“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Distortions occur at transitionary points, or at points of imbalances. There is a meshing then of data from various levels. A projection obviously need not be conscious. The waking self may be engaged in normal activities while the inner self is someplace else entirely. There are more brief periods of forgetfulness however than people usually realize, and in these periods often projections have occurred.

Obviously the self that engages upon this study is not the waking normal consciousness, which becomes instead part of that which is studied, so another portion of the self is brought into activity. All of these exercises provide training that helps you in all your other work. This particular exercise however definitely requires some success in the recognition of dream projections.

The ordinary waking consciousness is left intact, you see. Another portion of the self catches it unaware, leaves no ripple upon its surface, and looks beneath it to other layers of reality. You are watching the self in motion.

It goes without saying that the part that watches also belongs to the self, but it does not belong to the self as the self is thought of in usual psychological terms. You are bringing into operation, and exercising a higher faculty, and through these exercises this faculty matures.

It matures as far as the normal you is concerned, you see. You are able to use more and more of its abilities. I am telling this to you because you may find that you are performing this exercise spontaneously. You are about ripe for it. This other self, or portion of the self, can be utilized also in dream projections and in deliberate projections. it is the part of Ruburt with which I normally work.

We must use analogies. It can be thought of as the most exterior projection of the inner ego. When you find yourself, so to speak, watching what you think of as the ego, then you are in contact with this portion of the self. It is aware of both conscious and subconscious motivations and realities, and it is also aware of projections into other fields of actuality. I have hinted before of these matters, for when I say that you will use this other portion of the self to examine waking consciousness and probe beneath it, I already presuppose a you that uses this self. In other words, you are already magnifying the limitations of the self and extending them.

The self grows as you use it. Its potentials always exist, on the one hand. On the other hand, if you did not utilize them they may as well not exist now, for your purposes. The whole self is being expanded, is beginning to know itself, for it always was what it will appear to be. Yet until it realizes this, its existence cannot be valid completely in terms of self-knowledge or realization.

There are, again, no limitations to the self, but those that you create. These become valid limitations for all practical purposes however. When you learn, and you are learning, to extend the limitations of your self, you simply become aware of what you are already. You become more aware, but there is always more to become aware of.

Various levels of consciousness are projected from the self in much the same manner. They are united however as interior and subsidiary identities that are a part of your own, and they are sent out by the inner self for various reasons. The thought is a psychological reality, a psychological and psychic identity but not a structured personalized identity. The self may send out fragments of itself in projections. These may or may not be structured personalized identities though they will be dependent for their existence upon the whole self.

You will become practically concerned with the extension of the self as you know it in these terms. You will become intimately aware of this other portion of the self very shortly.