“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(The first part of this session, being personal, was not used in the Appendix for Seth’s book. Therefore I let its typing-up go until we had finished with the book. The book was mailed to Prentice-Hall on November 15, after extensive rewriting of the notes, additional proofreading, etc. Jane and I now are free, we feel, to do our own thing.)

Now. I will give you some material for our appendix. First I have some personal notes, if you do not mind.

Now this does have personality characteristics in terms of consciousness and intent. Very positive ones, initially set into motion by Ruburt’s desire to help others, and attempts to do so. This is a form built up by him unconsciously in a realm other than the physical, and it is gaining in strength and expertise.

It will also be able to guide him in a highly personal manner, again, as it continues to develop. It is born and nurtured in those feelings of peace, joy and contentment that he experiences watching his oak tree. (Out the kitchen window.)

These are personalities, in that they do possess consciousness, in this case built upon Ruburt’s most creative tendencies. Such personalities are extremely faithful.

(“Did he have a negative personality like this?”)

To that extent it was consistent. It was not driven however by intent. In one way both personalities were accidental, in that Ruburt did not consciously (underlined) form either. In deeper terms however it was a creature of default, of frustration, and lack-of. (Seth’s punctuation.)

When the frustrations were faced and worked through more and more, the creature then lost its strength. It was not given the unifying qualities of intent and purpose. In the helper, you see, you find a binding quality, where the deepest drives of the personality for good are freed, actually, released in another realm of activity to continue the personality’s main intents.

Now. We have gone very lightly into such material, because of the interpretation that can be, and has been, given to it in the past. If you are not careful, you see, you end up with whole leagues of in quotes “devils and angels,” only completely disconnected from human personality. Independent agents of good or evil, out to tempt men or save them, as the case may be.

Now these beings can be perceived of course by others, either traveling through those realms or within them. They are not thought-forms. They are energy forms. (Pause.) They know others of their kind. They can communicate with the psychic or spiritual levels of consciousness of living persons. (Long pause.)

The black thing could be called a shadow image. The dark side of the personality gaining dominance for a time. The helper represents the strongest, most creative aspects of personality, gaining greatly in ascendancy. In between you see the image is much the same as the one shown by the normal personality—the weaknesses and strengths balancing out.

Often the black thing, or dark side of the personality, sensed and acknowledged that it was responsible for the helper, or the helper’s birth. Do you follow me there?

Those familiar with a helper very rarely ever experience their equivalent black thing again, though the black thing can appear many times before the personality changes its ways, and grows.