“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

It was a welcome to the spontaneous self, expressed creatively. The idea is an excellent one. A poetic statement carries weight for his personality, and this poetic statement has almost magical connotations. As natives do a dance to induce rain, with often excellent results, so Ruburt’s poem represents the same sort of incantation.

When the offending emotion is recognized as a part of the self it can then be rather harmlessly dispensed with. It takes its place along with other personality traits. It gains its power and strength only when it is forcibly isolated, for it then cannot merge with the normal ebb and flow of subjective activity.

Good events cannot help it, then, for the personality does not admit it is a portion of itself.

He is in the process of freeing himself, but the assurances from you can quicken the process considerably. The working schedule will help also, for as he sees the product of his spontaneity, he knows he can trust it. The body worked overtime in quelling spontaneity, and used needed reserves to maintain the symptoms. The same reserves, you see, can be used to construct images. When images of survival personalities appear, they must also utilize such properties.

It is not something to be controlled. It is something that will take its place with the other elements of his personality, merge with it, add its strength, and set up its own system of balances with other groupings of characteristics. These groupings balance themselves. Tell him this. There is no need to treat one characteristic as a stepchild.

They were observed by others. They were hysterical productions born of your own desperation and given instant physical validity. Your unconscious awareness was within them. They had no independent personality consciousness of their own.

(“What does the new personality, the larger Seth, think of our time system? He must have experienced many different ones.”