“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

The word “passive” is a poor one to describe the characteristics of the anima, in that it suggests a lack of motion, and this is hardly the case. It is true that the anima allows itself to be acted upon, but the motive behind this is the desire and the necessity to tune into other forces that are supremely powerful. The desire to be swept along, therefore, is as strong with the anima as the opposite desire for rest. The characteristics of the animus provide the aggressive thrust that returns the personality back outward into physical activities, triumphantly holding the products of creativity that the anima characteristics have secured.

The whole self is obviously the sum of these characteristics, and more. After the final incarnation, the physical, sexual type of creativity is simply no longer needed. You do not need to reproduce physically, in other words. In simple terms the whole self contains male and female characteristics, finely tuned together, blended so that true identity can then arise — for it cannot, when one group of characteristics must be emphasized over the other group, as it must be during your present physical existence.

The fabric of the present self is interwoven with these reincarnational “pasts,” and from them the present self draws unconsciously from its own bank of personality characteristics, activities, and insights. Often past-life memories come to the surface but are not recognized as such, since they appear in fantasy form, or are projected into art creations.

In dreams this reincarnational material is likewise cast into a dramatic mold very frequently. Beneath all this, the anima and the animus work together, again not opposites but blending characteristics. Together, of course, they represent the fount of creativity, psychically as well as physically.

Each of you trusted the same kind of characteristics in the other, to keep you where you thought you should be. In this life Ruburt saw those same characteristics in Father Ryan, where repression was used to keep him in the church. These characteristics were necessary in the situation as given, until Ruburt learned the nature of the self, and could begin to trust it. With the belief that he can trust the self, the creative self, the other characteristics become unnecessary, for you cannot force creativity.

They were meant to regulate creativity, as Nebene’s characteristics were. [...] These characteristics were also brought to activity in response to your own Nebene tendencies. [...]

[...] I will give you more about the origin of these characteristics. [...] The characteristics were meant to insure that he use his ability. [...]

[...] It was the correlation between the Nebene characteristics and Ruburt’s Nebene-like characteristics that helped keep affairs stirred up for some time.

[...] Characteristic phrases used, also gestures, actions, way of tossing head. [...] The display of personal characteristics, gestures, etc., would be highly convincing to a relation—and to them, be evidential. [...]

PERSONALITY CHARACTERISTICS

Love and devotion are largely seen as female characteristics. [...] But I am speaking of releasing within each individual the great human characteristics and abilities that are often denied expression because they are assigned to the opposite sex.

What you think of as (underlined) male ego-oriented characteristics are simply those human attributes that the species encouraged, brought into the foreground, and stressed. [...]

Those characteristics that you consider female are, then, those that did not predominate because they represented the source of nature from which the species sought release. [...]

[...] There were gods and goddesses galore, and deities in whose natures the feminine and masculine characteristics merged. [...]

Your own system has those characteristics only to those entirely focused within it, however. [...] It does not have these characteristics on its own. [...]

[...] Some projection environments will not, of course, appear physical in your terms, and in your terms will therefore lack the suitable characteristics of reality.

[...] Again, you have free will in the conditions of your life, given the characteristics that are your own. [...] The very characteristic attributes of the species, its dependability and integrity, are dependent upon constant checks and balances, the existence of divergent characteristics against which the species can measure itself.

The species is also always in the process of keeping within its genetic bank millions of characteristics that might be needed in various contingencies, and in that regard there is a connection, of course, between, say, viruses of many strains and the health not only of man but of other species.

Your thoughts, feelings, desires and intents, your reincarnational knowledge¹ as well, modify that structure, bring certain latent characteristics into actualization, minimize others, as through the experience of your life you use your free will and constantly make new decisions.

