“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] The illness is often quite literally accepted by the personality structure as a portion of the self. [...] The self does not want to give up a portion of itself, even if that part may be painful or disadvantageous. [...]

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

A certain portion of the energy practically available to the personality is spent in the maintenance of this impeding action or illness. [...]

[...] Even when the stimulus may be extremely annoying or humiliatingly unpleasant, certain portions of the psychological framework accept it undiscriminatingly because it is a vivid sensation. [...]

SESSION 838 (DELETED PORTION)

[...] Because of his own background this precipitated a situation in which one portion of the self was constantly scrutinizing another portion with a jaundiced eye.

The intuitive portions of himself he has always considered as feminine. [...]

[...] This also has something to do with your private lives, for the feminine portions of that nature can quite easily be frightened into not showing themselves through the monthly function—that is so utterly spontaneous, so mysterious to the intellect, and the one main sign by which the female monthly shows her difference from the male.

The fallacy that neither of you recognized was that the creative, symbolically feminine portions of the self were not unpredictable, given to overemotionalism. [...]

[...] The inner portion of each man, therefore, projected this knowledge outward. [...] Not only privately but en masse they surged up, adding a new impetus and giving a natural “new” direction — beginning to call all portions of the self, as it knew itself, together.

[...] You do not perceive wholes, but portions. [...] Anything that it does not accept as a portion of reality, it does not perceive.

[...] While maintaining its own status, it will be able to have much greater commerce with other portions of the self, and also to offer to the inner self opportunities of awareness that the inner self on its own could not procure.

SESSION 840 (DELETED PORTION)

[...] The inner portions of your identity are already aware of much that I will tell you. Part of my purpose is to acquaint your egotistical self with knowledge that is already known to a larger portion of your own consciousness, that you have long ignored.

Now, I project a portion of my reality as I dictate this book to an undifferentiated level between systems that is relatively clear of camouflage. [...]

(Pause.) Man serves his purposes within nature, as all species do, and in the terms of your understanding man “thinks” in his own way, but he is also the thinking portion of nature. He is the portion that thinks, in your understanding, again, of that term.

[...] I am not speaking of genetic information alone, as you understand it, but of a natural (underlined) yet intuitive reasoning process that is the result of the relationships that exist among all portions of the body. [...]

[...] That portion is taken into consideration, along with the same portion of all other dreams, so that the raw material for future events is processed. [...]

[...] Literally, portions of your physical being are as new as at your birth. [...]

SESSIONS 921 & 922 (DELETED PORTIONS)

[...] I wanted him to enlarge upon the statement he’d made at 11:29 in the 690th session: “Further developments in your concepts will lead to greater activation in portions of the brain now not nearly utilized, and these in turn will trigger expansions in both psychic and biological terms.” I wondered what connection, if any, might exist between the capacity to have [and/or to remember] more than one dream at a time, and those “portions of the brain now not nearly utilized.”

(But not only had she done it more than once, Sue said: She could recall portions of the simultaneous dreams she’d had on some of those occasions, which was a lot more than I could claim. [...]

[...] This has reference to portions of the brain not used, as mentioned in this book.³

[...] The other “dream” experienced simultaneously was, instead, your muddled interpretation of vital experienced reality on the part of another portion of yourself, in another reality entirely; a dimensional bleed-through. [...]

[...] Seth spent the first portion of the session dictating on Chapter 3 of his book, The Nature of Personal Reality.)

SESSION 617 (DELETED PORTION)

[...] This in itself brings about a greater understanding of the give-and-take that exists between the ego and other portions of the self. [...] Its character is transformed, so that the “dark” qualities are seen as actually illuminating portions of conscious life, while also providing great sources of power and energy for normal ego-oriented experience.

[...] Such wake-sleep patterns as I have suggested would acquaint you with the great creative and energetic portions of psychological behavior — that are not undifferentiated at all, but simply distinct from your usual concepts of consciousness; and these operate throughout your life.

If a young adult believes that sex is good but old age is bad, then he or she will find it impossible to consider exuberant sexuality as a portion of an older person’s experience. [...]

[...] You perceive portions of the endless sea of molecular constructions. You form portions into separate objects that are actually no more separate or different from the whole sea than is one burst of seaspray from another. [...]

[...] You can manipulate only the portion of this reality which you can perceive.

[...] Nevertheless I do go easy on you now and then, merely because I like to vary the intensities of our sessions, as this is a most effective teaching method, and various portions of subject matter cause different energy expenditures.

In each of her three sons she sees portions of the man she married. [...]

As a change of environment affects twins, Twin A becoming something different again through a given environment from Twin B in another environment, so twins born in different times also develop different portions of a basic personality pattern. [...]

[...] Also on any other portions if they give difficulty. [...]

I believe that by February, you will be involved in a new concept in your work, and engaged in a new series of paintings, that will carry you creatively through winter, spring, and perhaps a portion of the summer.

This would seem to deny the idea of progression, since I tell you that all portions or all guises, or all aspects and all levels, of any given personality exist at once. [...] The various immediately-conscious portions of personality evolve and change as they recognize these truths. [...]

[...] A portion of that kind of personality structure knows well that while its main focus of consciousness has gone into other dimensions, it will nevertheless be perceived by others at any given point.

Both of us are obviously then portions of a larger self, and manifestations of it, but one does not end in the other, and one’s purpose is not to become the other. [...]

Entities, if they prefer, and under various conditions, when they become acquainted with others, may introduce to each other if they so prefer, various portions of their personalities. These various portions will be able to help each other and to aid in development. [...]

In nontime these portions of the entity exist quite freely, without any time barriers to separate them. [...]

(“Our perception of time is limited and we only focus on a fairly small portion of reality. [...]

SESSION 928 (DELETED PORTION)

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[...] Many schools of thought (long pause) seem to have the curious ideas that the ego is inferior to other portions of the self, or “selfish,” and imagine it to be definitely of a lower quality than the inner self, or the soul.

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. [...]

[...] Indeed, though he dislikes the word, he is finishing the first portion of his apprenticeship, in which he became acquainted with a different kind of reality, and had to learn how to equate it with the “normal one.”

SESSION 712 (DELETED PORTION)