“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

The entity sees the whole event, the whole person-event, with the time element, or age in your terms, as simply another characteristic or dimension. The person-event is not cut off, however. [...]

[...] (Heartily, smiling): And of course I am not speaking of you personally, Joseph.

(When Seth tells me I’ve done a Speaker’s portrait, I translate this to mean that I’ve tuned-in on but one personality out of the very many making up that Speaker’s entity.

[...] Few of the paintings are of Speakers, obviously, and in no case did I realize I was working with such a personality.

[...] The personality in the past used psychic abilities for the wrong purposes. Therefore they did not fully develop and the personality was at a standstill.

[...] A rather classic example of the progress followed by many psychically-endowed, but in poor control of their personalities and abilities.

[...] The personality relying largely upon its own resources. [...]

[...] (Pause.) Some connection here with the first historical personality whom we have run across. [...]

[...] The session began after we had had some time for an informative, get-acquainted talk, on parapsychology in general, methods of conducting tests, personalities, Seth’s particular philosophy, etc. [...]

[...] Then Jane, speaking for Seth, gave the initials W C, as those of a person very involved in Ray Van Over’s publishing venture.

(Ray Van Over said that this data was “quite correct”, the initials belonging to a person he proceeded to name. [...]

(After reading these notes Jane reminded me that during the session Seth also told R. Van Over that one of the sponsors or members of his new research society would pull out—that this person was somewhat of a disrupting influence, etc. [...]

“MESSAGES” FROM GODS, DEMONS, HEROES,
AND OTHER PROMINENT PERSONS — OR,
MORE CONFLICTING BELIEFS

[...] A person may become so frightened of using his or her own power of choice or action that the construction of an artificial superbeing is created — a seemingly sublime personage who gives orders to the individual involved.

[...] This imaginary personage may say that it is God, or a famous hero from the present or the past, or Jesus Christ, or Mohammed, and the personality involved will be quite certain that such is the case.

(Long pause at 4:37.) Any of the two kinds of personalities mentioned might also begin to feel persecuted, chased, or harassed by some outside agency. [...]

[...] To arrive at any real understanding of human personality several prerequisites must be met.

Now, there is an overall personality pattern that is characteristic of each whole self, of which the reincarnated selves each give evidence. [...]

[...] Some personalities react strongly against the enforced dependency. [...]

[...] Even so that location has strong personal associations for her today. [...]

[...] But I’m presenting my effort as close as possible to its time of conception so that each interested person can keep it in mind, and eventually write his or her own version of it for personal use. [...]

[...] I have used television as an analogy at various times, and I would like to do so again, to show the ways in which physical events are formed, and to try to describe the many methods used by individuals in choosing those particular events that will be personally encountered.

[...] Many others are watching the same programs, of course, yet each person will react quite individually.

In this book I will try to tell you what goes on behind the scenes — to show you the ways in which you choose your daily physical programs, and to describe how those personal choices mix and merge to form a mass reality. [...]

There are certain elements within the human personality that exist apart from any such terms. There is an area of being where a person simply is not intelligent or dumb, greedy or not greedy, where the essence of personality simply is. [...]

Through the years the personality, for example, tries different methods of interrelating, while the overall characteristics are still maintained. [...]

[...] But you did have a fling at meeting your times directly, and of reaping those rewards, personally, socially, and financially. [...]

This was not one decision, but involved multitudinous small issues in your lives from childhood on, and represents aspects of your personalities that you must recognize and honor. [...]

[...] After that, you see, there are many other personalities for them to meet again. Persons that they have known in past lives. [...]

[...] You believed so strongly in principle, for example, that you would do anything to uphold it and there was little leeway in your personality. You were not able to give and take and, to some extent, that rigidity is still present in your personality. [...]

([Theodore:] “If I have a thought some person has wronged me in some way, and I would like to slug him, am I doing that person harm in this reality or in another, and if so, how do I handle this responsibility?”)

And now after our new friends see what a playful personality I am with a sermon like that, I will let you take your break. [...]

