“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

The Nature of The Psyche will in its own way delve into material that we have not touched upon thus far in to any considerable degree. It will be a source book for all of those who try to understand the self as it operates consciously and unconsciously. There will be portions, therefore, dealing with sexuality, lesbianism and homosexuality, as well as the more recognized categories.

Certain methods of self-enlightenment in my book will serve as quite adequate techniques, that can be used to acquaint the known self with other portions of the psyche. The solution to many practical problems, such as poor family relationships, or health difficulties, or any specific areas of difficulty, can be more completely understood and resolved as a result of such general knowledge and overall enlightenment.

Such expansion of consciousness itself automatically results in the solution of such problems. I am not speaking here of a one-sided expansion, in which so-called occult tendencies are emphasized at all, but in an overall reeducation of consciousness, in which the operational self becomes aware of areas that have been considered taboo.

Ruburt’s work with the contents of the mind, for example, is barely started, and I will include his exercises in my book (amused)—while giving him full credit, of course. Such expansion reacquaints the known self with the great energy that supports it, therefore bringing an individual to a point of understanding in which the concept of a safe universe makes sense. The idea of a personal universe will be emphasized.

As Ruburt’s physical condition changes, this “merely” signifies a turnabout in his entire handling of himself as psyche and self form a new alliance.

Your ideas about the psyche are at the basis of your civilization. If you cannot trust the self, then you will see social and civic organizations primarily as ways of directing the self in certain areas, prohibiting its full power. Any work, even inconsequential work, will be seen as beneficial, to “take up the self’s time.” Your governments are set up because you do not trust the self. This does not mean that governments in the future cannot exist for the fulfillment of the self and the society.

You cannot equivocate: you trust the self or you do not.

You cannot consistently ignore your own rhythms and expect your best performance. You need light for painting—but you would find the nighttime good for psychic experience, and for writing. Even more than Ruburt, however, you are programmed otherwise. Society would be restructured if the self were trusted, yet more work would be produced.