“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] You considered this male in essence. [...]

[...] I am a personality in essence-energy form. [...]

[...] The emotional aspect of course would be the personality-essence. [...]

[...] Ruburt switches another channel on, through which my essence can enter more readily. [...]

[...] They will take us a bit away from our main lines of discussion, and they have to do with communication between essence personalities and those still within the physical system.

(Seth enjoys calling himself an energy personality essence.)

(Seth told me that as the years passed and these sessions continued both Jane and I would become more and more sure that he is what he says he is—an energy personality essence. [...]

[...] When I say as I have that the overall entity [or whole self] is neither male nor female, and yet refer to [some] entities by definite male names such as “Ruburt” and “Joseph,” I merely mean that in the overall essence, the [given] entity identifies itself more with the so-called male characteristics than with the female.

[...] You see, it is possible in theory for you to experience directly a concept-essence of the material in any given night’s session.⁸

[...] Ruburt switches on another channel, through which my essence can enter more readily. [...]

[...] This means that now the session also serves as a connective—a very effective lure, say—between volumes 1 and 2. Indeed, in retrospect it also seems as though Seth, that “energy personality essence,” planned it that way! [...]

My wife, Jane Roberts, dictated The Magical Approach for Seth, the “energy personality essence” she spoke for in a trance state, in 1980—but the pressures of Jane’s illness, and of our producing other books, kept us from publishing it quickly. [...]

[...] Now it will be a better tree in the painting, for you will be able to create the essence of the tree.

[...] If you will remember again our imaginary experience through the inner senses as we looked down at the street, you will remember that I spoke of sensing not only the present essence of the living consciousnesses within a certain scope, but I also mentioned sensing their past and futures.

The fifth inner sense carries us further along in this direction, and involves what I will call cognition of the knowledgeable essence. [...]

[...] It merely involves direct, instantaneous cognition of the essence of living tissue.

(Jane’s delivery for Seth hadn’t been her fastest by any means, although that “energy personality essence” closed out the paragraph above quite intently and with more than a little amusement. [...]

[...] Forget the cringing selves that you sometimes are and remember, instead, the magic essence of your own being that sings even now through your fingertips. [...]

[...] You would actually experience directly the essence of everything within a certain range. [...] That is, not only would you be able to feel the air though you were not out in it, not only would you pick up the odors, though ordinarily you cannot do this while you look out through closed windows, but you would literally feel the unitary essences of the trees and branches and hidden birds and insects. [...]

[...] Surely her intuitively-chosen manner helped us acclimate to the highly original and creative fact that Jane was learning to speak in a dissociated (or trance) state for Seth, a disembodied worthy who called himself an “energy personality essence.” [...]

[...] She lit a cigarette and looked off to one side and down, her attention already turned inward as she prepared to psychically join a very familiar “energy personality essence,” as Seth calls himself.)

[...] When you suddenly cannot remember a name that you should know, you have in essence the same kind of feeling of which you are always subconsciously aware.

As to who or what Seth is, his term “energy essence personality” seems as close to the answer as anyone can get. I don’t believe he is a part of my subconscious, as that term is used by psychologists, or a secondary personality. [...]

[...] My entire essence need not always be involved. [...]

I’m sure that that “energy personality essence,” as Seth calls himself, regarded with some amusement our gropings about how best to publish his work as the sessions began to pile up. [...]

[...] The very casting of the idea into words (as best Jane can do it) helps one grasp what Seth means: We can make intuitive nonverbal nudges, or jumps, toward understanding that to some degree transcend our trite ideas of that quality or essence we call time, and take so much for granted in our Western societies that to even question its seeming one-way flow appears to be quite futile.

[...] We feel that both messages from Seth reflect much of the essence of his material, and our own circumstances and attitudes surrounding its production. [...]

(Yes, I’ve started my famous list of questions for that “personality energy essence;” it’s based on this latest group of private sessions, that began on February 4, 1981. [...]

[...] Many people ask, for example: “What is the purpose of my life?” Meaning: “What am I meant to do?” but the purpose of your life, and each life, is in its being (intently). That being may include certain actions, but the acts themselves are only important in that they spring out of the essence of your life, which simply by being is bound to fulfill its purposes.

[...] They always escape in essence.