“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] Practically speaking a self can be defined as an energy gestalt whose perceptions are organized under the auspices of apparent identity. The more of reality that is perceived the larger the dimensions of the self, or identity.

[...] As you know there are no limitations to any identity. [...]

[...] If an individual considers identity strongly in terms of male or female identity, then such a person may refuse to accept the fact of the sexual changes that occur in reincarnational existences. [...]

[...] No individual’s reality is identical with another’s, and yet there are overall groupings.

[...] At some point in your development you will become more and more aware of the true nature of your identity. [...]

Now, a portion of your entire identity has memory of both. [...]

[...] At some point in your development you will become more and more aware of the true nature of your identity. [...] Now a portion of your entire identity has memory of both. [...]

[...] There must be a fence around it, a yard of identity in which you can feel safe. [...] You seem to be afraid that the self will bleed out and lose “itself” in a maze in which all identity is lost. [...] This allows you to imagine greater realms of identity while still holding your concepts of selfhood intact. You think of being one self after another, each identity being neatly separated from the others by a passage of years, an obvious death and an obvious birth.

[...] Scientists do not know how many species exist on earth—only that they total in the billions.) If you read it sideways, so to speak, you would still end up with an orderly universe, but one in which the nature of identity would be read completely differently, stressing adjacent subjective communications of a conscious kind that form other kinds or patterns of subjectivity and psychological continuity. These result in the formation of “personalities” or entities who are aware of their own identities by following different pathways than your own, while also in their way contributing to the formation of your universe even as you do.

[...] Those inner fields of reference in which you have your existence are completely changing themselves as your experience is added to them, and your own (long pause) identity was couched in those references before birth as you understand it.

[...] Once this apparent separate ego is formed, and once a fair amount of stability is maintained, and a new identity arrived at, the initial desire and energy will maintain the ego in its position during its existence in any field. Since this existence of separate identity is assured, attempts should then be made so that the ego can better participate in its realization of action, and the emotional life is very important in this respect.

[...] There is no need to fear identity’s complete immersion into emotional sensation. [...]

(To Sue.) Within you, for example, and everyone in the room, there is an unlimited amount of what you would call identity. Now all you do when you have an identity and focus on it, is grab out of your own bank of potentials a group of potentials and say, “these are the ones I will settle upon for now, and these I will call my identity, and so I will use these and I will ignore anything else.” [...]

[...] Identity has many selves, many self-structures, and my identity is always the same. [...]

True identity is as much divorced from ego reality as the photograph is from the person. [...]

[...] In simple terms the whole self contains male and female characteristics, finely tuned together, blended so that true identity can then arise — for it cannot, when one group of characteristics must be emphasized over the other group, as it must be during your present physical existence.

[...] I have to some extent explained the fascination that one has for the other, as resulting from the inner knowledge of the whole self, that strives to attain true identity as it struggles to combine and fulfill the seemingly opposite tendencies that are a part of it.

[...] Your own identity is still greater than this however. [...]

[...] What you have instead is something like the developments narrated in The Three Faces of Eve. You have dominant egos, all a part of an inner identity, dominant in various existences. [...]

“The whole self is aware of all of the experiences of all of its egos, and since one identity forms them, there are bound to be similarities between them and shared characteristics. [...]

[...] “A fear of identity escaping and running outward. [...]

[...] He realizes that the inner self need not be so heavily guarded, that his identity will not escape from him like a dog who leaves the leash. [...]

[...] It is quite true to say that their reality consists not only of the core of their own identity, but also is reinforced by those projected thoughts and feelings of the earthly audience for whom the drama is enacted.

Now Saul went to great lengths to set himself as a separate identity. [...]

[...] From birth, children will be taught that basic identity is not dependent upon the body, and that time as you know it is an illusion. [...]

[...] There will be many who will be afraid to accept the nature of their own reality, or to be shown the dimensions of true identity.

[...] “You are an identity,” he said. [...]

The Inner Senses are not important because they release clairvoyant or telepathic abilities, but because they reveal to us our own independence from physical matter, and let us recognize our unique, individual multidimensional identity. [...]

[...] (Pause.) We are aware of what it means to you, and that you consider it a part of your identity, as if the self existed somewhere between two points, on a solid line. [...]

I can obtain a conceptual realization through communicating with other portions of my identity that have experienced it directly. [...]

Indeed, other portions of your own identity, and as you come even higher you would see that there were other stacks far above the stacks that you originally saw. [...] Now, in doing so you will find that the personality is as different as, say, this table viewed from different angles and discover all facets of identity with which three-dimensional reality is by nature ignorant. [...]

[...] You have given them a foundation and a history and an identity as a framework, but from this framework they will grow and learn and develop and without your creation of them they would not exist. [...]

Some, finished with reincarnation, may choose to reenter the cycle acting as teachers, and in such cases some recognition of higher identity is always present. [...]

[...] As simply as possible the self, the inner self with which the ego is only vaguely familiar, that self which is the inner strength, continuity and identity, that gives the ego its vital meaning, that inner self, dear friend, is constantly being born.

Outward extensions of the self can be more clearly objectified, the concentration at the outward extensions being less, and identity correlations being kept in more concentrated areas within the boundaries of the physical self. [...]

[...] I am not at this time able to give you my identity, or that of the others.”

(I never did obtain any hints of identity. [...]

[...] There are indeed limitations inherent within their structure, but in all cases any given identity is more than the dimension in which it finds itself. Its limitations may be great, but the limitations are set not by the identity’s nature but by the dimension in which it exists.

The identity may, and will, move out of its dimension into another, and it therefore has within it the innate capacity to perceive more than it is allowed to perceive at any given point by the limitations set upon it.

Two of these statements may appear at first glance to contradict themselves, but you shall shortly see that they do not, and you are left for now with a pretty question: for does the self, or identity, then form the perceptive dimension in which it exists, or is it created by the dimension?

[...] You can both discover the greater identity that is your own, and step out of your own shadow image. For you identify yourself with a very small portion of your true identity. [...]

[...] He would exist within your psyche as a small but definite organization of characteristics that would continue within themselves to retain a sense of identity. [...]

[...] There are advantages and they are these: as you become acquainted with these other portions of your own identity, your own capacities for understanding and learning expand. [...]