“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] The inner self is aware of this integrity of identity, but the ego focused so securely in physical reality cannot afford this luxury.

[...] The trick was to give the intuitional self freedom and not to intellectualize. [...]

[...] (Self-hypnosis is something else—I use it now to give myself general good-health suggestions.)

[...] Consciousness is the direction in which the self looks. [...]

[...] Never had I been so filled with self-doubts. [...]

[...] If Ruburt had known what was in my mind, he would have been nervous and self-conscious.

It is similar to the fourth sense in that it is free of course from the arbitrary past, present and future, and it is also similar in that it involves an intimate becoming, or a transformation of self into something else.

Now this sense, like all other inner senses, is being used by the inner self-conscious ego, but the outer ego is not permitted awareness along these lines. [...]

[...] Without this sixth sense, and without its constant use by the inner self-conscious ego, you could not even construct the physical camouflage universe of your own plane. [...]

[...] In the middle of a projection you may suddenly remember the self on the bed, and in the middle of a given existence you may suddenly remember a previous self. [...]

[...] In an excellent projection you forget the self on the bed. [...]

[...] Through projections you will become acquainted with the mobility and stability of the inner self, as separate from the physical apparatus.

[...] The same article describes in some detail how the Dominican order in Portugal now has converted an old farm into a new seminary, which is “largely self-supporting, having its own kitchen, laundry, reservoir, farm, fruit and vegetable garden, and vineyards,” etc.

It is self-defeating, therefore, to blame yourself for mistakes, so-called, simply because in the light of your present development they are seen as less-developed acts than those to which you now aspire. [...]

Jane, then, wrote those two poems 16 days before she dictated the last session for Seth’s The Nature of the Psyche on April 4, 1977; one month before she began dictating Mass Events on April 18, 1977; two years and two months before she began God of Jane on May 6, 1979; two years and six months before she began dictating the Preface for Dreams on September 25, 1979; two years and eight months before she came up with the idea for If We Live Again on November 15, 1979; three years and five months before she began dictating Seth’s material on the magical approach to reality in Dreams on August 6, 1980; four years before she began dictating Seth’s sinful-self material in that book on March 11, 1981; four years and three months before she began coming through with her own sinful-self information on June 17, 1981; and four years and five months before, on August 26, 1981, she wrote the poem in Note 6 for Session 936 of Dreams: “Something in me / ebbs and tides, / as if I let myself / for a while / be washed away / out to sea / while leaving / some spidery shell / upon the shore /….”

[...] The lines drawn between the self and what is nonself, between an organism and its environment, are highly arbitrary on your part. [...]

Within the self that you know there are countless combinations of selves that you do not admit, and in other layers of probable realities these selves have their say and live out their potential. [...]

[...] But another portion of the self says, “ah hah, these potentials are not used, they are freewheeling and I will adapt these and these will be those potentials with which I will work.” [...]

[...] Who is the self that wonders and where does it derive its meaning and its energy. [...]

[...] You are the self who speaks the sentence, and you are the self who lives the life. [...]

[...] or “I must stay at home, hide from the world, keep myself restrained lest I give into images of self-grandeur.” Either course, a true letting go of effort, leads to the realization that the impulses of the personality innately know if the self’s best paths. [...]

In actuality, the combination of a philosophical stress upon discipline, physical and mental, with the belief in the sinful self, often brings about the most unfortunate human dilemmas. [...]

He cannot fake it, so he improves in direct proportion to his growing trust of the inner self.

Limitations set upon the self are damaging to the race as a whole, and impede value fulfillment. Psychic gates are closed by parents and fences set up around the self, closing out many important possibilities of growth and fulfillment; these barriers must be broken; as man’s conception of himself enlarges so will his actual capabilities and possibilities be extended. His psychic limitations are largely self-adopted.

This in itself is extremely important, and we will deal with it rather extensively in terms of early limitations set by parental attitudes personally and collectively, in terms of individual self-realizations, and in terms of even national accomplishments and racial expectations.

[...] This would be a nonsensical development to the logical mind; yet, the girl might be the form of the man’s previous or future reincarnated self.

[...] Beneath them, however, portions of the self perceive physical reality in an entirely different fashion, free of the tyranny of objects and physical form. [...]

The practice of psychological time will allow you to reach these portions of the self. [...]

[...] Some are suggestive of drug-induced episodes, except for the greater sense of alertness and self-control. [...]

[...] They all added up to a steady barrage of self-criticism and fear of not writing, of perhaps doing the dishes instead, or cleaning the house, of making more work for me, of time spent answering the mail—whatever it might be. [...]

[...] I am here, and because I am here I tell you that your own inner self does continue to exist, and as I teach others now, so shall you also be witnesses of the existence of All That Is. [...]

[...] Feelings of energy form the inner self were then allowed to bubble up and give you a sense of energy and a release from normal pressures. [...]

[...] The spontaneous self, left to itself, ideally is the answer. [...]

While you go about your daily chores and endeavors, beneath normal waking consciousness you are constantly focused in other realities also, reacting to stimuli of which your physical conscious self is not aware, perceiving conditions through the inner senses, and experiencing events that are not even registered within the physical brain. [...]

[...] You may perfect, in other words, but you cannot again enter into that frame of reference as a completely participating consciousness following, say, the historic trends of the time, joining into the mass-hallucinated existence that resulted from the applied consciousness of your self and your “contemporaries.”

[...] In the language of the self that you speak, these encounters are like the implied pauses in your verbal language. [...]

If you “read yourselves” sideways in such a manner, you would discover portions of your own consciousness stretching out across the entire fabric of the earth as you understand it — becoming a part of the earth’s material, even as those materials become part of the self that you recognize. [...]

I did not mean to suggest that words like “fear” should not be used, but the day should not be begun by reminding the self of generalized fears. Beginning the day with the positive suggestions will, as time progresses, reinforce Ruburt’s sense of personal energy and power, and trust of the self. [...]

He, as I explained earlier, has a strong spontaneous self, which he had been taught to fear. It was because of distrust of this spontaneous self that he accepted your suggestions so readily and without argument. [...]

[...] The spontaneous self is remarkably resilient, and bounces back from its own errors when it makes any.