“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] But remember that these other portions of your identity are portions of your identity—they are a part of you. [...]

Pretend, pretend that yourself...your whole identity, is a tape, such as being used here, but in stereophonic. [...] These other channels are all conscious portions of your own entire identity. [...]

Your identity is like a sun that shines above you. You bask in it without knowing it is a part of your own identity. [...]

[...] These conscious selves are like windows that belong to your entire identity. [...]

Its sense of identity spontaneously goes beyond the change of its own form. [...] Creatures without the compartment of the ego can easily follow their own identity beyond any change of form. The inner self is aware of this integrity of identity, but the ego, focused so securely in physical reality, cannot afford this luxury.

[...] There are, as I have told you, countless such systems, and yet within them all there is identity and direction.

Instead, the inner self is intimately connected with each reality, though you are not aware of it; and the inner self can trace its own connections through the network of any existence and still keep its identity.

Any consciousness is, therefore, innately aware of its basic identity. [...]

You could not appreciate nor understand, nor can I, the nature of identity as it is known in the overall. What we know of identity represents fragments and splinters that we call ourselves. These are part however of the prime identity. [...]

They are still but a portion of prime identity, and without them, prime identity could not know itself nor act upon itself nor develop its own abilities or potentials.

All of this talk about consciousness and action does not mean that consciousness is without identity.

There is however a portion of you, the deeper identity who forms both the inner ego and the outer ego, who decided that you would be a physical being in this place and in this time. This is the core of your identity, the psychic seed from which you sprang, the multidimensional personality of which you are part.

[...] You would not think of identifying with one portion of your body and ignoring all other parts, and yet you are doing the same thing (smile) when you imagine that the egotistical self carries the burden of your identity.

[...] This portion of your identity is quite natively clairvoyant and telepathic, so that you are warned of disasters before they occur, whether or not you consciously accept the message, and all communication takes place long before a word is spoken.

[...] I hope, therefore, not only to explain the multidimensional aspects of personality, but to give each reader some glimpse of that greater identity that is his own.

Its sense of identity spontaneously goes beyond the change of its own form. [...] Creatures without the compartment of the ego can easily follow their own identity beyond any change of form. The inner self is aware of this integrity of identity, but the ego focused so securely in physical reality cannot afford this luxury.

[...] There are as I have told you, many, indeed countless such systems, and yet within them all there is identity, and there is direction. [...]

The inner self is intimately connected with each reality, though you are not aware of it, and the inner self can trace its own connections through the network of any existence, and still keep its identity. [...]

Any consciousness is therefore innately aware of its basic identity. [...]

New sentence: That particular blend of rational thinking with which your society is familiar takes it more or less for granted, then, that man’s identity as a species, and the identity of the individual, is first and foremost connected with the intellect. [...]

I only want to show you that the sense of identity need not inevitably be coupled with the intellect exclusively. Your intellect is a part of you — a vital, functioning portion of your cognitive processes — but it does not contain (underlined) your identity.

[...] By the time you are an adult, however, you have been taught to disconnect your identity from your feelings as much as possible, and to think of your personhood in terms of your intellectual orientation. Your identity seems to be in your head. [...]

(9:46.) Despite all of that, men and women still find the solutions to many of their problems by rediscovering the larger sense of identity¹ — a sense of identity that accepts the intuitions and the feelings, the dreams and the magic hopes as vital characteristics, not adjuncts, of personhood. When I tell you to remember your own natural persons, I do then want to remind you not to identify with your intellects alone, but to enlarge your scopes of identity. [...]

Any section of the land has an identity, so to speak, and I am not talking symbolically. Such identities represent the combined organizations of consciousness of land, man, and animal, within any given realm. [...] It is instead a literally endless conglomeration of points of consciousness, swarming together to form your validity — stamped, as it were, with your identity.

In the dream state the actors become aware to some extent of the parts they play, and sense the true personal identity that is behind the artist’s craft. [...]

[...] You imagine it to be “absolute,” in that it seems to involve an all-exclusive state that includes your identity as you think of it — only you give it boundaries like a kingdom. [...]

(Intently:) Whether dispersed, concentrated in a tight grouping, appearing “alone” or flying through other larger swarms, that particular organization represents your identity.

(9:31.) I do not like the phrase, “to advance”, yet in your terms “to advance” as a consciousness is to become more and more aware of these other materializations of your own identity. The probable selves are to gain awareness of the other probable selves, and realize that all are various manifestations of the true identity.

[...] The entire identity is being now. All divisions are merely illusions, so one probable self can hold out a helping hand to another, and through these inner communications the various probable selves in your terms begin to understand the nature of their identity.

[...] Instead the identity is what they are, with full freedom to express all probable actions and developments, both in this reality and in others that you do not know.

In that state, with the functions of the ego somewhat stilled, there is some considerable communication between various portions of the entire identity. [...]

[...] I use one portion of myself from many personalities that are available to my identity in these communications, and in this book. In other systems of reality, this particular Seth personality that I, the larger Seth identity adopt here, would not be understood.

Permanency and stability basically have nothing to do with form, but with the integration of pleasure, purpose, accomplishment, and identity. [...]

[...] Therefore I would not communicate as a male personality who has lived many physical existences, though this is a legitimate and valid portion of my identity.

[...] Simultaneously you may create a “thought-form” of yourself, identical in every respect, and this may appear in the room of a friend quite without your conscious awareness. [...]

