“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Your physical personalities as you know them are projecting personalities from the whole inner self. [...]

In the first stage, Ruburt projected through physical reality and saw personalities who had very recently died in physical terms. [...]

A personality may or may not realize the fact of physical death, for example. [...]

Survival personalities can recognize an earthly projectionist, for the form is not fully materialized in their terms. [...]

[...] There is then a natural reaction at times, as those tendencies in the personality that adopted the symptoms actually struggle to retain them.

(“Is a part of his personality still actually trying to block this material?”)

[...] The symptoms themselves cause certain chemical changes that have an effect, then, on the personality itself. [...]

[...] The personality must become aware of the inefficiency of such a manner.

[...] If you want to create another personality then you think in terms of a perfect personality and the perfect personality does not exist, for perfection in your terms means death. [...] You see, because of the creative nature of your personalities, even when you thrust a pain apart from yourselves and give it as a heritage to a fragment personality, you give it, also, your creative power and your hopes. You cannot help but do it and so you do not set these personalities adrift without hopes, without potential. [...]

[...] Then there is something else to consider and then personality as you do not understand it comes to the fore. Personality without those characteristics that you know and understand so well. [...]

Now, the person to whom I was earlier speaking knows, I am sure, of the message. [...]

([Sue:] “I guess I was afraid I had created personalities like that myself.”)

Considering Rob’s and my relationship — the challenges, joys, hopes, strains and our own personality characteristics. Maybe the whole thing is — reacting to ourselves individually and to the other person — experiencing our own personal reactions and then reacting to them — then reacting to the other person who experiences the same processes in himself. [...] Each person in such a relationship changes constantly in relationship to himself and the other person, until — hopefully? — by death you’ve used the characteristics of your own personality the best you can. [...]

[...] First, though, I remind the reader that Jane spoke in a trance or dissociated state for a discarnate personality who calls himself Seth; by his own definition he’s an “energy personality essence,” no longer focused within physical reality. [...]

[...] A world view is the body of an individual’s personalized interpretation of the physical universe; emotions are necessarily involved. “Each person has such a world view,” Seth tells us in Session 718, “whether living or dead in your terms, and that ‘living picture’ exists despite time or space. [...]

Seth remarked many times that each person sends out invisible signals of need and desire that are picked up and reacted to by those who have similar challenges. In our own case, Jane and I were always acutely aware of the difficult personal working-out of the interchanges that followed our getting together. [...]

[...] That is, the private person is here seen as interacting with others because there is, beneath our awareness, an inner “person-to-person” relationship connecting each individual with his or her physical counterparts, though they may well be living in other parts of the globe while sharing the same historical period. [...]

(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. [...] And if an individual strongly disliked a counterpart in another land, wouldn’t this quality of emotion be detrimentally reflected in the person doing the hating?

[...] I’m thinking about androgyny, of course, which is the concept of both male and female in one, and/or of hermaphroditism, wherein a person or animal possesses the sexual organs of both the male and the female. Considering our personal lack of conscious knowledge about androgyny and such related concepts at the time, Jane and I think it most interesting that Seth came through with that particular material in the 683rd session.

(“Well, assuming that my intuitions were reasonably accurate when I picked up on those two personalities,” I said, “there have to be explanations.”

Now some individuals, some personalities, prefer a life organization bound about past, present, and future in a seemingly logical structure, and these persons usually choose reincarnation. [...]

[...] There will be emotional ties with other personalities whom you have known in past lives, and some of these may supersede your relationships in the immediately past life. [...]

[...] It is from this area that some disturbed personalities have those dreams of returning to the physical environment.

[...] The natural healing that would then result would be a sure-fire indication of the personality’s growth, maturity and overall health. [...] The healthy person is one who is balanced at any given time in your terms, as far as his or her relationship with the psyche is concerned; with the world and its relationships.

[...] He was that portion as the normal waking self, the focus personality.

(9:25.) There was a definite separation, however, in that the focus personality was able to sense its own greater extensions—or rather, those extensions to which it gives permission. [...]

Now: in the first episode mentioned the experience was the same, only more vividly experienced since the focus personality was not fully awake and did not have immediate sense data to handle. [...]

“No control personality or whatever is going to tell me how to run the house,” I said. [...] The control personality starts throwing its weight around and trying to dominate the medium’s normal personality. [...]

[...] Then he went on to give us some information concerning entities and the various personalities that compose them. Rob was particularly curious about the differences between entities and personalities.

“Infinities of diversity and opportunity are given to the personalities by the entity. [...] Seth also said that an inner part of each personality was aware of its relationship with its entity—and that this portion did man’s breathing for him and controlled those bodily processes that we consider involuntary.

[...] If anything, the personal advice I have given you both should add to your mental and emotional balance and result in a stronger relationship with the outside world. [...]

[...] Those fears are then not admitted, for he thinks that they must indeed be beneath a person whose entire life work is devoted to a search for the nature of reality, and therefore a person who must possess, or try to possess, the answers to all of the questions.

(10:15.) Of course the personal material did threaten him, with his beliefs, for how could the person responsible for such a weighty lifework have any weaknesses? [...]

Our sessions began, really, as an extension, a natural enough development, the results of a personal search. [...]

It keeps him in touch with the powerful portions of his personality that search for truth, out of joy in the activity for the quest itself. [...]

[...] Turned around however, with even a quarter of that energy used in the opposite direction, you can have a very helpful secondary support for the person in difficulty. You can tell yourself even that the person might after all take the opposite course than the one that you are imagining, and for a moment reverse the direction of your imagination. Done correctly this will automatically begin to relieve you of the pressures of responsibility felt earlier, and telepathically the other person will pick up feelings of support.

Now it does no good to say that the other person should have more sense then to be affected, for usually the other person has their problem because of the same kind of reaction. [...]

