“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

But identity is much more than this, and basic identity, while using the perceptive abilities, is not that dependent upon them. It is true that the personality is a gestalt, and that every identity has any number of potential egos. It is also true that on occasion one potential ego will take over from another. But this is all highly simplified, for the ego structure is not one thing, but a changing, never constant, actually quite informal grouping of psychological patterns. Each ego uses and interprets the organism’s perceiving apparatus in a way that in the overall is characteristic and distinctive.

It has its own possibilities of development and achievement. This should not be forgotten, and all potential egos have, also, their own possibilities. The inner self or identity must express itself through its ego in order to manipulate within physical reality. The inner self is composed of all the potential egos that compose it, but it is more than the sum of these.

Now these potential egos, you see, made up of various potentials and needs and abilities, these pooled resources that belong to the inner identity, did not simply spring into existence. They are the result of psychological experience gained in past lives.

The potentials of the true self are so multidimensional that they cannot be expressed in one space or time. Any person who loves another recognizes the infinite potential within that other person. That potential needs infinite opportunity; the true self’s reality needs an ever-new, changing situation, for each experience enriches it and, therefore, enhances its own possibilities. [...] Mama and Papa, in our analogy, represent the infinite potential within one basic unit (CU) of consciousness.

Then think of your ancestors, your immediate family, and your children, and sense in them the vast potential that is there. [...]

[...] The paintings that you will paint do exist, because you have in one sense the potential to create them. (Jane again lay down.) They exist in potential form. [...]

The paintings already exist however as definite potential forms, already created by your whole self. [...]

[...] To the extent that you fail to materialize your potentials in physical form, you have failed in a given physical existence. [...]

[...] Now all you do when you have an identity and focus on it, is grab out of your own bank of potentials a group of potentials and say, “these are the ones I will settle upon for now, and these I will call my identity, and so I will use these and I will ignore anything else.” But another portion of the self says, “ah hah, these potentials are not used, they are freewheeling and I will adapt these and these will be those potentials with which I will work.” There are no potentials within you that are not being realized and no creative abilities that are not being used. [...]

Within the self that you know there are countless combinations of selves that you do not admit, and in other layers of probable realities these selves have their say and live out their potential. They are sleeping within you in this reality, but in those realities you are sleeping within them as latent potential. [...]

Now the trees that you see outside the window you see simply as trees because you perceive them only through the physical viewpoint, and yet even these trees have potential abilities and potential combinations of consciousness that you do not perceive and that exists in other probable realities. [...]

[...] He was not identified with his failures or limitations, but instead with his potential.

[...] Instead, while carrying the belief in man’s potential, Christianity smothered the thesis beneath a slag heap of old guilt. [...]

The message was “Do not condemn yourself or others,” for Christ well knew that self-righteous condemnation of the self or of one’s neighbors served to darken the door through which man might view his own potential and its greater source.

[...] If you are also of a highly pessimistic nature, given to thoughts and feelings of potential disaster, then these thoughts will be quite faithfully reproduced in experience.

[...] Materialization will quickly appear, and potentials therefore for both constructive and destructive elements are high.

My first purpose, therefore, is to make you aware of the inner identity of which you are part, and to clear away some of the intellectual and superstitious debris that prevents you from recognizing your own potentialities and freedom. [...]

A strong breakthrough was needed if the personality was to develop its potentials. [...]

But without the challenge and the conflict the personality would have had little chance to develop its potential, particularly in terms of understanding. [...]

[...] If the process seems slow, you can be assured that it is a legitimate and steady integration, for nothing but a complete integration would suffice if the personality is to achieve its potential.

[...] The ego that is overly fearful for survival will allow little potential to show itself unless that potential is directly connected with physical survival. [...]

[...] The repository of potentiality however is contained within those layers that are not conscious. [...]

[...] Survival within the physical universe, as within all others, is determined by the full development of potential.

Nature’s source, in the terms in which we have been speaking, comes from Framework 2. There, all of nature’s true potentials lie ready to be actualized according to the circumstances and conditions, the needs and desires, of the natural creature in Framework 1. The true potentials of nature are hardly suspected in most areas.

