“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] Think of your breaths as lives, and you the entity through which they have passed and are passing. [...] None of this negates the supreme and utter integrity of your individuality, for you are as well the individual entity through whom the lives flow, and the unique lives that are expressed through you.

(Jane is still writing her book of poetry, Dialogues of the Soul and Mortal Self in Time.¹ Last week she taped some of this material. [...]

[...] Your mother represents to him the destructive, unreasoning energies of his own mother, and in the pull and conflict between your mother and father, he sees the tortured connections of his mother’s soul.

[...] The main portion of his personality, the integrating functions, the strong core, left, and rejoined the entity years ago. [...]

[...] More than half of your father’s personality has been vacant, and this portion has been with the entity. [...]

[...] He explained that these were our entity names, and I was half amused to have a male one, and to find Seth referring to me as “he” or “him.” When I had classes, Seth gave many students their entity names also, and there was much lively discussion over the names’ sexual designations.

Rob typed Seth’s other books, Seth Speaks: The Eternal Validity of the Soul, The Nature of Personal Reality, and the two volumes of The “Unknown” Reality, added his own notes, and did almost all the work of preparing them for publication. [...]

New sentence: In your historical past, when man identified his identity with the soul, he actually gave himself greater leeway in terms of psychological mobility, but eventually the concept of the soul as held resulted in a distrust of the intellect. [...]

[...] As a species, you think of yourselves (pause) as the “pinnacle” end of an evolutionary scale, as if all other entities from the first cell onward somehow existed in a steady line of progression, culminating with animals, and finally with man the reasoning animal. [...]

8. Strange — but recently I visually approached the idea of interrelated consciousnesses in two pen-and-ink drawings for Jane’s book of poetry, Dialogues of the Soul and Mortal Self in Time: I incorporated humanoid features on large rocks. Resting in their natural outdoor world, these entities are subject to even the smallest change in their objective weather. [...]

[...] People who read so-called “occult” literature may consider me “an old soul,” like a mountain. [...] In grand ancient fashion above other more homey village-like souls, I have my own identity. [...]

[...] It’s just that our ideas of personhood and soul make it sound terrible, until you get used to those ideas….

The greater sweep of the seasons represents the reaches of your soul. [...]

[...] If you think of a mass world brain — one entity — then it must wake and sleep in patterns. [...]

(Art O.: “Is the whole entity involved in this dispersion of consciousness, or just the portion of it we know now?”)

[...] It is the way that the universe expands, and it is the way that entities form. [...]

[...] The holy soul turned inside out is some fleshpot, let’s put it that way.

[...] A suggestion that gaiety and frivolity are also natural aspects of life, and joyful celebrations of existence, harmless, in fact beneficial play exercises on the part of the soul, will help here.

(This re an entity, AA, received when Jane practices table-tipping with one of her ESP students, Venice McCullough.)

[...] When I say as I have that the overall entity, or whole self, is neither male or female, and yet refer [to some] entities by definitely male names such as ‘Ruburt’ and ‘Joseph’ [as Seth calls me] I merely mean that in the overall essence, the [given] entity identifies itself more with the so-called male characteristics than with the female.”

Seth, in his material on probable systems in Chapter 16 of Seth Speaks, says: “The soul can be described for that matter as a multidimensional, infinite act, each minute probability being brought somewhere into actuality and existence; an infinite creative act that creates for itself infinite dimensions in which fulfillment is possible.”

[...] For some months we’d known her death was coming, and so had arranged our affairs around that irrevocable event; I spent weeks preparing the final manuscript of Personal Reality for the publisher; Jane conducted her ESP class whenever she could, and worked on her two books, Adventures in Consciousness and Dialogues of the Soul and Mortal Self in Time. [...]

3. Almost always Seth refers to Jane by her male entity name, “Ruburt” — and so “he,” “his,” and “him.”

[...] In that psychological universe, then, it is possible for entities “to be everywhere at once,” aware of everything at once. Your world is composed of such “entities”—the units of consciousness that form your body. [...]

