“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(“I don’t mean to say by this that I think Seth and Jane are the same personality; rather, my feeling is that this acceleration connects portions of the same consciousness that are normally so diverse as to be two separate personalities for all practical purposes. [...]

Many cases of missing persons can be explained somewhat in the same manner: when the acceleration was strong enough, unexpected enough, to sweep the entire personality out of your system.

There are, therefore, mass physical symbols upon which you all agree, as well as private, personal symbols.

Many of the ideas given in this book can be used most advantageously to solve personal problems. [...]

The survival personality in itself does not automatically make one wise. Survival personalities are individuals. [...]

[...] One very large portion of the personality is totally committed to our endeavors. [...]

[...] The conscientious portions of the personality are of great benefit in that area. [...]

[...] He recognizes the existence of a different psychological personality and pattern however. [...]

Indeed, Seth’s material on the magical approach was so fascinating that by the time he finished Dreams I’d already put together large portions of it in a separate book, even if much of it was personal. Not only that, but those “magical” sessions had naturally developed into another series, this time on a portion of the personality Seth called “the sinful self”—mine as well as that of others—and those sessions had in turn led me to produce many pages of material directly from my own sinful self. That great personal revelation took place in June 1981. [...]

[...] (Much of that material is so personal that at this time we don’t want others involved with it, by the way.)

[...] And even though this is a personal session, still I think it contains clues that apply to all of us. [...]

So, one thing I know: I’m a far different person now as I write this Introduction than I was when Seth dictated the book. [...]

[...] In the first place, the term is a judgment cast by others, and a particular personality may feel quite comfortable in his or her own perception of reality, and only become aware of the difference when confronted by others. Most such persons are quite peaceful rather than violent, and their emotional experience may indeed cover nuances and depths unknown to normal persons.

[...] Even in such cases, however, at some extent or another the individual can indeed start over — or at least those closest to the person in question can begin to see a larger framework of existence in which even the most dire of physical circumstances are somehow redeemed.

[...] As Seth mentioned in the last session, Jane decided this evening to try to contact a survival personality as a medium would ordinarily for interested observers or relatives.

[...] Jane then suggested that I speak to Seth, since I was used to doing so; her hope being that by going into trance on her own she might contact a survival personality—namely, Blanche Price.

(The session, Jane said, verged often on the unpleasant, as if Blanche had to go through her own last memories first in order to make contact, and we wondered whether a survival personality would want to do this very often. [...]

(At no time was Jane aware of Seth as a personality, and neither of us saw any signs of him or from him. [...]

The slightest deviation is looked upon with dismay, so that personal identity and worth are completely tied into identification with femaleness or maleness. [...] A male who does not feel himself fully male, therefore, does not trust his identity as a person. [...]

Some individuals known as men could give birth to a child fathered by the same person — could (underlined). [...]

A lesbian or homosexual is on very shifting psychological ground, because the same interests and abilities that they feel most personally theirs are precisely those that mark them as sexual eccentrics.

Was fragment of his own entity, a past personality regaining momentary independence on visual plane. [...]

In some submerged manner all fragments of a personality exist within an entity, with their own individual consciousenesses. [...]

[...] It’s as impossible for the entity to control fragment personalities as for the conscious mind to be aware, or control its own heartbeat. [...]

[...] Fragments of another sort, called personality fragments, operate independently, though under the auspices of the entity.

This time we see the development of the personality. We see that balances have been made here, we see the emotions having stronger bearing upon the personality. [...] Indeed its purpose is a good one, but any compensation of this sort must be balanced by the personality itself in all cases.

[...] Our idea was that our receptive state might make it possible for one of us to speak for another personality should one be present, or for another level of the self. [...]

[...] My idea had been that Jane might speak for another personality, such as in the Sarah Wellington or the Malba Bronson instances. [...]

[...] The involvement between the two personalities of the man and the woman at this time is a good one, as far as commitments previously in other lives is concerned. [...]

[...] Once again in the bathroom I was amazed that any belief could have such a powerful effect upon a person that they would tolerate such physical limitations day after day, year after year, rather than to come to terms with them in an effort to obtain at least some relief. I’d still like some material from Seth on why the personality would choose to go to such lengths in the name of self- protection.... [...]

Now: even as a young person, Ruburt was the type of person who was considered out of place, rebellious, or even slightly dangerous in any Roman Catholic congregation—particularly in the time of his own youth. [...]

Ruburt’s creative abilities still had those classical models, yet because of his mind’s originality and his natural intuitive nature; those creative abilities were also fueled by unofficial information: he was always to some extent in strong connection with the knowledge possessed by his natural person—and that knowledge kept seeking expression. [...]

[...] The release of those feelings will clear the air in all areas, allowing the insights of the natural person new freedom so that new needed information at all levels can flow into his experience. [...]

[...] But you must understand that they are the characteristics that I show you—there are other realities of personality and identity that are mine—just as there are other realities within your own personalities and you cannot laugh these away. [...]

The other personality with which you are familiar, which speaks through Ruburt, that personality seems very remote from you. [...]

[...] The pretty colors that we have used have been good, they have caught your attention—as my personality captures your attention. [...]

