“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Like the fossilized layers within the physical earth, so do the subconscious layers hold intact the traces of an individual’s past lives. And as your physical eras of time may be deduced through studying the physical fossilized layers of rock, so can the time and place of past lives be deduced through studying the layers of the subconscious.

Beneath this undifferentiated subconscious layer we will find, and psychologists can find through testing and hypnosis, a layer composed of memories, dealing successively with each previous existence, and separated by a layer between lives that is, again, undifferentiated.

The topmost layer of the subconscious contains predominantly present associations, but in these are mixed and interwoven associations which have their origin elsewhere. These may be called self-unifying associations, since merely by their presence in the uppermost layers of the subconscious they provide a unifying sense of psychic continuity; of which however the ego is not aware.

The personal present subconscious could be compared, using this analogy, with the topmost layer of soil dealing with the present seasons. Through it reach the roots of living emotions and desires. Directly beneath, still using our analogy, will be found the nutrients and seeds of those desires. The topmost layers of the subconscious hold then, first of all, almost conscious just-under-the-surface needs and desires; and under these those more deeply buried, reaching backward to birth, even as the loose dry autumn leaves still contain traces of earlier pigment.

[...] There are layers and layers and layers, but these layers all grow from the inside outward as though the inner identity forms layers and layers of personality. [...]

The pendulum is an excellent manner for reaching the personal layers of the subconscious. Unless a trance state is adopted, it is much less effective as a manner of reaching those layers that lie, so to speak, beneath the personal subconscious. [...]

(Seth devoted the 88th session to the layers of the subconscious, especially Jane’s third undifferentiated layer. [...]

[...] However, as you know I speak only for convenience, for there are no real barriers to separate these layers. [...] For an analogy you may say that upon some occasions, though few, Ruburt’s personal subconscious layer expands so that I must travel through portions of it, and at other times it contracts and bothers me not at all.

[...] As you realize, I have little to do with the personal layer of Ruburt’s subconscious. [...]

[...] In the most protected areas of sleep, the apparent barriers between many layers of reality vanish. [...]

[...] Another undifferentiated layer follows, this time marked quite definitely by voices, conversations, or images, as consciousness tunes in more firmly to other communications. [...]

Somewhere during this time he will go into a deeply protected area of sleep, where he is at the threshold to other layers of reality and probabilities. [...]

[...] You can bring about reconciliations, for example, at another layer of reality though you cannot do so in this one.

A mountain is composed of many layers of rock that serve, as you think of it, as its foundation. [...] The mountain itself is not any one of those rock layers that seemingly compose it, however. [...] Again, however, it is not any one of those rock layers.

Now: In somewhat the same manner, the self that you know is the mountain, and the rock layers forming it are past lives.

[...] Each layer of life that composes the mountain —

[...] The layers at the bottom, however, are also constantly changing, so that the whole area is a gestalt of relatedness.

[...] Experience is not built up layer upon layer, along the lines of continual moments. [...]

Once more, the undifferentiated layers or areas are composed of the vitality that forms the camouflage of all systems. [...]

The completely uncamouflaged layer could be rather bewildering. [...]

The undifferentiated layers move out like spirals then, through all reality. [...]

The subconscious—personal subconscious layer – became blocked with debris that seeped down from the conscious layer. [...] Those healing abilities, that exuberance and love of life, is from a deeper layer of the self.

[...] They seeped down into the personal subconscious layer, causing blockages here that prevented even deeper areas of the self (pause) from giving necessary help.

There is no doubt in this deeper layer that full abilities will be used, and potentialities carried out, and there is no time to this portion of the self. [...]

[...] Events from any given layer of consciousness are reflected in all other areas, each being actualized according to the characteristics of the given layer. [...]

[...] If instead you acknowledge them and turn your attention to them, you can follow them to several other layers, at least, for example, A-l and A-2, with ease.

You are active in these other layers whether or not you are aware of it. [...]

[...] You can, therefore, change present reality as you understand it from any of these other layers of consciousness.

[...] There are presently invisible layers within the body, the topmost layer that you see representing, of course, the present physical form. But enmeshed within this there are what amount to invisible layers, “shadow,” latent layers that represent previous physical images that have belonged to the personality.

Now if you take any number of layers of consciousness and layer them in this manner, you should realize that each of them has adjacent levels of consciousness on either side, so to speak, so that it is not simply a matter of going up and down as if you were playing with scales. [...] But you will learn to feel your own experience in reality in many other layers of consciousness. [...]

