“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] The selves that sit there know other selves. [...]

[...] After meeting Florence in the center of the room, Sue wrote a short verse about their encounter and read it to class.)

[...] Therefore, when you are doing your little experiments in class other teachings are being given to you at the same time that will allow you to more easily contact your probable selves. Now I would like you again to be alert both with the people that you meet during your daily lives and to the people that you meet in the dream state. [...]

[...] Now when you are ready, and it is work in probabilities is a prerequisite, you will be able to meet and remember so that we can carry on class twice a week. [...]

And I know I am only going to confuse you but if you have probable selves then you know there are probable universes and probable earths and probable histories of your earth and you see what this is going to do to your concept of reincarnation as you now hold it. So within the system that you know, you also have probable reincarnational selves within those probable historical earths. [...]

[...] But I also want you to know that your present thoughts, feelings and emotions not only affect you but affect your probable selves and yet .... [...]

[...] The personality in its entirety includes, therefore, probable selves of which you are presently unaware. [...]

(During break a discussion of personality and probable selves. [...]

(“To some extent, I serve as a communicator from one level of your selves to other levels of your selves, for I remind you of what you are. [...] The inner portions of your selves know this well. [...]

(“You are aware of the selves that sit in this room on a particular evening of a snowstorm, with certain members of the class present, certain members absent, and with some new people here. I am familiar with the inner portions of your selves that you also know, however, but that the egotistical self has hidden from you, and so I must think constantly to myself: ‘Oh, yes, our Lady of Venice [Seth’s affectionate term for a class member] thinks that she sits in this specific room at this specific hour, and is wearing a blue outfit.’

[...] It is a meeting ground in which personalities from any time or place or probable system can communicate with each other in clear terms understood by all.

[...] I can do this in a conscious manner, and yet still, as I have mentioned, when I am here I find a difficulty in looking at you and relating to the selves that you think you are within your given moment of time; for I see the composites. [...]

[...] However, each of you are here because you realize you are shadows of your own true selves. You want to bring into physical actuality the true selves that you know are yours and as long as you have this desire, the desire will find a means to completion. [...] There is no reason why, following the material and following your own individual ways, you cannot step out of the shadows of yourselves and become the inner selves that you know that you are. [...]

(To Sue after stating she had a headache.) You are simply upset over the implications of the probable selves and that caused the headache. [...] You do not need to feel guilty of the creation of any probable selves. [...]

[...] They have their own business to attend to and their own reality to meet and their own challenges to accept, but, they are coming to you so that you will be aware of their continued existence; and also so that you will be aware of the nature of your own inner self which is as free of your physical body now as they are. [...]

Many personalities do, but when you came into this existence, you came into it with problems and challenges you gave yourself and these probable selves exist in the same manner. [...]

[...] You may or may not have your own encounters with past reincarnational selves or probable selves. [...]

[...] The introduction applies to each reader, for I hope that you will now be able to meet yourself face to face with a greater understanding of who and what you are.

[...] You will not meet yourself through following any particular specialized method of meditation. [...]

(Obviously, some counterpart selves can meet physically, as reincarnational selves cannot. Under circumstances and in ways explained in Volume 2 of “Unknown” Reality, again, Jane and I think we’ve encountered a few of our counterpart selves. Just for fun, try to imagine the complicated relationships that can obtain within only a family of five, say, when each member exists within his or her much larger family of reincarnational and counterpart selves. Let the mathematicians among our readers calculate the number of possible psychic interchanges alone that can arise in the “past, present, and future” involving the reincarnational and counterpart selves of these five people!)

[...] But without dwelling upon them too heavily, I may consider the notion of my larger, nonphysical “whole self” or “entity” being made up of a number of other psychically related physical selves projected into time. [...] Our gross physical senses, and indeed our very bodies, insist upon interpreting the spacious present in linear terms, however—through the inevitable processes of birth, aging, and death—so to help us get his point here Seth advances his ideas of reincarnational selves and counterpart selves in ways we can understand sensually.

I think it quite humorous (and ironic) that whether or not they realize it, those who engage in past-life regressions play with the notion of future selves all of the time—for from the standpoint of any “past” lives they reach their present lives obviously represent future existences. In a way, and in those terms, this also applies in Jane’s case when she contacts Seth, even on the “psychological bridge” those two have constructed between them: When Seth tells us that his last physical life was in Denmark in the 1600s, then Jane and I represent future physical selves of his. [...]

[...] Both of us have had our psychic expressions (really isolated episodes) involving what can be called simultaneously existing reincarnational selves, and we’ve published accounts of a few of these. [...] Our independence relative to reincarnation may represent just conscious cussedness on our parts, but we believe that each of us (meaning anyone, that is) always has the freedom to accept or reject any such choice or causality —whatever we choose to do. No, instead we think of our current challenges as contributing to the knowledge of our whole selves in most specific ways, rather than our being swayed that much by our reincarnational and/or counterpart associations. [...]

Within the self that you know there are countless combinations of selves that you do not admit, and in other layers of probable realities these selves have their say and live out their potential. [...]

[...] You are unaware of these buried selves, these buried abilities, these buried creative functions and combinations, and yet in other layers of reality these come to the forefront and you allow these their play and the characteristics that you think of now so securely as your own, these are buried. [...]

[...] When you are learning to walk or swim you do not stop to think, “How am I doing this, will I meet a mean old fish or not, will I pull?” and you do not imagine the dire consequences that may, therefore, attend you and do not do so now. [...]

(To Arnold.) I still hope to meet him behind the molecules. [...]

