“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(Recently, just after retiring for the night, Jane had the feeling that momentarily she had left her body. Her actual sensation was one of returning to it. She could not say where she had been, if any place else. The sensation was extremely brief, she said, and hard to describe. Indeed, she had forgotten about it until just before tonight’s session.

But the personality is always in a state of becoming, and forever changes. The personality is an excellent example of action in one aspect. It is important here also to realize that while the personality is always in motion, the motion involved here is not one of mobility in space as you know it. It is most definitely motion in terms of value fulfillment.

(As I was transcribing the above involved sentence from Jane’s dictation I was somewhat aware that it contained incomplete phrases. I thought it best to continue, rather than to backtrack in an effort to straighten it out. As usual my mind was on getting the next word on paper, rather than to critically appraise each one. Jane now took a long pause before resuming.)

The ego would if it could, stop personality’s motion and development for the security of stability. The ego would drive the personality into preconceived channels. This consciousness-of-self—I suggest hyphens between consciousness-of-self—this consciousness-of-self is seen in man as personality, as the human personality. It appears, however, in all types of consciousness to one degree or another.

(Jane now took one of her very long pauses. For well over a minute she sat quite still, her eyes closed.)

Theoretically, the self is unlimited, if you will recall. The ego within your field is limited because of the nature of its rigidity. The ego operates as a partitioning agent. It directs and uses the abilities of the personality for manipulation in the physical universe. It can mobilize a smaller or larger amount of these energies according to its own strength. It has a small focus but a powerful one.

There is a very delicate balance always maintained, and later on we will have a whole section of our material that will deal with the personality in relation to other phenomena. We are speaking of it this evening mainly in terms of its reality as a part of action. As we speak of such subjects in their relation to various phenomena, again it must be kept in mind that such realities are being considered often from one aspect only, but that their reality extends into many other dimensions.

Such a remark may appear so simple that it is not worth saying, but it is extremely important that it be understood. In like manner, there is indeed no particular boundary or line of demarcation between the dream universe and the physical universe. Any seeming barrier is artificial, for all these realities merge one into the other, and an action in one affects the other.