[...] Now however you are left with body beliefs that no longer have a foundation in other personal beliefs, so they will secede much more quickly in the face of encouragement, enthusiasm, and projects that are otherwise personally desired. [...]

Your personal worrying, now, is partially the result of old cultural beliefs: you worry about someone you love, and this somehow helps them, and shows them your concern even while it may make you miserable. [...]

[...] Each person will generally find it easier to operate as male or female, lesbian or homosexual, but each person is primarily bisexual. [...]

[...] The male seems to perform better at mathematical tasks, and so-called logical mental activity, while the female performs better in a social context, in value development and personal relationships. [...]

[...] They can indeed be changed in a generation, for the experience of each person alters the original information. [...]

[...] These are put together, so to speak, in the human personality with great leeway and in many proportions.

This will then allow us to proceed into the relationship between the waking and sleeping personality, and discover the many ways in which the personality’s aims and goals are not only reflected but sometimes achieved in and through the dream condition.

[...] Its basic distrust of dream experience is necessary for the overall balance of the personality. [...]

This provides necessary balance and necessary control, and results in the sturdy anchorage of the personality in the environment in which it must survive. [...]

[...] No study of human personality can pretend to be thorough that does not take into consideration the importance of the dream reality.

But when I read the session, I thought of Rob sitting there, listening to what I thought of as criticism, while his wife paced the room “telling him off” in another voice and supposedly for another, invisible personality. [...] So I simply adopt another personality to tell you so. [...]

[...] Before long, I began to speak for a personality called Malba Bronson, who told Rob that she had died in South Dakota in 1946 at the age of forty-six. [...]

[...] It is a waiting plane for personalities at certain stages of development.

Your own subconscious is the fountain of your individuality and personality; from it springs your talent. [...]

[...] Personalities are as diverse and unique as flowers or fish. There is no need to compare one type of personality with another than there is to compare a toad to a bird, or an ant to an elephant.

[...] You always have the energy and the means to meet the deepest needs of your own personality, but not to meet the needs of other kinds of personalities.

You, personally, have been gravely perturbed because of your job for some time. [...]

[...] You will feel personally that you are solving problems that you are meant to solve, problems that are nevertheless created challenges having to do with the nature of painting, problems then and challenges that you consider quite worthwhile.

If you utilize the point of power properly (as described in the 657th session in Chapter Fifteen), you will feel the nonphysical energy translated into effective personal power through your intersection with flesh. You will be able to use that power consciously, with purpose, to change your personal experience, and so to change the social framework at least partially. [...] The recognition of personal feelings and the working through of beliefs — all of this will expand your understanding of yourself.

[...] The confined project their personal problems out upon the society. [...]

[...] You meet your own denied power, you see, whenever you find yourself in a situation where you feel weak in comparison to another person or situation that frightens you.

[...] Transferences of personal problems are all involved here, and clusters of beliefs.

[...] It has been fashionable to blame the subconscious for personality problems and difficulties, the idea being that early events, charged and mysterious, lodged there. In this country several generations grew up believing that the subconscious portions of the personality were unreliable, filled with negative energy, and contained only locked-up unpleasant episodes best forgotten.

REALITY AND PERSONAL BELIEFS

[...] Chapter Two: “Reality and Personal Beliefs.”

[...] These personal ideas about yourself and the nature of reality will affect your thoughts and emotions. [...]

Now do not look down upon the importance of personal encounters, or the effect of personality. Ruburt’s personality shows in his writings and his individual interpretations; your personalities should always be considered as assets. [...]

[...] ) Your own tendencies (to me) are general ones, against personal encounters, before such encounters are made. [...] However, once a personal encounter has been made, then you accept it for what it is, and respond positively. [...]

You will do a series of portraits of one man, each one depicting a different materialization of his personality in various existences. This will be true portrait work—the personality as seen in more than three-dimensional terms. [...]

[...] This was a clearing place for personalities leaving the physical plane. [...] He was afraid momentarily there would be no physical world to return to—simply his personal reaction. [...]

The characteristics needed for “mediumship” are much like those needed by any strongly creative person. [...] In periods of severe personality disturbances that can occur simultaneously with great creativity, the ego becomes terrified of the strength of the creative ability, fearing that it can be crushed beneath.

In such cases the ego is too rigid, and does not expand with the nature of the personality’s whole creative experience. [...] In this case, however, Ruburt’s ego gradually began to let its rigidity go, in a gradual process that allowed the whole personality, itself included, to expand.

I would not have spoken in this way, for this work requires a certain specific rapport, and definite characteristics on the part of the personality involved. [...]

End of dictation for now, and a personal note. [...]

[...] You experience me as a particular personality, and you relate to it, and I, in turn, relate to you as the particular personalities that you think you are. That does not mean that what you see of my personality defines me, or that what you think of as your own personality defines you. [...]

[...] He wanted to speak for a personality like Joel speaks for a personality, or Jane does, or he wanted to get information in a given particular way. [...]

[...] And if I show to you various quite different aspects of personality, then you should feel them in yourselves, because they’re all yours. [...]

[...] And with this thing I wrote tonight, I also got the idea that since we’re being personally addressed if we listen, that to some degree the messages will be different. [...]

[...] The idea shape may be used or not used, according to when and in which manners the personality wishes to extend itself. It is no longer necessary for locomotion, and its senses, electrically coded now, are no longer necessary, since they were adopted to meet the demands of a particular field in which the personality no longer has any prime interest.

Realities existing within this electrical universe are built up through counteractions with the human personality and others. [...]

[...] And with some, though very few personalities, such experiences are indeed constantly played back, though of course not indefinitely.

[...] It exists not only isolated for example, or detached, but it exists as a part of the electrical pattern of that personality who originally created it. [...]