“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

The inner self is intimately connected with each reality, though you are not aware of it, and the inner self can trace its own connections through the network of any existence, and still keep its identity. When we speak then of the beginnings of your system, we speak only in consideration of your own ideas of time.

Its sense of identity spontaneously goes beyond the change of its own form. It has no ego to cut the I identification short. Creatures without the compartment of the ego can easily follow their own identity beyond any change of form. The inner self is aware of this integrity of identity, but the ego focused so securely in physical reality cannot afford this luxury.

Any consciousness is therefore innately aware of its basic identity. The inner self knows what is behind the stars and planets that the eyes views, but the ego would be swept aside in panic. This system spoken of earlier, the sun and original 9 planets, in your terms, have long ago passed into and formed other universal systems. The whole cosmic structure however was the materialization of one original thought, for the thought, the real reality, must always exist before the representation of it.

(Seth, it seemed, occupied a space about five feet high—a “blob” of space into which I could step, just at the limit of Jane’s reach, without disturbing him or without Jane sensing me as a separate entity within Seth’s province. Seth’s presence lingered into the evening as the three of us talked.

(Jane said she never sensed him above her—that would lead to the pyramid effect, she said. Either side seemed to be the rule, not front or back either. He’s either in me or to the side,” she said, “and boy he’s having a ball tonight!”)