“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] The idea has been that the more persecuted and maligned a person is, the greater will be the reward in a future existence.

The ideas of penance, fasting to excess, the personal abuse of the body, such as self-flagellation — all of those practices are conducted in the belief that suffering is something to be sought in itself. [...]

Quite ordinary people often believe, then, that suffering itself is a way toward personal development and spiritual knowledge. [...]

[...] For when my friend Ruburt looks at a person he sees a mind and he automatically grades it... [...]

[...] There are personalities who have knowledge that you do not yet realize you know. [...]

[...] And a portion of her personality knows what she is learning. [...]

[...] Consciousness means personality. [...]

(Jane had some other insights into Seth’s multiple channels as she continued dictating Personal Reality after that session,¹ yet we continued to think of the new development as one of mostly theoretical interest. [...] Jane wrote at the time, then told me, that she almost felt “the book could be Personal Reality Number Two.” [...]

(The following material is, in part, an outgrowth of certain effects described in Personal Reality; see my notes for the 616th session, bridging chapters 2 and 3. That session was held on September 20, 1972, and the notes I’m referring to concern a new development in Jane’s abilities: her initial realization that on at least some occasions she would have more than one channel of information available from Seth. [...]

[...] A feeling this could be Personal Reality Number Two.

1. In Personal Reality, see sessions 648, 657, and 673 in chapters 12, 15, and 21 respectively.

[...] When one person comes to the door, personal acquaintance or stranger, it is the world knocking. You fear that that person will feel the same rejection that it seems to you your mothers felt.

[...] I am now not speaking simply of personal events from your childhoods, or saying that you are mechanically operating now in certain fashions because of them. [...] People will not be personally hurt if you honestly state your position. [...]

You cannot separate achievements from personality. [...] You can say “Why did my artistic talent not mature when I was young?” Yet the dimensions of personality are such that basically the question is shallow. [...]

[...] They will accept your reasons, which can be stated clearly so that they do not feel personally rejected.

Our friend, Joel, reacts to our Lady of Florence, therefore, as she appears to him now in this place and in this time, and yet he also reacts as a person that he was, in your terms, and our Lady of Florence reacts as a person she was, in your terms. [...]

[...] You can with your mirror accept these other personalities, search them out and recognize them, or pretend that they do now exist. But this in no way denies the validity of your entire personality. [...]

[...] It is past the time for you to be entranced by other personalities including my own. It is time for you to become entranced with your own personality. [...]

Now if you are going to understand human personality or deal with the psychology of being, then you must first of all examine your own being and you cannot examine it as you can a rock. [...]

[...] A poetic statement carries weight for his personality, and this poetic statement has almost magical connotations. [...]

[...] It takes its place along with other personality traits. [...]

Good events cannot help it, then, for the personality does not admit it is a portion of itself.

[...] When images of survival personalities appear, they must also utilize such properties.

[...] A primary one was why Jane’s personality would continue behavior that could bring on the threat of abandonment, as she saw it—the symptoms—if she had such a fear of that possibility. [...] Another question was why her overall personality would continue behavior that could conceivably bring about the eventual demise of the physical body—and thus the death of those very portions of the personality that were causing all the trouble, and had been for years. [...]

[...] The self-destructive behavior was much more advanced now, though, and I could only hope and trust that my dear wife’s feelings of panic were an attempt on her personality’s part to at least discharge some of the dangerous emotional charge that must have accumulated over the years, while being repressed. [...] But I was as baffled as ever, I said, that the personality would put the poor body in such a position that it couldn’t be at peace either sitting up or laying down. It all seemed to be so self-defeating that I had trouble visualizing what other portions of the personality might be getting out of it. [...]

For Timothy individually and personally what happened here, little as it was, is not only important to him, but in terms of continuity ties in with the earlier Lourdes interest, and picks up a thread that has run throughout his life. [...]

He has always been deeply concerned with the nature of reality, both from an intellectual and emotional standpoint, and where Seagull did not reach him personally, he was fascinated by the phenomena of belief behind it, and then was fascinated by the phenomena of belief behind the Lourdes healings.

This has to do with his personal characteristics and inclinations. [...]

[...] They never were intended to be dropped as far as his person is concerned.

[...] This immediate self is not isolated however from other portions of the entire personality. [...]

[...] The inner self must therefore be recognized by all levels of the personality.

[...] The intuitive portions of the personality had to have the full cooperation of the intellectual and conscious self at this point in your development and I am speaking of you both here.

[...] He was made to deeply fear it, and it was a strong, dominant part of his personality. [...]

Another person will become involved, who is not connected with Prentice-Hall. [...]

[...] Now he will work to understand the nature and makeup of those in quotes “unorthodox” seeds within mankind’s personality. [...]

[...] Whether these are initials, say of a town or a person, or the beginning of the word spring, I do not know. [...]

[...] Eventual strengthening of the woman’s personality. [...]

[...] So, often when some personality from another station wants to help change the programming, he comes on in the form of a personality already known in fact or fiction. However, you must realize that that personality is larger than fact or fiction. [...]

(12:02.) In regular sessions, as now, he and I again both make adjustments, and so in sessions I am what I call a bridge personality, composed of a composite self — Ruburt and I meeting and merging to form a personality that is not truly either of us, but a new one that exists between dimensions. [...]

[...] Through the centuries, in your terms, there have been different personalities, some physical and some not, with whom the species identified. [...] In between there are a multitude of such personalities, all vividly portraying parts of the psyche.

