“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] If you luxuriate in self-pity and feelings of chaos then you have yourselves to blame. [...]

[...] Honey and vinegar are cheap; self-knowledge is dear but far more valuable. [...]

Stop indulging A) in self-pity. [...]

He wants to be a healthy present self, not a healthy past self. [...]

[...] Worse, he sometimes used the twenty-year-old physical self, which automatically led to some very negative attitudes, since he simply is not twenty.

A framework is also then self-provided in which deeper questions of personality, life and being are worked out at the specific level of the individual’s experience. [...]

Before the time of choosing, however, there is a period of self-examination, and your full “history” becomes available to you. [...]

[...] His mind continues this activity even while the conscious self goes about its daily chores.

These dreams go unrecognized by the conscious ego; but they do not go unrecorded by the inner self, and they therefore exist, and they form electromagnetic channels of their own to which—make that by which—the physical body itself is affected. [...]

[...] There is a definite connection between this constant dream activity undertaken by the unconscious self, and what you call inspiration or creative activity.

It is the ego, practically speaking, who attempts to do the distinguishing here; but the inner core of the self, the inner ego of which we have spoken, manages the basic chore. [...]

[...] Were it not for the dreaming self the ego would not exist. [...]

[...] Yet the girl could be the form of the man’s previous or future reincarnated self.

You might say that the personalities then are but divisions of your self here. [...]

Your unconscious self is a strong portion of our sessions, and it was for this reason that Ruburt sensed this absence. [...]

[...] (Pause.) There is one place to begin, however: Try becoming better acquainted with the self you are now. [...]

[...] What you think now is unconsciously perceived by some hypothetical 14th-century self. [...]

Joe B, while drinking, might suddenly be sent back to his Joe A self. The kinds of communication can be very unique and bewildering, ranging from number codes to nonsense verses, or to the hearing of imaginary voices, which serve to remind one portion of the self that there is also another seemingly alien personality involved in his or her existence.

All in all our own tests proved invaluable, not only as a part of my training and as a means of increasing my self-confidence, but also in preparing me for some other out-of-body-experiences that would take place during later Seth sessions. [...]

[...] In this case the Jane-self is far in the background, dozing but dimly conscious. [...]

Trying to prove the existence of telepathy and clairvoyance to a self-professed “hard-nosed psychologist,” sell fiction to one of the best magazines in the country, and conduct our own tests in the Seth sessions was rather a bit to take on in one year—as I discovered.

Psychology, religion, science — in one way or another, all of these have added to the confusion by stripping the conscious mind of its directing qualities, and viewing it as a stepchild of the self. [...]

[...] It turned out to be a self-help treatise written by a prominent medical man. [...]

Birth is an aggressive action — the thrust outward with great impetus of a self from within a body into a new environment. [...]

The fact also remains that on other levels but conscious ones, you know and every individual knows that the dream world that the conscious mind believes so foolish and irrational, is indeed constructed by the inner self with utmost care, with a precision known only by the intuitions. And each individual knows that such a splendid creation as this then exists beyond the self that was its origin.

[...] They, such dream objects, may be the method or means with which the inner self warns the personality of future possible disappointments or disasters.

[...] Tonight, I told her, Seth said nothing at all about what I regard as the central point of conflict—the conflict between her Sinful Self, so-called, and the spontaneous self. [...]

(Very long pause at 10:21.) The statements I have made regarding the innate nature of the spontaneous self can be of the greatest service if they are accepted. [...]

[...] Your inner self is aware of this.

[...] He must rediscover however his spontaneous self for these distorted and adopted and superficial ideas—underline superficial—of religious rules inhibited him.

He need not fear his spontaneous self. [...]

[...] You do not let yourself realize the spontaneity and joyful burst that is your inner self, that results in this present human personality that you call yourself. [...]

You are your own inner self, it is true. [...]

[...] (Louder.) The whole development of your individuality and of your whole self is a gift of All That Is; a state of grace is the acceptance of life and vitality and joy. [...]

One part of the self is pure truth. [...]

He still feels freer alone physically, and more self-conscious getting up for example when you are there. [...]

Later on we will discuss more thoroughly distorted ideas about the self and the body in particular that stand in the way of natural exuberance and good health.

“The dream world is indeed a natural by-product of the relationship between the inner self and the physical being. [...]

[...] For example, without the peculiar spark set off through the interrelationship existing between the inner self and the physical being, the dream world would not exist. [...]

[...] For all of their idealisms, both basically believed in a pessimistic view of the self. [...]

[...] They cannot trust the expression of the self, for they are convinced of its duplicity. [...]