“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Our entity is composed of multitudinous selves with their own identities, many of whom have worked in this behalf. [...]

[...] We adopt whatever personality characteristics seem pertinent, for in our own reality we have a bank of complete inner selves, and we are all Seth.

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. [...]

[...] My memory of you includes your probable selves, and all these coordinates exist simultaneously in a point that takes up no space.

Selves (spelled) have far greater freedom than leaves, but they can also root themselves if they choose — and they do. Reincarnational selves are like leaves that have left the plant, choosing a new medium of existence. [...] These selves, however, dropping from one branch of time, root themselves in another time and become new plants from which others will sprout.

[...] Again, however, as you are not your parents or your ancestors, you are not your “reincarnational selves.”

[...] As one leaf falls another takes its place, until next year the whole plant, still living, will have a completely new set of leaves — future reincarnational selves of this batch.

(“Do you mean ‘new selves’ instead of ‘new plants’?”)

[...] Instead of cells then you have selves. [...]

Think of the greater you — call it the entity if you want to — as forming a psychic structure quite as real as your physical one, but composed of many selves. [...]

[...] A group of selves forms a soul. [...]

[...] As cells multiply and grow — within their own nature and the physical framework — so do selves “evolve” in terms of value fulfillment.⁴

3. A note added later: I found most of the material Seth had delivered since 10:11, but especially at this point, to be strongly reminiscent of a passage in the 657th session in Chapter 15 of Personal Reality. I’ve put together these excerpts from that session: “Each of your reincarnational selves has its own ‘points of power,’ or successive moments, in which it materializes daily existence in a linear manner from all the probabilities available to it. In a way that will be explained in another book, there is a kind of coincidence with all of these present points of power that exists between you and your ‘reincarnational’ selves. [...] These selves are different counterparts [my emphasis] of yourself in creaturehood, experiencing bodily reality; but at the same time your organism shuts out the simultaneous nature of experience.”

[...] So in your terms, it may seem as if there are progressions, or consecutive steps of development, in which more mature comprehensive selves will emerge. You are a part of those selves now, as the petals are of the bulb. [...]

[...] Selves may be quite independent within the framework of their own reality, while still being a part of a larger reality in which their independence works not only for their own benefit, but for the sake of a greater structure.

[...] Yet there are, of course, other identities with many such I-selves, each as aware and independent as your own, while also being aware of the existence of a greater identity in which they have their being. [...]

[...] Lost in a multiplicity of numberless selves. The selves are self-directing units, however. [...]

The various reincarnated selves can be superficially (underlined) regarded as portions of a whole crossword puzzle for they are all portions of the whole; and yet they can exist scattered from the whole, although their meaning is then diminished. [...] Future and past selves mingle. [...]

Now, there is an overall personality pattern that is characteristic of each whole self, of which the reincarnated selves each give evidence. [...]

[...] Other selves, reincarnated within the physical system as physical creatures, experienced time as you do, as a series of moments strung out one before the other. [...]

[...] Now some selves do not choose to become entities. [...]

Up to the probable selves for each portion of consciousness has available to it whatever potentials it is willing to seek, and there are no limitations placed upon it either by those who created it or by itself. [...]

([Nadine.) “Would it be possible, like, to have a husband and wife that were, when they were gotten together, you would have a great person with opposite personalities, could they possibly be two probable selves?”)

[...] Not only to you, but to other realities that you do not presently understand, and that in working out one simple challenge in this existence you work out other challenges for other selves in other realities. [...]

[...] But there are other doors—you have other conscious selves. These conscious selves are like windows that belong to your entire identity. [...]

[...] You have not one, but many conscious selves. [...]

[...] Other portions of yourself may consider their selves as the main origin of personality. [...]

[...] There are roads that you will follow and you will look back on the selves that you know now as the first bare glimmerings of your birth. [...]

[...] They may not be conscious of the other selves however. The inner senses connect all the selves, and the movements of consciousness are far more complicated than that of a Ferris wheel.

[...] The whole self, or the whole wheel, is composed of many selves in various positions, as the many people who sit on the Ferris wheel. [...]

[...] He is in a strange position, in that he is an overall self, composed in part of the sum of these other selves, and yet more than the sum.

The selves who ride the wheel therefore also provide some of the power that runs the wheel. [...]

[...] However, each of you exists in other realities and other dimensions, and the selves that you call yourself is but a small portion of your own I.

[...] Within you, within the selves that you know, is the prime identity, the whole inner self. [...]

