“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

The energy of the overly conscientious self is as strong as that of the spontaneous self, hence the impasse that had been reached. He can only go full steam ahead when the whole personality is convinced of his course. For the personality knows full well the tremendous force of its own energy potential, and it would be literally disastrous for one portion to go ahead at the expense of the other. Therefore, regardless of present consequences, one portion has been kept down in order to avoid any serious, that is disastrous, cleavage.

(10:02. Jane experienced an average dissociation, she said. She felt she didn’t get as “deep” as she did last night, and her pace ended up quite a bit slower. She couldn’t get the material through in the two instances noted; in the past, she said, she wouldn’t have been aware of this, so she considered this new awareness an advancement over the past.

When your words disagreed with his spontaneous self severe conflicts arose. This is important. You were through your art however also connected to his spontaneous self. Originally you saw Ruburt as the spontaneous self, and your ideas of discipline were quickly gobbled up by the overly conscientious self before you recognized its existence.

The overly conscientious self is the part that will retreat, that carries grudges, that believes an eye for an eye, and is relatively uncompromising. It must be made to understand that the spontaneous self is innately good and can be trusted. It needs to be lovingly protected; but lovingly, not hindered nor fought nor held down.

Indeed an improvement has already begun. Some realization has come to the overly conscientious self, even before last night’s session, or the session itself would have been much more difficult.

Very seldom. It should be remembered that the overly conscientious self is also responsible for lifelong continuity of purpose, giving direction to the spontaneous self.