[...] We don’t believe such relationships exist on any kind of personalized basis, although someday we’ll ask Seth to comment here. [...] In Chapter 1 of The Seth Material, Jane quoted Seth-to-be from the 4th session for December 8, 1963, as that personality came through on the Ouija board (which we’d used to initiate these sessions): “You may call me whatever you choose. [...]

[...] The ego is part of the personality, and as such it can partake of sturdier, heartier, more vivid realities. The personality can dwell, and does dwell, in many worlds at once.

It was far from inevitable that he turn to this field but the innermost portions of his personality were drawn to it, and within this field he can develop his abilities, mature, and contribute. [...]

[...] Such plateau levels are beneficial to the whole personality, since they allow time for adoptions.

The stuff or fabric or makeup of dreams has not been covered here, nor have we discussed the actual ways in which the personality uses energy to construct his dreams and project them. [...]

[...] Therefore any large and overall hedging, any significant difference in commitment between the poetry and the nonfiction, can be taken as a sign that the whole personality is divided to that extent.

[...] It has caused him to hold back in the development of his full writing talents, for these specialized creative abilities, the writing techniques, will come into their own now that the personality is more fully behind our work.

[...] The force, the basic vitality of the whole personality, has been gathered together, or rather is just being united for the first time in this existence. [...]

[...] From scatterings of data Seth had given in the past I thought Jane’s eyes, even though wide open, did not see others present as they were, as physical entities, but perhaps as electromagnetic personalities.

[...] Consciousness experiences reality directly, but having formed physical matter into a personal image, it must then creatively translate data to that physical brain. [...]

[...] The thoughts and images, while being condensed, are nevertheless then retained in their particular levels of the personality in their own form.

[...] The environment is simply an extension of the self, and those objects within it are a part of the physical or the physically materialized personality. [...]

[...] The personality exists inward in ways that are not at once apparent, but it also exists outward in ways that you do not see. [...]

Now, with all you have been told about the nature of personality, and of the many of which you are a part, it would now be a help if you could find the center of your larger self.

[...] Next, feeling that you are in the astral form, tell yourself that from that image you will be able to see the image of the person that you were in your immediately past life.

[...] When you have succeeded, then still feeling yourself in the astral form, tell yourself that you will next see the image of the life before last: the image of the person you were, then repeat the other steps.

[...] You may instead feel the stirrings of memory, and experience yourself using abilities developed as a past personality. [...]

[...] He encounters his consciousness first, and then he encounters the world—so I am saying, of course, that each person has an identity that is larger than the framework of consciousness with which you are usually familiar in life.

[...] Basically, each person must confront the experience of reality through a direct encounter with it. [...]

[...] (With amusement:) Few people have seen a black hole, to make the most generous statement possible, while countless people have had private reincarnational experiences, or encounters that suggest the survival of the personality beyond death.

[...] At first I was sorry for the reader’s sake to think of Dreams being interrupted, yet glad for myself, for in addition to presenting Seth’s book dictation I was given the space in which to develop those other personal and secular themes of Seth’s, Jane’s, and my own that I think add even more dimensions of meaning to Dreams.

[...] While there are general categories of beliefs, and general reasons for them, you must become personally aware of your own, for no one person is completely like any other. [...]

[...] In your own environment however your personal beliefs will usually predominate.

[...] I will say more about this later in the book, but it explains for example why a diet-watcher, suddenly determined to lose weight, may meet with veiled or even open resistance from family or friends; why the person who makes new resolutions may find himself baffled by associates’ ridicule; why the alcoholic trying not to drink finds others tempting him quite openly, or teasing him into indulgence by hidden tactics.

[...] This is why it is vital that you examine your beliefs for yourself and understand what they mean to you personally. [...]

[...] [This is usually the case when I don’t take notes.] One such point had to do with Seth’s statement that whenever a person thinks strongly about another person, a portion of the “thinker” goes out to the “thought-subject,” etc.

I will in due time identify the figure of the third Christ personality. [...]

All personal contact with the multidimensional God, all legitimate moments of mystic consciousness, will always have a unifying effect. [...]

[...] This is a personal goal of mine.)

In other words I am telling you that your present beliefs, in a manner of speaking, are like the directions given to the entire personality, simultaneously organizing and reorganizing past experience according to your current concepts of reality.

[...] One person may be completely free physically and in excellent health, and yet, because of certain experiences, begin to doubt his ability to get along with others. [...]

[...] Beneath them, the apparent causes of limitations in personal life, there are other far-reaching beliefs, and each individual will use those elements in his private experience to back these up. [...]

You have been taught that you are at the mercy of previous events, so your idea of looking for the source of personal difficulty is to examine the past, but — to find what you did wrong there, or what mistakes occurred there, or what inadequate interpretations were made there! [...]

[...] There are four cornerstone personalities involved in your seminar. Now three of these personalities are yours: one is not yours. [...]

Now I speak from several layers, though the word “speak" is a poor one, I turn myself, you see, into steps down which I walk and the steps represent what you would term personality fragments, though the term is distortive. [...] I am broken up into highly energized personality fragments of my own accord, you see. [...]

The person will cause strong difficulties through overenthusiastic reactions and through some connections on which I am not clear with the person’s parent—I believe a mother.

[...] The self or structure or personality travels outward and inward and (if you will forgive me) in all directions. [...]