“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] Nebene characteristics represent a portion of your reality. It is up to you to use those characteristics as best you can, and they can be very handy in what is a present life existence.

(I studied this session to better grasp my Nebene characteristics then [and now] by painting his image, and then drawing him again, but now I’m appalled by my behavior in first-century Rome. [...]

The Nebene characteristics came particularly to the fore in the transcription of my book of course, and with the encounter with your friend Sue. [...]

The Nebene characteristics were also of help in the early days of the sessions in several ways, but I do not want to get off the subject. [...]

[...] The ego, through its own nature and characteristics, attempts to limit such change, but it succeeds only in limiting itself by limiting its perceptions. [...] But it changes along certain lines, moving within certain patterns of perception which are characteristic of it.

Since action is not apart from structure, but is indeed the formulator of structure, then it is obvious that generally the type, nature, extent and scope of characteristic perception patterns of a consciousness will determine its physical structure, and not the other way around.

[...] Your perception characteristics at this time dictate and limit the aspects of action that you can perceive. [...]

[...] Each is therefore composed of the characteristic perception patterns that happen to lie within it, and these so-called minor fields could then be termed other selves, or minor selves, from the standpoint of the self that we are considering.

[...] Therefore the material will have a typical Sumari slant and interest, a characteristic focus upon certain areas.

[...] The vocal sounds of the Sumari language and characteristics as they are presently apparent to you will, hopefully, lead toward these clearly understood but logically unstructured sounds that are recognized by the organism and by the inner self, but ignored by the reasoning conscious mind that focuses upon the logical language.

[...] Their utterance demands certain characteristic uses of breath. [...]

[...] Again, your characteristics are admirably suited. [...]

[...] Often, however, they represent the characteristics shown by consciousness when it is somewhat turned away from physical stimuli. [...]

If you let yourself lie still longer with eyes closed, the symbolism would continue to change character, losing perhaps some of its visual characteristics and growing more intense in other directions. [...]

Any of these changing characteristics of symbols should alert you to the altered state of your consciousness. [...]

[...] The handier it is in a given physical circumstance, the less valuable it is as a waking lifetime characteristic symbol.

On the other hand, areas of ordinary behavior that may have seemed opaque before, cloudy or dark — personal characteristic behavior that was not understood, for instance — may suddenly become quite clear as a result of this transformation, in which the shadowy aspects of the unconscious are perceived as brilliant.

[...] In your individual area there will be persons upon whom you will project all of those charged, frightening emotions or characteristics. [...]

On a national basis the characteristics or qualities will be projected outward onto an enemy. [...]

[...] There is within the innate characteristics of the mammalian brain, then, a great balance in which complete physical relaxation can occur in sleep, while consciousness is maintained in a “partially suspended, passive-yet-alert” manner. [...]

[...] Each form, embodying certain identity characteristics, has its own environment. [...]

Since these selves exist simultaneously, it is then possible for consciousness to enter, or really form, such an image, undergo experiences within the characteristic pattern of reality, and then project to another image. [...]

[...] You have had a characteristic distrust of fantasy, you see, that even extended itself into your knowledge of your dreams; and a fear of flinging yourself off from the recognizable. [...]

[...] In your (underlined) terms, there are also, of course, descending selves, in that each atom and molecule has its own consciousness and contains all the characteristics inherent in consciousness itself. [...]

[...] It is a universe endowed with male characteristics as these appear in the male-female orientations of your history. [...] Even though certain characteristics of the universe are most apparent, they must be ignored.

(Pause.) You must understand I know that the terms male and female here are being used as they are generally understood, and have nothing to do with the basic characteristics of either sex.

Now: you are creative, but you are a male—and one part of you considered creativity a feminine-like characteristic. [...]

[...] It is a universe endowed with male characteristics as these appear in the male-female orientations of your history. [...] Even though certain characteristics of the universe are most apparent, they must be ignored.

(Pause.) You must understand, I know, that the terms “male” and “female” here are being used as they are generally understood, and have nothing to do with the basic characteristics of either sex. [...]

Now (to me): You are creative, but you are a male — and one part of you considered creativity a feminine-like characteristic. [...]

It is possible to be opinionated at times, closed-minded, and pedantic, in good normal behavior—but when certain characteristics group together, then you have the formation of an overly-conscientious self, which acts in a repetitive manner, always showing these fairly rigid characteristics. [...]

[...] This portion of the self is often altered, its characteristics becoming less apparent as individuals move through the various social groupings of work, church, or community, where it is obvious that the standards of behavior are hardly rigid, but adaptable.

You two have largely worked alone, and your work goals involve of course the development of personality characteristics that must apply to artistic work. [...]

No system is able to utilize all of its energy however, and a residue of energy is another characteristic of a system or unit. Camouflage initiative is another such characteristic. [...]

It goes without saying however that the characteristics of any system or unit that I have given here must apply to the dream universe, and to your own universe. These characteristics vary only in terms of intensity from system to system.

[...] Increased consciousness and awareness of itself, through the manipulation and materialization of its own energy into more complicated camouflage patterns, is another characteristic of a system or unit.

