[...] There is indeed a reason why you have been involved with personalities who have taken their own lives, and I want you to take this to heart. [...] When personalities act upon deep disbelief they encounter hopelessness. Your own personality is set up with strongly contrasting elements, as you yourself know. [...] You chose to become involved in your circle of acquaintanceships with those who have followed one particular line to the ultimate, where belief disappears like the shifting sand until there is no framework upon which the present personality can stand and until, in desperation, the individual leaves this plane of existence where on another level of reality purposes are then made known. [...]

(To Mary Ellen.) You are taking a psychology course like none he is taking and you are learning more about the nature of human personality. [...]

(To Laurie.) I suggest that you try to paint your impression of the personality that is in your house. [...]

[...] Not what you have been told you are, but what you discover that you are, and in the discovery you already change and your abilities begin to expand and the limited person that you knew is already a myth. [...]

You draw upon your own entity’s hidden abilities and knowledge, and therefore transcend the limits of your own present personality. You are not only your present personality, you are the sum of all your personalities. [...]

[...] Through the erratic nature of the woman’s personality he was actually able to be much kinder. A male’s personality at that point would have held too many temptations as far as overaggressiveness and cruelty were concerned.

[...] There is no reason to suppose that such problems are insoluble; and also remember that problems between such personalities are often solved through interaction with other personalities.

[...] Nevertheless, one of the problems for the personality is still the need for a more disciplined ego.

There are still some lingerings of mourning, for the grouping was indeed vital, and adopted initially to help the personality. The grouping was doomed to failure, in that it could not succeed in helping the personality, you see, but hindered it.

[...] Not only did other elements of the personality begin to deny it energy, but it—this grouping —also committed suicide, so to speak, sacrificing itself for the whole personality which it tried to serve.

[...] You know, I am sure, that if you are successful as a person and as an artist, then financial success will follow.

[...] The outflow of energy, the freeing of energy, into your work, automatically is determined by a general outflow of energy through all facets of your personality, that will automatically bring many different kinds of benefits, including financial ones.

In fact, Seth gave three or four sessions in which he compared cases of “split” personalities to our reincarnation selves. He ended up by saying, “It is interesting that the personalities [in Three Faces of Eve] did alternate, and all were in existence at once, so to speak, even though only one was dominant at any given time. In the same way, so-called past personalities are present in you now but not dominant.”

My eyes were open during much of the session—my physical eyes, that is, because at such times they are definitely mirrors of a different personality. [...] On the other hand it has always been natural for the personality to turn outward in an easy manner and with exuberance.

I’m only giving excerpts from personal readings, picking out passages that deal with reincarnation. [...] And so far, each such session has been highly significant to the person concerned.

I’ve tried, through excerpts from readings, to show Seth’s ideas on reincarnation as they are personally applied. [...] This will be discussed thoroughly in the chapter dealing with the nature of personality.

[...] For in the same way that dream images are projected outward from the personality, so also are thoughts projected, and all influences that extend from one personality to another.

[...] For in the dream state the personality is molded and changed through actions that do not exist within the physical universe. The personality reacts to dream experiences as it reacts to any other experience. [...]

Such subjective events therefore manipulate physical matter through the personality who experiences them. The field of reality for any given personality must and does include all these areas of activity, for they give form and dimension to his existence. [...]

[...] But then these dreams in turn affect the personality in general, and affect the actions of that personality in a physical universe. [...]

(During the two weeks immediately following the 691st session, Jane kept working with the project involving the missing person; see the notes for that session. [...]

[...] I do think I’m a lot more aware of this than they are, because of the very nature of what I can do — but I can’t explain that to every person I speak to. [...]

[...] Within some personal material we received following the 694th session for May 1, 1974, Seth said in part:)

[...] This required manipulations most difficult for any personality, and a constant system of checks and balances.

[...] It is only that I want him to progress at a steady rate, with the overall personality in good balance all the while. The personality must learn to understand and use the abilities.

[...] This ability escaped us for some time, until we finally realized the various approaches used by Seth to make the material given meaningful to the very different personalities involved.)