[...] For these characteristics by which you know me are but one portion of my personality and my reality. [...]

[...] As you know, the inner senses belong to that part of human personality that is not physically materialized. [...]

[...] It is only by understanding the connection between the physical and nonphysical self, and the communication systems that operate here, that the true nature of human personality can be studied

[...] They allow the personality to retain its relationship with nonphysical reality, permitting the material self to focus within its earthly environment.

[...] The astral identity is therefore actually a more complete representation of the whole personality, and its abilities are far-reaching. [...]

[...] Yet in this prime gestalt that is unitary, there is again an infinite diversity and literally numberless personalities. Nor are these personalities that compose the prime psychic gestalt dependent or submissive to any one dominating personality within the gestalt.

[...] Personalities, or any type of individualized energy, may pass through various realities. [...]

A personality in the primary gestalt is indeed focused upon your present plane of reality, but to suppose that the whole primary gestalt is so focused represents mankind’s ego playing with one of its most preposterous proposals.

[...] You could ask me questions about your personal life and I would not require that you think for yourself. [...] If I thought you had no abilities of your own, and this applies to all of you, if I did not know that you were multidimensional personalities with all kinds of abilities at your disposal, then I would not tell you to think and feel for yourselves. [...]

[...] And as I have said often, the portion of me that you know in this room is a certain portion of my personality from those personality banks that are mine. [...]

[...] What I am trying to do is to awaken within each of you knowledge, intuition, abilities that are a portion of your entire personality. [...]

You think of yourself (to Brad) as a “closed physical personality”—weak and helpless—in a world that you do not understand. [...]

[...] In the materialization of personality through various incarnations, only the ego and the layers of the personal subconscious adopt new characteristics. [...]

[...] The probable self is somewhat like a twin self to the dreaming personality, for neither the experiences of the dreaming self nor the probable self occur within the complete radius of physical reality.

There is a constant give and take between the probable self and the dreaming self, for much data is received, particularly by the dreaming personality from the probable self, or the self that experiences what the ego would term probable events.

[...] You must take it for granted also, you see, that this probable self has operated in each incarnation, in each materialization of the whole personality, and has therefore at its command literally millions of probable situations and conditions upon which to make value judgments.

So include it in The Nature of Personal Reality, for it is the birth of the book in your personal reality.

[...] Then I will have some other personal comment.

He starts off by saying: “The personality is composed of energy gestalts. As the personality is changed by any experience, it is changed by its dreams; and as an individual is molded by his physical environment to some extent, so is he molded by the dreams which he himself creates. [...]

[...] … When aggressiveness is the problem, for example, the preliminary dream suggestion should include a statement that the aggression will not be directed against a particular person. In all cases, it is the intangible element [aggressiveness, here] that is the problem, and not the person against whom the individual may want to vent it.

In other words, our dreams attain a certain immortality of their own, along with our personalities. [...] At physical death his personality then exists detached from its physical form.”

“On one level the personality attempts to solve problems through dream constructions … and often gives freedom to actions that cannot be adequately expressed within the confines of waking life. [...]

On some occasions our separate personalities may merge during sessions. At other times Ruburt may be projecting so well that his personality is relatively absent, and my projection in his place is relatively (underlined) complete.

[...] The thought is a psychological reality, a psychological and psychic identity but not a structured personalized identity. [...] These may or may not be structured personalized identities though they will be dependent for their existence upon the whole self.

See how you stop to see what you are supposed to do, and how difficult you find it to relate to another person, and how you stop immediately for directions rather than relating directly to the person. [...]

[...] When you realize that your own personality is indeed multidimensional, then you will realize that your age is a reality that you are presently experiencing, among many other realities. [...]

Now the old man, in your terms, that will be, the personal old man that you will be, exists now as the child, in your terms, that you were exists now. [...]

[...] Do not get hung up on personality. [...]

Is Seth actually my trance personality, though — a native of timeless psychological realms, who sends his messages to our time-tinted world? Or am I Seth’s trance personality, living in space and time, nearly forgetful of my heritage? [...] My continuing experiences, however, show me that Seth’s personality is stamped upon the sessions and his writings, and perhaps also upon my own consciousness, in unique ways.

As I write this Introduction, I’ve already forgotten those many anonymous nights during which Seth, my trance personality, dictated this book. [...]

Rob typed Seth’s other books, Seth Speaks: The Eternal Validity of the Soul, The Nature of Personal Reality, and the two volumes of The “Unknown” Reality, added his own notes, and did almost all the work of preparing them for publication. [...]

[...] It includes many exercises to acquaint each person with that deeper portion of the self, and invites the reader to search into his or her ideas and experiences on many levels.

[...] Lois, John said, is around 40 years old, and she has her own personal problems. Mary-Ellen is not the type to talk with others about personal affairs, John said, but he has had the thought that she may get satisfaction listening to others talk about their troubles. [...]

[...] You are treating her primarily as a woman rather than an individual person; but you are not treating her as a desirable woman rather than an individual person.

[...] Therefore any given personal association may originate from a dream event as well as from a past waking event.

(John said it was all right for the personal material to be included in this record, and it is a good example of the way Seth handles such data. [...]