“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

We spent many sessions in the past discussing the nature of action.

You understood, when we were done, that you perceive but a very brief glimpse of a small part of action as it exists. On a conscious level you perceive less than this.

Action and consciousness are forever bound together, and we discussed the structure of the personality from this viewpoint. Action is perceived within your system electromagnetically, in terms of intensities. The personality as you know it is merely the result of action as you perceive it in certain groupings at any given time.

As you become aware of the larger dimensions of action, so you will become more aware of what personality is. I have told you that you exist in more dimensions than you know. Now, these have been referred to by some as astral planes. They simply represent realities with which you are not consciously familiar, and they span the distortions of your time elements so that larger portions of the spacious present become apparent.

You can within them often perceive both your past and present simultaneously, but this has always been a characteristic of the whole self in any case. The whole self is not bound by any system. At various times more of the abilities of the whole self intrude, so to speak, upon the ego system. You then become conscious of action that escaped you earlier. This often occurs with the help of the dream state.

When you perceive merely the present personality, you are simply perceiving a small portion of action.

To perceive more of action immediately involves mobility, and I am not speaking in terms of space. The act of perception itself involves mobility through intensities, and the many facets of consciousness can only be experienced as a direct result of this inner mobility.

Death simply does not exist to the whole personality. Only the physically oriented portions of the self accept this as a finality. (Long pause.) Whenever you use abilities that to you seem supernormal, you are drawing upon the ability of the supraself. It is the whole I, and yet more than the sum of its parts. It is action highly aware, and quite able to change its components. It consists also of course of the probable selves of which we have spoken, and it unites and directs infinitely larger portions of action than possible for the physical personality.

Now, it directs and organizes this action, as for example your physical personality directs and organizes large portions of your physical image. (Long pause.) It can eventually be given a mathematical identity, or it can be discovered mathematically. All the personalities within it are independent, and survive as themselves, yet it is only part of a larger identity—which is to say that it itself is within the sphere of another psychological organization system or gestalt.

An awareness of the existence of the supraself is in itself of great benefit. The author of Ruburt’s new book calls this God, and I am simply telling you what it is. The supraself is indeed a portion of a higher gestalt, which is part of yet another higher consciousness-gestalt. This is true. But this supraself is you in a highly personal way, and it is superior in many aspects. It controls and organizes larger portions of action.

It operates for your benefit almost automatically in any case, for your benefit is its benefit, you see, and its energies are always at your disposal. This does not mean that you are dependent. You are independent as far as the actions you choose to take. You are however a part of your supraself, for it is a self which you will become, in your time terms. In other terms it is the self which you are; you can call upon your own supraconsciousness therefore, though there should be no reason to do so.