“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.

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.

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.

It is very close to the entity. Largely due to its abilities are the creative processes used, but hardly understood by the ego. In many cases this supraself is already, so to speak, moving into completely new systems. It is, of course, aware of your reincarnations on the individual’s part, but these are not present nor future to the self.

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.

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.