[...] For your personalities in this existence, you both made the ideal choices. [...] The possibilities of your relationship had the power to bring about the fullest possible developments of your personalities. [...]

[...] For some belated notes on your wife’s personality. [...]

[...] Given this, his energy on your behalf and in your behalf knows no bounds within the potentials of his personality.

[...] It brings out the best in you and in your work, and represents a rich emotional loam that you need to draw out certain elements of your own personality. [...]

[...] It takes awhile to get to know another person, whether they are in the body or out of the body. Personalities meet and communicate whether they are physical or not. [...]

[...] And in those personality characteristics that I use when I speak to you, I show you that the emotional life continues. [...]

[...] I have a reservoir of personality banks upon which I can draw, and as a teacher I use the one that is most effective in any given system of reality and this is the one that I use here. [...]

[...] But remember there are differences in your own reality and in your own identity that are as great as the difference between my personality and that of Seth II. [...]

[...] And now, I open up even more to his publication of The Personal Sessions series. As this group of sessions slowly accumulated, often as “deleted” or unpublished portions of “regular” sessions, Jane and I took it for granted that since they were personal they would stay that way. Every session is obviously personal, since Jane delivered them all, but now I’m encouraging the overall intimacy of these personal sessions to seek their own intimate freedom—and of course I know that doing this will not only help others, but me too.

[...] That personality was rather collarless (as spelled out on the board).” [...] That “energy personality essence” did his best, always honestly, I’m sure, to help my wife, both as far as he was able to but also, as I came to believe, as far as he was allowed to. [...] How unusual, I thought as I recorded the sessions in my homemade shorthand, that the conflicts displayed between the two main portions of her immensely creative personality were so open, even while she had the potential to help so many others. [...]

Reading these private sessions, one can legitimately ask: “Well, if Jane Roberts was so smart and Seth was so great with all of that personal stuff, why did she come down with the symptoms to begin with? [...] But again and again I felt, I knew, that reincarnational factors were involved, concerning not only Jane, Seth, and me, but a number of other “past” personalities and influences from any of the three of us, and in various camouflage time frames. [...] After all, here she was, speaking in trance for a personality who told us he’d last lived on Earth in Denmark 300 years ago—even if there is no such thing as time!

Apart from my questions and speculations, I think it significant that Jane had waited until she had produced the first 207 sessions of the Seth material, over a period of a year and 11 months, before she really began to allow Seth to come through with outright personal material about her—as if first the two had to learn to know each other that well by bridging not only space but our historical or camouflage time. This opening volume of The Personal Sessions begins with an excerpt from Session 208, on November 15, 1965. [...] Of course, neither one of us ever considered the possibility that many years later these personal sessions would be published.

[...] These books consist of the first 510 “sessions” that my wife, Jane Roberts, delivered for that well-known “energy personality essence”, Seth, after she began speaking in a trance or dissociated state in December 1963. [...]

[...] My wife was—and is, I know, for I’m sure that she still lives—the most creative person I’ve ever met, and through her extraordinary abilities she’s left a body of work that I regard as a legacy of inquiry about our understanding of ourselves and our reality. [...]

[...] This framework matches that in the already-published Seth books like Seth Speaks and The Nature of Personal Reality.

Now let me list some of those I know personally, and who have helped Jane and her work so much: Tam Mossman, Richard Kendall and Suzanne Delisle, Sue Watkins, Debbie Harris, Laurel Davies, Janet Mills, Lynda Dahl and Stan Ulkowski, Bob Terrio, Norman Friedman, Jeff Marcus, Juan Schoch, Michael Goode. [...]

Sex became dangerous—not to protect your persons—which would be delighted, but to protect your rigid, limited ideas of your “artistic selves”—the writer and the artist might be threatened, and so your personal lives must suffer, and the persons be shoved away.

(A note: Late this morning Jane and I drove up to the Hoffman Street post office and mailed the corrected script of Personal Reality to Prentice-Hall. [...]

(This is the first session since the deleted one of January 7, which was held just before the script for Personal Reality came back to us. [...]

I suggest you read the session I gave concerning the importance of the person from which the artist or writer springs. [...]

