“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] A personality, or personalized energy, is never destroyed; but transformation of form remains a necessity for continuation of each personality, and in some cases an emotional denial on the part of the living, of this fact, can lead to resistance in so far as the personality of those no longer connected with the physical field. [...]

(Jane now began to take some rather lengthy pauses as she delivered this more personal material. [...]

[...] That is, the question as to the survival of the physical image after the point of so-called death, and the lingering about the physical plane of portions of the personality.

The man represents, now, an example of a personality highly endowed with intuition, and inner senses that are highly developed. [...]

[...] The actual material from which camouflage patterns are formed is the vitality which exists and which is unconsciously used by your personalities.

[...] The strong self-conscious self of which I have spoken, the self-conscious self of which your own personality is not aware, this self that faces into the inner world of reality, quite consciously draws upon the vitality and stuff of what is.

[...] The subconscious is the link between these two self-consciousnesses, and here you find an acceptance by the camouflage personality of the materials at hand.

This involves on the part of the entity the use of personalities, which are in a manner capsules of itself or even compartments—part of the whole entity but neatly divided as far as memory and so forth is concerned. [...]

[...] He knew that the stability of his personality was highly important. [...]

[...] They also kept him from what he considered spiritual betrayals: he would not be a television personality, using his great powers of persuasion, until he knew what he was persuading people to do. [...]

[...] The psychic abilities are a basic part of his personality—bound to show themselves, as he was determined to express and use them. [...]

[...] I’ve barely mentioned them in recent notes — just for sessions 696 and 698 — but Seth has had a good deal to say about them in current personal material.] Many of the dreams have been quite long and involved. [...]

“Seth straddles many of these points and appears in the dream levels of others at their personal symbol level. [...]

“… to meet him personally, I’ve had to go to another level. [...]

The subconscious—personal subconscious layer – became blocked with debris that seeped down from the conscious layer. The personal subconscious then acted like a lid, blocking off the healing energies that came from below. [...]

[...] This sort of focus, for his personal makeup, will bring about a quicker complete recovery. [...]

[...] They seeped down into the personal subconscious layer, causing blockages here that prevented even deeper areas of the self (pause) from giving necessary help.

(“Well, it knows part of the personality is involved with time though, doesn’t it?)

[...] There may be minor interweaving ones, but the nature of personality, religion, politics, the family, and the arts — all of these are considered in the light of the predominating theme.

[...] It is not so much that the male and the female be considered equal as it is that the male and female elements in each person should be released and expressed. [...]

Einstein was such a person in the sciences. [...]

[...] In many cases the person is truer to his or her own identity in childhood or old age, when greater individual freedom is allowed, and sexual roles are more flexible.

[...] The stresses and strains are in a fashion not simply those of one person and that person’s relationship with his own nature. [...] His class gave him some direct encounters through the years as he personally helped to direct others, and could watch the results through their achievement or behavior. [...]

(“I’ve thought more and more lately about what happens when a person is born with very strong gifts—but can’t stand to use them, or has to pay a very high price indeed if they do try to use them. [...] I used to think that if a person had a strong gift that nothing would stop the ability from showing itself in that certain way—but now I don’t think so at all. [...]

[...] You are trying to redefine the very definitions of personal identity—no easy task. [...]

[...] To ask any one person to figure it all out now, and affect a cure on themselves, may simply be asking too much most of the time.... [...]

[...] It is highly personal, and has no meaning without personal experience. [...]

(At 8:55 as we sat for the session Jane got another flash, concerning time, that it is “intensely personal, that we create it,” from Seth. [...]

There are personalities however to whom it is highly alien. [...]

[...] (Pause.) Mr. Edwards admits that he calls upon surviving personalities, healers who have survived death in your terms. [...]

[...] “I never could believe that the first few years of a person’s life could have that much of an effect upon the rest of the person’s life. [...]

[...] Dealing with our personal situations was taking up more and more of our time. Strange, I thought, if it turned out that personal work would be one of the most creative of all the uses to which the Seth material could be put, rather than grandiose pronouncements coming down from on high, dispensed by one who was in a position of superiority.

[...] If you wanted deeply wrought psychological statements, the symptoms also provided a framework around which they could occur—an inner framework of personal sessions devoted to the workings of personality, an inner library beside the books themselves, that perhaps you would not otherwise think of without such an impetus. [...]

[...] (Long pause.) That effect is somewhat aggravated by hot weather, by Ruburt’s way of using energy, and because he is physically a small person. A larger person with more body area and weight would be less affected, for example, as say with alcohol. [...]

(11:11.) The unknown reality, however, is unknown enough to usual reaches of the most flexible consciousness, in your terms, that it can only be approached by a personality as couched in it as I am. [...]

[...] (Pause at 11:35.) 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. [...]

[...] They may appear esoteric or complicated, yet they are not beyond the reach of any person who is determined to understand the nature of the unknown elements of the self, and its greater world.

2. Seth’s two previous books are Seth Speaks and Personal Reality — but they’re also Jane’s too, of course. [...]

[...] This is not always the case, by any means, but when such a person does recover fully, and maintains good health, it is because beliefs, attitudes, and feelings have changed for the better, and because the person “has a heart” again, comma, in other words, because the patient himself has regained the will to live.

