“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Now. Your stereophonic setting can be compared to what we have termed the inner ego. Now each of these selves experience time in their own manner, and as you should see by now this only means that they build their own realities according to the nature of their own perceptions. But the nature of their own perceptions is not chaotic. The portions of the self are so constructed, so to speak, that when the stereophonic channel is turned on the selves then know their unity. Their various realities merge in the overall perceptions of the whole self.

There is communication between them but they are not aware of it. The tape is the element common to all the channels. Now. The inner ego is the director as you know, but the whole self must know itself simultaneously. It is not enough that the inner ego knows what is going on. Ultimately therefore the inner ego must itself bring about comprehension on the parts of the various portions.

I will suggest a break, and we shall continue this material. I also will have a few pertinent but brief remarks later in the session concerning last evening.

Now, the time in which the inner ego exists is, as you know, the spacious present. The spacious present is the basic time in which the whole self has its existence, but the various portions of that self have their experience in their own time systems, which are the results of their characteristic methods of perception.

Now. It should be obvious that the psychological framework must be different when the time system of experience is different. You can see easily for yourself the individual psychological variations that exist simply between the ego and the subconscious, but these portions of the self are very close. Other portions of the self, that deal in what you would call probable realities, are very different in their psychological makeup.

There is a chameleonlike characteristic, a continuity, not in terms of successive moments, but a continuity in terms of design. Events are perceived in what would seem a most alien manner to the ego. The probabilities are traveled through, so to speak. Identity or continuity of the self is retained and strengthened in a series of simultaneous events, with value fulfillment foremost insofar as purposeful action is concerned.

The ego maintains much of its stability by looking backwards, so to speak, into its experience of its past, and finding something of itself there. Now the past may be an illusion, but it is not illusion to the ego. The portions of the self that deal in probabilities do not have such an experience with a past, to give them their feeling of identity or continuity.

The identity, the basic identity, of these portions of the self, are carried by what you could compare to the subconscious that you know. This is difficult, but listen: in these portions of the self it is the subconscious that carries the burden of identity, and it is the ego whose experiences are of a dreamlike, plastic nature. I use these terms to make the point clear. Do not let them confuse you. These portions of the self would seem topsy-turvy to you for this reason.

(Break at 10:07. Jane had been dissociated as usual. Her eyes had opened often and been very dark. She had spoken slowly but with emphasis, and said she could almost feel Seth wanting her to get just the right words. Her manner had been intent, as though she worked much harder than usual for the material. She had not smoked.

Something resembling a bench, but small and lighter in weight. Old- fashioned, it is old-fashioned. (Pause.) I have the impression of a miniature antique, of Victorian style, and it is scrolled. (Pause.) The legs, I believe, are scrolled. This is our object.

Near him now, a miscellany of objects, small ones, some of them white, that look like marble. Perhaps figurines, but they are not marble. (Pause.) A knock on the door. (Pause at 10:20.) This is at his home, and a caller, a male, younger than he, a fairly young male, perhaps a student. (Pause.)

(“and an occurrence that was not repeated.” The sheriff told us the bureau was flooded by mail requests for plates and was very much behind; indeed they had just begun filling mail orders a day or so before our visit. The sheriff advised us to return a few days later if we did not receive our plates. Although we didn’t receive the plates by the day he mentioned, we did not return to the bureau as he said to do, but chose to wait a little longer; the plates arrived the next week.

(“Many colors.” We can think of connections here but do not have enough data. I neglected to ask Seth to elaborate when he resumed.

(“A sweeping out.” Again, we can think of connections but feel the data too general. I did not ask Seth to elaborate.

Now, Ruburt’s subconscious simply got in our way at last evening’s session. Now and then it is to be expected, but I regret the particular circumstances deeply. He was subconsciously but never consciously aware that next month marked the time of his grandfather’s death, and subconsciously he knew his grandfather’s age at death.

When I gave my material it was meant to be reassuring. This was my intent. But when I tried to give information regarding Ruburt, the subconscious activity interrupted. We had his identification with his grandfather momentarily, and the subsequent distortion.

I would apologize to Ruburt, but the distortion was not my own. I do deeply regret it however. I also think that you will find his attitude from now on an improvement over his past attitude, as far as our experiments are concerned, and this will be of benefit to all of us.