“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

The personal subconscious can be thought of as a threshold between the ego and the inner self; not only can glimmerings of the inner self be glimpsed through the subconscious, but also the diverse characteristics of the ego touch this personal subconscious. [...]

[...] It is only because the ego blocks freedom of the emotional expression, out of fear, that it appears to the ego that emotions are indeed fearful characteristics. [...]

The muscles and ligaments have their own characteristics. [...]

[...] Geller must be a performer, with all the characteristics that implies. [...]

[...] Personality without those characteristics that you know and understand so well. In other words, consciousness without camouflage, for the characteristics that I use are camouflage, beloved camouflage perhaps; but without them you would not understand what I am saying, and without them in yourselves, you would not learn to recognize the self that you can be. [...]

[...] It cannot be broken down or built up, destroyed or expanded, yet it can change affiliation and organization, and its characteristics, while ever remaining itself.

5. The superior intellectual and altruistic characteristics of dolphins and other cetaceans are well known, if barely understood in detail. [...]

[...] Everyone acting in that scene would view the hat and the table, and react accordingly with their own individual characteristics.

[...] These excerpts still furnish characteristic insights into aspects of Jane’s personality, as well as my own, and I might add that the deleted portions are even more meaningful to us. [...]

He was determined to find the kind of mate that would best suit him and his own unique characteristics. [...]

[...] Less satisfactory projections cause distortions, you see, that are characteristic features of this state of consciousness at that time.

[...] Some of her characteristics, which I’ve just begun to glimpse, complement some of mine; others are opposing. [...]

[...] But when this is admitted, then we must admit also that present events can alter the past, for there is no element in the past that has a different structure or composition or characteristic, that is not present in the future.

Time does not have certain characteristics when you view it as past, or when you view it as future, or when you view it as present. [...]

[...] Each ego uses and interprets the organism’s perceiving apparatus in a way that in the overall is characteristic and distinctive.

This characteristic way of interpreting perceived data, and of reacting to it, is not as constant as it appears to be however. [...]

The characteristics of the ego therefore change as various situations are met. [...]

[...] The psychic abilities in his case are, among other things, aided by that balance of characteristics, and these should not be tampered with.

Those human abilities that you consider to be characteristic of your species are, again, dependent upon the existence of infinite numbers of variations that appear in the aggregate, to give you often obviously opposing states. [...]

(Long pause.) I am not simply saying that genetic activity can be changed, for example, through something like a nuclear accident, but that highly beneficial alterations can also take place in genetic behavior, as in your terms the genetic structure not only prepares the species for any contingency, but also prepares it by triggering those characteristics and abilities that are needed by the species at any given time, and also by making allowances for such future developments (all quite forcefully).

In its natural state, hatred has a powerful rousing characteristic that initiates change and action. [...]

[...] Yet the soul is above all a fountain of energy, creativity, and action that shows its characteristics in life precisely through the ever-changing emotions.

[...] At one point a shadowy effect — grayness, or other characteristics just mentioned — will occur. [...]

[...] They may appear as symbolically representing strong characteristics upon which they have focused, though you have ignored them.

[...] Each individual has various ways in which he or she characteristically handles the protoplastic elements of which the physical being is composed.

[...] Therefore the characteristic ways used by any given personality, in connection with his or her physical image, will also be used in the construction of dream images.

[...] When I say as I have that the overall entity is neither male or female, and yet refer to various entities such as Joseph and Ruburt, which are definitely male names, I merely mean that in the overall essence the entity refers or identifies itself more with male characteristics, or so-called male characteristics, than with the female.

[...] Therefore, you are not able to perceive the true characteristics of the dreaming state except on those few occasions when you “come awake” within your dreams—a matter we will discuss later on in this book. [...]

[...] There is order, but within this order there is freedom — the freedom of creativity, that characteristic of All That Is, that guarantees its infinite becoming.

[...] The eyes also show these same characteristics, so that Ruburt is able to read with more and more ease and spontaneity. [...]

[...] Even while it carries a great resemblance to any other physical body, still a body’s own individualistic characteristics are such that for all the likenesses to other bodies, few generalizations can be safely made. [...]

(4:26.) The main characteristic of bodily consciousness is its spontaneity. [...]