“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] “Over there — to my left — he’s talking about the limitations of our kind of personality. [...]

[...] Your personal impulses provide those guidelines by showing you how best to use probabilities so that you fulfill your own potential to greatest advantage — and [in] so doing, provide constructive help to the society at large.

[...] (Pause.) Such a person is afraid to trust any one impulse enough to act upon it. [...]

(9:35.) Impulses arise in a natural, spontaneous, constructive response to the abilities, potentials, and needs of the personality. [...]

Ruburt’s idea did come from me, about your reincarnational episodes, and your personal experience illustrates what I am saying in the book—the individual’s history is written in the psyche, and can indeed be uncovered. [...]

Ruburt should continue reading the sessions he has picked out, every other day or so, plus my current personal material. [...]

(Jane told me this afternoon that she’d had a flash from Seth about my reincarnational episodes of late, and how I was in the process of uncovering my personal “past”, as Seth says in The “Unknown” Reality.

In personal terms, he feared that his father abandoned him for that reason, that his mother disliked him for that reason, for each person will interpret the belief in his or her own life according to circumstances. [...]

He thought that he was such a bad person that he drove his parents apart, perhaps caused his mother’s illness, perhaps his grandmother’s death—for which his mother did indeed several times blame him—and that the classical idea of the Sinful Self was individually interpreted in that manner in Ruburt’s personal early life. [...]

[...] A nervous physical reaction—including my stomach and back upsets—to yesterday’s personal events, I thought. [...]

[...] “It’s got to do with understanding that one must protect or encourage personal integrity before anything else,” I said, “even if it means projecting one’s troubles out onto an entity like Prentice, the church, or whatever. [...]

[...] I said that I understood his answer to my question all right, but yet that I felt there were still things there to be discussed; that in individual cases, for instance, the subconscious could go too far when there was no need to, and that in such cases it seemed to ignore the wishes and desires of the conscious personality involved. I felt, then, that there should be a more intimate give-and-take between all portions of a personality. [...]

[...] He became divided, seeing these as opposing tendencies in his personality, rather than as complementary ones that quite naturally met in his personality, so one was set against the other. [...]

[...] “It” is a highly personalized portion of the self, uniquely tuned. [...] But the subconscious knows that the quality of life for that individual involves such exhilaration, and such a person literally chooses that rather than, for example, what someone else might consider a well-balanced long life.

[...] Each personality is different, and affects the body in a different way. [...]

[...] We have received a limited amount of data on the Boston lives, and are not sure of our personal relationship, except that we were not man and wife. [...]

[...] He proceeded to explain that Jane had indeed distorted her personal information. [...]

[...] This material was the longest at the time, dealing with another personality in such a manner. [...]

[...] By and large, he said, predictions will work out if no major drastic changes in personality and/or behavior occur.

[...] Intellectual acceptance of me as a complete survival personality will follow the intuitive knowledge. [...]

[...] Nor is she sure how she could check out personal material of this kind. [...]

[...] He did not believe I was a survival personality strongly enough to request that I even try to convince him.

[...] The personality is preparing itself, indeed, to enter completely and wholeheartedly into this adventure. [...]

[...] He is usually convinced instead that his body has been invaded by a virus despite his own personal approval or disapproval — despite his own personal approval or disapproval (most emphatically). He is therefore a victim, and his sense of personal power is eroded.

The tale has always appealed to children because they recognize the validity behind it.² The fairy godmother is a creative personification of the personalized elements in Framework 2 — a personification therefore of the inner ego, that rises to the aid of the mortal self to grant its desires, even when the intents of the mortal self may not seem to fit into the practical framework of normal life. [...]

Parents and physicians believe, instead, that the child is a victim, ill for no personal reason, but indisposed because of elements attacking him — either the outside environment, or [something] working against him from within. [...]

When a person recovers from such an ordeal, he [or she] usually grants his recovery to be the result of the medication he has been given. [...]

