“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

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.

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.

In one respect, and in quite a legitimate and objective manner, all thoughts are also projections. They leave you in an objective actual manner, and exert an objective effect. They are a part of your psychic identity projected outward, yet you do not feel any loss. Nor are you aware of what happens to these thoughts. You could not retain simultaneously all and exert all the thoughts of your lifetime thus far in any normally conscious way. To do so would be psychological suicide.

You do retain coded memory of these. The thoughts themselves, also psychic realities, were projected outward, changing and affecting the physical environment in direct and objective terms. They acted independently of you after their projection. Nevertheless they changed your (underlined) environment. Indeed, they form the environment.

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.

Now I have little to say concerning Ruburt’s condition. I have said what is important and the suggestions that I gave you in the last two sessions still apply. He is learning.