“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

One portion of All That Is, is instantly aware, for example of your most insignificant and significant problems—of yours and yours alone. This portion of overall consciousness is the portion that is individualized within you.

I am trying to make this as simple as possible. The part of All That Is, that is aware of itself as you, is also aware of itself as something more than you. This portion that knows itself as you and as more than you is the personal god, you see. Again: This gestalt, this portion of All That Is, looks out for your interests and may be called upon in a personality manner. But this portion is only a part, itself, of All That Is.

In this respect, you see, there is a personal god, if those are the words you use. There is a portion of All That Is, that is directed and focused upon every individual consciousness. A portion of All That Is resides within and is a part of every consciousness. Every consciousness is therefore cherished and protected individually. There are automatic electromagnetic connections that exist here.

While there is a portion of All That Is, that is aware of itself as you, for example, a portion that is indeed focused within your existence, whose energy is directed within you, and to whom you can call for help when necessary, there is also an overall god-personality that is aware of itself also as something that is more than the sum of its creations. This is All That Is, in the deepest sense.

Ruburt took a portion of himself into protective custody—not wishing to do that portion any damage, but simply to restrain it, to teach it discipline. Some people take portions of themselves, again, as hostages, restraining such portions with the idea of punishing them for imagined wrongs, or for actions not understood. [...]

Both portions of this world mind, or world brain, therefore, operate in exaggerated fashions, so that their own characteristics are almost caricatured, untempered as it were by other portions, as if perhaps in an individual the left and right portions of the brain were artificially functionally separated. [...]

(Long pause at 9:55.) Because the two of you are so involved, your own position is bound to change, and in years previous—to some extent, now—you also felt that certain portions of Ruburt’s personality should indeed be held in protective custody. For some time you were alarmed only because the treatment given that portion was more severe than you thought it should be. Now you are actively acting as a trusted party, working for the release of the portion held in relative captivity, and your assurances at this point can be extremely important. [...]

[...] They use portions of themselves as hostages—or as in Ruburt’s case they use a portion of themselves not so much as hostages, but they take a part of the self under “protective custody.” [...]

It is this portion who seems to stand outside and view the subjective self. [...] (Long pause, eyes closed.) This portion, while still within the three-dimensional system, is closely allied with other portions of the self that are free of that system.

This portion of the self then can be utilized to keep the ego and the subconscious in balance. [...] This portion of the self can serve to keep you informed as to the balance and efficiency of the immediate operating personality.

(Jane pointed to John.) At times our friend has sensed this portion of the self. [...] It can correct errors made, by other portions of the personality. [...]

[...] It is this portion of the self that initiates many of the creative ideas that seem to spring from the subconscious. These will always appear through the subconscious, but the original concepts originate with this portion of the self.

[...] Other portions of the personality however perceive, or attempt to perceive, the whole self from their own starting point. The ego is seen in quite a different light when it is viewed by other portions of the self. It is not viewed—this was a poor term—as much as it was experienced, for no portion of the personality can be viewed as an object.

Communications exist between all portions of the self, and all parts of the personality; or parts of the whole self, rather, operate as what you may call a supraself. [...] This is the identity, the whole identity, of the various portions of the self that operate within various systems. [...]

[...] Only the physically oriented portions of the self accept this as a finality. [...] It consists also of course of the probable selves of which we have spoken, and it unites and directs infinitely larger portions of action than possible for the physical personality.

[...] The supraself is indeed a portion of a higher gestalt, which is part of yet another higher consciousness-gestalt. [...] It controls and organizes larger portions of action.

These other portions of your own consciousness are alert even in the sleep state. You may not have always been aware of these other conscious portions of yourself, but they are not vague. [...] simply because you are not used to manipulating these other conscious portions of yourself. But these portions are as critical and even as intellectual and as waking and as valid and as real as the consciousness with which you are ordinarily familiar. [...]

[...] It is true, also, that it takes some training to use these other conscious portions of yourself. But remember that these other portions of your identity are portions of your identity—they are a part of you. [...]

Other portions of your consciousness may have as much difficulty seeing through the windows as you do. [...] And in these windows you may view other portions of yourself. These portions may seem objective—distant from you—and different. [...]

[...] Your fingers are all fingers and these other portions of yourself are all conscious. [...] They are all portions of your abilities and personalities...that you are meant to use. [...]

[...] There is however a portion of the self that can and does experience events in an entirely different fashion, and this portion of the self goes off on a different tangent. For when our individual perceives event X, this other portion of the self branches off, so to speak, into all the other probable events that could have been just as easily experienced by the ego.

[...] These various portions of the self of which I speak are just that—portions of the whole self that simply operate in different dimensions of reality, and within different fields of activity.

[...] In the same manner there is no basic reason why one self, or rather one portion of the self, has its main experiences in one dimension, while other portions of the self experience reality within different fields.

