inner self of course will take advantage of all the conscious knowledge you have at the same time, and serve it up to you in new patterns.

You have begun to appreciate the workings of your psychic self in your paintings, but you are only beginning. [...]

[...] And the, I hope, the delightfully human egotistical characteristics that I show help calm your fears and show you that the self as you think of it, continues to exist. [...] It is a portion of myself that is the most closely connected with earthly existence, and it is a self that I like very well, indeed. [...]

[...] You are not in communication with that portion of yourselves that is not physical, that was never physical and that will not know physical existence at all, and since you identify with the physical self then, indeed, we come to you in the guise of ghosts that you do not understand our forms that you cannot see. [...]

(Pause.) This information is, then, often interpreted on return by other layers of the self such as the body consciousness and subconscious, where it is formed into dreams that will have meaning to these areas of the self and where general teaching, for example, may be translated into practical advice involving a particular matter.

[...] The “absent” portion of the self cannot be traced through brain patterns, though the point of its departure and the point of its return may show a particular pattern. [...]

Indeed, these are some of the reasons why Ruburt distrusted the spontaneous self: because it was feminine, he believed, and therefore more flawed than the spontaneous self of the male.

[...] (Pause.) It was a state when the species became aware of its own thoughts as its own thoughts, and became conscious of the self who thinks. [...]

[...] Here you are searching for the implied source, the unspoken, invisible “pause,” the inner organization that gives language or the self a vehicle of expression. [...]

[...] The unknown portions of the psyche and its greater horizons, therefore, have often been perceived as gods or as the greater psyches out of which the self emerged — as for example Latin is a source for the Romance languages.

(I asked Jane if she thought the sessions served as a balance to those sinful-self, very restrictive ideas — that when she gave up on the sessions that other self was free to exert its power and beliefs. [...]

Remember, according to Seth these Inner Senses are used by the whole self constantly. [...]

Actually it can be said that since the self creates its environment, then the environment is an extension of the self. [...]

[...] When I speak of environment I include for simplicity’s sake that which is close to the self in its nebulous form, but which is still called notself.

[...] However, we will speak of it usually as including those rather nebulous gradations that seem to be between self and notself.

These constructions exist definitely in terms of atomic structure, but of such different densities and speeds that you are unaware of them though they are perceived by the inner senses, and utilized by the subconscious and inner self as a very important reality.

(To Dennis.) You can discover the reason for yourself as Ruburt earlier told you, and it is your own self-training that is involved here. [...] You must learn to find out the answer for yourself from yourself for this sets up communication between various layers of the self, and this is highly important for your own development. [...]

[...] It will get deeper into the areas of the self than you have been willing to go in the past and therefore, help clear up the basic reasons for your physical difficulties in the past. [...]

[...] Also, remember your own childlike self and the two of you, when you think of your son, imagine what you were like at that age and how difficult it was to communicate to your parents. [...]

[...] Instead, identify with your own creative childlike self. [...]

[...] What she should be stressing, I said, was that she trusted her spontaneous self—then the body would automatically react to the release of tension, to her trust in that spontaneous self. [...]

[...] The cause of Jane’s symptoms is her fear of the spontaneous self—that is the area that needs treatment. [...]

[...] She fears then, Seth going too far as an expression of her creative and spontaneous self. [...]

There is, of course, an apparent contradiction here, but it is only apparent, your dilemma being this: If you have another self-conscious self, then why aren’t you aware of it? [...]

Above all, it deepened my trust in Seth and in his psychological insight and impressed me once again with the remarkable abilities of the inner intuitive self, for it is this part of me that makes communication with Seth possible. [...]

[...] What you have is this: In the waking state, the whole self is focused toward physical reality, but in the dreaming state, it is focused in a different dimension. [...]

[...] When the body lies in bed, it is separated by a vast distance from the dream location in which the dreaming self may dwell. [...]