“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

It is not so much that he personified the elements of nature as that he threw his personality into its elements and rode them, so to speak. [...]

[...] Each person participating fully in a storm, for example, still participated in his or her own individual way. [...]

(Long pause.) A person’s identity was private, in that man always knew who he was. [...]

(Long pause at 10:20.) In a kind of emotional magnification unknown to you, each person’s private emotions were given an expression and release through nature’s changes — a release that was understood, and taken for granted. [...]

[...] She’s worked each day at her third novel on the adventures of Oversoul Seven, and has heard often from Sue Watkins about Sue’s progress with her book on Jane’s ESP class: Conversations With Seth.¹ And with all of her other activities, Jane has held four sessions since the 14th: two personal ones, and two [842–43] on matters other than book dictation.

[...] Jonestown was far away, remote in another land, I said to Jane, but the potential mass tragedy at Three Mile Island hovers at the edges of our personal worlds. [...]

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? [...]

[...] There is even an acceleration of thought and inspiration, much like that experienced in the adolescent years, that suddenly brings a new understanding to the aged individual, and provides an impetus that should help the person to achieve greater comprehension — a comprehension that should quell all fears of death.

[...] Each person has an entire body of beliefs and suggestions — and these are quite literally reflected in the physical body itself.

[...] We don’t know of anyone in our personal circle who has recently died, for instance, or who is close to death as far as we can tell.)

[...] This will be a short session, and I will have a few personal remarks to make. [...]

No thought has been given to the personality structure as it exists in a fourth-dimensional reality, or in a fifth-dimensional reality, and yet a fourth or fifth-dimensional personality structure contains the most important hints of all.

Survival personalities exist in a system that is within the same space as your own. [...]

[...] (Pause, eyes closed.) Try for a moment to consider these in terms of a fourth-dimensional personality structure… We are forced now and then to slow up, so that Ruburt can get proper words.

[...] The primary personality must therefore deal with a much larger number of perceptions, while still maintaining its identity. [...]

[...] Pause.) The nature of your personal beliefs in a large measure directs the kinds of emotions you will have at any given time. [...]

[...] If you believe that you are of little merit, inferior and filled with guilt, then you may react in several ways according to your personal background and the framework in which you accepted those beliefs. [...]

[...] Normal aggressiveness is basically a natural kind of communication, particularly in social orders; a way of letting another person know that in your terms they have transgressed, and therefore a method of preventing violence — not of causing it.

[...] You do not know whether or not you are communicating with such a person. [...]

[...] No information given to my knowledge that was unknown to any living person; some given that was not known consciously by Jerry but she could have picked up the knowledge and forgotten it.)

[...] I personally then was able to see auras on Rachel, Theodore and Sally. [...] It made no difference where persons were sitting though, when we were looking at their auras. [...]

[...] Simply don’t know whether any personality was present. [...]

[...] You said the spirit of Christ had entered every person, and yet mankind does not reflect this. [...] Seth said before that there is not just one Christ, not just one person that did all the things that Christ did, but many people.”

It was difficult for me to remain so quiet all evening long, but since I could not send you a postcard of thanks, I thought I would thank you personally. [...]

I want it understood (pause) that the accomplishment (pause) is breathtaking in its grandeur — more so because man formed from his psyche such a multidimensional spiritual drama that its light struck upon this or that person, this or that place, and formed a story (pause) more powerful than any physical event could be — hence its power (emphatically).

[...] Such activities on a large scale are the end result of each natural person’s individual relationship with nature, and with nature’s source.

(Pause.) Now: Ruburt is progressing very well, and with your help, and both of you should become more and more aware of the natural persons that you are. [...]

(Ruburt:) “Starting with yourself, counting yourself, the third person down to your left at that time was in conflict with you. The fourth person beyond them was also in conflict with you and you were frightened of them. [...]

Now, on the personal material, encouragement from you is highly important.

[...] That is the end of the personal material. [...]

