“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Now, this same sort of emotional system operates in the sleeping state as well as in the waking state, though there are differences in that the personality will allow greater leeway in the dream state. [...] However the nature of such experiences is strongly dependent upon the particular emotional system that is characteristic of any given personality.

[...] This is caused by an inner willingness to believe, though this is a bad word, in the legitimate nature of my existence; a willingness however that is sometimes so desperate, if you will forgive the term, and so wholehearted, that it sets up automatic barriers on the part of other portions of the personality.

I am speaking of these matters since I have intended to do so personally to you, and also because they tie in very well, as you will see, with some of our own discussions. [...]

Strangely enough, it can be knocked down most easily, if you can think of me in terms in no way occult or mysterious, but simply as a personality engaged in an endeavor which science will soon come to accept, as simply one of the many facts of existence of which they have previously known but little.

When you think in terms of mankind solving its own problems, remember that reincarnation is involved, and not a group of persons in existence for only a particular time. When the personality is thoroughly ready to leave the body, nothing, including transplants, will keep it within the body. And if personalities refuse to inhabit a new body, then no science will be able to give life to the newly formed but uninhabited body.

This person will move quickly upward however, taking Philip’s ideas along. [...]

[...] There are many people, many personalities, who have strong abilities. [...]

[...] I try to fight it, but for one person to build up his own ego, he has to push down other people and I say this is wrong but I see it all around me.”)

[...] You do not deprive another person of air by breathing it, for you yourself contribute to the atmosphere. [...]

[...] Now, I will give you some information on the subject, though it is too late this evening, and if you want some specific exercises that you personally can use, I do not know that you will smell as sweet as a rose on your return, but we will see to it that you get the exercises. [...]

(Seth’s entity or larger personality spoke for the session. [...]

[...] She said, “I think I’m going to get the other one,” meaning Seth’s larger personality. [...]

[...] She knows nothing about math, and said the personality was pushing her “like mad” to try to get her to do it right. [...]

[...] You will to some small extent at least experience for yourself what it is like to be a personality outside the context of time as you know it.

[...] But in our opinions a lot of what Seth had to say was pretty personal — so much so that only certain parts of it are given below, along with a few bracketed changes I’ve made to help tie it together. These excerpts still furnish characteristic insights into aspects of Jane’s personality, as well as my own, and I might add that the deleted portions are even more meaningful to us. [...]

[...] When she began the sessions over 11 years ago, we requested advice and help from a few people,¹ but as we slowly began to understand the very personal nature of her gifts we realized that she’d have to find her own answers as she went along, with whatever help I could learn to offer.

[...] The will, again, operates according to the personality’s beliefs about reality, so its desires are sometimes tempered as those beliefs change. [...]

[...] Each person lives by their intent, which springs up about the force of their being. [...]

[...] Do not think one portion of the personality is sabotaging another portion. Instead, one personality is working with a system of beliefs, and trying to attain an overall synthesis. [...]

[...] The notes that follow were written during that break, and would usually be presented with the regular session; however, since they’re more personal than usual, they’re given below instead. [...]

She quotes Seth on dreams in Chapter 14 of The Seth Material, and to some extent he discusses them directly in Seth Speaks and Personal Reality. [...]

For material on mental and psychic expansions in old age, and the hemispheres of the brain, see the 650th session in Chapter 13 of Personal Reality. [...]

7. In Personal Reality, see Session 638, bridging chapters 9 and 10, then Session 639. [...]

[...] Remember, however: If you hold the belief that you are a sickly person, that can hinder you. [...] (Pause.) One of the purposes of this book is to tell you that no one is born to be a sickly person, so reading it can help you there.

(9:39.) In this regard now, and for the sake of our analogy only, think of the life of the self as one message leaping across the nerve cells of a multidimensional structure — again, as real as your body — and consider it also as a greater “moment of reflection” on the part of such a many-sided personality.

[...] All of this may seem to have little to do with your personal reality. [...]

[...] Your Life as Your Most Intimate Work of Art, and the Nature of Creativity as It Applies to Your Personal Experience.”

[...] The completely unattractive person represents the same results in a different manner. The person whose abilities are never utilized is another example.

[...] The tall person here mentioned could be female. [...] This person, you see, not Bernard. [...]

[...] Even the survival personality must translate perception into terms it can understand.

[...] The very nature of this book, the method of its creation and delivery, in themselves should clearly point out the fact that human personality has far more abilities than those usually ascribed to it. By now you should understand that all personalities are not physically materialized. As this book was conceived and written by a nonphysical personality, and then made physical, so do each of you have access to greater abilities and methods of communication than those usually accepted.

The “you” who is capable of such expansion must be a far more creative and multidimensional personality than you earlier imagined. [...]

Peter three times denied the Lord (Matthew 26), saying he did not know him, because he recognized that that person was not Christ.

[...] The desire will carry the imprint of your personality and image, even though you remain unaware of the image or its appearance in the other location.

[...] Any intense mental act — thought or emotion — will not only be constructed in some physical or pseudophysical manner, but will also bear to some extent the imprint of the personality who originally conceived it.

