“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

In other words the ego is not familiar with the probable self, but certain portions of the subconscious are. For the subconscious, like the probable self, is aware of its existence in the inverted time system. The subconscious is aware of many realities which are not accepted by the ego as actual physical events, and it reacts to many stimuli of which the ego is completely unaware.

Of itself however it does not make these judgments in those terms. The decision as to whether or not a particular probable event should be perceived as a physical one depends, of course, upon the nature of the ego which would then experience it. The probable self does not make the decision, but merely passes on the data which it has received through its own experience with the event.

The information is sifted often through the dreaming self to the subconscious, which has intimate knowledge of the ego with which it is closely connected. The subconscious makes its own value judgments here, and passes these on to the ego. But then the ego must come to its own decision.

(Ordinarily, Jane said, she would have had a cigarette during the delivery; but this time she “got the message” that she was not to smoke. It came on a parallel level while she was speaking other words aloud. She felt no force preventing her hand from reaching for a smoke, yet she didn’t feel free to reach for one.

(In the 222nd session Seth asked Jane not to smoke during tests. Sometimes seriously but more often humorously, he has gone into the reasons behind Jane’s smoking in these sessions: 31, 32, 147, 148, 149, 150, 151, 222.

Now. This probable self can be reached through hypnosis, but only with excellent subjects and an excellent operator.

Its data will agree when taken within its own framework, but this will be the only clue visible at first sight. The probable self, as far as I know, has not yet been reached in any hypnotic experiments. It has been glimpsed however, but not recognized as a separate part of the self, in dream recordings given in analytic sessions.

Learning to some extent is indeed passed on through the genes, bio-chemically, but this is a physical materialization of inner knowledge achieved and retained from past lives. Human beings learn mainly through experience, and the experience is derived from past experience in other existences.

They changed it in their own individual ways, and not in your ways. But this will be discussed at a much later time. Yet all of this occurs, basically, within the blinking of an eyelid, so to speak, yet all with purpose and with meaning, and based upon achievement and responsibility. Each portion of the self, while independent to some considerable degree, is nevertheless responsible to every other portion of the self, and each whole self, or individuality, is responsible to all others while it is still largely independent as to activity and decision.

(“and some sort of a grand affair, such as a ball.” A reference to the wedding, but hardly to a ball.

(“An initiation, and a bringing together of fragments.” We thought this of course a reference to Linda’s marriage. The use of the word fragments here, by Seth, led us to think that reincarnational motives might be involved in the marriage; but I did not think to quiz Seth about this when he resumed. In the very early sessions Seth began to use fragment as a reference to each physical personality manifested by the entity.

(“Too many too soon. November six three”, are very accurate references to Linda, but are here not explained because of personal reasons on her part. The data are available however to anyone making a study of these experiments. The numbers refer to November 1963; during this month Linda was involved in a strong emotional experience that was unique for her.

Indeed. This referred to the altar arrangement. The “initiation” referred to the marriage of course, but also to the beginning of a new tradition in the particular church where for the first time a Protestant was allowed into the altar section.

The older man represented the groom’s father, simply because of the discussion concerning him Sunday. (But see Jane’s comment on page 285.

(I did not write it down earlier, but we thought Seth had referred to the home of my parents and the house next door. The connection is far-out: My brother, father of the Protestant bride who married a Catholic, was at my parents’ home Sunday; the people who live next door are Catholic.

I did indeed. It is of a help to Ruburt, but soon we shall not need it.

His dream represented several layers of information; on a superficial layer it represented his knowledge that fear of physical childbirth is not a deterrent to him. On another level it represented a knowledge that a future endeavor would at first appear to be two separate endeavors, two separate accomplishments not connected to each other; but on later examination it will be seen that they are unified.

(End at 11:01. Jane was well dissociated, she said. Her eyes had opened often, and halfway through the delivery she had opened her glasses, as if to put them on. Her pace had been good but her voice had sounded tired. Now she said she did feel tired at the end of the session.)