“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

You are not expected to become unconscious. There is no need for you to feel that when you block out one conscious mind, there is only blankness—for you have other conscious minds. There are other conscious portions of your own personality. We simply want you to look out other windows. The shades are pulled down now over these other windows (indicating the particular windows in the room). We simply want you to snap the shade open and look out. This can be a joyful and an alert experience. It does not need to have to do with sleep and relaxation as it has been spoken of in your recording. That recording, to some extent, maligns the subconscious and the inner self.

What you perceive, using other portions of yourself, can be far more vivid than the reality in which you usually focus your attention. These other realities are not shadowy or dim. You must simply learn to use your inner eyesight—a different kind of eye—a different kind of vision.

It is true that some physical relaxation is of great benefit. It is true also that certain methods—and I have given some of these to you—are necessary to allow you to switch your focus of attention from physical reality to other realities. It is true, also, that it takes some training to use these other conscious portions of yourself. But remember that these other portions of your identity are portions of your identity—they are a part of you. Your perceptions can be vivid using them. There is no need for you to feel that any reincarnational information must come in a murky, shadowy way through vast areas of a self that you neither know nor understand. Memories of other childhoods can be fresh and bright. You can indeed feel a sense of recognition and familiarity.

I am talking in terms of the self within the self within the self...the self that watches the self... the conscious alert self of which your present conscious mind is but a shadow. And this has nothing to do with the ego, which is only a small portion of waking consciousness.

Pretend, pretend that yourself...your whole identity, is a tape, such as being used here, but in stereophonic. Now, pretend that you have eight channels on this fantastic machine. Now, the whole self is composed, to use this analogy, of the entire eight channels. Usually, however, you can only play one channel at a time. The whole self, however, is aware of the entire eight channels and is able to keep track of them. The conscious mind as you know it is only one note on the first channel, not even the entire channel. You can learn methods that will enable you to tune in on these other channels. These other channels are all conscious portions of your own entire identity. They may or may not be aware of you as one small note on the first channel. They must learn to tune in, but many of them have already learned this knowledge and it is part of their own training.

Correct! The inner senses are the portion of you that can be used with confidence to perceive these other realities. Now you should reread the material on the inner senses and all of you should learn what they are and how to use them!

I am not sure whether or not I correctly interpret your question. However, you only seem to be the main conscious part of your identity. Other portions of yourself may consider their selves as the main origin of personality. They would therefore look at you and at your ego, you see, as a fringe self. The ego seems to think that all other portions of the personality circle about it. This is hardly the case.

I have said this to you often, as a group; I say it [to] you again as a group, and I say it to you personally: you form the physical reality that you know. You form your daily life and your work situation. You make it, you choose it! Now, when you truly understand this, you can change it for the better, but until you really understand the truth behind my words, then you will look for excuses. Now you may partially be taken in by the excuses—Ruburt may be partially taken in by the excuses, but I am not taken in by the excuses! And an inner part of your own consciousness is not taken in by the excuses either!