“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] (Long pause.) It is generally understood, then, that you do have an ego, directed toward exterior activity, and in those terms (underlined) you also have an inner ego. [...]

[...] For you embrace the world through, say, inner devotions rather than exterior acts. [...]

(Pause at 10:10.) At the same time, there is much discussion about the good of mankind, ideal principles, goodness, charity and faith—but these are seen as possible only within the group, for the exterior world, you are told, is full of evil and corruption. [...]

[...] Your own physical body provides you with sturdy corporal images, exterior presentations. Your dreams do not suddenly appear exteriorized upon your images in place of your features, for example. [...]

[...] It sits on the window sill, so to speak, between you and the exterior world. [...]

[...] I told you (at the beginning of this chapter) that it was important to realize the ego’s position as the most “exterior” portion of the inner self, not alienated but looking outward to physical reality. [...]

[...] The applied use of the imagination is one of the most distinguishing marks of your species, and the imagination is your connection between the inner worlds of reality and the exterior world of your experience. [...]

[...] To us, that concept is an exteriorized distortion of the “great council” that each one of us carries within ourselves. [...]

[...] You think of it as an exteriorized manifestation, expanding perhaps, but in an exterior rather than an interior fashion.¹

[...] You will never meet them in your exterior reality, however, for you are not focused in the time period of their existence. [...]

[...] The exterior universe with its galaxies — as you understand it, and on that level of activity — can be encountered on certain rigid space-time coordinates. [...]

[...] I do not mean that they are simply familiar with the exterior thought processes involved, such as: “The hill house is better constructed,” or “It has a fine view.” I am speaking of deeper mechanisms of consideration (pause), in which correlations are made between interior and exterior realities. [...]

[...] They are as much a part of your inner environment as trees are of your exterior world. [...]

[...] So you started by drawing what you saw physically, and to some extent like the scientists you tried to capture the exterior appearance as faithfully as you could.

[...] Starting with the ego or waking consciousness as the outer self focused toward exterior reality, these states are broad, more like plains to be explored. [...]

[...] Only the most exterior portions of their personalities bowed to the dictates of historical period.

[...] (Pause.) Faced with the exterior nightmares of wars and natural disasters, the conscious mind is still directed outward into that world with which it knows it was formed to cope. [...]

[...] Consciousness finds itself in a crisis situation; not [because of one coming] from the exterior world, but because it is forced to fight on a battleground for which it was never designed and cannot understand, where basically counted-upon allies of association, memory and organization, and all the powers of the inner self, are suddenly turned into enemies.

[...] (Intently:) There is nothing exterior against which it can work, and no framework in which it can get balance.

[...] So he’s now actually in the process of forming a new model of the universe between those two extremes—one that recognizes that each portion of the universe has meaning in relationship to all of its other parts, but that the meaning can’t necessarily be deduced by an examination of exterior appearances, but only in so far as man examines the nature of his own consciousness in its relationship to other species—to nature itself, to the objective universe, and begins to understand the vital nature of interrelatedness, within which the process of divinity is actualized.”

(“Each individual mind is a storehouse of knowledge from which each person can draw, but you have been taught that all knowledge comes from the exterior world, and from the stimuli that arises from it. [...]

As a personality is molded by his exterior circumstances, so is he also molded by the dreams that he creates, and which help to form his interior or psychic environment. To the whole self there is little differentiation made between actions that are of an exterior nature, and actions that are of an interior nature. [...]

[...] It seemed, for example, sudden when Ruburt fed himself, even if briefly, but that exterior improvement followed many inner manipulations, which until then had not connected in that particular manner.

The exterior improvements are the result of inner body workings, and they represent the growth of his inner confidence. [...]

You have genetic systems, then, carrying (long pause) information that is literally incalculatable.¹ Now: Through your technologies, through your physical experience, you are also surrounded by an immense array of communication and information of an exterior nature. [...] Those inner biological systems and the exterior ones may seem quite separate. [...]

In your terms, consciousness of self did not develop because of any exterior circumstances in which your species won out, so to speak. In fact, that consciousness of self in any person is dependent upon the constant, miraculous cooperations that exist between the mineral, vegetable, and animal worlds.³ The inner intent always forms any exterior alteration. [...]

[...] As already discussed, the exterior situation then serves to reinforce the inner data, and it seems to fly in the face of all reason, to deny exterior symptoms. [...]

[...] Psychologically you will use your inner abilities as you use your exterior abilities. [...]

[...] And then you will meet these in exterior circumstances and recognize them in others for they have been offered to you, both kindness and love and trust, in the past, and you did not recognize them. [...]

[...] When you look at an object you see its exterior, and when you experience time you perceive its exterior.

[...] You saw the doctor in working clothes, expressing your feeling that doctors were more like mechanics, dealing with exterior manipulation, thus your doctor appears without his usual well-groomed attire, and fashionable facade. [...]