“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] It is momentarily free of any irritating demands put upon it by a divided personality, automatically for example free from aggressions and unhealthy aspects of this nature. [...] These forms represent forms that your personality will take in future existences.

[...] Also this ability and control presupposes a fairly disciplined personality. [...]

It is quite possible to meet survival personalities, incidentally, during such projections. [...]

[...] You are accountable for acts committed during projections, of course, and these alter the personality as any acts do. [...]

[...] They were coming from personalities. The transmission however, is of a different kind; therefore, though the messages were coming from personalities, the entire term involves a translation that escapes you. We translate the word “personality;” we translate what we are into a term that you understand.

[...] He knew you as a Sumari but he had not worked with you, in your terms, personally. They were closely involved, and in a work relationship, a highly personal work relationship. [...]

(Last night in ESP class, Jane had an experience with a personality who called itself, and the rest of us, Sumari. [...]

[...] Besides that, my recording of the Sumari personality was poor and I had to stop at Fred and Pete’s [class members] to get their tape, and I didn’t arrive at Jane & Rob’s until 9 PM. [...]

[...] He was in almost all cases an esthetic personality, four times a woman; two of these times a priestess, and once as a nun in the Middle Ages. The personality in many respects has been rigid, in that its purpose was so undeviatingly certain and severe that it allowed no room for levity or diversion.

[...] The esthetic nature inherent in Roarck’s personality will equip him to follow along very well. [...] His personality needs all the building up it can get.

Here we have Roarck’s overall entity, laughing with mirth but also with compassion, for while the entity enjoys all that is, the personalities have often turned their backs upon very much, in order to pursue esthetic purpose. [...] In many ways he and Mark have opposing personalities, and yet basically the entities are similar to some startling degree.

[...] However in this existence the personality has opened up to a more considerable degree, and for its own development should continue to do so.

His overconscientiousness as a young person, and his intense concern—overconcern—at times with the literal “truth” of any given situation, is and was largely his reaction to his mother’s habitual, often mischievous lying pattern. [...]

[...] (Pause.) Other portions of Ruburt’s personality do utilize our material also, of course, and we deal with a certain kind of natural pacing. [...]

[...] Again, there will be a natural pacing, and on the part of the entire personality additional motion as the information is assimilated and adjustments made to a greater accommodation. [...]

(9:21.) That treatment reinforced his beliefs that he must indeed be a wicked or sinful person. [...]

[...] Another person will lose job after job. Another person will never find a compatible mate. The symptom or symptoms will follow the area in which the person most strongly disapproves of himself—will hide, distort, or exaggerate those tendencies about which the person feels such disapproval.

Behind all of my suggestions and attempts to help you lie realms of historical culture, or personal episodes, that go back to that main unfortunate habit of self-disapproval regarded as virtue. I do not see particularly a benefit to outlining the origin of the concepts throughout history, and you can for yourselves trace them in your personal lives. [...]

[...] When you really believe disapproval to be a virtue, and you believe in virtue, then you obviously find yourselves in a position where the more you disapprove of yourself the better person you think you are—a contradiction of the most insidious nature, for how can you approve of a self you disapprove of?

You take it for granted that something is wrong with you personally. [...]

(In an effort to reassure her, I looked up what Seth said in Chapter 9 of Personal Reality, and showed it to her. See the 637th session: “… think now of the life of the self as one message leaping across the nerve cells of a multidimensional structure — again, as real as your body — and consider it also as a greater ‘moment of reflection’ on the part of such a many-sided personality … I am aware that [these analogies] can make you feel small or fear for your identity. [...]

[...] You rarely find a person who is a great intellect, a great athlete, and also a person of deep emotional and spiritual understanding — an ideal prototype of what it seems mankind could produce.

[...] You exist as one person, simultaneously. This does not deny the independence of the persons, but your inner reality straddles their reality, while it also serves as a psychic world in which they can grow.³

In some systems of physical existence, a multipersonhood is established in which three or four “persons” emerge from the same inner self, each one utilizing to the best of its abilities those characteristics of its own. [...]