[...] It is possible, however, to carry this idea even further, so that a person in poor health should be seen by the physician in relationship to the family, and also in relationship to the environment. [...]

[...] In Framework 2 each person is connected to each other person. [...]

You reach each person you want separately. You must make your message clear regardless of the other person’s needs or circumstances, intents of the moment, and so forth. [...]

[...] There is only one person involved. [...]

[...] A living peoplescape in which each person who plays a part in that book’s production now joins the creative act at this secondary level as far as you are concerned. [...]

You were presented—or rather you presented yourself—with a prime example of the abilities of the natural person. [...]

[...] They do so because of their private capacities, and also because they are answering the world’s needs, and in ways that in many cases a younger person could not.

[...] There comes a time when the experiences of the person in the world click together and form a new clearer focus, provide a new psychological framework from which his or her greatest capacities can emerge to form a new synthesis. [...]

[...] The contrast between the activity of those athletes, however, and the activity of the normal young person is drastic. [...]

[...] The original happening is experienced from a different perspective on the part of each person involved, of course, so that the event’s implications and basic meanings may differ according to the focus of each participant. [...] Each one brings to it his or her own background, temperament, and literally a thousand different colorations — so that the event, while shared by others, is still primarily original to each person.

[...] This made us feel good indeed, for it signaled the first publication of a Seth book in three years [since Personal Reality came out in 1974]. [...]

[...] Some of that material is intensely personal, and some only generally so. [...]

[...] For clarification, I also keep this in mind: Seth isn’t physical, as he defines himself, and that “energy personality essence” seemingly isn’t all that focused on the passage of time — as we are — yet way back in the 14th session for January 8, 1964, he told us that time “is therefore still a reality of some kind to me.” [...]

In terms of personality as you understand it, the individual chooses the abilities he or she will have, and the life challenges. In the present then each person has unlimited opportunity to draw upon the entity’s energy, and the understanding and powers of all of its parts. [...]

[...] The energy of the personal self constantly comes from the entity. [...]

The greatest abilities of a personality may often be brought into physical expression, however, because of certain rhythms that are not understood. [...]

[...] Psychologically, great ferment occurs, and often the individual personalities involved organize themselves along new lines.

Mental energy, indeed, is an attribute of personality; but personality survives the physical frame as it existed before the physical frame, and indeed created the physical frame. [...]

As individual reliance upon the outer senses develops, the personality to a large degree relies upon them, and gradually loses the habit of relying upon the more familiar inner senses utilized mainly in infancy and childhood. [...]

You may know that intense immersion into any particular activity results in a momentary loss, or seeming loss, of ego identity, in that the activity and the personality become one. [...]

In such a state the personality is free from the limitations of a closed system concept. [...]

[...] The question is why the personality would choose to use black and white thinking to begin with, when the results are so often deleterious to the whole personality, if we can just dissolve such approaches.... [...]

(At the same time, Jane also liked my concluding material in the notes, regarding the integration of each portion of the personality into one whole, and so thus attaining the freedom to follow any chosen course of action in the world.

[...] On top of that, however, the whole idea of responsibility has played an overheavy hand, and it is this idea of responsibility—overplayed—that is to a large degree responsible for the idealized image of the public person with which Ruburt has unsuccessfully tried to compete. [...]

[...] (Pause.) He would see to it that as many persons as possible had the opportunity to see a session, and he would furthermore also be developing his own psychic experience at a far greater rate. [...]

[...] He enjoyed radio, even on your tours, because he spoke from a concealed viewpoint, where his person was concealed. The secret elements of his personality rise up against the public connotations of standing before the crowd. [...]

Ruburt’s creativity not only involves that kind of behavior, but the mystic elements of the personality, meaning that the inner activity is very intense, so that Ruburt learned from a young age to develop a certain kind of secrecy. [...]

[...] That existence was expressed in the personality, but not in the normal conversation with the boys he dated, or with his friends. [...]

The strong private nature leads to personal discoveries, and his basically direct way of dealing with the world means that he wants to share those discoveries. [...]

[...] In certain terms each person is God, and each person is utterly anonymous, for God is completely personal and completely anonymous.

[...] You tell Ruburt to keep it a secret from Leonard that your rent was raised, or you might move—good God!—while your most intimate personal beliefs and inspirations are given to the world. [...]

Actually some of the responses to Personal Reality have helped him considerably, as he sees that so-called authorities are greedy for these ideas, and need them desperately. [...]

You had each thought, however, that there was something extremely uncomfortable about the truly creative person in society, that he or she had to protect himself or herself, and the symptoms have been Ruburt’s way of protecting himself—yet also his way of saying, “I am different. [...]

[...] On the other hand it has always been natural for the personality to turn outward in an easy manner, and with exuberance, so that in past lives we find two lives strongly devoted to the nurture of others. But in these cases the personality was filled with an inner dread, and to some extent resented those he helped. [...]

[...] You were able to perceive and understand those connections, but you were not receiving needed communications from other layers of your own personality.

[...] The personality has been used to depending upon inner intuitions, and knew it had further abilities to develop now. [...]

The personality sensed this lack and at the same time was aware of an impetus. [...]