“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] Such a reminder can often allow the inner self to send needed messages of strength and love through the various levels, appearing as inspiration, dreams, or simply pure bursts of feeling. The inner ego (long pause) draws instant and continuous support from the universal consciousness, and the more the exterior ego keeps that fact in mind, the greater its own sense of stability, safety, and self-esteem.

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

Intellectually he followed the ideas, but his inner self gave him the all-important initial message. [...] Intuition represents the directions of the inner self, breaking through conscious barriers.

[...] The “I” who dreams, who is aware of motion, action and participation in a dream, this “I” is of course the inner self, focused momentarily upon the particular subconscious layer at which the dream is originated.

In dreams the inner “I” changes its point of focus, and this is important. [...]

In other words, a dream allows the inner self to view itself within the spacious present. [...]

[...] Some, because of excellent development, inner communication with the inner self, feel subconsciously secure enough to change focus spontaneously, as one might listen to one radio station and then another, still retaining knowledge of the basic “I” who listened.

[...] What psychologists do not understand, however, is that in deep levels of subconscious activity associations may spring from the inner self’s latent knowledge and experience of past lives.

The ego cannot so change its focus, but the inner ego of which we have spoken is indeed the self that dreams, and is the “I” who experiences when the ego “I” sleeps.

What was once the subconscious of these individuals once more united with the inner ego, which always represents the true individual, and these then advanced according to their own abilities and desires.

[...] It originates instead in the energy of the entity and inner self, and is directed by means of the inner senses, outward so to speak, through the deeper layers of the individual subconscious mind, then through the outer or personal layers.

[...] The closed and dangerous subconscious is that one which is closed both to inner depths of inspiration arising from the inner self, and also to outer doors of expression.

We will, indeed, return to our discussion of the inner senses. [...]

[...] I certainly advocate that the body of the material be made available to the public, and indeed its purpose is to help mankind understand himself, so that he may understand the world which mirrors his inner reality.

He has learned that the ego cannot set itself up against the inner self. He has learned to trust and have confidence in the inner self, and to listen to the subconscious which is a part of his inner identity.

[...] It will insure the mobility of the inner personality, and dissipate resistances before they accumulate.

[...] You must not take too literally that which you read, but leave it to the inner self to interpret and decide, and leave it to our material also. [...]

[...] They are groping attempts at inner knowledge. [...]

You are meant to look at your physical condition—to compare it against what you want and what is good—and change the inner self accordingly. Any evils in the world are symptoms of you own inner disorders and are meant to lead you to cure them. [...]

[...] I challenge you to open your inner eyes, to use your minds, to use your inner intuitions. [...]

[...] Freedom is the inner realization that you are an individual. [...]

[...] I can see your potentials and your abilities and your promise—and you could see your own potentials and promise if you would open your inner eyes, if you would look within yourselves. [...]

His own inner experiences are structuring the necessary changes. The body at each instant accurately reflects the inner state, but in your terms with some necessary time lag. [...]

[...] Any such inner communications are basically the same in that they are picked up by the inner senses, whether the information seems telepathic or clairvoyant in your terms.

[...] I was ready now to really use the inner senses. [...] If I could leave my body and go out into the physical world, then I didn’t see why I couldn’t leave it and explore the inner one.

[...] Material from the inner senses is seldom experienced in its true form. [...]

[...] Yet consciously, she was ignorant of her own inner decision.

I will, then, begin with a short treatise concerning the importance of expectation, not only in the construction of physical objects from inner data, but also in the importance played by expectation in the actual sifting of inner data that is received, and in the importance of expectation in the interpretation of inner data after the sifting process has been carried about.

We have already spoken of psychic constructions, and we have said that physical shapes are built upon inner psychic frameworks. [...]

Again, expectations are not only vital in the formation of physical constructions, but they also determine what inner data of all available, will be received by the individual; and then the individual interprets the data in terms of the same expectations.

[...] Expectation is actually the main trigger that switches inner data into the realm of physical construction. [...]

(9:50.) Your intimate physical environment is, therefore, a symbolic statement of an inner situation. The inner situation is a fluid one, for you are always in a state of becoming. Left alone, you will automatically translate the freely moving, spontaneous inner events into physical reality, therefore altering your environment and changing the symbols.

[...] They are the exterior symbols that stand for inner experience.

Any physical ailment is symbolic of an inner reality or statement. [...]

[...] Then you must look within yourself for the inner actuality represented by the symbol. [...]

[...] Since your universe springs from an inner one, and since that inner one pervades each nook and cranny of your own existence, you must look where you have not before — into the reality of your own minds and emotions. [...]

Dictation: Your next question is easy to anticipate, of course, for you will want to know the origin of that “interior” universe from which I have said the exterior one ever emerges — and here we must part company with treasured objectivity, and enter instead a mental domain, in which it is seen that contradictions are not errors; an inner domain large enough to contain contradictions at one level, for at another level they are seen to be no contradictions at all.