Inclinations with which the ego has very little liking, for example, are very seldom a problem for the ego, since they remain generally outside of the ego pattern, never having been chosen by it to form a characteristic part of the ego pattern. Obviously, to some degree every conceivable sort of inclination is latent to the ego, but it is apparent that each ego has its peculiar set of adopted characteristics, its set of characteristics that it sometimes accepts and sometimes rejects; and it is obvious that some characteristics simply seem alien to any given ego.

[...] The ego to a large degree, therefore, chooses during its development those characteristic actions which will form its nature. [...]

The habitual pattern or characteristic nature of the ego may then be led to refuse to accept an emotion, at the same time that a pattern has already been set to receive the particular type of emotion. [...]

It is therefore with the second alternating group of characteristics that most such problems arise. [...]

[...] Now the present characteristics usually overshadow the past ones. They are dominant, but the other characteristics are latent and present, built into the pattern. [...]

The anima, therefore, is an important safeguard, preventing the male from over-identifying with whatever cultural male characteristics have been imposed upon him through present background, environment, and education. [...]

[...] On some occasions, for example, the woman may go overboard and exaggerate female characteristics, in which case the animus or male within comes to her aid, bringing through dream experiences an onrush of knowledge that will result in compensating malelike reactions.

The same applies to a male when he over-identifies with what he believes to be male characteristics, for whatever reason. [...]

The reincarnating personality enters the new fetus according to its own inclinations, desires, and characteristics, with some built-in safeguards. [...]

[...] It is particularly dependent upon emotional characteristics — not necessarily of the last incarnated self, but the emotional tensions present as a result of a group of past existences.

[...] If a personality believes that it is doing a poor job in a male life, it may activate the anima’s qualities, taking on the characteristics of a past female existence in which it handled itself well. [...]

[...] They will, therefore, be more fully developed and show their individual characteristics very early. [...]

[...] If you wanted to focus upon the differences in their behavior, you could build an entire culture based upon their diverse capabilities, functions and characteristics. [...]

[...] Otherwise, however, no specific psychological characteristics of any kind are attached to that biological functioning. [...]

[...] With this came a greater diversity in individual characteristics and behavior, so that no individual was bound to a strictly biological role. [...]

[...] If compassion, kindness, and gentleness were feminine characteristics only, then no male could be kind or compassionate because such feelings would not be biologically possible.

[...] Characteristics now being shown impeded the progress of the whole personality to which she is attached. The whole personality has to work these characteristics out in physical terms in order to discover through direct experience where they would lead.

The characteristics are explosive and seemingly overwhelmingly impulsive, simply because by the nature of a fragment there are few balancing features, usually instead a one-sided explosive offshoot. These characteristics have in other lives held the personality back. [...]

[...] The characteristics were allowed to run their course. [...]

[...] Certain characteristics and qualities incorporated about a fragment identity for a definite purpose. [...]

The “other personality” is more difficult to relate to, for he is naked of these characteristics. So shall you all one day be naked of these characteristics. [...] And remember also that even these characteristics of mine are put on again as a garment that was at one time discarded. The characteristics are mine, and I rejoice in them! [...]

[...] One: I am who I say I am and these characteristics of mine, are mine, insofar as they can be translated. [...] And, therefore, I use my characteristics as teaching aids. [...]

But they are the characteristics in your terms that were mine a long time ago, and I don them again as an old garment that is familiar and dear. [...]

[...] In his restrained motion he has to some extent (underlined) adopted what he feels to be the more proper, deliberate responsible characteristics connected in his mind with the symbolically masculine, analytical intellectual.

The male characteristics he always thought of as stabilizing. [...]

The relative (underline that twice) exile of Ruburt’s symbolically feminine characteristics is something that neither of you consciously realized. [...]

[...] You can come closer to the ideal identity that gives greater rein within one individual to both male and female characteristics.

[...] It is also true however that these refusals to assimilate action on the ego’s part are also an integral part of the characteristics of the personality as a whole action. [...] As the characteristics of a personality may be somewhat deduced from those actions which the ego accepts, so also much may be learned about any given personality by a study of those actions which the ego habitually denies.

