“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

I do not approve of what has been said so far. And there are a few points I would like to make. You have not one, but many conscious selves. You have more than one conscious mind. What we want you to do is something quite different. We want you to change the channels of your awareness. We want you momentarily to stop using one of your conscious minds and learn how to tune into another one of your conscious minds.

These other portions of your own consciousness are alert even in the sleep state. You may not have always been aware of these other conscious portions of yourself, but they are not vague. They are not vague. You may need to learn the methods by which you can perceive other realities ... simply because you are not used to manipulating these other conscious portions of yourself. But these portions are as critical and even as intellectual and as waking and as valid and as real as the consciousness with which you are ordinarily familiar.

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.

Now. Theoretically, you can be aware of more than one consciousness at once. Practically speaking, you must close one door before you can open another. Then you can learn to have both open at the same time. What I objected to in your recording was the implication that once the conscious mind as you know it was quieted there was no other conscious mind to take over, and that the ordinary conscious mind was the only conscious mind that you have.

All you have to do is swing the flashlight in other directions. You must momentarily, for now, shift the focus of the flashlight. And when you shift it, the direction in which you are used to looking will momentarily appear dark, but other images and realities will become available to you. There is nothing to prevent you from swinging the flashlight back. And when you learn what you are doing, when you learn what you are doing—then you will learn how to hold the flashlight stationary and still illuminate all these other areas. And these whole other areas represent human personality and all its potentials.

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!

There is no penance! You are here to develop. You do learn the consequences of your thoughts and actions, and you face them. But there is no penance! And I tell you this: there is no guilt. And I tell you: there is no guilt. You learn the consequence of your action and you face the consequence of your action. You create the idea of guilt. And when you believe in guilt, then you create the penance in accordance to how strongly you believe in the guilt.

I will now bid you good evening. But before I go, let me say this: Ruburt does not let himself realize, as yet, what he knows. For right now he feels he cannot afford to. He is learning to operate in several realities at once. Now, in answer to a question that you asked earlier, I have spoken of this in the past—for a moment...