“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

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.

Communications exist between all portions of the self, and all parts of the personality; or parts of the whole self, rather, operate as what you may call a supraself. Ruburt has referred to this as a supraconsciousness. This is the identity, the whole identity, of the various portions of the self that operate within various systems. To this supraself, of course, your ego future can be easily viewed.

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

Now you are looking at the personality with the ego as your starting point. Other portions of the personality however perceive, or attempt to perceive, the whole self from their own starting point. The ego is seen in quite a different light when it is viewed by other portions of the self. It is not viewed—this was a poor term—as much as it was experienced, for no portion of the personality can be viewed as an object.

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 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.