[...] Now, as Ruburt told you, the Alpha I state is an adjacent state of consciousness, and when he has talked about it he has spoken about going below into other deeper layers, and also in his mind, he also has the idea of going above into other layers. [...]

[...] 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.

[...] It is true that the outward manifestations of the libido are directed toward the physical world, but until the source of the libido is seen and studied and known to exist, not in the topmost subconscious layers of the individual, and not even in the racial subconscious, but within the entity itself, then man will not know himself.

Freud courageously probed into the individual topmost layers of the subconscious, and found them deeper than even he suspected. [...]

What Freud did for the personal layers of the subconscious we and others like us must do for the furthest reaches.

[...] They represent skins, layers of skin, all belonging to the same fruit. Someone holding the fruit might be able to peel away the layers, but as for the fruit itself, the layers while making up the fruit are to all intents and purposes separate.

[...] You are, in your present, confined to our imaginary fruit, yet to some extent you can know it much more thoroughly than you do, and its three layers can be understood to a much greater degree.

When you attempt space travel for example, you are attempting to travel around the complete fruit, but only within or upon one layer of skin. [...]

This session has been extremely fruitful, all layers considered.

Ruburt’s dream represented several layers of information. [...] On another layer, it represented the knowledge that a future endeavor would at first seem to be two separate ones — two accomplishments, but on later examination, it will be seen that they are unified. [...]

“Subconscious Layers and Precognitive Dreams”

[...] I don’t believe it is possible for you to carry your dream experiments far enough to discover certain other factors that exist between various layers of the subconscious and falling temperature rates in the body; therefore, I mention it here.

[...] If the ego were allowed to make all the choices, with no veto power from other layers of the self, you would all be in a sad position, indeed.

From this layer many of the deepest inspirations come. [...]

[...] The characteristic interest and abilities of the personality involved will have much to do with his recognition of the realities within this layer of consciousness.

[...] It is not, for example, the layer used by most mediums. [...]

There are other layers of awareness beneath this one, but here there is a much greater tendency for one to merge into the other. [...]

[...] In the materialization of personality through various incarnations, only the ego and the layers of the personal subconscious adopt new characteristics. The other layers of the self retain their past experiences, identity and knowledge.

His dream represented several layers of information; on a superficial layer it represented his knowledge that fear of physical childbirth is not a deterrent to him. [...]

[...] Were it not for past experiences in other lives on the part of deeper layers of the self, the ego would find it almost impossible to relate to other individuals, and the cohesiveness of society would not exist.

For as many layers of the self compose the whole self, so many selves form a gestalt of which you know relatively little, and of which I am not yet prepared to tell you.

[...] It seems to you as if one reincarnational existence would be layered above the other. [...] New vegetation grows at the bottom layers, for example, as well as at the top ones.

[...] All kinds of alterations also take place in the soil beneath the mountain’s layers. [...]

[...] Only after such a basis will the idea of reincarnation achieve its natural validity, and only when it is understood that the subconscious, certain layers of it, is a link between the present personality and past ones, will the theory of reincarnation be accepted as fact. [...]

I would like to continue our discussion concerning the layers of the so-called subconscious, in connection now with a study of dreams.

[...] The preliminary discussion of the subconscious layers was necessary, since dreams originate in these various levels, and should therefore be interpreted according to the particular symbolisms inherent in the realm of reality to which they may belong.

We will find in many cases, first of all, dreams originating in that layer of personal subconscious, the most simple being those that have immediate reference to daily conscious life. [...]

One dream object may represent simultaneously a simple daily and familiar portion of conscious life, a strong feared or desired portion of the immediately subconscious layer, an event or object from a past life, and a feared or desired future event or future possibility, as the case may be.

[...] I began peeling off clothes layer by layer. [...]

[...] Our friend (Tam) is in contact with another layer of his personality, and as I told him over the infernal machine (a humorous reference to the telephone), a dependable layer. [...]

[...] His ego is (underlined) a kind one, but the structure of any ego is such that it considers, or can consider easily, psychic ability as a sign of its own power; or feel possessive of the ability, and overly proud of it, even when it knows it originates in other layers of the self. [...]

You have been doing well with the pendulum, and the exercise has successively opened up communication with deeper layers of the self. [...]

[...] You are reaching deeper layers of the personality as you progress with the pendulum. [...]