“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Now, my welcome to our friend here, and we will for now continue with our discussion. The term, identity, like many other terms, is limited, for you think of identity as being one indivisible unit. Now. Identity is not dependent upon any sort of structure, as you know it.

Psychic identity does not need to set up barriers in order to recognize selfhoods. One personality can therefore be a portion of more than one entity, and still retain its own identity, its own individuality. Various groupings of experience exist. It is your concept of time that highly limits your idea of individuality.

The various ego structures therefore exist simultaneously. They are entirely outside of any such framework. They are aware of your perception of time, but it means nothing to them. The various egos of any personality do not think of themselves as having existed one before the other.

(9:01. Jane’s trance had been a good one but she came out fairly easily. She thought the trance had been deeper than usual to cover many distractions: the weather and new rain, traffic noise, a party going on downstairs, etc.

You must understand that in any way your situation, and any that you know of physical reality, is highly artificial. It is the mass creation formed by your inner ideas. The time concept is but one example, and it is responsible for many of your most cherished misconceptions. You must form ideas into physical materialization in order to recognize the force behind the ideas you are learning to use and understand. However such materializations are only necessary at certain levels. The time scheme appears valid only within that framework.

This is also responsible for the fact that it is difficult to understand how one personality, while retaining its individuality, can be a portion of more than one entity, and we will have more to say on that subject as we continue with the time concept.

Give us a moment. The personality has been a male in four lives, and in each of these there was the building interest, although in one the main work involved irrigation and viaducts.

At one time the personality’s sister was a father to the present personality. Since many of the building plans involved the construction of various kinds of temples, the personality has always been interested in acquiring knowledge concerning the nature of reality. There has been little concern with commerce. There is a need on the present personality’s part to understand its own nature, and to use its abilities constructively. The personality has not come to grips with itself truly, but has the inner persistence and intuitiveness to do so.

An over-insistence upon sticking to one subject imposes limitations. There is no boundary line between for example experience and time, nor any natural separation. Such artificial ones may make neater paragraphs, Joseph... (Humorously.