“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

I do not like the term... one self higher or more developed than....

Selves that ascend like stairs... yet in order to speak to you intelligently I must use this image at times. Therefore when I tell you that this other personality behind Adam may be a future self of your own, I am in no way telling you that this personality is a part of your personality structure as you think of it, or as your psychologists think of it.

You, as you know yourself, will not grow into this quote “higher” self. This higher self and you exist simultaneously. And yet the abilities and knowledge of this “higher” self can become part of your own conscious knowledge through the psychological bridge of which I have spoken.

On our young bride’s part... a spontaneity in passivity. Allowed to be passive you feel free to be spontaneous. Passivity, however, should be balanced on your part by more assertive action as far as habitual reactions are concerned. Some of this assertiveness can be met through artwork but it must be a going- out from self: a self-assertion, an expression of self—but directed then outward.

You are a you who has a consciousness and you can use this consciousness as you will. You can send it out, use it like a flashlight. You can light a universe with it. You are not your consciousness. You are a self who is conscious and has a consciousness. Now I want all of you, including my friend here (Rob) to contemplate the part of you who has this consciousness to use. There will seem that there is no place to go beyond that point. And there will appear an apparent dilemma. And yet the dilemma will lead to a further discovery. And by the time you know enough to throw that question back at me, that I have just asked you, then I will have more to tell you concerning the initial creative dilemma of which I have spoken.