“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] 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.

[...] You have within yourself, however, the ability to release your intuitions and to receive inner knowledge.

Your unconscious self is a strong portion of our sessions, and it was for this reason that Ruburt sensed this absence. [...]

[...] But she had no sense of quickly passing time like that she had experienced in the last session.

[...] The dream world exists more closely in that spacious present of which the inner self is so aware. [...]

[...] As an individual creates his physical image and environment according to his abilities and defects, and in line with his expectations and subconscious and inner needs, so does he create his dreams; and these interact with the outer environment which he has created.

[...] In other words, such a dream may begin to transform the physical environment through lifting inner expectation.

[...] The unconscious, the color black, and death all have strongly negative connotations in which the inner self is feared; the dream state is mistrusted and often suggests thoughts of both death and/or evil. But changed wake-sleep habits can, again, bring about a transformation in which it is obvious that dreams contain great wisdom and creativity, that the unconscious is indeed quite conscious, and that in fact the individual sense of identity can be retained in the dream state. [...]

Individual psychological mechanisms are activated, sometimes, in terms of neurosis or other mental problems; these bring out into the open inner challenges or dilemmas that otherwise would be worked out more easily through an open give-and-take of conscious and unconscious reality —

Illumination concerning the inner self may appear clearly during waking reality, and in the same way invaluable information about the conscious self may be received in the dream state. [...]

(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. [...]

[...] It is futile to question: “What is the difference between my psyche and my soul, my entity and my greater being?” for all of these are terms used in an effort to express the greater portions of your own experience that you sense within yourself. [...]

[...] It is, instead, an ever-forming state of being, in which your present sense of existence resides. [...]

[...] When you attempt to understand your psyche, and define it in terms of time, then it seems that the idea of reincarnation makes sense. [...]

[...] Outer constructions are always translations of actions from inner reality into material. Their validity is dependent upon the individual’s ability to receive inner data, to translate inner data, to manipulate energy, and to construct it onto the material field.

[...] Therefore the construction was only seen by the one person to whom the inner clues were given. The construction was then formed, more or less in faithful replica to the inner data received by Mark.

For reasons that we will mention later, the cat did sense the apparition. [...]

[...] This will allow inner data to come through more easily.

[...] Now this will automatically set your inner self toward the anticipation of further sound. [...]

[...] The inner problems can be faced and solved. [...]

Your ears, your hearing, will improve when you realize that the cause is an inner one and when you bring the problem out into the open, and when you use certain techniques that are simply aids. [...]

[...] This will automatically, you see, change the situation, for you will not change the physical aspects unless an inner recognition has first led you to do so. [...]

If small families kept track of their own family dreams, for example, they could discover unsuspected correlations and sense the interplay of subjective and objective drama with which they are always psychologically involved. [...]

[...] The discoveries and inventions that made the industrial world possible were always latent in man’s mind, and represented an inner glittering landscape of probability that he brought into actualization through the use of dreams—the intuitive and the conscious manipulation of material that was at one time latent.

Value fulfillment will always provide inner directions that remind man constantly of the best ways in which such technology can be used. [...]

In the most cosmic and most minute ways, physical experience springs from inner reality. [...]

It is not easy to explain the workings of the inner psyche, or the activity behind dreams, for such experience exists beyond the framework of verbalization or images, and deals basically with the nature and behavior of psychological and psychic energy.

[...] You will recall them more easily, and as you do you will be able to maintain a sense of continuity between the waking and dream states.

His own inner belief in the sessions was strong, and is still strong, but the other conflict continued. [...]

[...] He used little common sense, and was overly emotional, reading signs where there were none, and ignoring the fine intellect that he had even then.

—rather than upon any sense of justice, so that in a very basic sense man is considered a natural criminal in the eyes of the law, and more and more laws are then seemingly required, in order to protect man “from himself.” [...]

[...] Through the centuries, however, even while people gained valuable knowledge through experience, they also unfortunately began to lose—or distort—important elements of the inner knowledge that was their heritage. [...]

[...] (Pause.) The inner self grappled. [...]