[...] The true meeting is a spiritual meeting and can be expressed in many ways...and a flower exists in a field whether a minister blesses it or not—for it is a part of All That Is and, therefore within it, it carries its own blessing and its own meaning. [...]

[...] And you knew you would meet here and that I would speak to you here, and there is no beauty that you imagine that is not possible. [...]

[...] But the inner selves, knowing their position within All That Is, do not fear denial. [...]

I will now bid you a fond good evening—and I meant to meet my eyes, not to be downcast. [...]

Sue Meets a Probable Rob and Jane

I mentioned this and read my small script to class at our next meeting, adding that I thought further instructions would have been given if the session had not been cut short. [...]

At this point, I am suddenly hit with the the knowledge that this is the dream state of another probability system involving Jane and Rob’s probable selves here. [...]

Seth told us that such images have a definite reality, but we certainly weren’t prepared to hear that someone else encountered our York Beach selves in a dream! [...]

[...] Now some selves do not choose to become entities. [...]

Up to the probable selves for each portion of consciousness has available to it whatever potentials it is willing to seek, and there are no limitations placed upon it either by those who created it or by itself. [...]

([Nadine.) “Would it be possible, like, to have a husband and wife that were, when they were gotten together, you would have a great person with opposite personalities, could they possibly be two probable selves?”)

[...] Not only to you, but to other realities that you do not presently understand, and that in working out one simple challenge in this existence you work out other challenges for other selves in other realities. [...]

Now if you follow my advice, when you have guests or when you are at work, whenever you see people, you will then try to get an inner impression of the selves that they have been, or of the entity of which they are part.

(Whether or not we visit Reverend Crosson this summer at his camp in the Berkshires, in Massachusetts; and whether later in the year Jane speaks in New York City at a meeting of the Spiritual Frontiers Fellowship, with Reverend Crosson.)

There will be no complications resulting from such a meeting of an adverse nature, if you feared this. [...]

[...] There is illness for her in the fairly near future, but if you meet her, it will be of help nevertheless. [...]

[...] It follows, then, that one may or may not ever meet a counterpart “in the flesh” — may or may not even suspect the existence of such relationships.

[...] Many of you are not ready to meet those kinds of data … for a certain kind of finesse is required — a balance that you are learning. [...]

[...] And so you never think of future selves, or how you might benefit from knowing them….

(On more “practical” levels, we thought that behavior among nations might be changed for the better if the idea of counterparts were understood, or at least considered — if, for instance, many of the individuals making up a country realized that they could actually be acting against portions of themselves [or of their whole selves] in the persons of the “enemy” country, and so modified the virulence of their feelings. [...]

[...] (Dreams, Evolution and Value Fulfillment.) Your beliefs often tell you that life is hard, however, that living is difficult, that the universe, again, is unsafe, and that you must use all of your resources—not to meet the world with anything like joyful abandon, of course, but to protect yourself against its implied threats; threats that you have been taught to expect. [...]

[...] As a result you forget your natural selves, and become involved in a secondary, largely imaginary culture: battles that are projected negatively into the future, individually and en masse. [...]

(However, the three of us did meet with our parents last Sunday, October 4, 1964, to handle some family business. None of us knew of any such meeting at the time of my above dream of September 24, simply because the meeting had not been scheduled yet, or indeed even thought of. [...]

[...] You will discover that the whole self is composed of many so-called conscious selves. But neither of those conscious selves are aware of the existence of the others.

[...] The directions can be likened to conscious selves. Any individual on the physical level who has achieved great things has done so because his so-called conscious self was intuitively (and underline the word intuitively) aware of the selves of which he could not be consciously aware.

[...] We are aware of what you would call our past selves, those personalities we have adopted in various other existences.

[...] Pretend, for example, that you meet a childhood friend whom you have long forgotten. [...]

So, when I “meet” another, I may be able to relate to him much better on the basis of a particular past life experience, even though in my “now” we have little in common. [...]

The personality was never consciously aware of the initial meeting. [...]

[...] It is obvious that certain interests bring people together in any club meeting or gathering. [...] There are reasons, then, why people are born in any given century, and why they meet in space and time. [...]

(2. Once when Jane woke up she had the idea of “counterparts and four-fronted selves” in mind. [...] But the four-fronted counterpart self’s own sense of continuity is not broken up; it persists outside of space and time, while its parts — the individual selves, or counterparts — live in space and time….”⁶

6. A note added a few days later: In revised form, Jane did soon discuss her material on “counterparts and four-fronted selves” in Politics. See Chapter 12.

[...] The original decision however was made somewhat previous to the meeting which you attended, but it was at that time not yet definite. And your behavior at the meeting reinforced your superior’s decision, and made it certain.

(This is the Binghamton meeting referred to here. [...] John clashed with his superior at the meeting, and because of his outspoken actions had no thought of getting a raise.)

But you have on a subconscious level all the knowledge and experience of your previous selves upon which to build. [...] For situations appear in them that affect your actions, and these are elements from your own previous selves. [...]

His familiarity with our sessions has made it possible for him to become more aware of the constant communication that exists between the inner and the outer selves.

[...] Because we did it in a Creative Writing class without making any suggestions as to what we would meet, or rather than probable selves or anything, I’m going to suggest tonight that we do it with that in mind. [...]

[...] For it will meet with responses, and these responses will be different. [...] These meetings occur in this room, but they also occur in other realities, and when you come here to this class you are also attending a class on another level, and you are not aware of those classes, though I am aware of them. [...]

[...] But if the windows were sealed and closed, you would not know the difference, and so until you learn to look out of the windows to the inner selves, then you will not realize what your own environment consists of. [...]