“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

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.

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.

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 within you and for you in any case. The awareness of its existence however has strong reassuring elements on a conscious level. You see you are not the low man on the totem pole however. There are lesser, so to speak, personalities within every dominant physical personality, and lesser identities quite independent within each personal system. To these the physical personality would seem like a supraself.