“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

In the first stage, Ruburt projected through physical reality and saw personalities who had very recently died in physical terms. Now, it is very difficult to tell you simply what happens at physical death, for the conditions vary considerably, according to the individual; his abilities and beliefs will largely determine what happens in those terms.

A personality may or may not realize the fact of physical death, for example. Literally, he may or may not find himself in a physical-seeming environment. He will be in a form, however, and will seem so to himself also.

Survival personalities can recognize an earthly projectionist, for the form is not fully materialized in their terms. Many of you do, while projecting, council and help those who are newly dead in physical terms.

We have been speaking of ascending selves in your terms. In your (underlined) terms, there are also, of course, descending selves, in that each atom and molecule has its own consciousness and contains all the characteristics inherent in consciousness itself. It is individualistic, it contains qualities you term personality qualities. It adopts form, gains experience, and develops through value fulfillment.

Your physical personalities as you know them are projecting personalities from the whole inner self. But the projecting fragments themselves, you see, do not come and leave unaffected, but grow and mature and develop, really, other portions of the self in continuing extensions. There are no dead-end projections.

The physical personality, a projection from a whole inner self, develops into more than it was, and has experiences that the inner self could not have under any but those particular circumstances.

I see no reason to go into the various personalities who congregate here, but if you are ever really interested, I will for you.