“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

The terms are handy to describe certain affiliations and experiences of the psyche. In greater terms, however, those experiences and affiliations overlap. There are, unfortunately for neat definitions, no definite, absolute, complete boundaries. There are leaping, explosive, volatile, rapidly altering relationships in which psyche touches psyche, forms an attraction or mutual response that can be both eternal and fleeting, never destroyed or forgotten, there as a trace or as an overwhelming experience.

There are psychic affiliations that defy language. The term “reincarnation” hints at some. “Counterparts” hint of others. “Probable selves” evoke still other such experiences. In greater terms the psyche is always in a state of creative change. Counterparts can alter affiliations—a fact I did not mention earlier, simply because then it would have added a confusion.

If you choose a safe universe then you may indeed find some old habitual ideas, thoughts or beliefs, coming to haunt you. Those belonged to the unsafe universe, and made perfect sense there—and there they still do. When you change your affiliation and find yourself now and then encountering such feelings; and they are always one way or another feelings of insecurity—then admit to yourself that while they made sense in the unsafe universe, they do not belong in the safe one. Literally, such feelings make no sense in a safe universe. They are literally meaningless.

The plants awakened before the animals—and there are reasons for these varying degrees of “wakefulness” that have nothing to do basically with the differentiations of specieshood as defined by science from the outside, but have to do with the inner affiliations of consciousness, and with species or families of consciousness. Those affiliations fell into being as all of the consciousnesses that were embarked upon physical reality divided up (long pause) the almost unimaginable creative achievements that would be responsible for the physically effective world.

[...] Your body is composed not only of the stuff within it that, say, X-rays or autopsies can reveal, but it also involves profound relationships, alliances and affiliations that nowhere physically show. Your thoughts are as physically pertinent to your body as viruses are, as alive and self-propagating, and they themselves form inner affiliations. [...]

Again, this may seem difficult to understand, because you assign psychological characteristics to sexual affiliation, whichever it is. [...]

The larger pattern of human personhood demands a bisexual affiliation that allows leeway in sexual encounters, a leeway that provides a framework in which individuals can express feelings, abilities, and characteristics that follow the natural inclines of the personal psyche rather than sexual stereotypes. [...]

(10:18.) Usually the second puberty follows the same sexual orientation as the first, but not always — for it is quite possible for the new affiliation to be the opposite of the first. [...]

(I suppose that one can find all sorts of variations within counterpart situations, all sorts of reasons for such affiliations, so I can merely hint at a few here as they rise out of the class framework or orbit around it:

[...] Peter and I had rather idly speculated that because of our common interests we could have reincarnational ties.² Seth’s naming Norma as being psychically affiliated with me was unexpected, however. [...]

“Using that language, however, Seth’s intent is also clear: Individual identity comes before sexual affiliation. That affiliation is a mixture of ‘female’ and ‘male’ elements that are complementary, not opposing. [...]

It is of great value, then, that each person remember this universal affiliation. [...]

[...] Most people, as I mentioned, experience their contacts with the world through many prepared structures—that of church, community, clubs, professional organizations, family affiliations, academic affiliations—and these frameworks serve automatically to cushion such contact, and in a way, while permitting contact with the world, also blunting it to some extent. [...]

[...] In the beginning of the world there were numberless groupings, however, and affiliations of consciousness, many other organizations of identity that were recognized, as well as the kind of psychological orientation you have now—but [your] kind of orientation was not the paramount one. [...]

[...] In dreams all of the species familiarized themselves with their old affiliations, and they read their own identities in different fashions. [...]

[...] Most people settle for following authority—particularly in the professional aspects of their lives, the community affiliations, and so forth, while here and there insisting upon a kind of private creativity that does not threaten the larger beliefs of the structure.

[...] That is why individuals with ideas counter to the system band together in groups of all kinds, whether or not their particular ideas happen to agree with the group with whom they become affiliated. [...]

[...] Ruburt’s body is responding because his main affiliation—main (underlined)—is changing, so that actions necessary in the old system do not any longer apply.

The same applies to all “psychological” particles, to units of consciousness, and to their affiliations within personality. [...]

Now we discover that such references were tailored to our own rather limited ideas of the qualities assigned to the sexes, for in Psyche Seth makes it clear that the psyche is not male or female, “but a bank from which sexual affiliations are drawn.” [...]

The psyche is not only the repository for sexual affiliation, however, but contains hidden abilities and characteristics which are then triggered into activity by exterior stimuli. [...]

[...] They would certainly be psychological relatives, but with their own time schemes, languages, and psychological affiliations. [...]

[...] Instead you included such cousins of consciousness into your midst, accepting a kind of comradeship—for to some extent at least you could see the different versions of humanity that resulted from a change of focus, an adjacent affiliation of humanized energy with the environment. [...]

[...] This does not mean that if you become consciously aware of such affiliations you must then feel it your responsibility to form a kind of culture of counterparts, or to try and affect other people’s lives by reminding them of your relationship. [...]

[...] You have inner affiliations. [...]

[...] During break Jane came through with additional psychic affiliations among her students, but it isn’t necessary to discuss them here. [...]

[...] (Long pause.) You have always sensed more than you knew, both of you, so in that area Framework 2 has represented a natural affiliation with your conscious selves. [...]

[...] It will have to do with graphics, and a combination of mathematics and graphics, and if pursued will lead to an affiliation with a company beginning with a C.

[...] And I am speaking now of course of the data that is given to the organism in its affiliation with camouflage environment. [...]

[...] Under that general term I include a strong emotional arousal and fresh emotional involvement, affiliation, or sense of belonging. [...]

[...] The man who has believed that he was evil may now see the world, or persons of another faith or political affiliation, as evil instead. [...]

Individually, you exist physically because of the unsurpassed cooperation that exists just biologically between your species and all others, and on deeper levels because of the cellular affiliations that exist among the cells of all species. [...]