“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(9:48.) The “private psyche” sounds like a fine term, but it is meaningless unless you apply it to your psyche. [...]

[...] So, ideally speaking, the history of your species can be discovered quite clearly within the psyche; and true archaeological events are found not only by uncovering rocks and relics, but by bringing to light, so to speak, the memories that dwell within the psyche.

[...] Let us look for a moment at the private psyche.

[...] Your private psyche is intimately concerned with your earthly existence, and in your dream state you deal with probable actions, and often work out in that condition the solutions to problems or questions that arise having to do with probable sequences of events.⁴

[...] The psyche is not encased, in your case (amused), within a frame too fragile to express it. Only your beliefs about the psyche and about the body limit your experience to its present degree.

Your dreaming experience, however, gives you a guideline that will help you understand the nature of your own psyche, and the deeper reality in which it has its being. Again: The dreaming psyche is awake.

If you were as knowledgeable and crafty when you were awake, then you would put all religions and sciences out of business, for you would understand the greater reality of your psyche. [...]

(Long pause at 10:33.) The psyche is a gestalt of aware energy in which your own identity resides, inviolate, yet ever-changing as you fulfill your potentials.

[...] When your consciousness is not directly focused in physical reality, then, the great creativity of the psyche is given fuller play. All of its dimensions are faithfully and instantly produced as experience when you learn to take your “normally alert” conscious mind with you; and when you are free of such limiting ideas, then at those levels you can glimpse the inner powers of your own psyche, and watch the interplay of beliefs and symbols as they are manifested before your eyes. [...]

Dictation (quietly): To explore the unknown reality you must venture within your own psyche, travel inward through invisible roads as you journey outward on physical ones.

[...] The psyche is presented with its own concepts, which are instantly reflected in dream situations and other events that will be explained shortly. [...]

[...] Beyond, there are layers of actuality in which your psyche is also highly involved, and these may or may not appear to have anything to do with the world that you know.

The Nature of The Psyche will in its own way delve into material that we have not touched upon thus far in to any considerable degree. [...]

The book will stand along with Ruburt’s own Aspect Psychology, serving to give demonstrations in the operation of the psyche itself as different parts of it view the reality that you know, and an inner reality that is sometimes so much more difficult for you to perceive.

Certain methods of self-enlightenment in my book will serve as quite adequate techniques, that can be used to acquaint the known self with other portions of the psyche. [...]

Ruburt is dealing with events of the psyche as the inner therapeutic measures continue. [...]

[...] Yet the greater encounters take place in the psyche, and this encounter is independent of space and time.

[...] In your terms, after class broke up last evening another class began, as those events were experienced in the private and mass psyche of those involved. [...]

[...] The monkey was not free, but on a leash —the psyche’s interpretation, in other terms, of material involving the class discussion about inoculations. [...]

(11:25.) The vocabulary used in the regular class was interpreted in the psyche in that manner, and it was literally and symbolically true language. [...]

[...] The larger psyche deals with the greater dimension of events, and the dream state itself is like a laboratory in which your waking reality is constructed. [...] The psyche is bombarded in the same way by phenomena important to your survival. [...]

[...] You exist in the context of your psyche. The events that you recognize as real are dependent upon all of the other events occurring within your psyche, even as the existence of the earth is dependent upon the other aspects of the physical universe.

[...] The greater inner reality of the psyche, however, is as extensive as outer space seems to be.

[...] You could not perceive them in your own state — nor can they maintain their native state as they plunge through the far reaches of the psyche. [...]

[...] Each aspect of the psyche perceives the reality upon which it is focused, and that reality is also the materialization of a particular state of the psyche projected outward. You can learn to encounter other realities by altering your position within your own psyche.

[...] When you alter your conscious focus in such a fashion, you are also moving away from the part of your psyche that you consider its center. You are journeying through your own psyche, in other words, for different realities are different states of the psyche — materialized, projected outward and experienced. [...]

[...] We have spoken of probable man, hinted at probable civilizations, and mentioned alternate systems of actuality.² Yet these do not exist completely apart from the world that you know, or entirely cut off from the psyche. [...]

