“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] It was, simply, that we were wrong to blame imagined excesses of the spontaneous self for her problems—that really the trouble lay in her discovery that with the psychic abilities she was destined to find herself outside conventional creative authority: a person who learned that she would have to protect her very integrity as a person against charges of fraud. [...]

[...] I think, I added, that it was an error to blame fear of the spontaneous self going too far if given free reign—I didn’t think nature would arrange things that way, for the organism couldn’t survive for long that way. [...]

[...] He felt that he could hardly keep up with the spontaneous self: what was it about to do next? [...]

He has held back his inspiration, though, out of confusion, wondering about experiences that cannot be put directly into beneficial use, and also out of concern, again, that the spontaneous self and its intuitional insights will put him in further conflict with the world. [...]

[...] As your own and Ruburt’s notes state, Ruburt’s more clearly, this involves an entirely different relationship of the self you know with time. [...]

Being your own natural and magical self when you dream, you utilize information that is outside of the time context experienced by the so-called rational mind. [...]

[...] You do not say to the creative self, “Now it is 7:30. [...]

[...] Since he calls Jane by the male-oriented name of her larger or whole self, “Ruburt,” it follows that Seth also calls her “he,” “his,” and “him.”

[...] You were involved in work that required growing trust of the self. [...] The self could be trusted least of all, however, so that Ruburt felt a necessity to criticize his procedure and performance, lest he was leading you and he both down a Freudian garden path.

[...] As per James, it was no coincidence that the beliefs of Freud and Darwin merged so well to form western society’s idea of the self, physically and psychologically. [...]

To some extent the Freudian self, as per James, more or less followed the same pattern. [...]

The dream images are indeed extensions, not only of the psychic or inner self, but a definite extension of the electromagnetic and chemical properties that operate through the physical self. It is indeed as if extensions of nerve endings reached out in self-expansion, making new connections, and this is indeed what occurs in the creation of dream images.

[...] For there are various balances, or rather various delicate imbalances, which must be maintained; and there are differences also in the makeup of dream images, which are usually seen only by the dreamer, and some other more physical materializations which may be created by the semi-waking self, and under certain circumstances seen by others.

(Seth discussed generalized sinful-self material in only one of the five private sessions Jane has held since she came through with the 931st session for Dreams three weeks ago.¹ In some respects lately she’s felt a bit more at ease.²

[...] Involved here also is Jane’s sinful self and “its” attitude concerning the requests she receives to go public through radio and television interviews, lectures, records, tapes, and so forth. [...]

[...] Of that last total, she devoted 13 sessions to material on the magical approach to reality, and 27 to the subject of the sinful self. [...]

(I told Jane that the other day the pendulum had told me I hurt the rib as self-punishment because of my resentment of the visit of Tom D’Orio and friends. [...] And that threat would be the main cause behind my self-injury: guilt at feeling that way. [...]

[...] High play of that nature opens doors of excellence that responsibility alone can never touch, and results in far more valuable help to the world as a natural by-product than any self-determined behavior can, so these are the ideas that we want to stress, both in bodily terms and in psychic and creative ones, and Ruburt is beginning to understand some of that now. [...]

[...] You put up barriers to protect the creative self from the exterior world, which you fear would destroy it, and from the interior world, for left alone the creative self might just slam paint upon a canvas without discipline, or might show more than we are willing to show. [...]

[...] Your desire to paint, per se, did not emerge full blown when you were a young man, and one probable self is happily engaged in commercial artwork. [...]

[...] Art always serves as some self-disclosure, in which the art stands for the person, and the art is sent abroad, for example. [...]

[...] His subconscious, however, knowing its own beliefs which were given it by the conscious self, after all, feels highly threatened, for it knows not more about Ruburt than he does, but more than Ruburt will admit he knows. [...]

[...] The subconscious should be reminded of the help that is available from the source self, for its fears began before it had that information, and the fears themselves caused blocks that prevented assimilation of the knowledge later.

Your father represented what you thought of as the secret, isolated creative self—more or less at odds with the world, unappreciated by it in family or financial terms; the alone, artistic self you thought unable to communicate, inarticulate and dumb, locked away from close communication with others, and indeed barraged by misunderstandings because of its very creativity—emotionally frozen, afraid to show itself.

