“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(Jane continues:) In a sense the present individual in any given life could be called a fragment of his entire entity, having all the properties of the original entity, though they remain latent or unused. The personality fragment in this sense can learn to develop what it has, rather than seek new powers. There are no new powers. The image that your friend saw was, as I said, a personality fragment of his own. It contained all the abilities of your friend, whether latent or not I do not know. This type of personality fragment is of different origin than your friend, who is himself a fragment of his own entity. We call this type a split personality fragment, or a personality image fragment. Usually it cannot operate on all levels of your physical plane.

In a sense all things could be called fragments, but there are different kinds. Personality fragments differ from others in that they can cause other fragments to form from themselves. In a way, say, (Here Jane lay the board aside and stood up. Pacing back and forth, she began to dictate:) that a tree cannot, personality fragments form other fragments having all the properties of the parent fragment—emotional life and so forth.

As for others all fragments have (pause) are throwoffs or projections. Difficult to explain, I am not doing well. In a physical sense this board is a projection of wood or a tree, but in this case the board has less properties than the parent tree. The tree can grow, the board cannot. A personality fragment on the other hand never has less properties than its parent. This is the difference. A personality fragment has all the properties of its parents inherent, though it may not know how to use them. The board however cannot learn to grow, even though you stick it in the earth.

Seldom, but sometimes, an individual may send a personality fragment image into another level of existence entirely, even without his own knowledge. This image personality fragment may even gain valuable experience on this other level. It will then return to the individual. Sometimes the individual is not even capable of assimilating this knowledge, or even recognizing his own returning personality image. The type of fragment your friend saw was something like this latter personality image, but so disconnected from your friend, and so absent-mindedly was it sent upon its travels, that its information was probably passed directly to the entity which your friend represents.

The entity operates its fragments in what you would call a subconscious manner, that is, without conscious direction. (Jane dictates:) The entity gives the fragment independent life, then the entity more or less forgets them. [...] It’s as impossible for the entity to control fragment personalities as for the conscious mind to be aware, or control its own heartbeat. In this case the image concerned was a past fragment.

In some submerged manner all fragments of a personality exist within an entity, with their own individual consciousenesses. [...] When Bill saw the image and recognized its prescence, the fragment itself seemed to have a dream. As Bill saw and did not recognize, the fragment saw and did not recognize.

[...] Even thoughts, for instance, are fragments, though on a different plane. [...] Fragments of another sort, called personality fragments, operate independently, though under the auspices of the entity.

(“Why is it that in our readings on psychic phenomena we have never come across the word fragment used in just the way you employ it. [...]

“The present individual in any given life could be called a fragment of his entire entity, having all the properties of the original entity, though they remain latent or unused. The image that your friend saw was a personality fragment of his own. [...] This type of personality fragment is of different origin than your friend, who is himself a fragment of his own entity. We call this type a split personality fragment or a personality image fragment. [...]

[...] IN A SENSE, ALL THINGS COULD BE CALLED FRAGMENTS … but the words were piling up in my head, and after the first few sentences were spelled out, I felt that sense of diving down into the unknown, of letting go. [...] Personality fragments differ from others in that they can cause other fragments to form from themselves …”

[...] Then these split personality fragments or images can be kept under scrutiny without taxing the present ego to distraction. [...] The scope of consciousness will be so broadened that all personality fragments, split personality images, and individual fragments in succeeding incarnations will be held in clear focus without strain. [...]

“An individual may send a personality fragment image into another level of existence entirely, even without his own conscious knowledge. [...] The type of fragment your friend saw was of this type, but so disconnected from your friend, and so absentmindedly was it sent upon its travels, that its information was probably passed directly to the entity which your friend represents. [...]

Now, and no distortion here from our friend (Jane), your mother was from the beginning a fragment, an offshoot actually, from the personality that she was in her last existence. The offshoot of fragment had to, and chose to, deal with the relationship that then took place between this fragment and your father.

The fragment also knows that this life is being lived for the particular reason given. [...] Certain characteristics and qualities incorporated about a fragment identity for a definite purpose. The fragment is always aware of this, and it is always aware of its inner identity with the whole personality.

[...] He left a fragment of himself to satisfy the few lingering requirements.

[...] The vitality of the fragment personality but hints at the overall vitality of the whole self involved.

In that 8th session Seth gave us more material on fragments: “In some submerged manner all fragments of a personality exist within an entity, with their own individual consciousnesses. [...] The entity operates its fragments in what you would call a subconscious manner, that is, without conscious direction. The entity gives the fragments independent life, then more or less forgets them…. Even thoughts, for instance, are fragments, though on a different plane.” Then Jane dictated a key sentence: “Fragments of another sort, called personality fragments, operate independently, though under the auspices of the entity.”

When I asked him in the same session about his evocative use of “fragment,” Seth replied: “That is an original term with me, as far as I know.” Within another couple of sessions, however, he began to let “fragment” semantically yield to other terminology as he continued developing his material in ever-deepening discussions of personalities and entities, reincarnation, time, dreams, and other related subjects. [...] I’ve designed this note to supplement Jane’s writing on fragments in The Seth Material, which Prentice-Hall published in 1970.