The human personality is far more open to all kinds of stimuli than is supposed. [...] When you realize that the personality can and does have access to other kinds of information than physical, then you must begin to wonder what effects those data have on the formation of character and individual growth. [...]

[...] Each person’s “individual” life plan fits in somewhere with that of his or her contemporaries. [...] There will be certain cornerstone encounters in each person’s life that are set up as strong probabilities, or as plans to be grown into.

[...] To one extent or another this applies to every field of endeavor as each person adds to the world scene, and as the intents of each individual, added to those of each other person alive, multiply — so that the fulfillment of the individual results in the accomplishments of your world.³ And the lack of fulfillment of course produces those lacks that are also so apparent.

[...] You read constantly of people who seem to have been most affected by fictional characters, for example, or by personalities from the past, or by complete strangers, more than they have been affected by their own families. [...]

[...] I still wasn’t at all sure that I believed in the survival of personality after death, and if we didn’t survive, then from whom was I getting these messages? [...] While I used that explanation as a handy whipping boy at times, I didn’t really believe that either: my subconscious was getting enough expression in my short stories and poetry—and without adopting other personality characteristics. A secondary personality? [...]

[...] He’d had dealings with me before and knew me well enough to be personally interested. [...]

[...] There was quite a noticeable alteration of muscle pattern and facial gestures—an overall personality change. [...]

[...] If Seth was a secondary personality he would know it, I thought. [...]

[...] The personality is constantly affected by them. It is impossible to deprive a person of dreams even though you deprive him of sleep [as in certain dream laboratory experiments]. [...]

It is impossible to study dreams when an attempt is made to isolate the dreamer from his own personality, to treat dreams as if they were physical or mechanical. The only laboratory for a study of dreams is the laboratory of the personality. [...]

[...] But each of you creates a dream world of validity, actuality, durability and self-determination, in the same way that the entity projects the reality of its various personalities. [...]

[...] And it is the infinite variety and gradations of intensity that makes all identities possible and all gestalts, all identities in terms of personalities and fields and universes. [...]

Seth also presented the entire work in such a way that the events of our daily lives were intimately connected with his material, serving as personal examples of how his theories actually work in everyday experience. He hadn’t been delivering “Unknown” Reality for long, then, before I realized that I’d have to devise a system of presentation that would handle his material, my own notes (which I could see were going to be considerably longer than they are in Seth’s other books, Seth Speaks and The Nature of Personal Reality), excerpts from Jane’s ESP classes, appendixes, and anything else that might be included.

[...] (See Seth’s material on “ideals set in the heart of man” in sessions 696–97 for Volume 1 of “Unknown” Reality.) Apropos of such concepts, I’ll close these introductory notes by quoting from a personal session Seth gave for Jane and me, in which he reiterates the importance of the individual and the pursuit of the ideal. Seth initiated the following passages by talking to me about “the safe universe” that each person can create, and live within. [...]

The two volumes making up The “Unknown” Reality: A Seth Book, were dictated by my wife, Jane Roberts, in cooperation with Seth, the nonphysical “energy personality essence” for whom she speaks when she’s in trance. [...]

[...] Your concepts of personhood are now limiting you personally and en masse, and yet your religions, metaphysics, histories, and even your sciences are hinged upon your ideas of who and what you are. [...]

Each person can also intrinsically sense the direction in which he or she is most inclined. [...] It will be easier and more delightful for each person to move and grow in certain directions, rather than others.

[...] In human terms, this means that each person has a vast bank of avenues that lead to value fulfillment, and that individual abilities will ideally form their own boulevards of expression.

[...] Each individual person literally possesses far more abilities than can be adequately expressed in any given lifetime. [...]

[...] So much of a person shows to the person, but much of an individual’s world view is hidden. [...]

[...] As a youngster, you—and also Ruburt—challenged many of “the world’s” beliefs, and refused to accept them as a part of your personalized world views.

You threw out conventional religious ideas first, and then conventional scientific ideas, so while these may be a part of your society, they are not a part of your personalized world views. [...]

