“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

First of all you must understand, again, that now you do not realize your true identity. [...] At the end of the reincarnational cycle you understand quite thoroughly that you, the basic identity, the inner core of your being, is more than the sum of your reincarnational personalities.

[...] These reincarnational personalities continue to develop, but they also understand that their main identity is also yours.

The identity, the basic identity, of these portions of the self, are carried by what you could compare to the subconscious that you know. This is difficult, but listen: in these portions of the self it is the subconscious that carries the burden of identity, and it is the ego whose experiences are of a dreamlike, plastic nature. [...]

[...] Identity or continuity of the self is retained and strengthened in a series of simultaneous events, with value fulfillment foremost insofar as purposeful action is concerned.

[...] The portions of the self that deal in probabilities do not have such an experience with a past, to give them their feeling of identity or continuity.

[...] That greater identity, however, is intrinsically your own, but is the part that cannot be physically expressed. [...] Through you they become a part of the experience of the greater identity, but its reality also “originally” gave you your physical existence, as you gave your children physical life. [...]

[...] So this hypothetical greater identity also chooses to be born in different time periods, historically speaking; and the same pattern appears in which counterparts are born as individuals, each biologically and spiritually connected, but with great intertwinings and variations, as with a physical family tree.

[...] The identity of each living person is always “brand new.” [...]

[...] These form a psychic ‘block’, and any of the four can pick up information from this joint pool [of identity]. [...]

[...] You each contain aspects of your other identities within your current selves — some very obvious perhaps and others barely noticeable. [...]

(10:42.) The physically attuned conscious mind in your now cannot handle those staggering probabilities while maintaining a sense of identity, yet there are conscious traces within your daily thoughts that are the psychological representations of such knowledge.

[...] Identify then with the constantly new energy alive within you in this now of your being (very intently) and realize that on all levels you are biologically and psychologically connected with that greater identity that is your own.

[...] Because your imagination transcends time, it is one of your greatest touchstones to your own identity.

(Then in the 754th session, on August 25, Seth gave an excellent dissertation on what he called “the stamp of identity” — explaining how the individual psychically marks certain exterior aspects of reality and “makes them his or her own,” in tune with personal inner symbols. [...]

[...] As you now desire to understand the timeless, infinite dimensions of your own greater existence, so “even now” multitudinous elements of that nonearthly identity just as eagerly explore the dimensions of earthbeing and creaturehood.

[...] (Long pause.) There is a much closer relationship, in that I recognize my own identity as a distinct portion of Seth Two’s existence, where Ruburt feels little correspondence. [...]

[...] Your identities are not something already completed. [...]

Individual selves will retain identity. [...]

There are also portions connected with your identity, however, within other systems, and these are more advanced than your own psychological self. [...]

That is, not only would they be aware of what seems to you to be past, present and future within your system, but they would be aware of several other systems and be able to function within them simultaneously, gaining and creating experience within all of these systems, even while maintaining overall identity. [...]

symbiosis—in which the survival and health of each microscopic entity is dependent upon its own identity and its relationship with others. [...]

The identity of any structure is dependent upon its parts, and yet the parts are also dependent upon the structure. [...]

The complicated organism which is the human personality with its physical structure, has evolved, along with many other structures, a highly differentiated “I” consciousness, whose very nature is such that it attempts to preserve the apparent boundaries of identity. To do so it chooses between actions, for the very choice, or act of choosing, and ability to do so, represents the nature of identity. But beneath this sophisticated gestalt are the simpler foundations of its being, and indeed the very acceptance of all stimuli without which identity would be impossible.

Now, while it is basically true that the personality is composed of action, and that its very awareness and identity is a result of action—

[...] It means the further expansion of the concept of identity: “You” would not only be aware of the you that you have always known, in the same way that you are now, but a deeper sense of identity would also arise.

[...] The greater part of your own identity, then, is completely aware of all of your conscious and unconscious living material. [...]

Because you identify your experience with the regular line of consciousness with which you are familiar, you are rarely able to “bring in” any “other-self” material and hold it while retaining your own sense of identity. [...]

That identity would contain the you that you have always known, and in no way threaten it. [...]

You have a true or false world in that regard, and a relatively very flat psychological view of identity. [...]

[...] Indeed, the entirety of your own identities does not usually appear to you in your lifetimes, because that reality is too complicated, too multidimensional, to fit into your accepted picture of personhood. [...]

Those structures include the unexperienced portions of your own identities. [...]

[...] My reality includes, then, not only reincarnational identities but also other gestalts of being that do not necessarily have any physical connections.

[...] “His” energy forms your identity, and your soul is a part of you in the same manner.

[...] Other aspects of your greater identity exist, relatively speaking, about or around these.

This permits the fullest expression of true identity that is possible within the physical system. Otherwise identity is smothered to a large degree beneath a strictly oriented one-sex identification, with other characteristics masked and denied expression.

[...] You can come closer to the ideal identity that gives greater rein within one individual to both male and female characteristics.

When the sexual identity is sound, as it is in both of your cases, this means the need for a greater accommodation within the self. [...]

[...] No action is identical to any other action. [...]

[...] Electrically it has an identity, and would be perceived as an entirely different phenomena from within an electrical system, where there would be no perceptors of physical data.

[...] It would not be that which appears identical to the two systems, but it would be indeed the sum of the realities of all systems, as applied to our weary automobile.

A great artist in any field or in any time instinctively feels a private personhood that is greater than the particular sexual identity. As long as you equate identity with your sexuality, you will limit the potentials of the individual and of the species. [...]

[...] The male child does not possess an identity so focused upon its maleness. [...]

You are yourself obviously an energy gestalt; as you become more fully conscious of reality your sense of identity will contain larger and larger aspects of reality.

[...] When realization is reached at the highest level, then All That Is instantly creates new realities, and to some extent, you see, loses the conscious knowledge of its own identity.

Within your particular plane of activity, and speaking practically, no one fully or completely can use all the energy available to them, or completely materialize the inner sensed identity that is multidimensional. This inner identity is the blueprint however against which you judge, ultimately, your physical actions. [...]

[...] Identity was more democratic. [...]

[...] Yet there was no contradiction of identities.

Physically the structure of a cell retains its identity, even while the matter that composes it is continually altered. The cell rebuilds itself in line with its own pattern of identity, yet is always a part of emerging action, alive and responding even in the midst of its own multitudinous deaths.

[...] Such psychological structures also retain their identity, their pattern of uniqueness, even while they change constantly, die and are reborn.

[...] I want you then to have an emotional experience in which if even only for a moment, you experience the fullness and vitality of your own nature and of your own identity. [...] Let the sound of the voice, therefore, bring out in yourselves the power of your own identity and independence, the integrity of your own being. [...]

Obviously then ego is a part of identity, rather than the other way around, and it is only a part of consciousness. It is when ego attempts to confuse itself with identity that difficulties begin.

[...] I believe that I will tell you this for your definition: the ego is the portion of identity that is presently focused within an apparent now—that is, it is primarily designed as a mental tool, focusing within time as it is known and experienced by physical creatures.