“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] When the individual is convinced that his activities are completely dependent upon the physical brain, then he is incapacitated almost completely by any injury to it. The brain itself contains knowledge that comes through the inner senses, and this knowledge would simply not be available to it, if it were dependent upon physical data completely.

[...] Some personalities react strongly against the enforced dependency. [...]

[...] Therefore my earlier remark that physical reality was not dependent upon time as a series of moments should be obvious. Physical reality is dependent upon your sensual perception of action, and that is all.

[...] And physical reality, believe it or not, is not dependent upon the theory of time as a series of moments.

Your institutions, both cultural and educational, may be dependent upon time as a series of moments, but physical reality itself is not.

[...] There are multitudinous levels that can be plunged into, with various life forms, diverse and alien, but nevertheless interconnected and dependent one upon the other. [...]

The child at such a time for one thing is not in the situation to do conflict with belief systems—it is too young and dependent. [...]

(9:00.) His Sinful Self therefore tried to restate its position in order to right the situation, but its reasoning, again, was that a sense of grace was dependent upon the prior admission of a sinful reality. [...]

[...] The ego will gain and not lose in the process, but we will not have an autocratic and willful ego, but a reasonable and even disciplined ego that is aware of its position, aware of its own dependency, as well as of its own peculiar and unique perceptive apartness. For the apartness is dependent upon its being a part of the whole gestalt.

[...] It is most frequently the error of the ego, who upon many occasions attempts to deny its dependency upon this cooperation, that sets up impediments, and sets up countersuggestions that can be somewhat considered cancerous, in that if it had its way the ego would envelop all other aspects of the whole organism, and run riot.

[...] This projection is not dependent upon physical life—that is, the survival of the human personality also is then not dependent upon physical survival, nor need it be supported by physical life. [...]

[...] Identity is not dependent upon physical existence.

[...] It then directs the activity of the body, and is to that extent dependent upon neurological activity.

The psychic structure of consciousness that organizes that bodily gestalt is, however, not dependent upon it, and so the you that you experience is only a portion of this greater identity.

This field projects itself, as should be obvious, into your own field of actuality, and as such the personality itself has its existence in both fields; and both systems, being open, are dependent one upon the other, and a failure to survive in one system threatens survival in the other. [...]

Because your system is dependent upon the electrical system in one way or another, counterparts exist within the electrical system for all such phenomena. [...]

[...] It is not dependent upon any particular ego structure, but it is dependent upon an ego structure for its existence within a physical universe.

But identity is much more than this, and basic identity, while using the perceptive abilities, is not that dependent upon them. [...]

[...] Therefore communication is dependent upon your time system. [...]

[...] The recovery itself was utterly dependent upon his belief in it, however. [...]

Spontaneity will rise up during the hours given to work, and outside those hours, but he must continue those habits upon which his well-being depends. [...]

(11:19.) On Ruburt: the right side, generally speaking, has released itself enough, and become practically dependable enough in new positions, now, to allow the first important releases of large muscle areas on the left side. [...]

[...] Unfortunately, large segments of the population feel uncomfortable with their bodies, and do not trust the body’s spontaneity, strength, or overall dependability. [...]

He also feels that crying is dependent in a feminine way, and goes against the fact that he has rejected the stereotyped feminine role. [...]

[...] The mother’s affections were not the child’s by right, but dependent upon how well the child cared or performed.

As mentioned earlier in other sessions he felt, erroneously, for some time that your love for him depended upon his performance as a writer and in sessions, since it could not be his by right. [...]

[...] The writing self was led to examine its own substance; since Ruburt felt your love was dependent on the outcome, this brought about certain difficulties.

(Long pause at 10:23, eyes closed.) I make recommendations now and then, and now and then you see fit to follow them … ¹⁰ Considering Ruburt’s challenges, he has done extremely well as he cleared away the debris that literally surrounds the lives of most people … In a way his progress has been dependent upon the state of his learning, so that he has been trying to stretch the abilities of normal consciousness by drawing in other “strands.”¹¹ Yet because he was the one so involved, he had to test each strand; and in the meantime he still had his “old” consciousness, with its habits, to contend with.

[...] From the 514th session for Chapter 2 of Seth Speaks: “Consciousness is not dependent upon form, as I have said, and yet it always seeks to create form. [...]

[...] There is no such thing as true psychological invisibility … The physical world is dependent upon the relationship of everything from electrons to molecules to mountains to oceans, and in the scheme of reality these are all interwoven with exquisite order, spontaneity, and a logic beyond any with which you are familiar.

If, on the other hand, parents view the body as a healthy, dependable vehicle of expression and feeling, then their children will look at their own bodies in the same fashion. [...]

[...] This time the personality is John’s wife, being cared for, you see, rather than caring for; being physically dependent. [...]

[...] In order for the personality to see its own past activities clearly, it felt that it had to adopt a position of dependency this time.

[...] They are less easily handled, however, under drugged conditions, since the consciousness does not have the full agility to depend upon in periods of stress — unusual stress. [...]

When you become too serious you overwork your intellect and tire your body, for then it seems that your entire life depends upon the reasoning of your intellect alone. [...]

[...] But this seemingly unconscious portion of yourself is far more knowledgeable, and upon its smooth functioning your entire physical existence depends.

We will have more to say concerning this point, but for now it is enough to realize that your sense of identity and continuity is not dependent upon the ego.