(9:05.) One person’s dreams, therefore, while his or her own, will still fit into an important notch in the dreams of a given family. One person might, because of his or her own interests, seek largely from dreams warnings of difficulty or trouble, and therefore be the family’s dream watchguard—the one who has, say, the nightmares for everyone else. That person will also serve a somewhat similar role in the waking state, as a member of a family. The question in such instances is the reason for such a person’s overconcern and alarm in the first place—why the intense interest in such possible catastrophes, or in crime or whatever?—and the answer lies in an examination of the person’s feelings and beliefs about the nature of existence itself.

[...] The person interested most in herbs and plant life would also find that nightly dreams mirrored that daytime preoccupation, so that nightly dream excursions might find the dreamer examining strange herbs in another location than the native one. [...]

[...] See Note 1 for an excerpt from the few short paragraphs of personal material Seth gave us before saying good night at 9:35 P.M. Then see Note 2 for what is surely a pretty wild idea of mine.)

[...] I want to stress that reincarnation is a tool used by personalities. [...] Some personalities will have difficulties along certain lines, and develop with relative ease in other ways.

[...] As mentioned earlier, many personalities adopt different kinds of experiences, focusing upon development in certain specific areas, and ignoring others perhaps for a series of lives.

[...] The perfectly happy life for example, on the surface, may appear splendid, but it may also be basically shallow and do little to develop the personality.

[...] Such a discipline may be adopted however by certain personalities who must take strong measures with themselves because of other characteristics. [...]

Only in a manner of speaking (repeated twice), there are certain — (humorously:) a necessary qualifying word — “power selves,” or personalities; parts of your greater identity who utilized fairly extraordinary amounts of energy in very constructive ways. That energy is also a part of your personality — and as you paint such images you will undoubtedly feel some considerable bursts of ambition, and even exuberance. The feelings will allow you to identify the images of such personalities.

(We’re presenting his material for me because it has good general application: If Seth deals with my own painted images without even mentioning the words reincarnation or counterparts, still he does reveal how such “residents of the mind” make up part of each person’s innate knowledge of his or her own greater — or larger — self.

[...] When you are an old person, you do not identify yourself as a child. [...]

[...] Such environments may be private, as in the case of persons with what are generally called mental disorders, or they may be shared by many, in — for example — mass paranoia.

The action performed within the dream; the location; the lack of specific location; the time in which the dream appears to occur; the apparent movements through time within any given dream; the emotional content; the surface psychological content; the work done within the dream; the familiar persons spoken to; the unfamiliar persons spoken to; the relation of the dream to past events and to events immediately preceding sleep; the dream events in relation to future events; messages that are given or sent in sleep.

[...] There is no way to probe the realities of consciousness except that a personality travels through all levels of consciousness open to him, and do so in such a way that he can retain and apply the information that he receives in these inner travels.

The potentialities of human personality cannot be examined as one would crack open a nut to see what is inside. [...]

As a side benefit, ultimately, recall of past lives may be achieved, and a synthesization, by yourself, of your past personalities.

(Much work went into this presentation, and a response has been materializing through phone calls, personal visits, and the mail. [...]

I will thank our friend personally for the work that went into the article.

[...] There were several in quote “keys” that could unlock, direct and focus the full abilities in Ruburt’s personality. [...]

Information quite literally must be sifted through the layers of the medium’s personality. [...]

[...] In deeper terms, however, in the dream state each person will be working out his or her own problems or challenges. Dreaming, a person can cure himself or herself of a disease, working through the problems that caused it. [...]

[...] It’s a state in which hardly any resistance is encountered; answers are ‘just there.’ The only problem is in getting the information across to another person in terms of his or her vocabulary. [...]

[...] They are connected with your personal creativity, so dream books will not help you in deciphering those meanings if they attach a specific significance to any given symbol. [...]

[...] The intimate life of a person in one country, with its culture, is far different from that of an individual who comes from another kind of culture, with its own ideas of art, history, politics or religion or law. [...]

[...] Each person is born, however, with his or her—let me correct that—each person is born there with a private natural religion—one that rises from the springs of the individual psyche, and one that provides an easy, custom-made method of dealing with inner and outer reality. It is important, therefore, that such persons rediscover their natural heritage, and put themselves in touch once more with this inner, natural “religion.” [...]

(Long pause at 4:28.) A strain develops in the personality as it tries to be faithful to its own private picture of reality, even while it tries to obediently conform to the publicly accepted picture. Dissatisfactions and illnesses then often result as the personality tries to go in two directions at once, and to please both the private and the public parts of its experience. [...]

