“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(Both of us have been curious as to how the material in Monday night’s session fits in with that on the Sinful Self, which Jane still hasn’t typed except for the first five pages. I’m somewhat handicapped because I don’t have the Sinful Self material to compare anything to, but I’m sure there are many connections between the two. [...]

[...] “It’s the sort of thing I think is rooted in Sinful-Self stuff, on both of our parts—you’re not going to feel guilty about the gifts of nature unless those feelings have a pretty strong base in the psyche, somewhere.... [...]

[...] (Pause.) The inner self grappled. Large portions of the self were won over, and the symptoms began to lessen, and the energy to return. [...]

[...] Le Cron (Leslie Le Cron, author of Self Hypnotism) was a help at a time when he needed to reexamine his past.

[...] The drinks did further aid in the relaxation—but there was a freedom of expression, a trust of the self, a concentration away from the body, and a self-acceptance.

[...] Any new such experiences give him not only new confidence, but allow for a give-and-take with other portions of the self, which will be quite aware of the changed status, so all of that is important.

[...] With disentanglement, the inner self disengages itself from one particular camouflage before it either adopts another set smoothly or dispenses with camouflage entirely. [...]

(Jane has kept the session for April 30 in mind, but hasn’t tried any self-hypnosis yet. [...]

[...] Such experiences should be followed, however, by reassurances, both on your part, and by self-reminders on Ruburt’s part that his being and experience are indeed couched and held securely in safety and love.

Because of Ruburt’s mixture of symbolic and literal natures, the gesture gave him an excellent, definite sense of self-approval in a way that he has not experienced in some time. [...]

[...] Of course, the books have helped people in greater ways, but we want quick inoculations, so to speak, of this specific type of self-approval.

[...] Here we will call the author the whole self, and the characters are real. [...] The plot is left open, but in the deepest terms the whole self, through its personalities, probes deeply into the meaning of life in all of its manifestations. [...]

[...] He suffered from the attacks of “magicians” who were stealing his energy: “Plates” of energy were being stripped away from his chest in layers, until he feared his inner self would be exposed. [...]

[...] His inner self was exposed and vulnerable. [...]

[...] I told her that Seth had said nothing at all about what I regard as the central conflict: the one between her sinful self, so-called, and her spontaneous self. [...]

“Now instead i am impatient with sinful self syndrome, want to ally myself with magical self;”

[...] We had looked forward to seeing that handsome little volume ever since she first conceived of it well over two years ago, before she had a title.⁴ If possible, Jane was even more pleased at the publication of If We Live Again than she had been when her book of poetic narrative, Dialogues of the Soul and Mortal Self in Time, came out in 1975. If We Live Again once more carried her back to her earliest days of creative work, which in turn had led to her teenage dreams of becoming a published poet [she was born in 1929]. [...]

[...] Our program of self-help gradually began to diminish, as had many of them before.⁸ Finally, in an effort to cheer up Jane one day as she sat idly at the typing table in her writing room, I tried a variation of a tactic that had worked so well for her inception of Seth’s The Nature of the Psyche almost six and a half years ago: This time, standing in back of her, I put my arms around her and rolled a clean sheet of paper into her typewriter—but here’s the note she wrote the next day:

3. Many physical conditions have an allergic connection—the person “allergic” to certain portions of the self— so that kind of stress can be overall quite beneficial.

[...] The purpose is always knowledge and development, rather than punishment, self-punishment. [...]

It should be mentioned that in such cases the inner self, as divorced from the more accessible subconscious, is aware of the situation, and finds release in very valid terms (pause), through frequent inner communications, whereby past successes are remembered, and to some extent reexperienced. [...]

[...] It knows it is more than the self that it has for a time chosen to be. [...]

(“Is it the sinful self that’s doing this?” I asked. [...] The self-destructive behavior was much more advanced now, though, and I could only hope and trust that my dear wife’s feelings of panic were an attempt on her personality’s part to at least discharge some of the dangerous emotional charge that must have accumulated over the years, while being repressed. [...] It all seemed to be so self-defeating that I had trouble visualizing what other portions of the personality might be getting out of it. [...]

