“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] The true story of identity is vastly complicated. [...] You do have an identity of your own that is never annihilated. On the other hand there are no boundaries to that identity, so that each self is not like a definite unit, always the same. And to some extent one self or identity cannot be equated with any other.

[...] Some of this is almost impossible for me to explain to you, for you move through probabilities so transparently while still maintaining your identity.

[...] The astral identity of course is aware of communications from both the inner and outer environment. The astral identity is therefore actually a more complete representation of the whole personality, and its abilities are far-reaching. The inner ego of which we have spoken is the director of this astral identity. [...]

[...] Therefore this experience, collected within the physical field, is held in codified form by this inner self or astral identity. [...]

While we are dealing now with your own species, it should be realized that all consciousness also possesses its own astral identity. [...]

The inner ego is then this inner identity. [...]

You had a brief life as twins—some definite clear-cut divisions within yourself, have to do with this life when you were one of two—one going one way, and one going the other—one twin had a strong leaning toward military things—a soldier—the organization of the church now serves the same purpose, I believe—security within the organization—the twin who was in the military found his sense of identity as a soldier within the system, but he had great faith in the system—in what he was doing—the other twin was more given to a statesman-like sort of thing—and was in fact an orator, although he had another profession—it included oration to people—the two of you had a very strong telepathic relationship—and this time the church has provided the same kind of organization—you sort of resented the fact that this twin brother of yours had this organization in which he found support and in which he felt so a part because he was absolutely certain of the aims and goals of the organization and he was a good soldier within it—and at that time you envied him that security and that sense of identity within the system in which he believed. [...]

[...] Their identity is intact.

So is your own identity secure in the midst of all these births and deaths of which your conscious self is unaware. [...]

[...] Though all of the tissue in that hand has often been completely replaced by the time you are twenty-seven, for example, the identity within each of those present cells remembers that injury.

[...] You, the larger self, have many bodies, each turning into the other as one dies and is reborn; yet You (capital Y) maintain your identity and your memory even as the smallest cell in your present body does.

[...] The inner identity does not understand that it is simply taking a different guise, fulfilling different obligations, or using unfulfilled energies.

[...] They make different alliances until they find their place in a whole identity that serves their purposes, or are strong enough to become indestructible. [...]

[...] That identity that is his has grown, developed, changed its circumstances and its physical components many times, searching for the psychic soil that will best develop his own potentials.

[...] Emotional identities are indestructible. [...]

The ego considers itself the self, and considers anything outside of its self as being either nonself or another such separate identity, and so the individual man is led to believe that telepathy is basically a communication between two or more basically alone, separate and aloof selves. [...]

[...] This development involved separations and concentrations of energy into self-conscious identities. [...]

[...] This is complicated to explain, and yet an explanation is sorely needed, for telepathy operates mainly when similarities and attractions are set up, when like attracts like; and not, as it would seem, when as it appears one alien or separate identity is connected with another.

[...] The limited idea of the self held by the ego clouds and distorts the main issue, for the ego is not conscious of the underlying bonds of sympathy that serve to merge, momentarily, the identities involved.

Personal identity, the basic “I”, is a product of the subconscious, and as such it exists as an actuality within the electric field; because of this it is basically independent of the physical field, held to it mainly by the ego. The ego directs the identity toward physical orientation. [...]

They are closed enough to retain identity and separateness of characteristic natures, but because they are all formed from inner vitality, they are actually interrelated; and when I describe fields or systems I describe many portions of one reality, many faces of one reality.

[...] The inner identity and individuality, as you know, has its origins long before this. [...]

The inner ego, however, always identifies with its source-identity as a beloved, individualized portion of the universe. [...]

[...] The knowledge can let it relax, let go, so that it feels its life couched and safe, and knows itself to be indeed a beloved child of the universe, both ancient and young at once, with an identity far beyond the annals of time.

Psychologically there is no identity, although some aspects are shared. I am speaking here of identity between your selves and the existence of a parallel self in the world of negative matter. That parallel self would not be recognized by you, as psychologically identical, and is indeed quite independent, and a by-product. [...]

In some manners you do exist identically in the world of negative matter, but in most manners you do not. [...] I will at one time discuss a fascinating facet, though important not shattering, concerning identical twins, in which slip-ups have occurred in this line.

[...] I also told you that you existed as long out of the physical universe as you existed in it, but I did not say that you existed identically.

The mass race consciousness, in its terms, possesses an identity. You are a portion of that identity while still being unique, individual and independent. [...]