[...] This is an important point, for there is an unspecialized, extremely generalized and intuitional knowledge on the part of any portion of the self, as to the nature of experience as felt by the other portions of the self.

[...] The quickness in various portions of the body may at times confuse him, for other portions cannot as yet keep up. [...]

[...] This is one of the reasons, say, for the development of secondary symptoms of a medical nature, when one portion of the body is treated, and then other portions seem to develop symptoms. [...]

[...] The quickness will become more apparent first with the freedom of upper portions of the body—but those upper portions can use their freedom only as the ankles and feet become more pliable. [...]

[...] Overall, there has been considerable quicker motion to almost all portions of Ruburt’s body, though as he noted, these are not yet noticeably synchronized.

[...] One portion of the personality might be whole-heartedly in favor of good expression of personal power, and be stimulated to express and use his or her energy and strength. Another portion of the personality may be just as terrified of power or its uses as the other segment exults in it.

Instead of developing physical complications, in usual terms, sometimes one portion of the personality actually does act with assurance, power, and energy, while another equally valid portion refuses to use energy or power in any way whatsoever. [...]

In such cases, while one portion of the personality is expressing itself, and in command of the usual conscious abilities, the other portion lies acquiescent, latent, and unexpressed.

One portion of the personality will carry on conscious behavior — go to work, shop, or whatever, while the other portion of the personality will not remember performing those acts at all.

“Take, for example, Event X. This probable event will be experienced by the various portions of the self in their own way. [...] When it is perceived by other portions of the self, the ego does not know of it.

[...] The portions of the self that deal in probabilities do not have experience with a ‘past’ to give them a sense of identity or continuity. Permanence, as the ego thinks of it, would be an alien concept to these portions of the self, and highly distasteful, adding up to rigidity.

[...] A portion of the self can and does experience events in an entirely different fashion [than the ego does] and this portion goes off on a different tangent. [...]

“These portions of the self simply operate in a different dimension of reality, with different fields of activity. In this particular instance, compare the various portions of the whole self to the various members of a family: The man may work in the city. [...]

The identity, the basic identity, of these portions of the self, are carried by what you could compare to the subconscious that you know. This is difficult, but listen: in these portions of the self it is the subconscious that carries the burden of identity, and it is the ego whose experiences are of a dreamlike, plastic nature. [...] These portions of the self would seem topsy-turvy to you for this reason.

None of these portions of the self are the whole self, obviously, and until the whole self is able to perceive its own parts simultaneously, then these seemingly separate portions of the self appear to themselves isolated to a large degree, and alone.

Each portion of the self must therefore become fully aware of all the other portions. [...]

[...] The portion of the self, or rather the portions of the self, that experience action in terms of what the ego would term probability, is further divorced from the ego, however, and this probability reality appears to the ego very rarely, and only very occasionally.

(Pause at 8:48.) Then a lack of communication developed, so that various portions of the personality “hardened” their own positions, sometimes holding quite different sets of beliefs. [...] Its beliefs may be exaggerated, but at one time or another various other portions of the personality at least weakly entertained a portion of them. [...]

[...] That portion of the personality operated with its own good intent, and for some number of years other portions of the personality went along. [...]

[...] There certainly will be dreams and other such events that serve as communications from one portion of the self to another—and these may be initiated from any portion. [...]

[...] Yet as I listened to her I felt that at times the Sinful Self seemed to almost be trying to put the blame for her symptoms off on other portions of the personality—or let’s say that that was one of the feelings I had. [...]

I have told you that portions of your personality exist in other realities. Other portions of the self are focused within different dimensions than you own. [...]

[...] The drugs enable him to isolate certain portions of himself, of his psyche, and to send the isolated portions on journeys of investigation. [...]

[...] On our rather bulky analogy the guests are all portions of the inner self, who is the unseen attendant who maintains the building.

[...] This is possible, feasible, since you are all portions, in our analogy, of this same inner self who maintains all of the rooms. [...]

[...] And in a gathering of three people watching the same TV drama, say, each of them might be interpreting different portions of the program so that those portions correlate with their individual dreams of the night before, and serve to bring them their dream messages in ways they can accept....”

“Great discrimination is used so that, for example, one newspaper item is noticed over others because a certain portion of that item represents some of the dream’s message. Another portion might come from a neighbor—but from the dreamer’s interpretation of the neighbor’s remark, that further brings home the dream message.”

[...] One way or another, however, you will hit upon some kind of situation—a portion of a TV drama, perhaps—in which a tire is blown; or you will see an item of that nature in the newspaper, or you will hear a story, told directly or indirectly about the same kind of dilemma. [...]

[...] The brain has built-in powers of adaptation to an amazing degree, so that innately one portion can take over for any other portion, and perform its activities as well as its own. [...] While the neural connections are specific, and while learned biological behavior dominates basically, the portions of the brain are innately inter-changeable, for they are directed by the mind’s action.