[...] Remember, however, there are also fragments, which [again] is something else.⁴

[...] It is a dog fragment.” [...]

“When Bill saw the image and reocgnized its presence, the fragment itself seemed to have a dream. The entity operates its fragments in what you would call a subconscious manner, that is, without conscious direction. The entity gives the fragment independent life, then the entity more or less forgets the fragment. [...] It’s as impossible for the entity to control fragment personalities as for the conscious mind to control the body’s heartbeat.”

[...] Fragments of another sort, called personality fragments, operate independently, though under the auspices of the entity.”

A FRAGMENT OF HIS OWN ENTITY, A PAST PERSONALITY REGAINING MOMENTARY INDEPENDENCE ON VISUAL PLANE. [...]

IN SOME SUBMERGED MANNER, ALL FRAGMENTS OF A PERSONALITY EXIST WITHIN AN ENTITY, WITH THEIR OWN INDIVIDUAL CONSCIOUSNESS …

(Many sessions ago, Seth told us he had a dog fragment personality still here on Earth. [...] “Number twenty-five: Do you have any physical fragments of any kind still here on earth?”)

(“Number twenty-six: Are animals fragments of human beings?”)

(10:30.) In one manner of speaking, you are fragments of your entities. [...]

[...] So he may project a fragment of his consciousness in such a way into an animal form. [...]

Fragment entity, uneasy with present personality. [...]

Attraction both fragments. [...]

[...] Fragment ego not strong. [...]

Fragments refuse to help individual as organized organism.

Oswald was always a personality fragment, as all psychopaths are. As fragments of a personality break off in the manner that I explained for schizophrenics, so in some cases part of an entity reincarnates before it should, does not carry its full mental gene blueprint, and therefore causes trouble and confusion. [...]

[...] This all ties in with the personality fragments which we discussed earlier. [...]

[...] Schizophrenia is caused by a personality fragment that is broken off, so to speak, from the primary acting personality, operating often in direct opposition to the primary personality, but in any case operating as a secondary personality.

Many people are unable to endow fragments with such physical reality, and thus shove them more or less harmlessly away at arm’s length. [...]

[...] Fragments not on earth plane at same time as entity. Fragments living and vulnerable to forces, same forces, to which all earthlife is.

(“Are insects fragments?”)

Personality fragment of your own. [...] Quite without knowing it, you materialized a personality fragment as playmate.

[...] What are they but projections or fragments from the entity itself? [...]

[...] Fragment personalities could not possibly contain the whole, but they do contain the seeds of the whole.

These dream personalities or fragments indeed have their own consciousness. [...] It must complete its nature according to the dimensions in which it exists, and so the dream personalities or fragments continue to exist whether or not you are aware of them.

[...] The dream personalities are indeed fragments, projections of the self, all working out various roles, seeking various experiences, searching for solutions and gratifications.

(The word fragment was first used in the 4th session, Volume 1, page 22, by Frank Watts. [...]

[...] Frank Watts in turn is a fragment of the Seth entity. [...]

[...] 18, while we were dancing at the Driftwood Lounge at York Beach, which is the hotel bar where we saw our projected fragments, described by Seth in the 9th session [in Volume 1], page 43.

[...] We did not see the fragments of last summer, nor indeed any person even remotely resembling them. [...]

[...] The indisposition, or cold, came about for a strange reason, based mainly upon the symbolism placed by both of you upon the establishment in which you created the fragments last year.

Schizophrenia is caused by a personality fragment that is broken off, so to speak, from the primary acting personality, operating often in direct opposition to it, but in any case, operating as a secondary personality.

Many people are unable to endow fragments with such physical reality, and thus shove them more or less harmlessly away at arm’s length, as you did. [...]

Now, there are various types of dreams and dream fragments. [...]

[...] Even a fragment can turn into an entity in certain cases. [...]

The self that you know is but one fragment of your entire identity. These fragment selves are not strung together, however, like beads of a string. [...]

I am not comparing personality to an orange or an onion, but I want to emphasize that as these things grow from within outward, so does each fragment of the entire self. [...]

[...] They are themselves fragments, struggling small fragments without intention of harm. [...] It is only when you give tacit agreement that harm is inflicted upon you by these fragments. [...]

[...] I said that these units could operate as entities, and as forces, so we are not speaking of a mental mechanics but of entities in the true meaning of the word: entities of unimaginable creative and psychic properties, purposeful fragments propelled from the infinite mind as that mind was filled with the inspiration that gave light to the world. Those entities, in your terms so ancient, left fragments of themselves in trance (underlined), so to speak, that form the rocks and hills, the mountains, the air and the water, and all of the elements that exist on the face of the earth.

Remember that each unit of consciousness is a fragment of All That Is, a divine portion. [...]

[...] A fragment of paper that seems important.

[...] Defined in your terms, a fragment is a consciousness not as developed as your own. The living portions of nature are the result of your own creativity, projections and fragments of your own energy; energy that comes to you from All That Is and goes outward from you, forming its own image manifestations as you form yours.

[...] The fragment elements directed outward by you as a species also add of course to your physical reality, for without the fine balance maintained, and without this cooperation, your particular kind of environment would not be possible.

It is a dog fragment.

[...] Fragments of strong entity, broken off. [...]