“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(“Despite the beliefs and teachings of religion and psychology, impulses are biological and psychic directional signals, meant to nudge the individual toward his/her greatest opportunities for expression and development privately—and also to insure the person’s contribution to mass social reality.”

[...] Her stomach was queasy, she said, as it sometimes gets when she deals with very personal material that is also very accurate.

[...] He was also to some extent blighted by those same errors that our material is trying to correct, as each person is to some extent in your world.

[...] The ideas about the creative personality are erroneous. [...]

The life that you two personally have, has been brought about through trust and expectation. [...] In every important manner, you personally are in the best of health.

[...] The healthy person takes health for granted. [...]

One had to do with the in quotes “problem” of artistic creativity versus womanhood, and this along with personal background brought about a distrust of the feminine organs. [...]

[...] In the best of health he will not be a heavy person, for example.

I do not intend to give you any personal reincarnational information this evening, as we did run into some distortions the other evening, as you probably know by now. [...] Nor, really, is Ruburt to be blamed for the distortions, since the method with which we are involved is somewhat subject to distortions of personal material.

[...] It is however the passing through of individualized, highly specialized psychic personality patterns. It is the passing through of these personality patterns, within a certain field of organization that causes the appearance of both fairly rigid material which then seems to change.

I do, incidentally, consider rather frequent consultation with the pendulum on personal matters. Ruburt will not block personal data always in our sessions. [...]

[...] They do not vanish when you are finished with your growth there, but serve as a growing media for other personalities.

You are only aware of your own position within time, or your own place on the “platform,” or the ledge as you understand it.¹ Not only do these ledges or platforms of time exist simultaneously, but each one brings forth its own batches of personalities in its own different seasons. [...]

Other personalities, again, are being born “there,” but their season or reality is different than yours.

You must begin any study from your own viewpoint, from your own ledge, but your personal living experience is always the main source of information. [...]

[...] A way was needed to teach these personalities to focus long enough, in your terms, intensely enough, within any given reality.

[...] The dream is personal and yet more than this, these messages and philosophies will be buried not only by the material but by psychic awareness on the part of many individuals like yourselves.

It can only accept certain kinds of help, and the help in one way or another must be initiated at least from its own pool of energy, and its own bank of personality gestalts.

[...] Seth has also given Sue and Carl some reincarnational personal data in an ESP-class session.)

I always delight, if you will forgive me, in astounding the present personalities of acquaintances by letting them know that I have known them before. [...] And you, Philip, were twice a woman and once a Moor of some considerable stature, as well as the personality in Boston which I have already related.

[...] Break ended just as John, trying to get entity names versus personality names straightened out, was wondering how to address Seth in his statement. [...]

Such inner data makes its impression upon the physical brain and changes the personality as does any experience. [...]

[...] Personally I have no objections to an extra session for Ruburt’s publisher, but I will not condone less than two regular sessions a week, except for circumstances beyond your control.

[...] He thinks that my book—this one (Personal Reality)—should be read before people begin to dabble with the board and so forth. [...]

A framework is also then self-provided in which deeper questions of personality, life and being are worked out at the specific level of the individual’s experience. [...]

[...] When I saw that she was giving up on those movements after a couple of months, I took it as another sign of resistance on the part of deeply entrenched parts of the personality.

[...] But more importantly, that they, too, reflected a dogged resistance to change on her part — of certain portions of the personality, that is. [...]

[...] I also said that on a larger, more inclusive scale I can understand a person choosing a life of illness, say, in order to learn and to explore consciousness in certain ways. [...]

[...] She was a survival personality in your terms. [...]

[...] These lessons remain a part of your total personality, though they have not been remembered in your terms thus far.

[...] Others will be survival personalities. [...]

This involvement or seeming involvement in your personal habits is somewhat ludicrous. [...] Joseph’s gumboils are infections directly connected with the proximity of the refrigerator to more personal cleansing centers, and these centers should certainly be divided.

[...] A tree is a living symbol to you Joseph, but I certainly do not insist that the tree be left uncovered though personally I see no reason why any other changes have to be made in the kitchen, except for the addition of the refrigerator. [...]

[...] The unwillingness on Miss Cunningham’s part represented her present personality’s protest against the change that a deeper part of herself deemed necessary and proper.

[...] But beyond this, Miss Cunningham’s present personality has been gently disentangling itself from this plane of reality — and she simply did not remember him.

[...] … The disentanglement of her personality has been gentle and gradual. [...]

[...] The new personality is not entirely focused, and it must make immediate critical adjustments of the strongest nature. [...]

[...] Ruburt has strong seemingly contrasting personality characteristics, but seen in the light of the personality’s whole purpose, they are not contrasting but complementary, each one woven with the other toward the main goals. [...]

