“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

This phenomena is not meant to explain legitimate instances in which the personality and consciousness itself returns for purposes of communication. This image trace is a lingering manifestation, an imprint within your system, a part of its reality, and is held within it as you might for example retain an idea in your mind long after the idea has been expressed physically. As a painting that is destroyed physically may still be retained in your mind, so in the reality of the physical system a trace remains, an image trace of the camouflage structure that enclosed a given personality.

There is a corresponding image, held always within the inner consciousness of those who pass out of your system. (Long pause. One of several here.) This is indelible, but not always immediately available for reference. It forms a part of the whole inner self. We would prefer that you not think of any given entire entity in terms of a physical structure, though we have ourselves used the term structure to make explanations simpler, and will probably do so again.

The concept, structure, can be used by you in many ways—as a vehicle to carry many differing ideas. A personality communicating with your system, who was once a part of it, can make use of this trace image. The trace image is not his consciousness however. His consciousness is aware of the trace image, and on occasion can utilize it.

Consciously, you are able to focus within, understand, and gain development in, one field of reality at a time. (Smile.)

These points, these coordinates, are all about you and impinge upon your physical form and your universe constantly, but you cannot understand nor perceive them. Consciously you work with what you call a one-reality field psychological structure. Other portions of your entire entity are not so limited.

This is simplified. Consciously you deal with those problems of one given physical life. Consciously you are not aware of what you call reincarnations, though these occur within your own system. Now these are not separate existences at all. They only appear so to you. Your earth identity (smile) in singular terms, is one existence. When you sleep at night and awaken, you do not suppose yourself a new personality, or imagine that you have died during the night. This is what you do when you imagine that you have several existences as different people.

Your real existence, even within your system, is too much for you to deal with in conscious terms, therefore the seeming segments. You know you live these seemingly different lives simultaneously, as you gain development, but it is always you gaining development in a variety of roles. I stress therefore that unity. It is only because consciously you do not realize the unity that the various reincarnations seem so diverse and separate.

So while you operate in a one-reality field psychological structure, you do not on a conscious level even perceive its entire reality, nor your place in it. The word progression is a poor one, and again however I must use it. (Pause; smile.) Seth’s material on action will help you here.

Your consciousness expands and develops according to its own abilities. Previous lives are handled in conscious terms when you are in existence between physical lives. When you are completed in those terms you may operate within a two-reality field psychological pattern, in which you are consciously aware of existing in two systems at once, and able to manipulate with full awareness within each.

I am barely beginning to hint here of the psychological structures and capacities. In some way the inner self becomes the conscious egotistical self in your terms. (Pause.) Consciousness handles more and more activity. (Pause.) Feeling then is allowed to directly (long pause; hesitant) activate. (Pause.) We are not getting this concept through as clearly. (Pause.) Thought instantly becomes as real as your physical universe is to you.

Ruburt spoke before the session of handling aggression. Consciously you have the emotions of one personality to contend with and to direct constructively. One set of responsibilities and potentials. At other levels you have the problems, potentials and responsibilities of many to contend with in the same manner.

(She said that sometimes “these personalities” seem to be able to look into her mind and see how she is going to deliver a bit of data; if they don’t approve, then they can change the way they give it to her to speak, so we’ll take it the right way. Jane said she used to distrust this process greatly, but no longer does so. She thinks this may be why she doesn’t completely lose consciousness during sessions—so she can aid the personalities as they make use of her verbal discrimination.

These sessions themselves are a very slight evidence. As you have mentioned, Ruburt’s egotistical self is now aware of potentialities and problems that did not exist for it earlier. For the reality did not exist consciously then.

In conscious projections you are also learning to deal to some extent with multifield psychological realities. Much that I will tell you concerning my psychological structure will be initially based upon some information you have concerning the inner senses, for these are my conscious senses.

Using them consciously automatically brings about a psychological reality so different from your own as to be alien. In terms of value fulfillment there is such a multitudinous variety of simultaneously held experiences that you could not contain them and hold the realization of your own identity.