[...] By integrity, I am speaking of honesty with self that demands you to go beyond the self-deceptions that you accept as your self at any given point. [...]

When and if you manage to change your beliefs in that self-deceptive framework, then any suitable “forgotten” event from the past will be used as a catalyst. [...]

At the same time, in psychoanalysis you are often programmed to believe that the “unconscious,” being the source of such dark secrets, cannot be counted upon as any bed of creativity or inspiration, and so you are denied the help that the inner portions of the self could give to your consciousness.

[...] I am also emphasizing the fact that the conscious mind is equipped to receive information from the inner self as well as the exterior universe.

[...] When people think in terms of one self, they of course identify with one body. [...]

[...] Each probable self, however, will follow through in its own reality — that is, it will experience to the fullest those dimensions inherent to it. [...]

[...] The sounds of the package, for example (as Seth, Jane crumpled an empty cigarette package), or the fingernails across the table (demonstrated), are magnified, for in the cellular world they are an important outside-the-self cosmic event — messages of great importance. [...]

Anything less than complete unpredictability will ultimately result in stagnation, or orders of existence that in the long run are self-defeating. [...]

These units however, while not adding any more matter to themselves and being self-contained, could and did become units that were used as building blocks by other units which continued, not yet completed. And here the self-completed building block units, while not expanding within themselves, still became part of more complicated gestalts.

This inwardness is so adaptive and self-generating, seeking all outlets and possibilities, that it not only in your case formed a physical universe, but found new ways, operating through the new physical universe, to construct an additional field or plane within and completely through, or on the other side of while yet within the physical universe; this being your dream world, which is made possible because of the physical mechanisms and involvements themselves.

[...] Some such units closed their boundaries and therefore captured, so to speak, no other psychic inwardness, but were content at this stage; and they became self-contained, relatively changeless physical units.

There is a communication possible between your universe and the universe of negative matter, but it does not involve the physical self. [...]

“Hello,” I said when he came to the phone, and his voice was dull and flat, full of self pity; he was sure I wouldn’t see him. [...]

[...] I also typed up a few pages of material (on the Sinful Self.) Still, no Frank Longwell. [...]

(Long pause.) With the growth of this particular variety of self-consciousness came the exteriorization, magnification and intensification of definite elements that lie latent in other animals, the individuation of strong emotional activity to a new degree, for example. [...]

[...] His or her ideas about the self must be examined, for they are being materialized in flesh. [...]

[...] Once more, because you are self-conscious beings your beliefs regulate your reality. [...]

If you misinterpret the myths, then you may believe that man has fallen from grace and that his very creaturehood is cursed, in which case you will not trust your body or allow it its “natural” pattern of self-therapy.

[...] In your case you used religious terms in which to couch it and ease the inner self. [...]

[...] He did not give much, but he gave, and he gave because any religion must pay tribute to the inner knowledge of the self and the true inner knowledge does not come in through the front door. [...]

[...] Now the house, to you, represents in one way, the seat of personality also, the inviolate place and you do not open the door to strangers or give them access into the secret self unless you feel that there is a good reason. [...]

That is a portion also of your self that you do not admit. [...]

The overconscientious self therefore equates, you see, with Nebene’s over-conscientious self in other areas. [...]

He did therefore develop a strong conscientious self, so that these abilities would be put to good purposes, and not frittered away. [...]

[...] Nevertheless, the point has now been reached where he does realize that the basic self is good, and the abilities are being put to good purpose. [...]

[...] The Speakers are to keep the information alive in physical terms, to see that men do not bury it within and dam it up, to bring it — the information — to the attention of the conscious self.

The conscious physically oriented portions of the self become acquainted with the inner information. [...]

[...] I must remember, in all communications with those in the room, to limit my remarks and focus to the specific reincarnated “present self.”

[...] I use his eyes because they narrow down the focus for me, to the one “present” self of which the individual is aware.