[...] All basic adjustments to the personality, in a basic manner, must come from within, through regroupings of characteristic actions about unifying principles.

[...] It is simply a basic characteristic of action at certain levels, and the human personality, with its complicated ego structure, is nevertheless composed of many actions that operate at this level.

The ego must be understood as having certain general necessary characteristics. [...]

THE CHARACTERISTICS OF FRAMEWORK 2. A CREATIVE ANALYSIS OF THE MEDIUM IN WHICH PHYSICALLY-ORIENTED CONSCIOUSNESS RESIDES, AND THE SOURCE OF EVENTS

(11:13.) Next chapter (4): “The Characteristics of Framework 2.” [...]

(11:35.) Give us a moment… Framework 2 represents the inner sphere of reality, the inner dimensions of existence, that gives your world its own characteristics. [...]

You have tried to divide mental and emotional characteristics between the two sexes, forcing a stereotyped behavior. Again, the male who was intuitive or artistically gifted in certain ways often therefore considered himself homosexual, whether or not he was, because his emotional and mental characteristics seem to fit the female rather than the male sex.

Generally speaking, there will be a specific overall sexual orientation of a biological nature, but the mental and emotional human characteristics are simply not meted out according to sex. [...]

The stronger those natural inclinations are, the more the child is directed to ignore them in your society, since certain characteristics, again, are considered exclusively male or female. [...]

[...] The “she” within the male does indeed represent portions of his personality that are being unexpressed — not because of any natural predominance of mental or emotional characteristics over others, but because of artificial specializations. [...]

[...] The earthly characteristics often appear as he is depicted in animal form, for he was also of course connected with the intuitive terrestrial attributes from which the new human consciousness would spring.

[...] Apart from all other considerations, this is also a characteristic of creaturehood. [...]

[...] These elements are quite characteristic of Christianity also, of course, but they may appear more palatable, exotic, or reasonable coming from a source foreign to your childhood education. [...]

You attempt then to further banish the characteristic enjoyment of your own creaturehood, denying the lusty spirituality of your flesh and the strong present corporeal leanings of your soul. [...]

[...] All the recognized characteristics of consciousness are “inverted,” probing other realities than the one you know. [...]

[...] The various diverse, unique characteristics of each level of awareness are given play. [...]

[...] The normal waking consciousness, with its characteristic patterns, can indeed follow [into sleep]. [...]

[...] You would go to sleep to solve certain problems … There is an overall general difference, nationally speaking — that is, people of various nations do differ to some extent in their prevalent brain frequencies … All in all, however, the beta has predominated, and has been expected to solve many problems unsuited to its own characteristics.

In other words, the inclusion of my personality characteristics with the material will take away any long-white-gowned spiritualistic connotations, and put the survival personality thesis in a more proper light. As any good writer should know, tell Ruburt he need not explain my characteristics; simply include excerpts that show them.

The personality characteristics therefore will in themselves be adequate proof to all but nincompoops, that a fully independent and highly articulate personality is behind it. [...]

[...] Ruburt therefore should not attempt to disentangle the material from my personal characteristics. [...]

[...] It came from an excellent source, a pyramid gestalt personality, with definite characteristics, but the alien nature of the personality was too startling to Cayce, and he could not perceive it. [...]

(9:49.) Those other characteristics, say, then, of the probable eggs and sperm, provide an infinite bed of personality characteristics and abilities that can ride to the surface if they are needed. [...]

Now: the characteristics of the settled-upon sperm and egg predominate, but these are also related—in a manner most difficult to describe—to all the other sperm who did not make contact with that given egg, and also to the other eggs that might have formed instead of the one that did (all intently). [...]

There is a gestalt relationship between all the sperm, say, in a man’s body at a given time, in which the sperm that do not connect still add their latent characteristics to the one that seemingly triumphs. [...]