“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

For one thing, you are not dealing with one linear self. The self is indeed multidimensional, and the driving force behind the self does not reside in the ego or in what you refer to as the subconscious.

Any such divisions are of course arbitrary to begin with. Practically speaking a self can be defined as an energy gestalt whose perceptions are organized under the auspices of apparent identity. The more of reality that is perceived the larger the dimensions of the self, or identity.

Now I mean this literally. Reality is on the one hand the product of perception. On the other hand that which is, is always present as the basis for any perception. That which is perceives itself, you see. The unitary self is basically an illusions and yet individuality is no illusion.

That information, you see, will never be found in physical terms. If such past memories are consciously recovered, as they have been, the closed mind of the academic psychologist will not see what he has, but will suppose the overworked imagination responsible. A fully developed psychology will not exist until reincarnation is accepted as a fact.

In the spacious present there are no such terms. Other selves, reincarnated within the physical system as physical creatures, experienced time as you do, as a series of moments strung out one before the other. Memories in dreams and in the trance state are usually already censored. As physical creatures alone you cannot remember the future. Therefore only past lives are ever recalled. In the dream state however what would appear to you as future lives are already familiar. To the inner senses all of these existences are simultaneous.

(“A miscellany of united objects or images, of small patterns like dots but larger than small dots. Light and dark, rather highly contracted.” Excellent data, and Jane did everything but name the object as pepper. I almost called a halt to the data here, on impulse, but then decided to see what else Seth came up with.

Tell Ruburt to call on me before he sleeps, and we shall see what we can do for his comfort. He is stubborn, but he is learning. The whole experience will be shortly over. Were it not for the benefit of his nature, and as a result of his nature, it would not have been necessary at all.

Those who strive high must know what they do, and understand the effects of not working hard enough, of not allowing themselves sufficient freedom. Apparently he could learn no other way. It will be an object lesson for the rest of his life, but it was not thrust upon him, you see.