You walk quite well without having at your fingertips any conscious knowledge of the inner mechanism’s activity. [...]

Exploring those realities lovingly will bring you into direct contact with inner dimensions of your being, providing intuitive understandings that are of greatest import.

[...] You may close your eyes or leave them open, as you prefer, but sense within yourselves your own inner identity. [...]

[...] A reality in which you are intimately concerned and feel within yourselves the inner identity recognizing that which it now sees and perceives. [...]

[...] And let them form a foundation upon which you can climb to find your own reality and your own existence that is in itself independent, both of my words and even of the room in which now your bodies sit, for that independent inner self wanders through all existences that you have known, in your terms, has a wisdom and knowledge that you can use. [...]

[...] Open your eyes, all of you, and test what you see against the inner reality that you know. [...]

Though we speak in definite terms of the inner self, the entity and the ego, neither the inner self, the entity or the ego are stationary and complete. [...]

[...] As you cannot hold even the ego in the palm of your hand, so you cannot hold the inner self within the mind. [...]

[...] And also, that most inaccessible, most inward and seemingly most mysterious portion of the inner universe, which you seek, is so a part of you that you are unaware of it even though in it you have your very existence.

Neither, then, is the ego ever finished, nor the inner self, nor the entity. [...]

As individual reliance upon the outer senses develops, the personality to a large degree relies upon them, and gradually loses the habit of relying upon the more familiar inner senses utilized mainly in infancy and childhood. This is usually a matter of practicality; yet there are those who continue stubbornly this older and basic reliance upon the inner senses, and these individuals utilize the realization of an open system.

[...] The inner senses, to the contrary, are well aware of these manifestations, and of the existence of an open infinite system, within which they only are equipped to function.

[...] The inner senses, when the physical body is relaxed, will carry you through the imaginary boundaries, but a conscious focus upon the boundaries to be passed through will tend to reinforce them. [...]

[...] It is in this same sort of state that the most significant and beneficial inner sense experiments take place.

[...] So far Ruburt is doing well, and will learn as he progresses how to operate inner acceleration and flow, or rush of energy, so that he is comfortable. And the ego, through experience, will learn that the inner self will always return safely. And it would be most unjust, and needlessly cruel, not to give the ego this necessary reassurance; and also the inner self should manage to communicate to the ego its gratitude for the ego’s protective concern.

[...] The inner self is well aware of its innate capabilities in certain directions, and directs its efforts along these lines.

[...] The rushing-out feeling through the head represented the initial flow of the inner self from the physical image.

[...] It yelped and pulled the escaping inner self back by its imaginary coattails.

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.

[...] The inner self is aware of this integrity of identity, but the ego, focused so securely in physical reality, cannot afford this luxury.

[...] The inner self knows what is behind the physical stars and planets that the eye views, but the ego would be swept aside in panic at such realization.

Your conscious knowledge rests upon an invisible, unspoken, psychological and physical language that provides the inner support for the communications and recognized happenings of conscious life. These inner languages are built up as cordellas, and cordellas are psychic organizational units from which, then, all alphabets are born. [...]

In dreams, then, you are involved in the inner process by which physical events are formed. [...]

[...] For that matter, the preciseness of your ordinary sense perception rests firmly upon this greater inner flexibility, which gives you a broad base from which to form your secure focus.

Your own symptoms have been caused also by an inner indecision, a refusal to come to terms with yourself and your work.

[...] Do not be afraid of making errors in your paintings, but trust your inner self. [...]

[...] Now that it is developed let the inner self guide its use, and it will serve you as it was meant to serve your intuitive self.

[...] Do not be overly concerned with the methods by which they will be accomplished however, for the inner self will take care of these methods. [...]

2. Seth’s material about technology and science leading to inner realities reminds me of two related examples that I’ve become aware of recently through my own reading. The first one involves a more intimate inner reality than the second, yet both pose interesting questions. [...] (However, as I wrote in Appendix 1, “I’m not interested in knocking our technology, but in pointing out coexisting inner factors that I’m sure are just as important.”)

[...] Even as a means, objective science is only helpful for a while, because it will constantly run up against deeper inner realities that are necessarily shunted aside and ignored simply because of its method and attitude.² No objective science or splendid technology alone will keep even one man or woman alive, for example, if that individual has decided to leave the flesh, or finds no joy in daily life.

[...] The inner order of existence and true science go together. [...]

Give us a moment … The particular thrust and direction of your own science have been directly opposed to the development of such inner sciences, however, so that to some extent each step in the one direction has thus far taken you further from the other. [...]

The inner self chooses from its available potential personalities the one that it finds most adequate. Sometimes it simply makes an error, for the inner self is not a perfected thing, any more than the ego is. [...]

[...] The inner self or identity must express itself through its ego in order to manipulate within physical reality. The inner self is composed of all the potential egos that compose it, but it is more than the sum of these.

The four faces of Eve all represented various ego manifestations of one inner identity. [...]

The inner self is always in the process of trying to perfect the nature of that ego which it has adopted. [...]