“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

I was curious as to how often such a “negative psychology” operated—when, simply because of his or her own hang-ups, an individual [or more than one person] is attracted to a site where strongly negative events had taken place. [...] Still, we found it strange indeed—unreal, even—to consider that a person so intimately connected with a place we love had killed herself.³

[...] Jane and I think it most interesting that we were living in the same downtown apartment house as David was, and that Jane met—just that once—a person living in the house we were to buy two years later. [...]

[...] When they draw circles or squares, they are trying to reproduce those inner shapes, transposing those images outward into the environment—a creative act, highly significant, for it gives children experience in translating inner perceived events of a personal nature into a shared physical reality apparent to all.

When children draw objects they are successfully, then, turning the shapes of the exterior world into their personal mental experiences—possessing them mentally, so to speak, through physically rendering the forms. [...]

[...] You should both take some time each day to freely discuss whatever personal issues are involved, to express your selves personally to each other on whatever issues you want.

(At supper this evening Jane and I had a very productive discussion about personal problems. [...]

[...] Instead he felt that you latched upon the sessions so that they came before he did personally—that you demanded performance there in sessions, while not in bed. [...]

[...] His defiance was finally aroused, a sense of personal worth rushed to the surface, a sense of independence, the feeling “Well if you wanted to leave him go ahead,” all of which released some pressure. [...]

[...] This ability is a natural one, operating to some degree or another within every personality. [...]

[...] All of these—you may call them rules if you prefer—all of these rules then are for your own benefit, and are personalized, formed by me taking into consideration your own needs, strong points and weaknesses. [...]

We can and will give a general list, but it is always better if this list be implemented by personal consultation. [...]

[...] I will then have a few words to say concerning the connection between diet, personality, and health. [...]

We will resume dictation for now — but I always do keep your personal concerns in mind.

In the first place, it is really impossible to separate portions of the self, and we make such distinctions only in an effort to explain the many facets of the personality. [...]

[...] A person who says “I hate” is at least stating that he has an “I” capable of hating. [...]

[...] Such states of personality can be compared to colors alone, bright and dark, the strong patterns of energy that always represent motion, life and variety.

[...] I am not speaking here of discipline as punishment, but of discipline accepted by a person or a civilization in order to direct action along certain lines. [...]

The spontaneous self was never meant to appear as an alien to the conscious personality. [...]

(9:49.) Those other characteristics, say, then, of the probable eggs and sperm, provide an infinite bed of personality characteristics and abilities that can ride to the surface if they are needed. [...]

[...] You can consciously retrain yourself to use the ability more freely and directly, and in many instances one individual can help heal another easier than the person can himself. That is, the suffering person, to whatever degree, already mistrusts or distrusts the nature of his own abilities, but usually can and will accept such a loving attention from another family member, or even from a friend. [...]

A personal session that has of course some overall general merit. [...]

[...] Telepathically you transpose your ideas in line with what you know of the other person’s thinking. [...]

You are truly multidimensional personalities, as I have said before. [...]

[...] The entire personality structure dwells in many dimensions and simultaneously. [...]

You are truly multidimensional personalities, as I have said before. [...] The entire personality structure dwells in many dimensions, and simultaneously.

[...] Telepathically, you transpose your ideas in line with what you know of the other person’s thinking. [...]

[...] No academic psychologist, including Dr. Instream, will give you a statement to the effect that I am a survival personality. [...]

[...] The electromagnetic components of the atmosphere and of the personality both are in a state of unbalance, that changes very rapidly. [...]

[...] Jane is personally quite sensitive to heat.

(A somewhat similar question arises concerning a dream Jane had on November 30th, and a few lines of the data given for the 22nd Dr. Instream test; see the following lines on page 104 of the 213th session: “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.” [...]

Also a connection with another person beside yourself and Ruburt. [...]

(There were two female dancers at the discotheque, and Jane felt that “a connection with another person” referred to one of these, although she couldn’t say why. [...]

[...] She said that at this stage of her development it is very difficult for her to tell when such personal associations enter in, unless Seth himself notes it by saying “Ruburt here thinks of a photograph,” etc. [...]

[...] Noise to you personally is a symbol for all of life’s distractions. [...]

[...] The beliefs behind these were quite applicable and helpful to a youthful personality. [...]

[...] Now in another kind of life-style, with another kind of personality, the same belief might have been dispensed with easily. [...]

[...] He could become for example a television personality.

[...] In studying human personality and the psyche, your psychologists have not gone far, nor deeply enough. [...]

You also need to influence personally those people in the outside world with whom you come in daily contact, and to extend yourself in using your full abilities of understanding and creativeness in your outside contacts. [...]

[...] You have no idea of the effect of your own personality upon others when you do not hold back.

This holding back is superficial, a direct effect of your present mother’s own personality, as you reacted to it. [...]

[...] I consider my own book, The Nature of Personal Reality: A Seth Book, as a prerequisite for the exercises given here in this volume.

[...] At the same time your own physical being knows better, and basically cannot accept such a concept.² So in daily life you may project this idea of unworth outward onto another person, who seems then to be your enemy; or upon another nation. [...]

[...] On the contrary, they are often highly therapeutic, and they present the personality with an alternative — an alternative to continued repression that would be literally unbearable.

Now when you leave your home station and alter your consciousness, you are always a tourist if you take your own baggage of ideas along with you, and interpret your experiences through your own personal, cultural beliefs. [...]

[...] I chose such an example because more than one person would have to be involved — the victim and the robber. [...]

[...] In your own way you send out messages to just such a person. [...]

[...] The experience of a country is the cumulative result of the choice of each individual in it, so as you choose your own circumstances you affect each other person within your country and your world.

[...] In line with them, if you could convince yourself that you were ten years younger, or ten years older, then it would be faithfully reflected in your personal environment.

[...] Each personality would definitely translate all of this in its own way. [...]

[...] That is not a particularly important point, but given here simply to give you an idea of other issues that operate, having to do with a personality’s natural leanings toward certain seasonal conditions.

[...] It is easy to say that he has maligned his body, but the entire personality is body and mind and all, and the body itself has learned some comprehensions and joys also, having to do with sense appreciation, that some people never physically, now, experience. [...]

[...] We will continue with the book, but when I have something to say to you personally, I will feel free to do so.

(Pause at 10:11.) In many cases of senility, for example, the strongly organized portions of personality have already left the body, and are meeting the new circumstances. [...]

[...] There is an order of personalities, an honorary guard, so to speak, who are ever ready to lend assistance and aid, however.

[...] Such persons may or may not have a memory of their nightly activities. [...]

[...] This is a personal matter, as always. [...]

[...] They will project that fear outward until they seem to meet it in each person they encounter.

[...] The President felt threatened — and not only personally threatened, for he felt that the good for which he stood in his own mind was in peril (intently). [...]

[...] It is very easy for such persons “to become [religiously] converted” after such episodes (as Watergate), lining themselves up once more on the side of good, searching for “the power of fellowship,” turning to church rather than government, hearing in one way or another the voice of God.

[...] But the idea that each person tries to actualize the idealized good as much as they can through their daily lives — their work, social structures, and so forth — and in the meantime use certain criteria that will help them judge for themselves whether or not their actions are really in line with their ideals. [...]

(12:01 AM.) Have Ruburt read through the book he has begun (Personal Reality). [...]

[...] 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 of Three Mile Island hovers at the edges of our personal worlds. [...]