[...] Some of your interpretations were legitimate, based upon his attitudes, but many more were the innermost doubts that you have not faced as to who you were, and deep questions involving the nature of your person as it is related to your particular sex in this life.

You were aggressively aware of the difference between your own attitude and some of society’s in that regard, but for the first time in your life you were closely involved with another person, day by day—who to some extent (underlined) then served as a moving picture onto which you projected these fears as to your own worth.

Intellectually you are certain enough of your worth as a person, but emotionally not nearly as certain as far as other abilities are concerned. [...]

[...] Then you would be free to accept her as a person. [...]

Now, what would that extreme behavior consist of “at its worst?” He felt that if he were a person given to extremes, then to use his abilities he must apply due discipline so that his head was not turned, so that he did not become a victim of fame, as many other writers and artists did—or so it seemed. It certainly should be obvious to Ruburt now that his personality contains some quite conservative aspects—a marriage going into two decades and more does not exactly make one worry about promiscuity. So many old fears were based upon misconceptions on the part of the personality that in younger years found itself to be quite different than its contemporaries, and gradually began to set up defenses against them.

The personality is always pleased with its abilities. If those abilities are extraordinary, or if they do not fit into the social structure, a personality can approve and disapprove, use the abilities, and yet feel the need for protection. [...]

[...] Your father was used as the main character, of course, because he is referred to in your notes, because you planned photographs of him in the beginning, and because in the dream he represented the disapproving portions of your own personality.

[...] Although we liked him personally, we came to understand that he used words as a barrier to any real communication, asked Jane few questions. [...]

[...] Authority is always vested in a person, organization, or whatever, by other people for a variety of reasons. [...]

You both grew up under certain authorities—the personal authority of the parents, and the greater authority—or Ruburt at least—of the church and state. [...]

You can best help in such situations by treating each person as an individual. [...]

[...] You may contemplate the end of the world instead, but in either case you are propelled by a sense of personal frustration, and perhaps by some degree of vengeance, seeing in your mind the destruction of a world that fell so far beneath your idealized expectations.

[...] Each person is an idealist. [...]

Each person alive helps paint the living picture of civilization as it exists at any given time, in your terms. [...]

[...] (Pause.) At deeper levels, the impulsive portion of the personality is aware of all actions upon the earth’s surface. [...]

[...] When you think up questions personal involvement must be connected or they will have no real meaning to you. Think in terms of your own personal reality, your own personal life and how these theories apply to who you think you are now. [...]

Now the past images also represented not only the past in the historical context of civilization, but the past as it applies to your own personal subconscious. [...]

[...] Now the house, to you, represents in one way, the seat of personality also, the inviolate place and you do not open the door to strangers or give them access into the secret self unless you feel that there is a good reason. [...]

Our friend has a letter he wants you to hear about and I want to hear some more personal and involved questions. [...]

The field that connects the personality to this kind of pseudoimage is actually formed by extensions of psychic energy. [...] Many dreams involve such roamings on the part of the personality while it is within this sort of pseudoimage.

[...] And as branches are composed of all those elements that make up the whole tree, so indeed dream images are composed of those elements that make up the personality.

[...] As leaves bring vital nutrients to the tree trunk, so also do dream images bring nourishment to the personality.

As leaves drop from the tree, so finally do dream images depart from close connection with the personality. [...]

[...] Generally speaking, however, the kind of person who performs as a public figure is not the kind of person who could produce highly creative material of an original nature. [...]

(One of the obvious reasons, I thought, was that the portions of the personality that were acting up became so powerful that they prevented or subverted a simple thing like asking for help to deal with a problem or challenge. [...]

[...] The sense of enjoyment however does increase and extend individual abilities, and those impulses leading toward enjoyment are meant to serve each individual with a private inbuilt avenue of expression that will help center the person within himself, and within the world—and again, in such a way that both the self and the society are benefited. [...]

[...] In Ruburt’s case the idea of responsibility became far more pervasive, resulting in what I have referred to as being almost a superself image—an image composed of his ideas of the kind of person he should (underlined) be in his position. [...]