“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] Ruburt always knew from childhood unconsciously of the strength of his personality, its potential, and his ability to sway others.

[...] You were with him, but because of personal loyalty to him and the brothership of male with male was considered sacred—but you became appalled that he was leading his people into destruction.

[...] It was in that life also that he knew Sue as the personality that sometimes has emerged between them.

The personality however, tell him, lived according to his lights, possessed a primitive love of nature, and did, now, inspire others with heroism under the conditions chosen In the second existence mentioned, he was again a leader, but had learned the two-tongued nature of power, and allowed the Christians to win. [...]

Your personality structures simply respond at times of course to different stimuli. [...] But behind Ruburt’s outgoing characteristics you run into some rather restrictive ones that are more on the surface, generally speaking, in your personality.

[...] You were not sure that it was safe to communicate spontaneously or easily—emotionally or sexually, with Ruburt following the two personal sessions. [...]

There was also, even then, in the back of your mind the feeling that personally you could use the sessions for information in which you were highly interested, and you suspected that Ruburt would not share the feeling, or would even unconsciously block it.

[...] (A very acute pair of points.) Hence the fact that his students remain students as a rule, and not personal friends. [...]

(1. Granting Seth’s concept of time: Does the reincarnating personality usually choose to experience its simultaneous lives through various families of consciousness, or is it more likely to remain “loyal” to one such family in all of them? At the start of tonight’s session Seth had remarked that generally speaking counterparts are part of the same psychic family, but I wanted to know if reincarnating personalities are also.

We may not be able to pin Seth — as that energy personality essence calls himself — down to one physical race, but he is a Sumari: “And a very high lieutenant indeed, I will have you know,” he told us with much humor in his first session on the Sumari family of consciousness, the 598th for November 24, 1971. [...]

“It is a personal consciousness. [...]

“The point is that I am not impersonal any more than you are, in those terms, and in those same terms the Sumari are also individual and to that extent personal. [...]

[...] These are in many ways like adolescent experiences in their great bursts of creative activity, with the resulting formation of questions, and the preparation for a completely new kind of personality growth and fulfillment.

[...] Unfortunately the personality has no system of beliefs, as a rule, to support such an expansion. [...]

[...] The connections between it and childhood are often made in a derogatory fashion, but the personality is in just as creative a state. [...]

[...] There is a trigger set off then, an impetus in which the personality tries to free itself from time-space orientation released from the usual necessity to participate in “adult” terms.

The personality of Christ is an idealization, and a clue to the entity of which each individual personality is composed. [...]

[...] (Pause at 10:08.) He received a book by mail today, a biography sort of book, having to do with a personality of the late 1800’s. A medium.

[...] Without going into personal details, we can say that Seth is correct when he refers to “A connection with an event that was not particularly pleasant”; this involved us and Jane’s father in Florida.

Sometime shortly we shall discuss some personal material if you wish.

[...] They represent your natural persons. As Ruburt begins to understand the “artificial” characteristics of the Sinful-Self concept, then those natural characteristics of the natural person will more and more emerge. [...]

[...] Without the dictates of the Sinful Self, however, you can begin to sense the contours of the natural self, or the natural person. [...]

The natural person can be evoked, and its responses elicited, particularly through touching and through statements of love and affection. [...]

[...] There is one area you see where he (Leonard) is thus far entirely blocked, for he cannot love another person wholeheartedly, nor imagine himself in that position. This lack is always with him, and it is caused by a particular shallow area in his personality that is not developed.

The only person who was more or less entirely neutral in the whole affair was the woman above, who had little to do with any decision. [...]

This material, while it is personal, should give you an excellent example of how ordinary events occur.

[...] As I said to Jane this morning during our long discussion, I still want to know why one portion of the personality would want to drive all of the rest before it, even to the point of destruction, and perhaps even beyond. Surely there’s no future in that for the personality, at least in mundane terms.

(I remembered that Seth once said that if a dying person decides to live after all, they’ll seize upon the tiniest hope, and respond. [...]

[...] Personally, I had been alternately angry and not caring because of our lapses, when we had avenues of help available that few could rely upon, yet hadn’t bothered to use them. [...]

[...] Several portions of the personality have already helped in the release of repressed feelings; the conscientious self particularly, which was the greatest repressor. In any cases of great repressive nature, one part of the personality may act alone in the beginning but later it must get the cooperation of other portions.

[...] Ruburt should write in a personal diary if he prefers, but write his feelings several times a week. [...]

[...] The sexual implications last evening, generally under several various areas of personality, could not have come into consciousness, for example, without the consent of the conscientious self, which says often “No work, no sex.” [...]

The fabric of the present self is interwoven with these reincarnational “pasts,” and from them the present self draws unconsciously from its own bank of personality characteristics, activities, and insights. [...]

[...] The characteristics of the animus provide the aggressive thrust that returns the personality back outward into physical activities, triumphantly holding the products of creativity that the anima characteristics have secured.

Personality as you know it, cannot be understood unless the true meaning of the anima and the animus is taken into consideration. [...]

[...] The animus and the anima are born into the individual with the first physical life, and serve as an inner pattern, reminding the personality of its basic unity. [...]