[...] … (A one-minute pause.) These units of consciousness, however, add themselves up to form psychological beings far greater in number than, say, the number of stars in [your] galaxy (over 400 billion of them), and each of those psychological formations has its own identity—its own soul if you prefer—its own purpose in the entire fabric of being.

[...] Seth could still be a part of an ancient entity, and Seth Two another portion more evolved in our terms. [...] I don’t find it difficult to accept the possibility that we might be independent fragments of such entities or clumps of consciousness. [...]

[...] It often looks askance, however, at any investigations that might show man taking advantage of that independence now. While it preaches the survival of the soul, it is suspiciously uninterested in studying cases in which there seems to be communication between the quick and the “dead.”

[...] I do think that Seth is part of another entity, and that he is something quite different from, say, a friend who has “survived” death.

[...] It is not used by more advanced entities nor by less developed ones than ourselves. [...]

[...] Many of the suggested small exercises given earlier in the book will also help you become acquainted with your own reality, will give you direct experience with the nature of your own soul or entity, and will put you in contact with those portions of your being from which your own vitality springs. [...]

Shambalina garapharti (spelled), or the changing faces of the soul, smile and laugh at each other. [...]

[...] Once you think of a “tree” (in quotes) as a tree, it takes great effort before you can see it freshly ever again, as a living individual entity. [...]

(10:30.) In one manner of speaking, you are fragments of your entities. [...]

[...] This is not transmigration of souls. [...]

It is almost impossible to begin with concepts of one isolated universe, one self at the mercy of its past, one time sequence, and end up with any acceptable theory of a multidimensional soul or godhead that is anything else but a glorified personified concept of what you think man is.⁶

This obviously does not mean that there are not entities whose selfhood is completely apart from your own. [...]

Seth answered, “This is characteristic of that entity, an impatience and yet a daring, because the situation represented such a challenge. [...] The entity preferred this, rather than a series of smaller difficulties. [...]

[...] He is an entity older than you, and he has tried to point out the way to you. [...]

[...] You helped him ‘save his soul’ at one time [in a past life] and he was returning the favor. [...]

[...] Complete recovery, illness, or early death are not preordained on the part of the entity [or whole self]. [...]

[...] That organism is intimately connected to the natural biological state of each other person, and to each other living thing, or entity, however minute.

(Pause at 11:55.) Suffering is not necessarily good for the soul at all, and left alone natural creatures do not seek it. [...]

Jane has great energy and power at her disposal when speaking for Seth, and I can often feel those qualities as though they form a collective palpable entity in itself. [...]

[...] In this century several issues came to the forefront of American culture: the exteriorization of organized religion, which became more of a social rather than a spiritual entity, and the joining of science with technology and moneyed interests. [...]

Organized religion felt threatened; and if it could not prove that man had a soul, it could at least see to it that the needs of the body were taken care of through suitable social work, and so it abandoned many of the principles that might have added to its strength. [...]

[...] I will speak of the entity, the personalities, the reincarnations, the diverse personality fragment groupings, the planes with which you are similar or can understand, and ultimately try to deal with your questions, implied if not spoken, as to where entities came from to begin with.

[...] People who are still worrying about one soul, gods, and devils, must be helped to relate to greater realities from their own framework, and gently led away from it if possible. [...]

[...] Basically, however, the motion of any wave or particle or entity is unpredictable — freewheeling and undetermined. [...]

[...] According to Judaism and Christianity, among many religions, man could seek forgiveness and salvation; he had a soul. After Darwin, he learned that even his physical presence on earth was an accident of nature. He was taught — he taught himself — that ideas of souls and gods were ridiculous. [...]

[...] The entity follows it through the cycle of [simultaneous] reincarnations. [...]

[...] Suffering is not good for the soul, unless it teaches you how to stop suffering. [...]

[...] Only man would think to burden such pervasive parts of his own being, and those of other entities, with such negative concepts! [...]