“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

The further you are removed from so-called historical fact, the greater the fabrication, of course. The true story of identity is vastly complicated. In your terms you do exist in the past, present and future simultaneously. You do have an identity of your own that is never annihilated. On the other hand there are no boundaries to that identity, so that each self is not like a definite unit, always the same. And to some extent one self or identity cannot be equated with any other.

You like to deal with classifications, so that you equate one apple with one other apple, one cat with another cat, one person with another person. The greater varieties of subjective experience, however, allow for no such easy equations.

(9:54.) When I use the word “equal,” however, I am not speaking of superiority or inferiority at all. In basic terms, however, you cannot equate one self with another self—or for that matter one life with another life, for the subjective realities of people involve dimensions that do not show physically.

Your attitudes before—and after—our last session, about Ruburt’s condition, can be equated however with precisely such uncreative and cowed frames of mind. To some extent those attitudes have been habitual. Carried to extremes, such a would-be artist or writer would never complete a painting or a book—not because of any lack of ability but because of lack of confidence and poor mental attitudes.