[...] She may be so different in basic ways from most of her fellow human beings that conflicts may be almost inevitable—at least until later in life, when the personality has learned what the situation is and can make adjustments. [...]

[...] The creative person often is not wanted at a job, because their creativity by contrast with others’ behavior shows the vast difference between what I will now call joyful work and the usual variety.

[...] The attributes of the creative self are those of the personality, so that these attributes cannot be accepted under certain conditions and repressed otherwise, without difficulties resulting.

[...] This is of course natural with each personality. [...]

They of course have their results or effects on psychological levels, representing what we may call psychological personality thrust. This does not apply only to the reality of human personality, but to that basic inner and smallest unit, individual prime consciousness that is at the core of any psychic gestalt. [...]

(For the first part of this session, her delivery had been very deliberate and businesslike, almost as though personalities involved were rather unimportant. As soon as personalities became involved in the material however, Jane’s voice became quite amused, and displayed many humorous inflections. [...]

This smallest psychological unit represents the minimum individual psychic component, the most basic personality building block, from which other more complicated psychic structures are formed.

I am not only speaking therefore of the obvious energy that you as a personality and physical structure use in the activity of transforming the idea. [...]

(1. Sue has to do a considerable amount of research for Conversations with Seth, incidentally, especially locating, then interviewing—in person, by telephone or by mail, as the case may be—numerous class members. [...]

(2. Much of Jane’s trance material on how individuals use dreams personally came through in answer to a question of mine that we’d often speculated about lately: If most people do not remember their dreams most of the time, of what use can their dreams be to them? [...]

[...] The time has passed so quickly, it has been so filled with all kinds of personal, professional, and worldly events for us, that its motion is hard to visualize. [...] I also plan to excerpt several of those sessions for notes, and to quote a number of times from Jane’s personal journals for 1980 and 1981. [...]

“They were these: that the entire world with its organization was kept together by certain stories, like those of the Roman Catholic Church; that it was dangerous beyond all knowing to look through the stories or examine them for the truth, and that all kinds of taboos existed to keep us from doing this, since … on the other side, so to speak, there was an incomprehensible frightening chaotic dimension, malevolent; powers beyond our imagining; and that to question the stories was to threaten not just personal survival but the fabric of reality as we know it. So excommunication was the punishment, or damnation … which meant more than mere ostracism, but the complete isolation of a person from those belief systems, with nothing between him or her and those frightening realities … without a framework in which to even organize meaning. [...]

As if manufacturing tiny, intensely personal counterparts to those large events, Jane and I finished checking the proofs for God of Jane; she resumed work on her essays, and some new poetry, for If We Live Again; I painted, answered a lot of mail, and helped her continue our private sessions. [...]

[...] Jane never lost that fear, and needed frequent reassurances that she was a worthy person. [...]

[...] A connection with round colored objects, and a person who was not familiar to you personally.

(“and a person who was not familiar to you personally.” [...]

[...] See the reference to “A connection with grassy land,” and “and a person who was not familiar to you personally.” [...]

[...] You think the other portions of the personality revolve about the ego.

[...] It seems to you that there is no other existence for you personally but this room and this time and this moment and yet, of course, you create it. [...]

[...] After all this time you still do not personally accept the fact that you are, in your terms at this moment, the sum of your own thoughts and emotions about yourselves and that whatever you want to fix you can fix, and that whatever you want to change you can change. [...]

[...] They are extrememly personal and tailored uniquely for you and that is all I will tell you at this time. [...]

Your ideas (about seeing people), mentioned earlier, should definitely be acted upon—that is, you do both need some personal communication with others. [...]

You can, of course, always use the pendulum, as you used to, both of you, to indicate what portions of the house you each personally prefer to use for certain activities. [...]

I have personally mentioned often the bed reorientation, which would help both of your dream activities, and add to your general well-being also. [...]

(Class had been discussing dream realities, personality, etc., for about an hour; Gert and Sheila began talking back and forth on Sheila’s ideas on separate personalities, when Jane interrupted to say that she had one impression that the “hole in the universe” had opened up in Sam Levine’s house and a crowd of people were flying from it into the room. [...]

[...] (Pause.) Such a change in your waking and sleeping patterns very nicely helps cut through your habitual ways of looking at the nature of your own personal world, and so alters your conception of reality in general.

On the other hand, areas of ordinary behavior that may have seemed opaque before, cloudy or dark — personal characteristic behavior that was not understood, for instance — may suddenly become quite clear as a result of this transformation, in which the shadowy aspects of the unconscious are perceived as brilliant.

[...] In your individual area there will be persons upon whom you will project all of those charged, frightening emotions or characteristics. [...]

The patterns I have suggested, therefore, will bring you far closer to an understanding of the reality of your being, and help you break down beliefs that cause personal and social division.

This material and other such personal material should be taken as extra bonuses as far as our sessions are concerned. [...]

[...] Forget if possible all personal egotistical considerations, feeling only psychic unity. [...]

–we can afford some personal digressions. [...]

[...] One of the benefits of these personal readings is that I can help you catch yourselves way ahead of time, so to speak, and this is an adventure more important than you realize.