“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

This book is Seth’s way of demonstrating that human personality is multidimensional, that we exist in many realities at once, that the soul or inner self is not something apart from us, but the very medium in which we exist. He emphasizes that “truth” is not found by going from teacher to teacher, church to church, or discipline to discipline, but by looking within the self. [...]

The next chapter will deal with the eternal validity of dreams as gateways into these other realities, and as open areas through which the “inner self” glimpses the many facets of its experience and communicates with other levels of its reality.

Looked at merely as an example of unconscious production, however, Seth’s book clearly shows that organization, discrimination, and reasoning are certainly not qualities of the conscious mind alone, and demonstrates the range and activity of which the inner self is capable. [...]

Those doubts, however, of course mitigate strongly against your feelings of self-approval, and undermine your natural stamina and courage. [...]

[...] Instantly I see him seated in writing room and behind him stands a transparent whitish woman’s image, my astral self. [...]

(“Before nap I asked for help from spontaneous self, and when I awakened I did feel better. [...]

[...] It was about spontaneity and joy, etc.—obvious things, really, which become self-evident once mentioned—and how Jane’s symptoms represent our joint negative thoughts. [...]

If the major religions have been touched, then there have also been numberless smaller cults and sects throughout history into the present that bear that same stamp of great psychological power and energy, coupled with an inborn leaning toward self destruction and vengeance.

Study and practice with psychological time will show you the validity and strength of that inner self, so that you will clearly see that it is not completely bound to the so-called objective universe by any means. [...]

Value fulfillment represents an extension of the inner self in its journey into this reality. [...]

[...] Think of your painting as a spontaneous play of the godlike self, who paints or plays for the pure joy of doing so, without effort, without questions, and without plans. [...]

The idea, again, art as a spontaneous play of the godlike self. [...]

If you thought of some particular motions that would help you and add to your performance, it would of course be obvious self-defeatism if you said ahead of time “No, it probably would not work. [...]

[...] Your challenge, then, if you believe in the photographs, is to send them out even if it means risking them, rather than refusing the expression of the ideal, which is always self-defeating. [...]

[...] Then self-pity enters in. [...]

[...] He talked of selling the land and tearing down the terrace as a projected act of self-mutilation, mutilating something that he loved, to do penance for his sins, in his light.

[...] And you can feel as an echo within my words the energy of the interior self that is your true identity. [...]

(To Arnold.) You can experience it, and then let the intellect figure out what the inner self has learned. [...]

[...] There are no boundaries to the self, and no barriers put upon its development. [...]

[...] The inner self has also latent inner senses beside the ones that it normally uses while the consciousness is tuned into a particular camouflage system.

(“The authority of the self has been eroded by religion, science, and psychology itself, so that impulses are equated with anti-social behavior, considered synonymous with it, or with individual expression at the expense of social order.”

[...] He should, again, perhaps with your help, now write a new list of his accomplishments, and also of his positive characteristics, so that he keeps self-approval in mind, and your compliments when he does look well are always helpful.

[...] The ambiguities, the contrasts, the similarities, the affirmation of the creature self, allows for the free flow of emotion. [...]

[...] I got out again fairly quickly, this time able to study the strange sensing involved in distinguishing between the astral self I wanted to sit up and the physical self I wanted to stay flat. [...]

[...] I tried not to be frightened and told myself that the intuitive self sensed something exciting going on, even if the ego was worried. [...]

[...] Your conscious mind was fully taken up with your activities at the art department, giving the inner self full rein.

[...] This immediately lifts your own self-image, and prepares you for the day. [...]

[...] Now this will automatically set your inner self toward the anticipation of further sound. [...]

[...] When you light the candle, you are testing him to see how far he will go with you, and when he makes the fire remark, you take it as a rejection of the entire romantic self, and the romantic situation. [...]

[...] Whatever self you will be, in your terms, or you were, each of those selves are unique, as you are unique. [...]

The inner self and the deeper layers of the subconscious are relatively free however from the ego’s false gods, and it is for this reason that precognitions are at all possible. For these layers of the self are simply able to perceive a larger portion of action than the ego is able or willing to perceive. [...]

[...] I would suggest, incidentally, that you both if possible find time to do the yoga exercises daily, as they provide excellent discipline, and tend to unify various portions of the self. [...]

(“Unless I summon the self that I was at that time, the memories for details are not that clear. [...]

[...] And the higher one gets in power, the harder it is to hide such things from one’s self.

There is a great sense of humility, and yet a great sense of exaltation as the inner self senses its freedom when death occurs. [...]

[...] The self is made of action. Teaching the self to expand is most important, and the ways are not difficult... [...]

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

[...] Christendom may well have perished along with the rest of the world, but this possibility would not have been considered, so narrow and evilly self-righteous were the governing powers at the time.

[...] The counterparts are not so evident, and yet it is the counterparts that are important: the self-discipline learned, the control, the compassion that finally is aroused, and the final and last lesson learned—the positive desire for creativity and love over destruction and hatred. [...]

(Jane is still writing her book of poetry, Dialogues of the Soul and Mortal Self in Time.¹ Last week she taped some of this material. [...]

[...] You are still happening — but both present and future selves; and your past self is still undergoing what you think is done. [...]

[...] This is obviously impossible for the physical camouflaged self, but it is not impossible for the inner self, which as you know has its own electrical reality, which is again composed of particular impulses and intensities.