Now I come to you often with playful characteristics—like a benign bishop who comes for a cup of tea and discusses realities with you. I come complete with characteristics that you can understand. I come complete with human characteristics to which you can relate and you can smile usually when I am here and smile when I am gone. But you must understand that they are the characteristics that I show you—there are other realities of personality and identity that are mine—just as there are other realities within your own personalities and you cannot laugh these away. [...]

[...] For these characteristics by which you know me are but one portion of my personality and my reality. [...]

[...] When he is away from you, however, in his particular case, any characteristics that are not yours that he sees in his grandfather somehow become threatening. [...] When the two of you are together, you and grandfather, there is no difficulty because the boy, in his own mind, interweaves these characteristics. When he is alone, however, with the older man, any characteristic of his that does not agree with yours becomes threatening to him. [...]

[...] When he is with the grandfather, however, he relates to those characteristics that are like yours. Any characteristics that are different upset him and frighten him. [...]

[...] As mentioned (in Chapter One), the ego, while a portion of the whole self, can be defined as a psychological “structure,” composed of characteristics belonging to the personality as a whole, organized together to form a surface identity.

The ego, while appearing to be permanent, then, forever changes as it adapts to new characteristics from the whole self,¹ and lets others recede. [...]

[...] It is the portion of the mind, then, that looks out upon physical reality and surveys it in relation to those characteristics of which it is composed at any given time. [...]

[...] In so doing, you see, you accept your belief about reality as a characteristic of reality itself, and so the belief is transparent or invisible to you. [...]

[...] Historically the characteristics of God changed as man’s ego changed. These characteristics of the ego, however, were supported by strong inner changes.

[...] Spirituality cannot be some isolated, specialized activity or characteristic.

The original propulsion of inner characteristics outward into the formation of the ego could be compared with the birth of innumerable stars — an event of immeasurable consequences that originated on a subjective level and within inner reality.

[...] But as the psyche went through its developments and battled with itself, denying some feelings and characteristics and stressing others, so the historic religious exterior dramas represented and followed these inner aspirations, struggles, and searches.

[...] Their wavelike characteristics are not observed. [...]

Physicists are beginning to study the characteristics of “invisible” particles.⁴ They seem to defy space and time principles. [...]

[...] In some other realities, however, their characteristics rule rather than the attributes of the visible particles that you see. [...]

The unknown self, the “original self,” straddles realities, dipping in and out of them in creative versions of itself, taking on the properties of the system in which it appears, and the characteristics native to that environment. [...]

CHARACTERISTICS OF PURE ENERGY, THE ENERGETIC PSYCHE, AND THE BIRTH OF EVENTS

[...] Heading: “Characteristics of Pure Energy, the Energetic Psyche, and the Birth of Events.”

[...] The nature of creativity itself is involved, and the characteristics of energy, without which no action is possible.

(11:35.) The life of a star, the life of a flower, are entirely different in your terms of duration, size, and characteristics; yet each exists in a validity of experience that ultimately makes such comparisons meaningless. [...]

[...] The psychic abilities operate along with your other characteristics. [...]

[...] He does possess natural desires, characteristics and intents that help focus his own activity. [...]

[...] Regardless of the differences with which the public considers exists between the medical profession and psychic healing, psychic healers have very much in common with doctors or nurses, and use their psychic abilities in a way that follows those characteristics and leanings. [...]

Basically, Ruburt does not have those characteristics. [...]

[...] Such characteristics are, however, basic properties of the natural person. [...] You are aware of what seem to be isolated hints of odd characteristics.

It understands, for example, that clairvoyant material is a part of the personality’s overall characteristics, so it is not afraid of perceiving it — and it is able to separate such information confusion from present physical sense perception. Orderliness, then, is one of its main characteristics. [...]

That is, the dream was giving you an example of one of the main characteristics of what we will call the magical approach. [...]

[...] Gus probably also represents the ‘creature’ magical self, showing its creature characteristics; that it’s natural, after all.

(10:05.) Ruburt’s abilities—and your own, for that matter—came to light because they are natural characteristics of your beings. [...]

If you would remember natural selves, and your own characteristics, you would have a much better, clearer idea of what to realistically expect from yourselves, and you would let other ideas go when they conflict with your own quite definite inclinations. [...]

An organization is obviously not characteristic of two people who are very largely loners. [...]

Remember what I told you some time ago, though you have made excellent strides in that regard, apropos natural man, in contrast to what you may think you should (underlined) be doing, in terms of any idealized self with characteristics that are not your own. [...]

Your sexual characteristics represent a portion of your personhood. [...]

Again, this may seem difficult to understand, because you assign psychological characteristics to sexual affiliation, whichever it is. [...]

The larger pattern of human personhood demands a bisexual affiliation that allows leeway in sexual encounters, a leeway that provides a framework in which individuals can express feelings, abilities, and characteristics that follow the natural inclines of the personal psyche rather than sexual stereotypes. [...]

[...] In ulcers the stomach becomes the womb — bloodied, giving birth to sores — his interpretation of a male’s “grotesque” attempt to express feminine characteristics.