“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Each of the twelve represented qualities of personality that belong to one individual, and Christ as you know him represented the inner self. The twelve, therefore, plus Christ as you know him (the one figure composed of the three) represented an individual earthly personality — the inner self — and twelve main characteristics connected with the egotistical self. As Christ was surrounded by the disciples, so the inner self is surrounded by these physically oriented characteristics, each drawn outward toward daily reality on the one hand, and yet orbiting the inner self.

(10:03.) The disciples, therefore, were given physical reality by the inner self, as all of your earthly characteristics come out of your inner nature. [...]

This awareness gives personal experience with the multidimensional richness that exists not apart from but intermingled with, within, through, and all about your physical world of sense. [...]

[...] He dramatized a portion of each individual’s personality that focuses upon physical reality in a grasping manner, and denies the inner self out of greed.

[...] It represents a certain state of consciousness — an in-between threshold dimension of awareness, in which the imagination and the senses are almost caught in the act of putting an object together, or of bringing the world into a sensed reality, brand-new, from the realm of the inner mind: a very evocative state of consciousness, and one that as I believe Ruburt mentioned, you could also use in connection with faces.

Ruburt’s body is then magically and naturally repairing itself in a function just as creative, of course, as the inner work that goes on in the production of a book or a poem — a fact he is finally getting through his head. [...]

That perception was not the sort of official sense data recognized by your sciences. [...]

[...] Your physical universe arose from that inner framework, then, and continues to do so.

(9:50.) Give us a moment… You were born with the impetus toward growth built in — automatically provided with the inner blueprints that would lead to a developed adult form. [...]

[...] In the truest sense, the birth magically happens, as miraculous in those terms as the so-called initial emergence of life upon the planet itself. [...]

[...] Before the Roman gods were fully formalized, there was a spectacular range of good and bad deities, with all gradations [among them], that more or less “democratically” represented the unknown but sensed, splendid and tumultuous characteristics of the human soul, and have stood for those sensed but unknown glimpses of his own reality that man was in one way or another determined to explore.

(Long pause at 9:25.) In the first place, reality is primarily a mental phenomenon, in which the perceptions of the senses are organized and put together in ways that perfectly “mimic” in physical terms a primary (long pause) nonphysical experience. [...]

The Christ figure represents the exaggerated, idealized version of the inner self that the individual feels incapable of living up to. [...]

Jehovah and the Christian version of God brought about a direct conflict between the so-called forces of good and the so-called forces of evil by largely cutting out all of the intermediary gods, and therefore destroying the subtle psychological give-and-take that occurred between them—among them—and polarizing man’s own view of his inner psychological reality.

[...] It was meant to serve as a map that would lead, not into another objectified universe per se, but into inner roads of consciousness. These inner roads or strands of consciousness bring elements into play so that it becomes possible to realize that the content of a given objectified universe may actually be perceived quite differently. [...]

[...] Like weightless spacemen we know who we are, but we aren’t sure of our position, which shifts psychologically in inner space. We grow momentarily dizzy, dazzled by an inner cosmos of selves and self-versions, and feel that we are traveling through some gigantic psyche that spawns selves the way space spawns stars.”

All mail does not come from the postman, so each of you should have your own kind of inner response from me whatever letter you have sent by mail. I serve in many ways as a speaker for your own psyche, however, so the inner message will be from your own greater being to yourself; and at that multidimensional level of reality, I salute you.

[...] In that sense, then, the creative processes involved with these two volumes were endless — at least until Jane and I called a halt to them for sheer physical reasons. [...]

In the past, when Seth told me to trust the spontaneous self, I said “Okay,” and imagined some hypothetical inner self somehow apart from my conscious intents. [...] This distant-seeming inner self wasn’t so distant after all; “it” communicated through my impulses. [...]

[...] Behind each heading or subject, I sensed realms of information available to Seth, but not (in usual terms) to me. Yet there had been an earlier moment just before the onrush of material when I sensed an odd psychological threshold, a certain accelerated state, that in this case at least signaled the intersection of Seth’s thoughts and mine. [...]

[...] It represents a turning away of consciousness from ordinary reality toward an inner one. [...]

When Seth began this manuscript, I was personally working with the idea of “heroic impulses” (those separate from our usual ones) that would operate as inner impetuses toward constructive action. [...]

[...] Their sense of time is completely different. [...]

[...] Here your inner beliefs are your only contact with reality. [...]

[...] This will involve time, but the inner concentration is growing on Ruburt’s part.

[...] He was even then leaning toward our direction, by nature, ability and inner desire.

The natural contours of your psyche are quite aware of the inner sweep and flow of your life, and its relationship with every other creature alive. [...] The exquisite play of your own inner nature in general — and that identification leads you into the deeper knowledge of your own part in nature’s source.

No amount of intellectual information, no accumulation of facts however vast, could give you the inner knowledge necessary to accomplish the physical events involved in that growth process. [...]

[...] They will ignore or deny the inner feelings that alone would give the event any meaning in their lives. [...]

[...] Flu epidemics become social excuses for much needed rest, therefore, and serve as face-saving devices so that the individuals can hide from themselves their inner difficulties. [...]

[...] Her hands acquired a velvety, luxurious “inner smoothness.” [...] [See the extensive notes for the 653rd session in Chapter Thirteen, describing her various states of altered perception last April 2. In one of those intervals she’d sensed giants standing about the rim of our world.] Now, Jane said, from their massive viewpoint these observers could see “everything happening at once in our world, from California to Russia — like astronauts looking back at us….”

(Pause.) As Ruburt’s episode tonight shows, even normal sense data then achieves a kind of multidimensionality, a richness rather impossible to describe. This automatically provides a biological learning process in which the senses can be used in a freer, deeper fashion. [...]

