“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Now. For our friend Ruburt (pause; smile; eyes open), in simple terms now. He should know that the Jane self, the Jane personality, is not divided into highly specialized though effective units, as he has been wondering.

Jane does not call herself Jane as a writer; Ruburt on other occasions; Seth on other occasions, and so forth. There would be nothing wrong in such a framework, providing the various subdivisions worked together well. The Jane personality as a whole in that case would still be integrated, various portions of it simply designated for different kinds of work and ability.

Such an arrangement would indeed allow more freedom and creativity than usual. However this is not the case. There is instead not a working arrangement between various portions of one personality, but a working arrangement among many quite independent personalities. They exist in various dimensions, and all of them have access to knowledge that Jane does not possess.

This is not meant as a slur upon Jane’s own excellent abilities. On Jane’s part this would instead be an extension of her personality into areas far beyond the personality’s own capabilities at her time and in her space.

Now. Jane is correct in the idea she received from me this afternoon. Ruburt does not have my knowledge. I will always be your main communicator. The other two personalities (Ruburt and Seth’s entity) have been involved at my request, for purposes having to do with our material and purposes.

Now apropos (Nandor) Fodor’s book (the title will be given at the end of this session), yes, Jane, there is a Seth (emphatic delivery, leaning forward, eyes open), and I was not born a psychic infant from your own personality. Nor was I formed in such a manner. (Relaxed, a smile.)

Fodor’s idea is that personalities loosely in the same category as myself are indeed legitimate. He nicely concludes that we have a right to existence, and even possess a certain consciousness. However, he believed that we were divergent portions of a medium’s consciousness, that had gained relative independence.

Now this is a more respectable theory than many, but in my case it is not the correct one. Again, the theories of personality that are taken for granted within your system still manage to confuse you. It is a highly simplified version of the truth to say that I am a spirit, in those terms, though in those terms I am indeed.

I am utterly independent of Jane in any terms that have practical meaning in generally held concepts of personality. I did not emerge from Ruburt’s personality nor person in any way. I have lived often in physical existence. But in larger terms, quite unacceptable at present to psychology, all of us are part of the same entity. Do you understand the difference?

Now the same is true of Ruburt. I have always addressed Jane as Ruburt, as you know. Therefore the emergence of Ruburt confused Jane. Quite without knowing, Jane has always been aware of Ruburt’s existence. Now again, Ruburt is not part of Jane’s personality, in your terms, nor did he emerge from it.

Now Ruburt, compared to Jane’s self 3 in these terms, is closer to Jane, so close that Jane has often accepted inspiration and ideas from Ruburt without realizing it. Ruburt is the sum (smile) of the present ... Ruburt ... I want to get this as clear as possible ... Ruburt is the sum of the earthly personalities, intimately aware of all past lives.

There were certain capabilities and potentials, always present, that could not be fulfilled through physical reincarnations. Probabilities that never became actualities through any life (pause), a latent personality then that went its own way, and, quite literally was never a physical person. (Long pause.)

Each of the personalities alive on your own earth are connected. When such contacts occur, say between Ruburt and myself, then I draw upon those connections and activate certain common pathways.

In this life Jane has always been able to utilize psychic abilities very well, without knowing it. The basis of her work then was psychic. Without this the development into what you call mediumship would not have occurred. In Ruburt’s case, you had better put Jane’s case here, the personality was able to mature enough to consciously handle more and more data, to let further developments occur. Otherwise for example I would only have been able to communicate to Jane in her dreams, or through Ruburt.

The same is true of entities and various personalities that are allied with them. Your own creativity, your painting, has always had a psychic basis, and in your case—back to our analogy—self 3 has helped you. Self 2 followed the same path, relatively speaking, as Ruburt’s self 2. You had better substitute Jane there.

To cover all points until the situation becomes clearer, I still suggest that neither of you drive with another person. When the situation either develops more firmly in the line of probability or shows signs of disappearing, I will let you know.