I like our new environment, and I have some comments of a personal nature.

In this way you charge your present personalities with subconscious material that will insure your good performance. [...]

The magnetism is both from past life experiences, and set up ahead of time in this life, so that the both of you would be drawn together and held together, despite the fact of no personal family, no children as a common interest.

There is a period of which we have not previously spoken, when the personality continues to hover within the physical system, with however certain freedoms that it did not previously possess. During such periods, as has been suggested elsewhere, the personality can merge, blend or change various aspects of his previous existences, using them as you, Joseph, use colors.

This is a private system, the personality using lessons that it has learned from the immediately previous experience. [...]

[...] Various aspects of the personality are being developed, you see. [...]

(Today I mentioned to Jane that I’d like Seth to go into some of the elements of question 17 on the list I’ve compiled so far—especially those parts of it pertaining to why didn’t the overall personality know when it had gone far enough, or even too far, concerning the symptoms. [...]

Such images have little to do with your own basic or natural personalities, or with your own individual backgrounds, but you apply such images upon yourselves like overlays. [...]

[...] At times you expect from yourself a kind of accomplishment that the first kind of artist might produce, without any due regard for the fact that you are your own person, that you possessed a love of words as well, that you had excellent critical capacities. [...]

[...] You should always address yourself to the natural person, and when Ruburt becomes confused about images, it is because he is relating himself to other composite versions that he thinks he should live up to. [...]

Another dimension in your terms is simply added, a more extensive one, and when this training is done properly, as I have tried to do, then the medium’s personality is not only strengthened but its abilities used far above the usual normal. The process however is highly involved with perception, and is largely a matter in learning to handle, recognize and use constructively perceptions that other personalities are not equipped to handle.

On the one hand his own personality is enlarged in that the self structure includes far more perceptions than ordinarily. [...]

Now in the past, in your distant past, when I spoke through others, or portions of my entity did so, then such personal connections also existed with those through whom we communicated. [...]

[...] In some incarnations, the abilities might be used so powerfully that all other aspects of the personality remained in the background. [...]

[...] On occasion they also serve as mediators, introducing to each other two incarnations of one personality, for example.

Now: There are several very definite stages of sleep, and they all perform various services for the personality. [...]

[...] They have taught them how to bring back information that could be used for the good of the present personality. [...]

(10:20.) I want to make it plain that such ideas are rampant in society, and are at the basis of many personal and national problems. [...] Much of this is involved with the unfortunate myths about the creative person, who is not supposed to be able to deal with the world as well as others, whose idiosyncrasies are exaggerated, and whose very creativity, it is sometimes said, leads to suicide or depression. [...]

(Although this is a private session that Jane and I are filing separately from “regular” material, we’re also presenting it in Mass Events because of the many insights Seth offers into individual and mass events in general, and into our personal realities in particular. [...]

[...] You’re very close-mouthed: You don’t blab our personal business, but you’d do that…. [...]

[...] In any case, on the one hand each individual was to be equal with each other person. [...] Young adults found themselves faced with a multitudinous number of personal decisions that in other cultures were made more or less automatically. [...]

[...] Yet in Monday night’s deleted 847th session that “energy personality essence,” as he calls himself, digressed once again from work on Mass Events to give us more excellent material on plant and animal consciousness. [...]

(Through all of the mass and personal events referred to in the sessions and notes since she gave the 832nd session on January 29, Jane has occasionally written poetry and painted — and worked steadily at her third Seven novel: Oversoul Seven and the Museum of Time. [...]

There was some hope, at least, in looking for better living conditions personally. [...]

Seth’s personality was expressing itself much more freely now that it was released from the board, particularly after the surprising fourteenth session. [...]

[...] We’d read about the Patience Worth case, where a Mrs. Curren produced novels and poetry through the Ouija board and automatic writing, but we were completely unfamiliar with the idea of anyone’s speaking for another personality. [...]

[...] The sense of another independent personality was stronger than it had ever been, and so I decided to continue. [...]

[...] The immediacy of our sessions would be enhanced if more of my personality could come through. [...]

[...] For each observer quite literally created from his own subconscious energy an approximation of a house, a general shape then perceived as a house, and further embellished by personal judgments.

[...] Now, in our sessions I am sure that by now you are at least to some extent aware of what would seem to be something quite strange: the emergence of a self that observes the self of which you have been ordinarily aware; a self with a slightly different time system, a slightly different viewpoint of reality, a self with greater control over the physical material that composes your physical image, a self with some quite effective control over your personal future.

[...] We will first relate them to this emerging self that you can sense personally, and then we shall go further.

[...] This is his personal association, because of your recent activities.