“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.

The more unsafe the world is felt to be, then the more important protection is, and the more threatening, expression. Repression becomes the order of the day. The species however will always react against repression, no matter what its source, and so will the individual. On the whole the species is beginning to change its psychological sense of selfhood. There are periods in history when this happened before, and a new kind of civilization resulted. The earliest Jewish traditions represent one such change. The beginning period of the Egyptian civilization another, the birth of Christ another, and the beginning of the scientific age.