“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

I spoke of many minds in our last book session. Esoteric literature has mentioned various levels of reality, numbered and named them. These refer, however, to man’s other minds. They represent other kinds of mental experience, in which reality is organized differently. Identity itself is put together in another fashion. I could have said that one mind had many variations, but then you would still try to understand the concept using your old ideas about identity itself. You grow out of identities, and into others, all the while retaining an indestructible portion that does the changing. You do not discard a self as you might throw off a coat, but you do have a wardrobe of selves. This happens even in the life you know and recognize, even though you do everything possible to exaggerate the similarities and minimize the differences, so that you always seem to be the self that you have always known.

Personally, Ruburt understands however that he exaggerated the negative elements of his condition, thinking that he was being realistic. He did not realize that before. When you look at the world and interpret its condition in the same way, you end up in an impossible situation as a people, for your learned coping mechanisms themselves reinforce the situation.