[...] In my position however there are many aspects of my overall personality structure and experience upon which I can draw, and therefore relate.

[...] There will be books of Ruburt’s own as his personality grows and evolves and correlates what it has learned and will learn. [...]

[...] He grew, evolved and expanded in terms of a particular, personal set of value fulfillments... He is now an actual gestalt, a personality that was one of the probable personalities into which Seth could grow. [...]

The creative abilities have full reign within the dream state, and it is here that the personality first tests its creative intensities and methods. The personality’s physical environment therefore is greatly colored and formed by his dream existence. [...]

[...] Its purpose is the manipulation of the personality within the physical universe. Its most effective method of procedure however is to form the problem concisely, and then to feed it to the subconscious before the personality enters the dreaming state.

[...] The emotion will once again rush into the psychic space which is formed by elements in the personality’s psychological environment. [...]

After that life, however, Sally’s personality decided to take on the unfinished problems of development. “This time the personality is being cared for rather than caring for—being physically dependent. The personality in the earlier existence would not and could not try to understand the circumstances and position of the crippled daughter. Not for a moment then could the personality bear to contemplate the inner reality in personal terms.

“The problem is a challenge set up by the entity for one of its own personalities, but the outcome is up to the personality involved. This was the last major stumbling block for this personality. [...] In this case, in order for the personality to see its own past activities clearly, it felt that it must develop a position of complete dependency.”

Seth went on to say that even in such apparently tragic conditions, the personality is not abandoned. [...] The dream state becomes an extremely vivid time, for such experiences assure the personality of its larger nature. [...]

“Such a situation allows the personality to telescope experience needed into one life situation, to delve deeply and face at once problems that could otherwise take several lifetimes. Only a bold and courageous personality would attempt this.”

[...] Why do you find it far safer to show love to an animal and pet it, than to a person? [...] Some of you would rather stand up in this class and say, “I killed an animal in hatred” or “I knocked a man’s guts out” or “I shot my neighbor” almost, rather than express a simple statement of love or acceptance to another person in the class wholeheartedly and act, that was not an act, when you are not a star performing. [...]

[...] Simply be aware of your feeling, then try to understand the reality of the person involved. [...] Send, then, thoughts of peace towards the person involved, that their problems may be solved. [...]

[...] Each person has his own built in defense mechanism against your ill will. And while your ill will, and the ill will of each of you, carries some charge, it is not nearly strong enough to upset the balance of a personality who is determined to accept their own feelings and live their own lives. [...]

[...] You are an extremely expansive person, and you will use your abilities to look for good prospects simply because you are sunny. [...]

In a book on reincarnation, I hope to have each of my previous personalities speak for themselves, for they should tell their own story. You should understand, therefore, that those personalities still exist and are independent. While what I am once seemed to be contained within those personalities, I was but the seed for them. In your terms, I can remember who I was; in greater terms, however, those personalities should speak for themselves.

A GOODBYE AND AN INTRODUCTION: ASPECTS OF
MULTIDIMENSIONAL PERSONALITY
AS VIEWED THROUGH MY OWN EXPERIENCE

Now: We will begin the next chapter, and we will call it: “A Good-bye and an Introduction: Aspects of Multidimensional Personality as Viewed Through My Own Experience.”

[...] To put it bluntly (and humorously) I knew that someone had the ball, but I was not certain of the person. [...]

[...] As a rule most of you wake up in the same bed in the same house or town, but certainly you wake up as the same person in the same century. In those terms the entity wakes up as a different person each day, in a different century, each life seeming like a day in its level of experience. [...]

All of this may seem to have little to do with your daily personal experience, and yet it is intimately connected, for personally and en masse you can indeed create “the best” of all possible worlds.

[...] (Pause.) This more complex reality is an ever-existing property of your personal creaturehood. [...]

Jane: Okay, you can call  it the dark side of the personality and you can compare, if you just look at it that way, the helper with the bright side of the personality if you want. [...] I think, see, personally because of the way I work in conscious writing, that your own consciousness is such a fantastic, precious thing; and to close it in is... [...]