[...] When one portion or one half of the brain is activated, for example, the corresponding portion of the other half is also activated, but at levels scientists do not perceive. [...]

Because of the brain’s necessary specifications, large portions of your own greater reality cannot appear through its auspices. [...] The so-called ancient portions of the brain (among them the brainstem — limbic system) contain “the mind’s memories.” [...]

This is most difficult to explain, but the capacity for full conscious life is inherent in each portion of the body itself. [...] Certain portions of the brain seem dominant only because of those neural habits that are adopted in any given civilization or time. [...]

The subconscious, and in fact all portions of the self with the exception of the ego, are capable of assimilating a wider area, so to speak, of action. Therefore to these other portions of the self, time has a much different essence than it has for the ego. [...] In relationship to action, and moment points, the ego is indeed that portion of the self which stands at the apex of the moment point, and is limited by the moment point. The ego is in this context the portion of the self which is utterly focused upon, and imprisoned by, the moment point.

[...] The other portions of the inner self reach then even further in all directions, and they therefore envelop many moment points. To many portions of the inner self then, what you would call a moment would correspond to an almost limitless number of moments, for even physical time has no meaning without experience without action.

There is much to be explained along many lines which we have only begun to touch upon, for all things are correlated; and there is indeed a correlation between our moment points of which we have spoken, the spacious present, and that portion of the whole self which you call the subconscious.

[...] As we have said, the moment point for you is actually composed of the amount of action which you are capable of assimilating within your present framework, for the moment point is indeed a portion of the spacious present.

“There is no personal God-individual in Christian terms,” Seth says, “and yet you do have access to a portion of All That Is, a portion highly attuned to you. … There is a portion of All That Is directed and focused within each individual, residing within each consciousness. [...] This portion of overall consciousness is individualized within you.

“This portion is also aware of itself as something more than you. This portion that knows itself as you, and as more than you, is the personal God, you see. Again: this gestalt, this portion of All That Is, looks out for your interests and may be called upon in a personal manner.

“If—and this is impossible—all portions but the most minute last ‘unit’ of All That Is were destroyed, All That Is would continue, for within the smallest portion is the innate knowledge of the whole. [...]

[...] However, it also meant ‘losing’ a portion of Its own consciousness, for it was within that portion that they were held in bondage. [...]

Many of us have not been born in flesh, as I have not been, but other portions of the personality have appeared in flesh; and some portion of us will always be born in flesh, because what one portion of us knows the other portions of us realize to some extent.

Yet in such a small mass these intensities contain memories and experiences, electromagnetically coiled one within the other, through which I can travel, even as I can travel through other selves which I have known and which are a portion of my identity—and even as you, so large and bulky in your size, are still a portion of those memories that exist within my identity, and yet so beautifully unpredetermined. [...]

Seth as you know him will not be reincarnated, but other portions of our entity will be born in flesh, for we have a part in all worlds and all realities. [...]

[...] The personality without realizing it also operates as a transmitter, sending messages to other portions of reality. [...]

[...] The impeding action, as seen in an illness for example, is quite literally accepted by the personality structure, and by all corresponding systems, as a portion of the self. [...] The self does not want to give up a portion of itself, even while that portion may be painful or disadvantageous. [...]

Now, however, you understand the reason why even an impeding action is literally accepted by the personality as a portion of the self, and why therefore efforts must be made that will coax the personality to give up any portion of itself, if progress is to be made. Once the personality can understand that an illness has been accepted as a portion of the self, then even the ego will be an aid.

[...] Portions of it are conscious of its awareness as a part of action, and portions of it attempt to stand aside from action.

However, a certain portion of the energy practically available to it is therefore spent in the maintenance of this impeding action. [...]

[...] Now this portion of the self is indeed self-conscious in the highest meaning of the term—aware of the subconscious portion of the personality, aware of the primary conscious framework that you call your ego, and constantly directs the overall activities. This portion is aware of the complicated workings of the nervous system and all bodily functions. [...]

[...] This inner ego can also operate within the dream state, and in certain awake-seeming dreams it is the portion that realizes that the personality is not in its normal waking condition. It is this portion of the self that is with you in the most excellent projections. [...]

[...] Now all portions of the personality, of the present personality, belong to this inner ego. [...]

[...] It contains a portion of your psychological feeling of identity, but only that.

Now because your conscious mind, as you think of it, is not aware of these activities, you do not identify with this inner portion of yourselves. [...] But this seemingly unconscious portion of yourself is far more knowledgeable, and upon its smooth functioning your entire physical existence depends.

[...] You would not think of identifying with one portion of your body and ignoring all other parts, and yet you are doing the same thing (smile) when you imagine that the egotistical self carries the burden of your identity.

This portion is conscious, aware, alert. [...]

[...] This portion of your identity is quite natively clairvoyant and telepathic, so that you are warned of disasters before they occur, whether or not you consciously accept the message, and all communication takes place long before a word is spoken.