[...] You cannot deny the reality of the psyche, or those natural feelings that you experience in the flesh. [...]

Now: The last two sessions, more or less on evolution, can be included in this book, and serve as the opening sessions of a new chapter, entitled: “The Universe and the Psyche.”

You must study the quality of life, dare to follow the patterns of your own thoughts and emotions, and to ride that mobility, for in that mobility there are hints of the origin of the universe and of the psyche. [...]

Through such feelings the psyche breaks through all misconceptions, hinting at the nature of the self and of the universe at once.

[...] There is no beginning or end to the psyche, either. [...]

[...] On the inside, however, you would be traveling not around or about, but through one portion of the psyche with its reality, into another portion of the psyche with its reality. [...]

Nothing exists outside the psyche, however, that does not exist within it, and there is no unknown world that does not have its psychological or psychic counterpart. [...] All excursions into outer reality come as the psyche attempts to reproduce in any given “exterior” world the inner freedom of its being.

(Long pause.) It might help here if you imagine the psyche again as some multidimensional living television set. [...]

Like this imaginary multidimensional television, the psyche contains within it other programs than the one in which you are acting — other plots, environments, and world situations. [...]

(Pause.) Your “dreaming” psyche seems to be dreaming only because you do not recognize that particular state of awareness as your own. The “dreaming” psyche is actually as awake as you are in your normal waking life. [...]

When you are dealing with normal waking reality, you are operating at one level of the many that are native to your psyche. When you are dreaming, from your viewpoint you are entering other levels of reality quite as native to your psyche, but usually you are still experiencing those events through your current “waking station.” [...]

In this case you are yourself the programmer, and the true action is not where it appears to be — in the exterior events — but instead in the psyche, where you are writing and performing the drama. [...]

Seth told us ahead of time, of course, that “Unknown” Reality would follow an intuitive and inner organization rather than a linear one, and that this writing method would itself arouse the creative, revelatory characteristics of the psyche. [...] Yet underneath, the books ride securely upon rhythms that reflect the psyche’s deep resources.

Yet we think now that such extensive notes have served their purposes for Seth’s material, at least for some time, so those books-in-the-works will carry minimum notes — as they do, say, in Seth Speaks. For one thing, as I write this Epilogue, Seth has finished The Nature of the Psyche, and has already begun still another book. Psyche, as Jane and I call it, contains some excellent new material, such as Seth’s first discussions of sex — including lesbianism, homosexuality, and bisexuality — as well as other related subjects that we know, from our correspondence, to be of intense general concern. [...]

Long before I finished my part of “Unknown” Reality, Seth and Jane had started their next book: The Nature of the Psyche: Its Human Expression. I recorded those sessions, of course, while keeping up with my own work. [...]

The luxurious creativity displayed by Seth’s and Jane’s work raises more questions about the abilities of the psyche than it seems we can ever hope to answer. [...]

(Then, back to Psyche at 9:33.)

[...] To some extent, I am like a particularly vivid, persistent, recurring dream image, visiting the mass psyche, only with a reality that is not confined to dreams — a dream image that attains a psychological fullness that can seem to make ordinary consciousness a weak apparition by contrast, psychologically speaking.

It is not easy to explain the workings of the inner psyche, or the activity behind dreams, for such experience exists beyond the framework of verbalization or images, and deals basically with the nature and behavior of psychological and psychic energy.

As this happens the contours of your own psyche will appear more clearly. [...]

(At 4:40, she was near tears when I asked why her psyche hadn’t risen up to protect her when it became obvious that she was heading for deep trouble with the symptoms. She said her psyche did rise up to protect her many times — otherwise she’d have died, of course. [...]

[...] We talked about why her psyche had done so. [...]

[...] “But I’ve decided that enough is enough,” Jane said, after I’d speculated about why her psyche hadn’t put the brakes on her symptoms before this. [...]

The terms are handy to describe certain affiliations and experiences of the psyche. [...] There are leaping, explosive, volatile, rapidly altering relationships in which psyche touches psyche, forms an attraction or mutual response that can be both eternal and fleeting, never destroyed or forgotten, there as a trace or as an overwhelming experience.