[...] Let it show you portions of your own identity as it has with our cousin of Richelieu (to Bette) and our secretary over here (Natalie). [...] And let it above all, also arouse questions as it has with you (Arnold) and with you (Tom D.) but realize again that this vitality that rings through this voice rings through your own identity and yours. [...] Let it then give you confidence in your own identity and in your own reality. [...]

[...] The child understands that in a certain fashion (underlined) the parents are an extension of its own identity. At the same time it knows that the parents are equally independent, and that its own identity is a part of extensions that are the parents’. [...]

[...] It is quite natural for children to play creatively with the various states of their own consciousnesses, to explore the “us-ness” of a seemingly single identity. [...]

[...] The “us-ness” of a single identity is experienced less and less. [...]

Its sense of identity spontaneously goes beyond the change of its own form. [...] Creatures without the compartment of the ego can easily follow their own identities beyond any changes of form. The inner self is aware of this integrity of identity, but the ego focused so securely in physical reality cannot afford this luxury.

No identities are blurred, but it makes no difference to the identities where you or mankind happens to draw a line, saying “Here we have A, and here we have B.”

[...] Each field of existence merges into every other, and yet each retains its own identity. [...]

The gestalt patterns of which I have spoken is the basis here, and yet all members within such gestalts are themselves independent, possessing identity and separation even while they cooperate in a complicated pattern. [...]

[...] And everything that is, is also self-conscious, in degree according to its abilities; and everything that is therefore contains identity and separation, even while it is part of a large and complicated gestalt.

[...] The term, identity, like many other terms, is limited, for you think of identity as being one indivisible unit. [...] Identity is not dependent upon any sort of structure, as you know it.

Psychic identity does not need to set up barriers in order to recognize selfhoods. One personality can therefore be a portion of more than one entity, and still retain its own identity, its own individuality. [...]

Therefore you are hampered in your attempt to understand personalities who do not exist within your system, for identity is not therefore structured in any kind of a time sequence, and what you call memory flies out the window.

[...] The time concept leads then to a limited idea, for you cannot conceive of an identity without memory of the past in your (underlined) terms.

Feelings and sensations and memories that it knows nothing of have built up your psychological identity, and given you a sense of continuity. [...] Intimacy with your self and with your own identity, that is intimate knowledge of your own identity, resides in all portions of the self, and is not dependent upon a survival based upon the survival of the physically-oriented ego. [...]

[...] You take it for granted that the physically-oriented ego represents your own psychological identity, you see, and this is an illusion. It contains a portion of your psychological feeling of identity, but only that.

It is the prime identity of the whole present personality. [...]

Now, this identity of which I speak, from which you receive your energy and your information, this identity of yours personally, is indeed infinite. [...] You are learning to open these channels to that identity, but that identity within each of you is infinite. [...]

[...] Then why should it amaze you that you are beginning to use and recognize some of the information that belongs to your entire identity? [...] And yet, this is all a portion of your own identity. [...] The messages, therefore, come, as far as class is concerned, to this time from the entire entity, the inner identity, whatever word you want to use or coin. [...]

[...] They are united however as interior and subsidiary identities that are a part of your own, and they are sent out by the inner self for various reasons. The thought is a psychological reality, a psychological and psychic identity but not a structured personalized identity. [...] These may or may not be structured personalized identities though they will be dependent for their existence upon the whole self.

[...] They are a part of your psychic identity projected outward, yet you do not feel any loss. [...]

[...] When you are a child, your sense of identity does not include old age in usual experience. [...] Your sense of identity, then, changes physically through the years. [...] You move in and out of probable selfhoods, while at the same time — usually with the greatest of ease — you maintain an identity of yourself. [...]

[...] Your self is secure in its own identity, unique in its characteristics, meeting life and the seasons in a way that has never happened before, and will never happen again — yet still you are a unique version of your greater self. [...]

[...] To some extent, when you paint such portraits you are forming psychic bridges between yourself and those other selves: Your own identity as yourself grows.

Only in a manner of speaking (repeated twice), there are certain — (humorously:) a necessary qualifying word — “power selves,” or personalities; parts of your greater identity who utilized fairly extraordinary amounts of energy in very constructive ways. [...]

The reality then tries to recreate itself in identical fashion, fails, and is again distorted into a further facet of basic reality. [...] Recall here the material concerning identities in general.

[...] An original action can never repeat itself in an identical fashion. [...]

[...] But more, it would have to take up an identical amount of physical time, in terms of past physical existence, which is clearly impossible.

[...] It had something to do with her perception of two identical masses of landscape, one being meant to duplicate the other. [...]

[...] You imagine personhood to be a kind of mental particle that must have definite boundaries, or it will lose its identity. The identity of even the smallest consciousness is always maintained — but not limited. If you can think of your present idea of identity as if it were but one shape or one motion of a moving particle, a shape or a motion that never loses its imprint or meaning, then you could also see how you could follow it forward or backward to the shape or motion taken “before or afterward.”

[...] There are psychic pools of identity, therefore; and generally speaking those alive in any given century are as much a part of that inner pool as they are a part of the particular race to which they may belong. Each member of the species is an individual, and each member of a psychic pool of identity is an individual.

[...] A certain identity and cohesiveness is also maintained because of these inner connections.

You could retain the identity of yourself as you know yourself, and yet flow into a greater field or wave of reality that allowed you to perceive your own other motions or shapes or versions. [...]