[...] When he allows himself more freedom,he will be able to sense me in definite terms, though as a rule not during a session.

He senses my presence then, but not in terms outside of himself, you see; you can do this during sessions.

[...] 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 remember other faces, even though the mind you call the conscious one may not recognize the images from that deep inner memory. [...]

I have mentioned this before, but your environment is a symbol of your inner life and beliefs; one appears physical to you while the inner life does not. [...]

[...] Such activity increases his sense of power, minimizes his physical hesitancy, and mobilizes physical activity.

You must realize that the inner portions of the self are aware of the greater framework in which individuality takes place. [...]

It is the most physically oriented portion of your inner self; but it is not, however, apart from your inner self. [...]

[...] I told you (at the beginning of this chapter) that it was important to realize the ego’s position as the most “exterior” portion of the inner self, not alienated but looking outward to physical reality. [...]

Now: Ruburt’s sensing of the channels does represent a development and has been possible for some time; but it is only now entering his experience. [...]

[...] I tried not to be frightened and told myself that the intuitive self sensed something exciting going on, even if the ego was worried. [...]

I was particularly aware of my lower astral legs, hovering above the physical ones, and took great pleasure in wiggling them about, enjoying the marvelous sense of freedom and lightness they possessed. [...]

[...] The time sense outside the body can be quite different than the body’s. You knew that one successful experience would free you, so you chose the best of circumstances. [...]

[...] I knew I had not been dreaming and felt a most peculiar sense of suspension and ease.

[...] The inner senses are allowed their greatest freedom in projection states, and the whole self retains experience that it would not otherwise. [...]

(The moment the session began Jane felt a great sense of confidence that she knew wasn’t hers—a sense that things were going to go extremely well. [...]

[...] She felt a sense of strangeness at break time because she didn’t leave trance, but was not worried, nor did she try to get out of trance. [...]

[...] That pursuit automatically gives life its zest and natural sense of excitement and drama. Developing your own abilities, whatever they may be, exploring and expanding your experience of selfhood, gives life a sense of purpose, meaning, and creative excitement — and also adds to the understanding and development of the society and the species.

[...] You may contemplate the end of the world instead, but in either case you are propelled by a sense of personal frustration, and perhaps by some degree of vengeance, seeing in your mind the destruction of a world that fell so far beneath your idealized expectations.

[...] In those terms, there are inner neurological-like systems that provide constant communication through all of the world’s parts. [...]

[...] Through the geese I want to associate Jane’s and my activities with nature rather than technology, for in nature I sense a great, sublime, ultimate peacefulness and creativity that far surpasses technology, can we but ever manage to approach an understanding of what nature really means for us physical creatures. [...]

[...] With the large freedom provided by the conscious mind, however, man could stray from that great inner joy of being, forget it, disbelieve in it, or use his free will to deny its existence.

[...] If you can sense your thoughts steadily replacing themselves then you can also feel your own elegance.

In a simultaneous time, punishment makes no sense. [...]

[...] Through his senses the animal gets messages from distant areas that he cannot directly perceive, and of which he is largely unaware. [...]

What you will be, you are now, not in some misty half-real form but in a most real sense. [...]

The dream world is, then, a natural by-product of the relationship between the inner self and the physical being — not a reflection, but a by-product — involving not only a chemical reaction, but also the transformation of energy from one state to another.

[...] For example, without the peculiar spark set off through the interrelationship between the inner self and the physical being, the dream world would not exist. [...]

[...] The dream world exists more closely in that spacious present of which the inner self is so aware. [...]

The inner self is always aware of the hidden mechanisms of these family gestalts. [...] Many of these form physical organizations that are actually manifestations of inner groupings.

[...] There are as many different ways to reincarnate, therefore, as there are inner selves, and each inner self will choose its own characteristic methods.

[...] If you look about you at your relatives, friends, acquaintances, and business associates, you will also see what kind of a person you are, for you are drawn to them as they are drawn to you, through very basic inner similarities.

Now: If you expand your sense of love, of health, and existence, then you are drawn in this life and in others toward those qualities; again, because they are those upon which you concentrate. [...]