[...] No one is endeavoring to tamper with his personality, however, and it is his natural reaction to turn aggression, when it arises, outward in some manner, while he is almost superstitiously careful that it not be directed at another individual.

[...] He will not allow the rambunctious portion of his personality to upset our schedule, but because he trusts all this subconsciously, he will not be as disturbed as you are if a session is missed.

Some emotions originate within the personality, but others are simply like winds that are then rationalized and held. [...]

I have to some extent attempted to tie in personal material with more general information this evening. [...]

[...] The personality is not yet willing to face the problems even to that extent and the symptom itself is shielded from physical sight, quite rightly symbolically speaking. The relative observability of a symptom is a clue therefore as to the personality’s attitude toward its problem.

[...] An idiocy of a kind, and a complete blockage, a denial of experience along certain lines that is far more detrimental than a specific problem, for there is an inability of the personality to express itself to any effective degree in that area.

I am going into this rather deeply because while we are dealing with perceptions we will also be discussing distortions, because the information will help Ruburt, and because personal examples serve well for your understanding.

[...] They will be together, I believe, and you should add them to your people series; for one you have known before, and the other influenced your life at one time, though you did not know him personally. In their faces you should see aspects of their past personalities.

[...] When such knowledge is gained, the ego can accept it, for it finds to its surprise that it is not less conscious, but more conscious, that its limitations are dissipated; now it is not true, and I emphasize this strongly, that so-called unconscious material, given any freedom, will draw energy away from the egotistically organized self in a normal personality.

[...] In a healthy personality the inner self easily projects all experience into EE units, where they are translated into actuality. [...]

[...] Some personalities choose to be reincarnated in exteriorly oriented societies, in compensation for lives that were lived with great concentration inward, and very poor physical manipulation. [...]

(“Number fifty-three: In the 429th session for August 14, 1968, you said that some personalities can be a part of more than one entity.”)

[...] A personality may “originally” be a part of a given entity, and on its own develop interests quite different. [...]

[...] The rest of it was given over to personal material. [...]

Because of your educational framework, the individual is taught to be wary of the inner self, as mentioned earlier (in the 614th session in Chapter Two, for instance), so unfortunately the ordinary man or woman looks for the solutions of personal problems outside of the self, where they can least be found. If you use the methods given in this book, you should know yourself far more intimately than you did before, and be better equipped to handle your personal reality. [...]

[...] You are a multidimensional personality. [...]

(Pause at 11:00.) Trust no person who tells you that you are evil or guilty by reason of your nature or your physical existence, or any such dogma. [...]

[...] We will almost immediately embark upon a more concentrated study of the personality as it operates within its dream reality.

We will also be concerned with the framework of the human personality as it exists within several levels of reality. [...]

My interest is concerned with those personalities with whom I am involved, and the circle of my interest includes those who come to these sessions; as indeed your own interest includes those people with whom you are acquainted. [...]

There are reasons why certain personalities have been drawn to our sessions. [...]

One dream can change the development of a personality, and change his physical course. [...] But the dream is not predestined, and the dream develops because of the personality involved.

[...] It concerned expense-account allowances for gas and oil, and John’s superior took this as aimed at him personally; the two men clashed on the floor, verbally.)

[...] We are well aware that it could be said Seth was merely taking credit for another person’s psychic experience.

[...] This would imply the separate existence of Seth; he has claimed all along to be an “energy personality essence.”

[...] His job was not in jeopardy, but John was restless and needed changes; at the same time he felt he was not the stereotype personality his company demanded for district managers, which position would be the next step up for John in the drug company for which he worked. [...]

[...] To back down now would result not only in business failure, but in a personal failure that would plague you for the rest of your life.

[...] Philip’s most personal inner image, the primary inner image, is of a single, free, independent male.

No derogatory remark is meant, but he has failed in an important aspect of personal life; and if you respectfully ask that I shut up, I will do so.