Only by self-examination can you see how these issues merge in all areas of your living, and then project the ideas outward for others. [...]

[...] Then when you are doing well in class, you will be able to relate not only to some reincarnational selves but to the inner self and to its activities and use these activities to enrich your normal daily encounters and to increase the nature and extent of your perceptions. [...]

[...] It is only your own ideas of a limited self that make you think in terms of such a closed soul. [...]

[...] I want you to stop identifying completely with the conscious self that you know, and I want you also to remember that I told you that though physically I may not speak to you individually in class, the messages are given, and I expect you to be expert enough to receive them. [...]

[...] It is the fountainhead or pool in which reservoirs of energy are held in reserve, pulled between the more interior self and the outer self. [...]

Now: The alpha state is a threshold, a preliminary state between the physically oriented portions of the personality and the inner self. [...]

[...] You are yourself, yet at that level you are also a part of that universe from which that self springs, and its power and vitality are your own, to be uniquely focused. In your terms, you literally look backward and forward in time at your individual self and your civilization, seeing where they merge, and feeling the infinite connections, so that each event you choose as your own will also be chosen as a world event — participated in to whatever extent by others, and adding to the available experience of the species from which others can also draw.

This is simply an analogy because you are steeped in that other reality constantly; but its illuminations and nature are transmitted to the self that you know through the formation of dreams, and in your terms, “it takes time to dream.” [...]

[...] I have spoken of this before, but it is important to remember that you impose a certain kind of “artificial” sense of exaggerated continuity even to the self you know. [...]

[...] Your body itself is composed of self-aware organizations of consciousness that escape your notice and deal with perceptual material utterly alien to your own ways.

[...] Dreaming provides all the conditions of life and death, therefore — a fact that often frightens the waking self. [...]

[...] It is true that the ego’s responsibility is with the relationship between the self and the physical environment. [...]

[...] If the ego is trained to be flexible however, it will accept such knowledge from the subconscious, and other wider horizons of the self.

[...] When that point is reached, you will be able, if you prefer, to experience any ‘reality … illusion’ at your will, but the self who experiences these ‘reality … illusions’ will know itself as reality. [...]

“There can be no self-betrayal,” said Seth.

“But the idea of self-betrayal can lead to distortions.”

[...] Even in the illusion of self-delusion.”

[...] He was simultaneously himself here in this living room, watching the image of himself in a library room, and he was the self in the library. [...] Before him he saw a wall of books, and the self in the living room suddenly knew that his purpose here in this reality was to re-create some of those books. [...]

[...] Each person who passes the car is more than three-dimensional, super-real in this time, but part of a ‘model’ of a greater self … and each person’s reality is obviously and clearly more than three-dimensional. [...]

[...] I had no name for that other self. [...]

After my first Roman, I speculated about whether I might have touched upon a reincarnational self or a probable one. [...]

[...] You think so rigidly of concerns that are primarily insignificant to you, as a whole self (long pause, eyes closed) and make a fetish of them. [...] This cuts you off from the inner self. [...]

It recognizes its position as a part of the whole self. [...]

[...] The outer ego is now familiar with the whole self, or the entire identity, and has available to it strength of which it was not previously aware. [...]

[...] (Long pause.) You become overconcerned with the egotistical situations, and hamper the inner self.

[...] (Long pause.) Most people, generally speaking, have one more or less familiar notion of a self that they try to actualize within physical reality. [...]

They try to actualize that self within the known world. [...]

[...] The books offer their own continuing educational process for people to follow if they choose, and the process of self-discovery is one of the most valuable aspects of such growth. [...]

[...] The inner self chose them. To a large extent, the inner self can even now alter many of them. [...]

[...] The self rises from unknowing into knowing, constantly surprising itself. [...]

[...] The deeper portions of the self do not have to take the ego’s idea of time into consideration, so these portions of the self also deal with data that would ordinarily escape the ego’s perception, perhaps until a certain “point” of ego time was reached.

It will often neglect any clairvoyant or precognitive material that comes into the conscious mind from the deeper portions of the self. [...]