Each person has a unique, natural, native way of dealing with the universe, and of relating to inner and outer reality. [...]

[...] Each personality carries traces of other characteristics besides those of the family of consciousness to which he or she might belong. The creative aspects of the Sumari can be particularly useful if those aspects are encouraged in any personality, simply because their inventive nature throws light on all elements of experience.

[...] Or she might narrowly miss being murdered when a bullet from the killer’s gun hits the person next to her. [...] The particular variations that one person might play are endless. [...]

[...] They concerned the opposing uses of personal power by two individuals whom we’d encountered within the last week: the woman lawyer who had interrupted the session last Wednesday evening, and who is so afraid of her power; and the young classical guitarist who had visited us last night, and who revels in the positive use of his power. [...]

[...] The playful, creative elements of personality can then be released. [...]

[...] These personalities are alive in your now, as you are alive in them now. [...] They are individualized personalities. All of you draw your characteristics from the one entity that is the bank of your personality.

[...] His methods did not work nearly as well in person-to-person contact with his students, however. [...]

[...] He was also however a creative man so there were personality conflicts, and he literally forced the creativity to take a weak secondary position.

[...] Some other personal information that I gave you concerning your relationship with your father this time also fits in here.

[...] Each person carried the brunt of that self-condemnation. Ruburt is hardly outstanding in having physical difficulties, and overall your lives and the work speak for more of the potential of personality than of personality’s lacks. [...]

[...] I am using the name here, Christ, as one person for the sake of discussion, for that entity touched many lives, each leaping into a kind of super-reality as it joyfully played its part in the religious drama.

[...] Hence he stressed time and time again that each person was a child of God.

[...] A portion of each person dwells in Framework 1 and Framework 2. Understand that Framework 2 is a psychic or spiritual or mental structure. [...]

[...] I am not certain if you refer to the subconscious memory of personality, the conscious memory of personality, or of the memory of an entity. The entity of course represents and is aware of the lives of all its personalities.

[...] You understand that generalized material on the fifth dimension and other matters in no way jeopardizes her present personality, or causes strain or panic. This is one of the reasons why this sort of data comes through so much more clearly than more personal material which her ego may find burdensome.

This will also have something to do with your life readings in some cases, where the personalities involved are closely entwined with your own. [...]

[...] The more personal and the more direct the bearing of a question upon your daily life, the greater the distortion is likely to be. [...]

[...] The individual person is also involved in an ever-continuing process to increase the quality of life as it exists at all levels of personal experience. [...]

[...] We will discuss the aspects connected with a long, healthy, fairly happy lifetime, and those involved with early death, severe illnesses, and suicide — particularly with the suicides of fairly young persons.

(Long pause at 4:22.) Each person impulsively tries to grow into his or her sensed potentials — even when they are not immediately apparent.

[...] People who are afraid that their nation will be invaded by an enemy will often also consider viruses or diseases to be enemies, ever about to threaten their personal survival. [...]

[...] You are still saying I want this person or I want that person or that thing. [...] This happens to many personalities. [...] It is natural, perhaps, to want to use what you have learned, this information, as a technique to achieve what you at any particular time think desirable, a particular person, a particular thing. [...] If this is taken care of, it will automatically lead you to the person that is best for you and to the circumstances that will help you develop. [...]

[...] Often the person that you think you want or need is not the person you want or need on other levels. [...]

[...] Indeed, I never saw my father as a person but rather as a dark shadow with a club. [...] [Yet my father is a very loving person. [...]

[...] There is a difference between a wholesome love for another person and a compulsive need to have that person. [...]

“Seth used Session 909 as a bridge between chapters 6 and 7 in Dreams. This means that now the session serves as a connective—a very effective lure, say—between volumes 1 and 2. Indeed, in retrospect it almost seems as though Seth, that ‘energy personality essence,’ planned it that way! [...]

Some of my descriptive passages in Dreams as I deal with Jane’s personal challenges are harrowing; they strike at the very heart of our fears of illness and disability, and even death, leading us to consciously face those possibilities while at the same time they perfectly mirror our equally profound inner needs and drives. [...]

I learned long ago that Jane’s great creative abilities are so intimately bound up with her personal challenges that they’re inseparable. [...]

In her own creative way, Jane is doing just this; her physical symptoms are the signposts of her personal struggle, and of mine, and of our joint incomplete knowledge. [...]