“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

This portion of the personality translates inner data and sifts it through the subconscious, which is a barrier and also a threshold to the present personality. I told you also that the topmost layers of the subconscious contain personal memories and beneath — racial memory. The personality is not actually layered, of course, but continuing with the necessary analogy, beneath the racial memories you look out upon another dimension of reality with the face of this other self-conscious part of you.

In the beginning particularly, there is always a distortion of such material by the person who receives it. So a person whose personal prejudices are at a minimum is excellent. [...]

[...] But even though I think telepathy is possible … I can’t quite believe that in a trance state, through me, another personality read someone else’s mind — that’s it!” I said. [...] Have a secondary personality give you the dickens over it — and in front of company — with me supposedly in the clear, taking no responsibility for it at all.”

[...] As you give inner purpose and organization to your dreams, and as you obtain insight and satisfaction from them, though they involve only a portion of your life, so the entity to some extent directs and gives purpose and organization to his personalities. So does the entity obtain insights and satisfactions from its existing personalities, although no one of them takes up all of its attention.

[...] The intensity of particular charges can completely reorganize the personality structure through changes in the RNA formations. (Long pause at 9:10.) Previous life memories, existing electronically and magnetically, may carry such intense charge that they superimpose themselves in the present physical structure, and form memory patterns quite alien to those of the present ego personality.

Once physical symptoms actually appear within this system however, they are to some extent accepted as any other established pattern, at least by a portion of the personality. [...] The destructive tendencies are collected about a particularly emotionally-charged group of reactions, and cut off from the dominant personality.

These portions operate almost like a secondary personality, sometimes in actual conflict with the dominant one. Finally, you see, cases develop where the dominant personality is not in control of the physical image at all. [...]

Now each personality has set up conditions for itself, under which it can operate at its best. [...] Every effort should be made to maintain them, for they will bring about the highest conditions of maturity possible for his personality structure.

[...] Neither of you were fully willing to work out these seemingly (underlined) contradictory elements of your own personalities. For of course your personality has some strongly spontaneous and intuitive elements, as you now know, and Ruburt also has very definite, now too definite, tendencies toward discipline.

For a while then you were willing, comparatively speaking, to let Ruburt express the spontaneous, strongly spontaneous, elements of both of your personalities; with the joys and perils involved, and denying him the responsibility of learning how to temper and use spontaneity. He was willing to let you express the reasoning, deliberate qualities of both of your personalities—the deliberating elements, and to that extent not permitting you to fully express your own spontaneity. [...]

[...] I would like to give you some more personal material. [...]

[...] I want to emphasize the importance of your personal relationship to each other, and mention the ways in which it affects your work. [...]

(Pause at 8:48.) Then a lack of communication developed, so that various portions of the personality “hardened” their own positions, sometimes holding quite different sets of beliefs. [...] Its beliefs may be exaggerated, but at one time or another various other portions of the personality at least weakly entertained a portion of them. They are also held together by a sense of earnestness and duty (with a mock-severe frown)—quite misapplied, but still characteristics hardly foreign to the personality as a whole—so these are misunderstandings to be addressed and understood, and the main issue should be an understanding of those issues specifically mentioned, so that the issues are met in the open and aired on the part of the entire personality (all often with emphasis). [...]

[...] That portion of the personality operated with its own good intent, and for some number of years other portions of the personality went along. [...]

[...] Yet as I listened to her I felt that at times the Sinful Self seemed to almost be trying to put the blame for her symptoms off on other portions of the personality—or let’s say that that was one of the feelings I had. [...]

[...] In such a way the various portions of the personality can reinforce and help each other, and the Sinful Self can see that the creative elements are not blind to its worries, but will also use its abilities to help discover explanations and answers to the questions of the so-called Sinful Self. [...]

The public man, the man of letters, et cetera in other centuries, and the public man say of Rome, or of the Middle Ages, or of the 19th Century, involved personal interactions with the public, but in very limited, controlled situations. The private image of the person was largely unknown. [...] There is much more that could be said, but I simply here want to mention that such issues demand far more of a gifted personality.

[...] Art always serves as some self-disclosure, in which the art stands for the person, and the art is sent abroad, for example. The art stands for more than the person. In a way it reaches higher than the person, in that it expresses dimensions of imagination or inspiration that are heroic, and often by nature it speaks of capacities that cannot be fully expressed except through art.

The person, therefore, often “cannot live up to his art.” [...] If man can be a natural healer, and he says so, then he personally should heal others and himself. [...]

(This afternoon Jane had a very revealing dream about the whole question of protection, the male aspects of her personality, etc.; a copy is attached to the session.

[...] (No real pause.) In other dimensions, or if you prefer at other stages of development, the multidimensional personality is aware of its prime identity, and is also aware simultaneously of personality offshoots that it has sent into many realities, into probable systems, as it pursues all of the probable acts and creations inherent in its nature.

