“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Give us a moment … I am putting this as simply as possible; but when your “original self” enters [part of] itself into three-dimensional life from an inner reality, the energy waves carrying it break — not simply into one particle, following our analogy, but into a number of conscious particles. In certain terms these are built up using the medium at hand — the biological properties of the earth. They spread out from the “point of contact,” forming individual lives. In your conception of the centuries, then, there are other counterparts of yourself living at the same time and in different places — all creative versions of the original self. There is a great intimate cooperation that exists biologically and spiritually between all of the beings on your planet “at any given time.” You are all connected psychically in terms of inner and outer structures. A certain identity and cohesiveness is also maintained because of these inner connections.

10. Material in many of the sessions in the first section of Volume 1 touches upon the contents of this paragraph. In the 687th session, Seth stated: “I am saying that the individual self must become consciously aware of far more reality; that it must allow its recognition of identity to expand … move beyond the concepts of one god, one self, one body, one world, as those ideas are currently understood.”

And Seth in his Preface for Volume 1: “Here, I wish to make it clear that this book will initiate a journey in which it may seem that the familiar is left far behind. Yet when I am finished, I hope you will discover that the known reality is even more precious, more ‘real.’ …”