“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] Yet, to me this poem also contains many other layers of meaning:)

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

[...] 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 [entity], so many entities form a gestalt of which you know relatively little and of which I am not as yet prepared to tell you.” [...]

[...] He worked, or allowed me to work through, the layers of personal subconscious only, which now and then may yield valid information, but highly distorted as a rule, and unreliable for our purposes.

[...] I tried to separate the levels, for a while, of perception; but Ruburt by then would not open up the deeper layers of communication. [...]

When tests are conducted, and this will take a while, but when tests are conducted in laboratories, using the trance, the controlled and disciplined trance, as a tool and an instrument, then very quickly you will be able to delve beneath personal subconscious material to other layers.

We have spoken of these other layers. [...]

I have explained to you how the inner self is connected to the present personality, and how the emotions at your end change through the layers of the subconscious, begin in your plane as parts of the personality, and as part of your force field, and then are transformed and become the inner-sense connective that connects the outer ego to the inner self.

Through dreams the self communicates with the self, and with all layers of the self. [...]

The foremost or exterior layers or areas deal with the personal selves. [...]

Each of these areas are separated, and between the memories of each past life, experiments will show a layer that we call undifferentiated.

[...] They will be able to activate other layers of his consciousness, and they are indeed professionally suited to do so, as I am to teach.

Some further here with sepia—to achieve something different now, a sunny clear effect, a newness, a way of applying sepia with white; thin-layered, with a particular kind of varnish... [...]

Information like this is sifted through many layers of subconscious conception, and is subsequently colored. [...]

[...] Only after such a basis [is established] 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.

A deeper trance state would allow us to get less distorted information on such a test as this, initially, but our results will improve, and such experiments will be helpful in that the various layers of the two personalities, Ruburt’s and my own, will be seen in their operating procedures.

[...] Other layers of the self biologically respond to the older, more generalized but less limited perceptive mechanisms.

[...] There are indeed initiates, but all of you passed that stage in another layer of reality, in your terms, some time ago. [...] You work through many layers of reality at the same time. [...]

[...] Now, he translated this into layers of voices, and various languages, and did not know how to translate or contain the information that was quite legitimately available. [...]

[...] You were able to perceive and understand those connections, but you were not receiving needed communications from other layers of your own personality.

[...] Now you are learning to utilize, receive and translate new energy from other layers of the self so that you will not feel depleted. [...]

There was indeed some resulting alteration, literally, in layers of the skin, so that the skin became tougher. [...]

[...] 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.

[...] Such depletions minimize the ability of the inner self to draw upon all the available information from other layers of the self, concerning the field of probabilities.

All of this data is instantly available to layers of the self, and only the ego is not aware of this field. [...]

There is only a relatively small layer of personal material, and therefore egotistical and distortive material, at the upper reaches of the subconscious. This layer can be quickly recognized, as a rule. [...]

With practice the personal distortive layers of subconscious material could be recognized without difficulty, and even these will give you valuable insights into psychological mechanisms.

[...] The words that you hear are my words and not Ruburt’s. However, they are representations of my thought, as they are sifted through various layers, first of all of our composite psychological framework, and then through layers of Ruburt’s own personality.

[...] The outward layer of skin, while serving as a physical enclosure, serves as a physical enclosure only for the sake of convenience, as far as distinctions are concerned.

In actuality the outer layer of skin is a flimsy boundary indeed. [...]

[...] Beyond, there are layers of actuality in which your psyche is also highly involved, and these may or may not appear to have anything to do with the world that you know.

[...] You may journey through such a reality, perceiving it opaquely, layering it over with your own perceived symbols, and taking those for the “real” environment. [...]

[...] Jane said Seth was thinking of something having to do with moment points; she had some images, “like star shapes, only layered thick..”

The material has several layers, as you should see by now. [...]

[...] Ruburt followed Buff to another layer of existence, (pause), with many who had died that evening. [...]

[...] Another portion of the self catches it unaware, leaves no ripple upon its surface, and looks beneath it to other layers of reality. [...]

Now: there are obviously beneath the psychological areas that you recognize many other deeper layers of action and interaction. [...]