[...] There are personalities far more developed than my own; there are personalities that operate in a context that even I would find extremely alien, but no particle of individuality is ever lost, and no experience.

[...] The matter of time is highly important if you have any hopes of understanding the self in its entirety, or other personalities that do not operate within your system. [...]

[...] A man who loses memory of past events feels insecure and lost, but other types of personality gestalts operate far differently. [...]

[...] Many personalities do not operate in such a manner, and I am not speaking merely of survival personalities in your terms. I am speaking in terms of personality gestalts that simply do not operate through matter at all, in your terms, and whose components are of a psychological variety unknown to you. [...]

[...] Think in terms not only of other personalities, but of your own personality as it might operate in completely different environments both physical and nonphysical. As other personalities then have looked into this room, then imagine yourself looking into other environments. [...]

[...] But it is good for you to understand that personality can have other characteristics than those you presently ascribe to it. Your imagination, at least now, can lead you to think in terms of various dimensions personality can take ...for your intellect is highly limited in this regard. [...]

The span of a god’s love can perhaps equally hold within its vision the existences of all individuals at one time in an infinite loving glance that beholds each person, seeing each with all his or her peculiar characteristics and tendencies. Such a god’s glance would delight in each person’s difference from each other person. [...] You cannot, therefore, honestly insist that you love humanity and all people equally if you do not love one other person. [...]

To love someone, you must appreciate how that person differs from yourself and from others. You must hold that person in mind so that to some extent love is a kind of meditation — a loving focus upon another individual. [...]

[...] You are obsessed with sexual behavior when you put tight, unrealistic bans upon its expression, and also when you set up just as unrealistic standards of active performance to which the normal person is expected to comply.

[...] These provide both a psychic and social framework for personal growth, understanding, and development. [...]

Now, some of these problems are simply those of the creative personality emerging, in Ruburt’s individual case, in their own way. They should not be overemphasized however, for the creative personality, by the very standards of creativity that it adopts, becomes a focal point for varying conflicts that in many other kinds of personalities are never allowed to emerge. [...]

[...] The creative personality does indeed have the potential use of greater amounts of energy, the latent capability for emerging psychic insights. The creative personality is striving to be born in new dimensions, to release entirely original concepts, regardless of the field of activity chosen.

[...] Certain personality characteristics are exaggerated quite purposefully by the creative personality, to act as a lens to intensify experience.

This in itself puts a strain on the personality that is not felt by other kinds of personalities, though they also have their own kind of behavior. [...]

[...] The personality is already immersed in a dimensional transformation; when the emotional need of those within the physical plane call out for communication, they add to the pull or force of the attraction still present, binding portions of the personality to the physical field, and can add to the resistance encountered by personalities in transformation.

The personality itself therefore, as a mental action, is responsible for the point or midplane, for without the personality or mental act, this particular reference point or midplane would have no meaning.

Remembering again your material of the spacious present, a portion of personality retention however still surrounds those physical reference points with which the personality was familiar.

This may cause bewilderment and disorientation to such a transforming personality. Later, so to speak, when entrance into another and higher is achieved, then such a higher-dimensioned personality may without difficulties of this sort communicate with your field.

[...] Some may seem relatively genuine in terms of presenting a fairly well-rounded representation of a normal personality. [...] Usually you are presented with, say, semi-personalities, or even with lesser versions (dash)—fragmentary expressions of impulses and desires that are dramatically presented only in snatches, heard by the person as a voice, or perceived as a presence.

[...] They are actually in the process of putting their own personalities together long after most people have settled upon one official version or another—and so their behavior gives glimpses of the ever-changing give-and-take among the various elements of human personality.

(Pause.) Communications between various scattered portions of the self often appear, again, in such situations as automatic writing, speaking, the hearing of voices, or through what the person believes to be telepathic messages from others.

[...] You end up with Christs, spacemen, various saints or spirits, or other personality fabrications whose characteristics and abilities are already known.

[...] Aspects like Seth, she wrote in Chapter 11, “would have to communicate through the psychic fabric of the focus personality. [...] It wasn’t that I mistrusted the Seth personality, but I felt it was a personification of something else — and that ‘something else’ wasn’t a person in our terms … Yet in an odd way I felt that he was more than that, or represented more; and that his psychological reality straddled worlds … I sensed a multidimensionality of personality that I couldn’t define.”

Your daily personal lives are touched, are changed, are created from the interrelationships that exist among those phenomena. [...]

[...] Efforts could then be made to understand and interpret private symbolism, and individuals within a society would be taught to take advantage of their own inner data to enrich their personal lives and help the community.

[...] The private oracle is the voice of the inner multidimensional self — the part of each person not fully contained in his or her personhood, the part of the unknown self-structure out of which personhood, with its physical alliance, springs. [...]