Of course two lives would be sufficient to give you the three roles, but in some cases a personality does not function into adulthood, and therefore does not experience motherhood or fatherhood. Also for one reason or another a personality may not have offspring. Beside the three necessary roles there is another quality, different in dimension, which is also necessary for the personality, and this involves the fullest use of potential.

The personality when it leaves your plane for good will have developed its potentials as far as it possibly can. This does not mean that all personalities who have left your plane are at the same level. Since their potential has individual variety, it depends a good deal upon the personality’s ability to utilize energy as a unit, or to transform energy into unit patterns.

[...] New challenges were set for the personalities.

[...] I make three roles rather than two because a complete childhood, for example at least once, is usually necessary so that a personality can experience the knowledge of human growth.

[...] A person might use it as a means of showing pride or humility, of looking for attention or escaping it. [...] Illnesses are often misguided attempts to attain something the person thinks important. [...]

Each time someone we know gets in serious trouble, Jane and I start questioning anew our own values, and those of the society we live in, for such challenges seem to come unbidden and unwanted from way out in some far corner of each person’s reality. [...]

[...] We have no idea of pressing Seth’s personal information upon David; doing that would be an invasion of his privacy. [...]

[...] I cannot stress too thoroughly the fact that the beliefs of those times structured individual human living, so that the most private events of personal lives were interpreted to mean thus and so, as were of course the events of nations, plants, and animals. [...]

The energy personality who desires to be materialized upon your plane, himself becomes part of this plane through the use of the inner senses. Through a process of diffusion—and this incidentally is our ninth inner sense—the energy personality first diffuses himself into many parts. [...]

[...] Since this material was so interesting we decided to wait and see if Seth would take up our own personal experiences with psychological time later in this session. [...]

Now at various times you have questioned what the entity actually was, and wondered how fragments, or fragment personalities, could ever become entities, if they ever did.

The energy of the personality must then be recombined and brought together, as is done in the manner which I have specified. [...]

[...] However, the personality is certainly not aware of their existence on a conscious level a good deal of the time.

[...] In many cases however the stimulus comes from the deeper levels of the self, where however it may be translated into terms that the personal subconscious can use.

[...] It is obvious that many such intuitions appear when the personality is in a dreaming state or in states of dissociation. [...]

For such habits operate not only in the waking state but in the sleeping state also, where the personality is even more open to suggestion. [...]

[...] You have no responsibility to save the world or find the solutions to all problems—but to attend to your particular personal corner of the universe. As each person does that, the world saves itself.’

[...] The child (Sean) was a girl—1432—France—and at one time your sister—strong literary abilities—some interest in music—should not be pampered for the personality is already given to indulgence. There may be an allergy to wheat—early in life—was also known to this one here in Spain—the country now called Spain—in 801 as an uncle—then a warrior-type personality—but again given to indulgence. [...]

[...] But our new student does not know this person—it is no one with whom she has previously communicated. [...] This personality is also a student of mine and a practice teacher. [...]

[...] You must realize that within this room, and within any room, at any time there are other personalities that you do not perceive. [...]

[...] The personality should not be indulged, but it should not be shown dissonance—and discipline should be fair, for it will hold grudges otherwise. [...]

As in many cases an old man will appear womanish, so a personality reincarnated steadily as a male will develop strong and overlycompensated-for female characteristics, as is the case with Loren in this existence. The very fact that the personality evades a female reincarnation is evidence of an already developed fear. The personality of Loren, you see, is basically female despite the fact that he has never had a female reincarnation. [...]

In their own way they become what we will call pure emotional constructions, forming patterns that operate through emotional impetus that is received from and transmitted by individuals who thereby discharge and yet direct excesses of emotional energy, which the various personalities can no longer hold within the personal domain.

[...] Oftentimes when a person is reincarnated continually as one sex, the overall impression of the personality seems to be of the opposite sex. [...]

A dispersion has begun in which the ego will find it more and more difficult to hold energy within forms of personal identity, or to use energy for the purposes of the ego. [...]