“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] This was the end of the personal material.)

[...] His voice and personality were in control of my physical system, while my consciousness was someplace else—and a good many miles away. [...]

[...] He varied the depth of my trances during tests so I could get the feel of various stages of consciousness, and also showed me how to let him use my own personal associations in order to get certain data. [...]

As Seth varied the trance depths, I became aware of two lines of consciousness, his and my own, and to understand at least to some degree when my own personal associations were an aid and when they were a detriment. [...]

In the data he would often differentiate between his impressions and any of mine that had slipped in, connect mine to their source in personal associations, and tell us whether or not they were legitimate. [...]

[...] It was, simply, that we were wrong to blame imagined excesses of the spontaneous self for her problems—that really the trouble lay in her discovery that with the psychic abilities she was destined to find herself outside conventional creative authority: a person who learned that she would have to protect her very integrity as a person against charges of fraud. [...]

[...] In a fashion we are delivering source materials for each person to interpret and enjoy. [...] (Pause.) It will serve to inspire others, but each person is responsible for his or her own life, and Ruburt does not have a private clientele, nor is he temperamentally suited to use his psychic abilities to track people down or to serve as a therapist. [...]

[...] Pressure, the newest attraction, was at once called for, and before long began to manifest itself to various degrees; at first however nothing like the pressure of Wednesday showed, but there seemed to be plenty present, enough so that each person present, especially those who had never witnessed such a thing, could take the time to experience it.

[...] I personally witnessed Bill Gallagher pushing heavily down upon the resisting table a few seconds before it broke. [...]

[...] Personally, I believe that only the Gallaghers, Claire, Pat and myself had witnessed a session. [...]

[...] I personally did not think we were unappreciative of what had taken place this evening, but Seth proceeded to drive the point home rather unmercifully, I thought at the time. [...]

A person of great intelligence may be born from a family of idiots, for example, because of that reincarnational structure. [...]

[...] He brings to bear his own understanding, compassion, artistry, and if he is a good actor, or if she is, then when the play is over the actor is a better person for having played the role.

1. These excerpts from the session for April 9 (which we hadn’t requested, by the way) indicate Seth’s response to discussions Jane and I had been having about our personal functions as artists, as well as the use of art generally in our chosen probable reality. [...]

[...] Opposing determinism is the idea that man has always fought for his personal responsibility—that instead of being controlled entirely by his heritage, he’s capable of forming new syntheses of thought and action based upon the complicated patterns of his own history.

[...] There is little difference, however, between private suggestion in your personal lives, and the power of mass suggestion in your society. [...]

[...] A new achievement on the part of a species, or any mutation occurred, occurred as the direct result of personal experience—and of course no information was available otherwise. [...]

[...] Each person interpreted those beliefs in an individual fashion. [...]

[...] I want you to understand, personally, the importance of such suggestions—particularly when they have authoritative backgrounds. [...]

The very experience however, with all of its triumphs and insights had to bring to the foreground personal problems of development that many people simply do not face, or come to grips with. [...]

[...] A tolerant attitude, an exuberance and freedom, so that the best qualities of each sex can be harmoniously blended while the personality still retains its necessary overall one-sex identification physically.

[...] As noted much of this has to do with the fact that in your last reincarnation both the masculine and the feminine aspects of personality are to be as fully experienced as possible, while the overall present one-sex identification is to be maintained.

(Actually, I already regarded this as a breakthrough session, in personal terms probably the best Jane has given, etc. [...]

Persons displaying such abilities have had to be strong personalities in order to hold up under a barrage of varying disreputable distortions thrown upon them by science, or religion, and particularly in the past, even by governments. [...]

[...] Each person must somehow be drawn, period. [...]

Your daily experience is intimately connected with your ideas of worth and personal value.

[...] Seth referred to the personal material he’d given for us before book work, so I read it to Jane now. [...]

[...] In daily life such people will concentrate upon negative events, store them up, and unfortunately cause personal experience that will seem to quite reinforce the basic ideas.

[...] You made it clear to others that while they be free, free on weekends or holidays, you yourselves were still involved with “work” (underlined)—all of this to show that you were responsible persons. [...]

(Long pause.) Pleasure implies play as well, of course, and art involves a kind of high free play—an extension of it that cannot be tied to personal or to mass need. [...]

[...] People read the books, get something out of them—then want personal help that Jane can’t give in any meaningful, long-term way. [...]

[...] Any apparent breaking down is never an actual fact, as the personality could be thought of as a breaking down of the entity; but this is not so. The personality did not exist as such before its creation by the entity, and once it becomes an identity, it retains that individuality.

In some ways it may be said truly that the physical universe itself puts a limit on the extension of personal identity, and we will go into this also later.

[...] To enjoy seeing people is a different thing than expecting yourself to be a public personality, however. [...]

[...] He began to think that anything less than this public personality was cowardly. [...]

[...] He did not want to be a public personality of that kind. [...]

I have told you that portions of your personality exist in other realities. [...]

[...] The sympathetic, and to some degree similar, aspects of your personalities serve to open up clear channels between you. [...]

Now Ruburt was correct in the impression he gave during your break, and this other portion of your personality also has a sister. [...]

[...] There are rhythms in your own personalities, quite natural, that flow together, then somewhat apart, and together again. [...]

[...] The initiation of our other personality represented a second point. [...]

[...] I told you that the main elements of the personality withdrew a long time ago. [...]

Now: The alpha state is a threshold, a preliminary state between the physically oriented portions of the personality and the inner self. [...]

[...] At certain levels of your personality you are aware of all the different ways in which symbols are used, not only in your system but in others. [...]

[...] Into this area come signs and portents from deeper levels of the personality.

[...] She enjoyed the personal interactions most of the time, and often spent a half hour or so trying to help someone in that way. [...]

In the dream state the actors become aware to some extent of the parts they play, and sense the true personal identity that is behind the artist’s craft. [...]

[...] Your own personalities are to some extent the result of your waking experience. [...]

[...] The bull could come also to represent a person the dreamer considers bullheaded. [...] Some generic images will have strong personal significance because of past life experiences. [...]

[...] And what it meant was that Israel itself was a simile for the individual —that is, one person—who was (long pause) composed of so many fantasies and dreams and prophecies and hopes and angers and fears. [...]

[...] But the term Israel still stands for one individual, along with its multitudinous parts, and all of the colorful, feared, anguished or enticing heroes of the bible represent elements of each person’s soul, personified, set momentarily alive in myth. [...]

[...] I give voice to ideas that are known to various levels of your personalities, yet I am not at the level of your personalities.

Now in the realities of other systems another house, you see, could appear (smile) and another person could appear, and the projecting consciousness would be such a person. [...]

A very distant connection with a foreign land and a person. [...]

(“A very distant connection with a foreign land and a person. [...]

Each person or act has his or its “proper stance,” or platform of intention from which to operate. [...]