[...] The personality solves the problems, not necessarily in the simplest way, objectively speaking, but in the way that will best benefit the personality as a whole.

[...] The personality stresses and strains. The personal problems here have led to an increase of spontaneity in the dream state, and to added evidence of clairvoyance. [...]

[...] This is natural for the personality. [...]

The daily working methods allow for the natural and periodic use and release of both aspects of the personality. [...]

Each person is a vital (long pause), conscious portion of the universe. Each person, simply by being, fits into the universe and into universal purposes in a way no one else can. Each person’s existence sends its own ripples throughout time. [...] Each being is an individualized segment of the universe; then, in human terms, each person is a beloved individual, formed with infinite care and love, uniquely gifted with a life like no other.

It is of great value, then, that each person remember this universal affiliation. [...]

[...] In childhood and in the dream state, each personality is aware to some extent of the true freedom that belongs to its own inner consciousness. These abilities of which I speak, therefore, are inherent characteristics of consciousness as a whole and of each personality.

[...] All of us here are teachers, and we therefore adapt our methods, also, so that they will make sense to personalities with varying ideas of reality.

[...] The only separation is brought about by the varying abilities of personalities to perceive and manipulate. [...]

[...] In the infinite varieties of consciousness, we are still aware of a small percentage of the entire banks of personalities that exist. [...]

The personality is given the greatest gift of all; you get exactly what you want to get. [...] What you do with it is up to the individual personality.

[...] Each of your personalities are free to accept and develop, from the miraculous banks of reality, those experiences and emotions that you want, and to reject those you do not want.

[...] You have in the past, collectively and individually, blamed a god or a fate for the nature of your personal realities — those aspects, indeed that you did not like.

[...] What made this one person in the entire building walk out?”)

The shock of birth of course is worse, since the personality is not entirely focused as a personality, and it must make immediate and critical adjustments of the strongest nature. [...]

[...] I have said that a personality may become another entity. [...] Many personalities upon receiving knowledge of their entity prefer to remain part of it, though they are always independent individualities within the whole entity, as even the cells of your physical bodies are part of the whole self. [...]

[...] The personality-entity concept involves only one main type process involving many planes and plane groups. [...] It is extremely possible that many in the personality-existence grouping have been involved within other completely different plane groupings in some inconceivable past.

That image was of another personality type fragment from another plane. [...] That is your Miss Callahan I will say is on another plane, since this involves the continuation in some manner of a personality concept which you can understand.

To me it was tantamount to intellectual suicide to even admit the possibility that Seth actually was a personality who had survived death. Nowhere in my first book did I say that I thought Seth was exactly what he said he was: “an energy personality essence no longer focused in physical reality.” Instead I studied the various explanations for such personalities given by psychologists and parapsychologists on the one hand, and by spiritualists on the other. [...]

Moreover, the riddle of such personalities as Seth—call it “spirit possession,” a “daemon” (as Socrates did)—has concerned mankind through the ages. [...] Through telling my own story and presenting the material, I hope to throw some light upon the nature of such experiences and to show that human personality has abilities still to be tapped, and other ways to receive knowledge than those it usually employs.

[...] I’m sure that these excerpts from the material itself and some sample reincarnational readings will give most readers greater insights into their own personalities and the situations in which they find themselves. I hope that Seth’s theories on health will benefit all my readers, and that the material on personality will help each discover for himself the multidimensional reality that is his heritage.

[...] The personality was not mine. [...]

There is no such lapse in many other personality structures. [...] Such a personality is able, in your terms, not only to react and appreciate event A, say, in your present time, but also to experience and understand event A in all of its ramifications, and all of its probabilities.

Now that is the challenge and the ideal, and it is met to varying degrees by personalities at various stages of development. Obviously such personalities need far more than the neurological systems with which you are presently equipped. [...]

[...] Many other personality structures do not need a materialized perceptive framework, such as this, but an inner psychic organization is always present. It also represents the personality’s present capabilities.

Now your time, your past, present and future, as you conceive of them, would be experienced entirely as present to many of these other personality structures. However your past, present and future would be experienced entirely and completely as past, to still other personality structures.

As the body wants to grow from childhood on, so all of the personality’s abilities want to grow and develop. Each person has his [or her] own ideals, and impulses direct those ideals naturally into their own specific avenues of development — avenues meant to fulfill both the individual and his society. [...] They point toward definite avenues of expression, avenues that will provide the individual with a sense of actualization, natural power, and that will automatically provide feedback, so that the person knows he is impressing his environment for the better.

[...] You are left with vague idealized feelings of wanting to change the world for the better, for example — but you are denied the personal power of your own impulses that would otherwise help direct that idealism by developing your personal abilities. [...]

[...] What can one person do?

[...] “No one else was watching what I watched from my personal viewpoint that morning,” she wrote an hour later. [...]