[...] My new book is progressing at its proper pace, following certain contours of Ruburt’s consciousness also, as his psyche “expands.” [...]

[...] In greater terms the psyche is always in a state of creative change. [...]

To one extent or another you can “pick up on” any personality living or dead, historically or in the future—but in any future, because in far more complicated ways each psyche contains within it the experience and knowledge of others. [...]

[...] Man’s psyche, however, is emotionally not only a part of his physical environment, but intimately connected with all of nature’s manifestations. [...] There in Framework 2 the nature of the psyche appears quite clearly, so that its sweeps and rhythms can be understood. [...]

Now: Myths are natural phenomena, rising from the psyche of man as surely as giant mountain ranges emerge from the physical planet. [...]

[...] The psyche, however, will not be so limited. [...]

[...] (Jane has been told that everyone at Prentice-Hall, her publishing house, “just loves” Emir.) A couple of weeks ago Sue Watkins delivered the last two chapters of the manuscript for Psyche that she’s been typing for us; we still have to check that book and finish the notes for it. [...]

(Volume 2 will be marketed a few weeks in advance of Psyche, of course, as it should be, even though because of press scheduling the much shorter Psyche was printed first. [...] Naturally we’d been involved in a number of other projects at the same time, as I’ve indicated in my notes for Mass Events, yet for me especially the publication of the two volumes of “Unknown” Reality meant that we had arrived at a certain point in the development and presentation of the Seth material: In those books, through correlating them in a modest way with our previous works, I’d attempted to show the reader just what the three of us had managed to achieve before Seth led us into Psyche — and, as it developed, Mass Events.

[...] On the 14th we received from Prentice-Hall our complimentary copies, just off the press, of Seth’s Psyche; then on the 18th we received Volume 2 of “Unknown” Reality.

[...] There are rhythms to the psyche, and to your own relationship, with Ruburt, and with me. [...] In those terms only, some messages can take centuries to pass through the psyche—that greater psyche that straddles the eons.

[...] She didn’t think it was very good: “The psyche turns itself to atone, and in the earth’s service is it pressed.” [...]

[...] The world psyche is in transition. [...]

[...] The psyche from which your identity springs is free of the picture of reality that you have chosen. [...]

[...] But in larger terms it is just one volume that you, the greater psyche, are reading, told in terms of serial time.

[...] Creativity is endless, and the psyche is the greatest source of creativity. [...]

[...] They may be blown to some place distant from their birth, but the psyche’s “seeds” fly into other realities also. [...]

(Resuming our chronology: On October 24, 1978, Jane worked out the Table of Contents for Seth’s Psyche, and started her Introduction for it on the 26th; we mailed Psyche to Tam in sections as we put the manuscript together, and finished with that endeavor on November 9. On November 14 Eleanor Friede visited us to renew an old friendship and to go over Emir with Jane. [...] Next, on January 13, 1979, the copyedited manuscript for Psyche arrived. [...]

[...] Here I use the words “soul” and “psyche” synonymously. That psyche has been emerging more and more in whatever guise it is allowed to as it seeks to express its vitality, its purpose and exuberance, and as it seeks out new contexts in which to express a subjective reality that finally spills over the edges of sterile beliefs.

[...] The psyche’s grandeur is ignored, the individual’s sense of belonging with nature eroded, for it is at nature’s expense, it seems, that he must survive. [...]

The psyche expresses itself through action, of course, but it carries behind it the thrust from which life springs, and it seeks the fulfillment of the individual — and it automatically attempts to produce a social climate or civilization that is productive and creative. [...]

The psyche as you know it, then, is composed of a mixture of these families of consciousness. [...] (Pause.) A book would be needed to explain the dimensions of the psyche in relation to the different families of consciousness. [...]

[...] When I speak of the behavior of your psyche, then, you may wonder: “How can my psyche exist in more than one time at once?” It can do this just as an apple can be found on a table or on the ground or on the tree.

Following this analogy, in the same way each psyche contains within it infinite notes, and each note is capable of its own endless creative variations. [...]

[...] So the portions of your psyche that you recognize as yourself are significant and intimate and real, because of the inner pauses or silences that are not actualized, but are a part of your greater being.