[...] I feel that while all of this is still coming from this anchor self, the selves in these dreams are equally as focused — each of them being dream selves, existing in their universes, and with each of their own connections expanding outwards in much the same way that mine do. I literally become the experience of being myself contained in all of these selves, while being these selves contained by me. In at least one of these selves, the knowledge of this entire event comes to consciousness like a half-recalled dream of its own, and the experience of recalling and being recalled is like liquid electricity in me, the anchor self.

Now in a very small way, admittedly, that analogy hints at the kind of deeper events that occur as selves are born out of selves to operate in various levels of activity. [...]

[...] They lead the actors to see beyond the selves and settings they have created. [...] Their purpose is to open up within the three-dimensional selves those psychological doorways that will release the three-dimensional self for further development in another system of reality.

[...] (Long pause at 9:39.) The three-dimensional selves, in existing within these realities, must focus their attention there completely. [...]

[...] Such information must somehow make sense to you as three-dimensional selves, in other words.

[...] In my particular case, I am so unfocused on my own reincarnational selves, and they have gone so far on their own, that I have little feeling of immediacy. [...]

[...] There is interaction between you and your reincarnational selves constantly. [...]

(11:01.) Those selves are not dead, in other words. [...]

Because time is open-ended, as you think of it, you can also affect what you would think of as past reincarnational selves, and at times react in and to their environment. [...]

[...] The you that you are can make any changes you want to in your experience: You can change probabilities for your own purposes, but you cannot change the courses of other probable selves that have gone their own ways. All probable selves are connected. [...]

[...] As there are probable selves in private terms, there are probable selves in terms of the species. [...]

[...] Reincarnated selves are no more than probable selves, choosing to experience various forms. [...]

[...] Action divides itself into various selves, and then explores the moment points of experience, for each new self is indeed a new action, an original act.

[...] Any given thought experienced by you is experienced by all possible you-selves, though in various forms.

A thought experienced by you is also experienced by your probable selves, you see, in one way or another. [...]

[...] The probable selves in one way or another will react, forming other action-events. [...]

[...] Not because I say you will attend it, but because you have already decided to attend it, and I would dearly like to see some memory on the part of the conscious selves involved. There will be some probable selves there, and I would like to introduce you to each other. [...]

[...] Then when you are doing well in class, you will be able to relate not only to some reincarnational selves but to the inner self and to its activities and use these activities to enrich your normal daily encounters and to increase the nature and extent of your perceptions. [...]

([Margie:] “But there are many probable selves, are there not?”)

[...] However, these selves are not limited as is the ego to one main field of perception only, in the manner which Dunne believes. Dunne does leave intervening areas between dimensions which may be perceived by an observer from a neighboring dimension, but all in all his serial selves are to some large degree prisoners of those dimensions in which they exist.

[...] The whole self, or the entity of which I speak, is composed of all of these selves, but it must be realized that all divisions between these selves are illusions, basically speaking. [...]

[...] These other selves are more freewheeling. [...]

There is nothing contradictory in the overall in supposing that these multitudinous selves exist simultaneously. [...]

And, to some extent, I serve as a communicator from one level of your selves to other levels of your selves for I remind you of what you are. [...]

[...] I can do this in a conscious manner and yet still, as I am here and as I have mentioned, I find a difficulty in looking at you and relating to the selves that you think you are within your given moment of time for I see the composites, so it takes some training on my part to pinpoint you in the time and space with which you are acquainted. [...]

You are aware of the selves that sit in this room on a particular evening of a snowstorm with certain members of the class present, certain members of the class absent, and some new people here, but I am familiar with the inner portions of yourselves that you also know but that the egotistical self has hidden from you. [...]

[...] Forget the cringing selves that you sometimes are and remember, instead, your abilities and the magic essence of your own being that sings even now through your fingertips. [...]

“But I know, if I looked at each of you and the selves you think you are, with just the little experience I’ve got of the self I thought I was and find I’m not, that you have all kinds of potentialities right now, not that you necessarily have to wait for or work for or anything, but that you have now. [...] But without me Seth couldn’t speak, and without your inner selves you wouldn’t have the knowledge.

[...] But if you’re waiting for me to have Seth come through, you should be as anxious to hear your own inner selves come through. [...]

[...] I am myself, but I am also the speechless portion of your own selves. [...]

[...] To listen to all the tales that your selves tell you, to the secrets that fly through the air, and that is what I have been telling you all this time. [...]

[...] From my standpoint your various reincarnated selves are not seen separately, but as your earthly personality.

[...] The contact is also with your other reincarnated selves that you do not presently recall. [...]

[...] At death you will consciously realize the sum of your reincarnated selves. [...]

Then the integration will take place, and you will realize that the various incarnated selves were as but days in your present existence.