Since the nature of Framework 1 constantly flows into it from Framework 2, then Framework 2 is responsible for the shapes, forms, the behavior, the potentials of nature as you know it. [...]

[...] Any misconceptions, contradictions, seeming dilemmas, are resolved, for now you are not going against your own nature but with it, and from Framework 2 you draw out the greatest natural potentials that are uniquely yours.

[...] The abilities and potentials are not only being developed in this system but in others.

[...] Regardless of what you may think of their present performance at any given “time” in quotes, it is from this system that the greatest potentials emerge; for having dealt with it, consciousness undergoes one of the severest tests in learning to handle its own energy.

[...] They go on and learn from other realities, granted, but yours is the hardest to manage, and those who accept it go off into a certain line of development where the potentials are beyond anything of which you can presently conceive.

Touching is considered so basically sexual that the most innocuous touching of any portion of the body by another person is considered potentially dangerous. [...]

[...] Sexual performance is considered the one safe way of using the great potential of human emotions. [...]

It has been said by some women working toward “equal rights” that the species has only used half of its potential by suppressing the abilities of women. [...]

[...] In this book, Dreams, “Evolution,” and Value Fulfillment, for example, Seth portrays us as a vibrant, well-intended species—a physically attuned kind of consciousness beautifully tailored by our own cosmic ingredients to live lives of productivity, of spiritual and physical enjoyments, with each individual life in charge of its own fate and adding to the potentials of all other life as well.

If life has such great potentials, as Seth maintains, if it began—and begins (and continues to begin) at such rich creative and productive levels—then why did our experience so often make it seem that we struggled against unknowing or uncaring cosmic forces, or that we were at the most so ignorant of our own source and creativity that our hands were tied, or that we were forever shut off from our natural heritage?

[...] For now I understood that freedom of motion was at least one true reflection of an individual’s creative potential.

[...] It contains potentials unlimited, but it must work out its own identity and form its own worlds. [...] Within it are personality potentials beyond your comprehension. [...]

[...] There are clumps of matter, and in that respect there are clumps of consciousness, each individual, with their own destiny and abilities and potentials. [...]

[...] I can see your potentials and your abilities and your promise—and you could see your own potentials and promise if you would open your inner eyes, if you would look within yourselves. [...]

[...] And you can learn to manipulate in physical reality the better, because you understand your full potential. [...]

[...] None of you are beginning to use your potentials. [...]

Your relationship is a good one, compared to most an excellent one, but you know your inner potentials, and the potentials of that relationship, and how much you have to some degree failed it. [...]

[...] Out of the potential relationship interactions are possible that will make great changes in your lives, your individual work, and our work.

[...] It is not that you do not have an “ideal” in quotes relationship; but you had lost that feeling of the potentials within you. [...]

[...] It is your responsibility to materialize within your own system your own potentials.

[...] How many demand that they use their own potentials? [...]

[...] You can hardly grow into your full potential if you think you are a physical creature bounded and limited by the physical limitations of time and space, soon to fall corrupted into an early and filthy grave. [...]

[...] It may be a potential form like any potential object—a played-over-and-over-again record of a form.

[...] If another individual under the same circumstances comes across the same potential object, he can also perceive it as you did. [...]

The old neighborhood has enclosed him, and he must now truly escape its limitations while using the psychic potential of his experience as an integrating power. (Pace slower yet.) It is also responsible you see for the remarkable potential that he has. [...]

[...] For the personality knows full well the tremendous force of its own energy potential, and it would be literally disastrous for one portion to go ahead at the expense of the other. [...]

[...] Your personal impulses provide those guidelines by showing you how best to use probabilities so that you fulfill your own potential to greatest advantage — and [in] so doing, provide constructive help to the society at large.

(9:35.) Impulses arise in a natural, spontaneous, constructive response to the abilities, potentials, and needs of the personality. [...]

In your terms, the inner world does represent Idea Potential as yet unrealized — but those ideas and those potentials do not exist outside of consciousness. [...]

[...] In other terms, this can help you see the potentials of your species and break down the barriers of limiting thoughts. [...]