And so it is from your larger identity that you form the reality that you know. It is up to you to do this with joy and vigor, clearing your conscious mind so that the deeper knowledge of your greater identity can form joyous expressions in the world of the flesh.

In other terms it represents the expression of yourself in pure energy, from which your individuality rises, the You of you, unmistakably given identity that is never duplicated.

The ego is a very specialized portion of your greater identity. [...]

Your identity is simply not dependent upon your psychological or biological sexuality.

[...] During what is called the sexually active time; the larger dimensions of personhood become strictly narrowed into sexually stereotyped roles — and all aspects of identity that do not fit are ignored or denied. [...]

[...] In your society, however, identity is so related to sexual stereotypes that few people know themselves well enough to understand the nature of love, and to make any such commitments.

[...] Heterosexual relationships also break down, for the identity of each partner becomes based upon sexual roles that may or may not apply to the individuals involved.

[...] The difference in degree however between my recognition of my identity and your recognition of your own identity is vast. [...]

[...] This is not an undifferentiated consciousness, in other words, that addresses you now, but one that recognizes the nature of its own identity.

The slightest deviation is looked upon with dismay, so that personal identity and worth are completely tied into identification with femaleness or maleness. [...] A male who does not feel himself fully male, therefore, does not trust his identity as a person. [...]

These are simple enough examples, but the man who possesses interests considered feminine by your culture, who naturally wants to enter fields of interest considered womanly, experiences drastic conflicts between his sense of personhood and identity — and his sexuality as it is culturally defined. [...]

As the various qualities of the Lumanians are still present in your psychic atmosphere, as their cities still coexist in land areas now called your own, so other probable identities coexist with the identities you now call your own. [...]

Your main sense of identity is involved with your physical body, so that it is, for example, extremely difficult for you to imagine yourself without it, or outside it, or in any way disconnected from it. [...] If you have, for example, a highly vivid desire to be somewhere else, then without realizing it consciously a pseudophysical form, identical with your own, may appear in that very spot. [...]

[...] Nor is there any end to the developments possible for each identity.

[...] That energy which is projected from our “superself,” that spark of intense identity that resulted in your physical birth, that unique impetus, in the one way has many similarities to the old concept of the soul — except that it contains only a part of the story.

[...] The apparent cause and effect sequence is absent, and identity knows itself as itself through other means than continuity, in your terms.

As a personality learns to use its abilities it becomes more aware of complexity, and able to operate as an identity within it. [...]

[...] (No real pause.) In other dimensions, or if you prefer at other stages of development, the multidimensional personality is aware of its prime identity, and is also aware simultaneously of personality offshoots that it has sent into many realities, into probable systems, as it pursues all of the probable acts and creations inherent in its nature.

It goes without saying that these are not haphazard developments, and that in pursuing literally infinities of probable actions, the prime identity has definite purposes in mind. [...]

Now if you would each, for ten minutes a day, open yourselves to your own reality there would be no question of self-justification for you would realize the miraculous nature of your own identity. [...]

[...] That you can be aware of your own greater identity even as I am aware of it. [...]

[...] This is your entire identity of which we are speaking. [...]

[...] You know the reason and your entire identity knows the reason. [...]

From Session 839 for March 7: “The quality of identity is far more mysterious than you understand, for you assign an identity in a blanket fashion, say, to each living thing. [...]

“That identity of Billy’s remains vital, known to itself whether or not it is reactivated in your terms. [...] They are forming a gestalt, where the five consciousnesses will merge to form a new identity.”

[...] An identity exists whether it is in the state of life or in the state of death. [...]

“The units of consciousness that organized to form his identity as you knew it, still form that pattern — but not physically. [...]

You read your own consciousness now in a kind of vertical fashion, identifying only with certain portions of it, and it seems to you that any other organization of perception, any other recognition of identity, would quite necessarily negate your own or render it inoperable. In the beginning of the world there were numberless groupings, however, and affiliations of consciousness, many other organizations of identity that were recognized, as well as the kind of psychological orientation you have now—but [your] kind of orientation was not the paramount one. [...]

[...] In dreams all of the species familiarized themselves with their old affiliations, and they read their own identities in different fashions. [...]

[...] Each portion has its own identity and validity—and no portion is ever annihilated or destroyed. [...]

[...] First of all you had the inner self, the creative dreaming self—composed, again, of units of consciousness, awareized energy that forms your identity, and that formed the identities of the earliest earth inhabitants. [...]

[...] The inner self represents your prime identity, the self you really are.

[...] The body consciousness is therefore given a superb sense of its own reality, a sureness of identity, a sense of innate safety and security, that allows it to not only function but to grow in the physical world. [...]