“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

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.

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.

You have ten fingers and you use them all. Yet, what you are saying is, “This finger is my conscious awareness and I will use it and I will not use these other nine—or if I use these other nine, I cannot use my conscious awareness.” Your fingers are all fingers and these other portions of yourself are all conscious. They may not be conscious of each other. They may not be conscious of each other, but they are conscious. They are all part of your own identity. They are all portions of your abilities and personalities...that you are meant to use.

Other portions of your consciousness may have as much difficulty seeing through the windows as you do. You will find yourself, for example, looking through many of these windows at the same time. And in these windows you may view other portions of yourself. These portions may seem objective—distant from you—and different. You may seem to be viewing strangers. The viewpoint is entirely different form the viewpoint of any other figures, however. Do you follow me?

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.

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.

Now, the reincarnational information is available, not only on my part but on your own. And when you are ready, you will accept it from yourself and from me. When you are ready to accept it, you will already have worked through many problems that have stood in your way.