Now: Let me make it clear once again: Your present personality as you think of it is indeed “indelible,” and continues after death to grow and develop.

While you continue to exist and develop as an individual, your whole self, or soul, has such vast potential, that it can never be expressed fully through one personality, as somewhat explained in one previous chapter.

[...] Simply to explain the nature of personality as it is generally known, all kinds of terms are used: id, subconscious, ego, superego; all of these to differentiate the interweaving actions that make up the physical personality. [...] So you can say that certain portions of it deal with physical reality, physical manipulation, and plans; some with deeper levels of creativity and achievement that insure physical survival; some with communication, with even more extensive elements of the personality now generally unknown; some with the continuing experience and existence of what you may call the soul or overall individual entity, the true multidimensional self.

[...] Its experiences are as vivid and its “personality” as rich — in fact richer — in context as the physical personality you know.

[...] Partially, these are also victims of beliefs, for you believe that the natural body is the natural prey of viruses and diseases over which you have no personal control, except as it is medically provided. [...] No person dies without a reason.² You are not taught that, however, so people do not recognize their own reasons for dying, and they are not taught to recognize their own reasons for living — because you are told that life itself is an accident in a cosmic game of chance.

1. Seth cited the same famous autosuggestion from the work of the French psychotherapist, Emile Coué (1857–1926), in Chapter 4 of Personal Reality, and then as now, he was correct except for the first two words. [...] In a note for Personal Reality I wrote that “Coué was a pioneer in the study of suggestion, and wrote a book on the subject in the 1920s. [...]

(Long pause in an intent delivery.) Each person decided to go along on that course.

[...] I felt the brakes on our car needed adjusting so I wasn’t planning to drive personally regardless; this made it somewhat easier to be objective about the whole thing. [...]

(The specialist, actually the man who keeps the house in good running order for the landlord, is a personal friend of his. [...]

[...] There are difficulties arising, of a personal nature, concerning your landlord. [...]

Nor, given his particular personality pattern, could he easily have avoided initiating these practices. [...]

The session contained information about vital aspects of Ruburt’s personality, but given in your terms at a particular period of time. [...]

What was not said is this: he felt that no one with whom he had been intimately involved believed in him as a person, or trusted his intrinsic value, except for yourself. [...]

His mother, Father Ryan, Walter, some college friends, Mozet, Hays, all of those persons in one way or another implied strongly at times that he was either a saint or a devil, a creator or a destroyer. [...]

You alone seemed to accept him as the person that he was. [...]

In some instances the physical body stays in its original location, and the personality-essence moves through camouflage space and time. That is, the personality-essence, realizing that space and time are merely camouflages, is therefore free to behave accordingly.

In cases such as these, when durability can be maintained, by all means attempt to speak to any persons that you meet, as in this case you saw the girl at the window; and also ask them to write you at your home address.

In this instance of traveling by personality-essence, any contact would be telepathic, and a potential observer would see nothing, using the outer senses alone.

In this case the body would appear visible on the bed while another, identical body would appear in the new location to which the personality-essence had traveled. [...]

As far as you are personally concerned, Joseph, you became alarmed by what seemed to you to be certain implications when you carried Ruburt in the bathroom. [...] And you also did not trust your own body to perform adequately under such a situation—hence your own personal discomfort. [...]

Your person-to-person encounters with reality have been unusually supportive of late: Adams, Frank, your new friends the Germans, and even your encounter with the photographer. [...]

[...] You are mortal, and everywhere encounter evidence of that mortality, and yet within its framework your feelings and thoughts have a reality to you personally that transcends all such classifications. You know that physically you will die, yet each person at one time or another is secretly sure that he or she will not meet such a fate, and that life is somehow eternal.

[...] They happen to each person. On such occasions, each person is to some extent aware of a kind of comprehension that is not dependent upon the accumulation of data, but of a deeper kind of experience and direct encounter with the reality from which the world emerges.

As you can see, many of the excerpts given in this chapter also throw light on the nature of personality. Because personality is multi-dimensional, it cannot be discussed under one heading alone, and in explaining it, Seth uses a method that is almost multidimensional itself. [...] Soon I will describe a fairly recent and very significant development that demonstrates, far better than words, perhaps, the multidimensional aspects of personality.

These probable personalities are further removed from us than our reincarnational selves, more like distant relations who bear a family resemblance. [...]

[...] The sympathetic aspects of your personalities will serve to open clear channels between you. [...]

“What happened was a very momentary merging of personality characteristics on deeper than conscious levels,” Seth said. [...]

(See Appendix 10 for a summary of Jane’s psychic work in connection with “the affair of the missing person,” as we came to call it. [...]

(On Wednesday, March 27, we received from Jane’s publisher the page proofs for Seth’s second book, The Nature of Personal Reality: A Seth Book.¹ No session was held that night. [...]

[...] The first person I talked to was our friend Sue Watkins, who has attended ESP class almost from the time Jane started it in 1967. [...]

Now, to begin with your dream: The entity is aware of the experiences of all of its personalities. [...]