[...] According to what we got last night and this is just a preliminary, the helper is sort of made up of a surplus of positive energy, the desire to help people and so forth; but the best, plus, parts of your personality. [...]

According to what we got, both the Black Thing and the helper only exist when you have the kind of personality or the kind of abilities or something that draw a lot of energy where you got it to use. [...]

My own “previous” personalities are not dissolved into me any more than your “past” personalities. [...] Your “future” personalities are as real as your past ones. [...]

[...] The aspects of your personality as you presently understand them will be retained. [...]

(10:41.) Personality changes whether it is within a body or outside of it, so you will change after death as you change before it. [...]

You cannot give suggestions, saying that your personal life and universe is safe, when on the other hand you believe it is threatened by other people, or conditions. [...]

You cannot collect data—and you collect it, both of you—that points out man’s stupidities, and then demand that you personally go against what you think of as man’s ingrained idiocy. [...]

[...] I want each of you personally to equate your reality with you sense data.

The person seeks a certain kind of expression while also feeling that the same expression is either dangerous, forbidden, or for one reason or another impossible to achieve. This applies to human personal problems and to political ones in which entire peoples are involved. [...]

[...] What a tale of intrigue, personalities, and beliefs it was. [...]

[...] The same applies in any personality who attempts to separate the intellect and the emotions from their necessary unity within psychological structure. [...]

[...] With the individual, of course, you have personal versions of the same issues. [...]

[...] I wanted to convey to you the fact that the personality is composed of indestructible elements and that these elements are never destroyed. I wanted you to feel the impact of my personality as you would feel the impact of any living personality. I wanted, in other words, to speak to you as a person. [...]

[...] I am endeavoring, you see, to let more of my personality show itself this evening [so] that you can know me by my characteristics as well as my words. [...]

This does not mean that the demonstration serves no purpose, for all of my demonstrations serve a purpose and this one is to show that there is indeed a vitality that lives beyond the grave and that there is joy, and the personality continues to exist for this most willing and friendly associative man can permit me to speak in the most fearless and carefree tones. [...]

[...] I personally think that these distorted ideas about the nature of the inner self represent the main impediments to dream recall or to any real study of the subjective personality.

If you are thinking in terms of secondary personalities, you can prove nothing one way or another. A secondary personality would also use different gestures. [...]

[...] To some extent, its distrust of the dream experience is necessary for the overall balance of the personality. [...] … This provides necessary balance and control, and results in the sturdy anchorage of the personality in the environment in which it must presently survive. [...]

This will then allow us to procede 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.

[...] (Long pause.) As personalities however you have worked out your relationship. [...] Often problems with one personality are worked out by relationships with another, different personality.

You know the nature of personality now to some degree, and I am always to some degree present at your sessions. [...]

You are able, within the conditions that we have set, and with my assistance, to call upon those elements in my personality with which you are acquainted. [...]

As I have told you, to some extent then projection is involved, both on my part and on Ruburt’s. The question, am I always available to you when you want me, is based upon the old limited concept of personality (pointing to Sue, humorously), for even our friend here can be in two places at the same time—and I have had more training.

(Long pause.) Those creative elements of personality must then to some extent or another finally communicate with the “Sinful Self” directly—sympathetically embrace that self (pause) as the part of personality that first accepted cultural and religious beliefs with all of their negative and positive influences. The more creative portion of personality must then realize that in a fashion it exists because the Sinful Self did. [...]

When the person is a child no longer that need no longer exists in the same fashion. [...] The person is forced to find fresh, more original solutions. [...]

[...] This understanding helps release that energy for the use of the entire personality, as Ruburt’s paper correctly states. The personality is then free to explore and assimilate greater areas of original knowledge. [...]

[...] Some cultures provide symbols, or symbolic steps within the system itself, that allow for a steady “progression,” in which a young person’s curiosity and accelerated adolescent rebellion is subtly directed from within the society itself. [...]