“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] The young selfhood is freer in its identification, and as yet has not been taught to identify its own personality with its sex exclusively.

1. “Now, for example,” Seth told us this evening, “man deals with a kind of dual selfhood, in that he presently thinks of himself as an uneasy blend of body and mind. [...]

In closed mental environments such expression is vigorously denied, and the very foundations of selfhood are attacked. [...]

[...] Now, when you try to interpret your selfhood in other kinds of existence, the same surprises or distortions or alterations can seem to occur. [...]

[...] These combine what you diversify, so that you have hidden psychological values or psychological beings that combine the properties of the environment and the properties of selfhood in other combinations than those you know.

[...] Developing your own abilities, whatever they may be, exploring and expanding your experience of selfhood, gives life a sense of purpose, meaning, and creative excitement — and also adds to the understanding and development of the society and the species.

[...] The reunion is joyous and his vision is clear at last in terms of his own selfhood.

[...] (Pause.) If there were no death, you would have to invent it (smile) — for the context of that selfhood would be as limited as the experience of a great sculptor given but one hunk of stone (with quiet dramatic emphasis).¹

[...] The cat exists as itself in the greater living memory of its own ‘larger’ selfhood. [...]

[...] This allows you to imagine greater realms of identity while still holding your concepts of selfhood intact. [...]

[...] There is no place where identity need stop — yours or anyone else’s. Now, if you want to rest for a while in the familiar privacy of your self-adopted selfhood, then that is all right. [...]

[...] (Pause.) Play brings you a needed rest from your distorted concepts of selfhood, and many of the world’s finest inventions have come when the inventor was not concentrating upon work, but indulging in pastimes or play.