[...] To whatever extent possible, the physical organism interprets that unity through a new mixture of sense data, so that materially the information makes sense.

Such affirmation will lead you to your own inner discoveries, and attract from the deepest portions of your being the particular kind of information, experience, or perception that you need. [...]

The physical personality, a projection from a whole inner self, develops into more than it was, and has experiences that the inner self could not have under any but those particular circumstances.

[...] You must remember that all of these portions of the self exist at once, and that the whole inner self knows them as a part of its own identity. [...]

[...] The sense apparatus, supposedly the exclusive right of the physical body, will be much more acute, and yet it will not be determined by any physical mechanisms. [...]

[...] It goes without saying that the consciousness works as hard at night as in the daytime, and always the experiences become part of the whole inner self.

Your materials must always serve your inner vision or you will be dissatisfied with them. You must be bold in following the inner vision, free enough to follow it. [...]

[...] Remember he is to trust the inner self. [...]

[...] This gives the inner self freedom. [...]

The inner gains have been made. [...]

[...] Any sudden emergence of a completed universe would then imply an unimaginable and a spectacular development of organization—that it did not just appear from nowhere, but as the “completed physical version” of an inner highly concentrated endeavor, the physical manifestation of an inspiration that then suddenly emerges into physical actuality.²

[...] Consciousness becomes more familiar with its own inner motion, and even with the kinds of work and actions it performs outside of its usual waking prejudices. [...]

[...] The main, brilliant thrust of those inner events, therefore, splashed out upon the human landscape, propelling peoples and civilizations.

[...] Jane hadn’t sensed any nervousness before the session, as she often does when knowing she’s about to resume work on a book project. [...]

As you know therefore we have differentiated between an outer ego, who manipulates within physical reality, and an inner ego who directs the activities of the inner self. [...] In the main, the ego deals with secondary realities, and in the main, the inner ego deals with primaries.

[...] The inner I operates very well without them. In order to manipulate a physical reality however, the inner I needs a self that is acclimated to physical conditions; hence the ego.

My remark in our last session, concerning the aid that Ruburt subconsciously gave me in connection with the voice effect, did not have to do with the inner voice heard by Philip. [...]

[...] It is only that these must be recognized as secondary conditions that do not therefore basically (underlined) affect the inner self, which is to a large degree independent of your system.

[...] You have, again, perceived some small clues as to such inner behavior. [...]

These are all quite mundane events, of course, yet they show over a period of a few days glimpses of the inner order of activity, similarities and coincidences that actually lie at the heart of events, and serve as their true organization. [...]

[...] It is as if the springs or inner mechanics of motion had been tightly held back, so that as they are being relieved there is considerable inequality, unpredictable springing motion—a loosening here and a tightening there momentarily, as if before he had been too tightly wound (deliberately). [...]

(Long pause, one of several, at 8:31.) This is particularly pertinent in his feelings concerning the jaw and neck, and the eye connection and his sense of balance (all items Jane has mentioned often recently). [...]

This is what makes a painting great, the validity of the inner ground of being within them, interpreted in highly individual ways. The individuality itself, if it is intuitively valid, will lead to a universal inner recognition on the part of all who perceive such a painting.

You are allowing yourself more inner freedom again, and so you permitted yourself to see this. [...]

[...] The paintings that you will paint do exist, because you have in one sense the potential to create them. [...]

[...] You can only fail in not giving them physical form, and you can only fail to give them physical form by refusing to open up your inner channels to the intuitions of the whole self.

[...] They are sometimes delighted with each other, and yet sometimes feel, in meeting, a conscious sense of disappointment while experiencing an inner sense of recognition and joyful enthusiasm.

[...] Enough of them would be followed however to provide some kind of inner program, that would at least head you in the proper directions.

[...] Do not forget, in whatever way you choose to use it, the importance of reinforcing his sense of worth, despite what he does. [...]

The physical changes however are supremely important, as physical materializations of inner ones. [...]

The Garden of Eden story in its most basic sense refers to man’s sudden realization that now he must act within time. [...]

(9:17.) Each species is endowed also, by virtue of the units of consciousness that compose it, with an overall inner picture of the condition of each other species (pause), and further characterized by basic impulses so that it is guided toward choices that best fulfill its own potentials for development while adding to the overall good of the entire world consciousness. [...]

[...] In the vast structure of probable activity, however, far more differentiation was still necessary, and this is provided for through the inner passageways of reincarnational existence.

[...] The inner reincarnational structure of the human psyche is very important in man’s physical survival. [...]

(4:28.) Even when biological “failures” develop, as with stillborn infants, or malformed ones, the inner consciousness involved does not give up, and even though death results, the consciousness tries again under different conditions. [...] It is simply felt to be an experience, a discovery, that went so far and no further — but the events in no way impede the vitality and strength of the inner consciousness so involved.

[...] It would make a lot more sense to them then, than thinking in the old ways.”

It goes without saying, or should, that the inner self sends its projections of inner senses through both the physical universe and the dream universe; yet all this talk of space and placement is a mere convenience. [...]

[...] However, those who ask concerning the time of the origin of consciousness within your universe, are those who do not understand that the most minute physical particle, the most microscopic, is a materialization of inner, aware energy.

[...] It is only within your camouflage perspective that this remark appears illogical, but this does not mean that you still cannot grasp some of its meaning, using your own inner experience.

[...] This time, you know intuitively, has no psychological inner relationship to the dream experience.

[...] She had no explanations to offer; in trance she’d experienced only “a brief sense of waiting.”

(“Yet each individual must eventually realize that you can’t give up power in one area without … ultimately threatening the inner core or psychic territory of power to some extent…. [...]

[...] Steps to lose weight do not make sense in the face of that belief. [...]