“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

The jaws are realigning themselves. This necessitates various stages. The important thing is to remember that the process of recovery is constantly occurring. Some body tension was needed. I am speaking of positive tension now. The observable relaxation periods therefore momentarily ceased. They will continue with different sets of muscles and ligaments—but first the initial groups had to stabilize while other portions learned to accept the new balance.

The hands are regaining strength, as are the feet and the knees, but this is not yet apparent, because all of the tendons and muscles are not at the same state. He is back now at his book; mentally the same process has occurred. The painting should be maintained, however, as a refreshing activity. The body knows what it is doing. The relaxation periods follow a certain rhythm that is temperamentally suitable as well. He would have been alarmed had he always felt that relaxed. And again, the muscles, once loosened, need to stabilize and regain operational strength.

It is however a mistaken notion that identity is dependent upon stability. Identity, because of its characteristics, will continually seek stability, while stability is impossible. [...]

It is this dilemma, precisely between identity’s constant attempts to maintain stability, and action’s inherent drive for change, that results in the imbalance, the exquisite creative by-product that is consciousness of self. [...] Identity must seek stability while action must seek change, yet identity could not exist without change, without action, for it is the result of action, and not apart from it but a part of it.

With Ruburt’s limited vocabulary, this is rather difficult to explain, but it would be as if the positions of your north and south poles changed constantly while maintaining the same relative distance from each other, and by their change in polarity upsetting the stability (pause) of the planet—except that because of the greater comparative strength at the poles of the units (gestures, attempts to draw diagrams in the air), a newer stability is almost immediately achieved after each shifting. [...]

Now: the intensity of the original emotional energy controls the activity, strength, stability, and relative size of the unit; the rate of its pulsation, and its power to attract and repel other units, as well as its ability to combine with other units.

The ego would if it could, stop personality’s motion and development for the security of stability. [...]

[...] For all its attempts at stability and control, ego itself constantly changes. [...]

[...] And yet the stability which ego so urgently seeks would, indeed, result in a death, since no further action would be allowed.

[...] Yet it is precisely this struggle between ego’s struggles for stability, and the personality’s attempt to expand spontaneously, that is at the basis of much of mankind’s achievements, and that is certainly the basis for much of his art.

[...] He knew that the stability of his personality was highly important. [...]

[...] In one he had to “prove” his mental stability, to his way of thinking. [...]

The ego maintains its stability, its seeming stability, and its health, from the constant subconscious and unconscious nourishment which it receives. [...]

[...] It is to say that the outer ego is far less conscious than the inner ego, that its perception is less, that it is far less stable though it makes great pretense of stability, that it springs from the inner self and is therefore less, rather than more, aware.

(Pause, one of many.) With Ruburt’s limited vocabulary, this is rather difficult to explain, but it would be as if the positions of your north and south poles changed constantly while maintaining the same relative distance from each other, and by their change in polarity upsetting the stability (pause) of the planet—except that because of the greater comparative strength (pause) at the poles of the units (gestures, attempts to draw diagrams in the air), a newer stability is almost immediately achieved after each shifting. [...]

[...] The intensity of the original emotional energy controls the activity, the strength, the stability, and the relative size of the unit; the rate of its pulsation, and its power to attract and repel other units, and its ability to combine with other units. [...]

“It is a mistaken notion, however, that identity is dependent upon stability. Identity, because of its characteristics, will continually seek stability, while stability is impossible. [...]

As far as I can see, Seth’s reference to hypnosis had to do with the “training” undergone by some mediums in which hypnosis is used to initiate and stabilize the trance state, and occasionally to call forth the communications of “control” personalities. [...]

“It is this dilemma, between identity’s constant attempts to maintain stability and action’s inherent drive for change, that results in the imbalance, the exquisite creative by-product that is consciousness of self. For consciousness and existence do not result from delicate balances so much as they are made possible by lack of balances, so richly creative that there would be no reality were balance ever maintained.

[...] Identity must seek stability while action must seek change; yet identity could not exist without change, for it is the result of action and a part of it. [...]

Without Ruburt’s now and then, really rather petty explosions, the stability of his working habits and the stability of emotional reactions would not be nearly as regular. [...]

[...] Our sessions have had a stabilizing effect upon you both, and will so continue.

(Pause.) The ego maintains its stability, its seeming stability, and its health, from the constant subconscious and unconscious nourishment that it receives. [...]

[...] It is to say that the outer ego is far less conscious than the inner ego or the inner self, that its perception is less, that it is far less stable, though it makes great pretense at stability; that it springs from the inner self, and is less rather than more, aware. [...]

[...] You are telling it to change, when all of its instincts, you see, are to maintain stability, and in your country, at least, that stability has been large enough and flexible enough so that you are being financially rewarded, to whatever degree, for promoting ideas that run counter to the deepest beliefs of that system.

In a manner of speaking, the stability of that authority, however misguided, provided a relatively safe framework in which you could both grow into maturity. [...]

[...] You give stability and coherence to your own system. [...]

(10:10.) It greatly needs a stabilizing factor. [...]

[...] If the new personality has not entered earlier to any full extent, it usually does so at birth, in order to stabilize the new organism. [...]

[...] The newly entered personality, as a consciousness, flickers, in that there is a while before stabilization takes place. [...]

[...] That overall relationship is changing rather quickly, without pause being taken while each adjustment is stabilized. [...]

[...] The other patterns (delta, theta, and alpha) are highly important to physical and mental stability, being very interwound with cellular consciousness. In cases usually called schizophrenic, the beta acceleration is not supported by the stabilizing attributes of the other known frequencies.

[...] Now the stability and intensity of the force field is somewhat dependent upon other circumstances, including atmospheric circumstances at your end. The clearness of the messages is directly affected by this intensity and stability.

Now it takes study, development, and experience before an identity can learn to hold its own stability in the face of such constant stimuli; and many of us have gotten lost, even forgetting who we were until we once more awakened to ourselves. [...]

[...] On the other hand, we allow them full rein, knowing that we are motivated by an inner stability that can well afford spontaneity and creation, and realizing that spiritual and psychological identity are dependent upon creative change.

[...] You not only form the structure of your civilizations and social institutions through the transference of beliefs, thoughts and feelings; but in this natural exchange you also help on quite intimate levels in the “psychic manufacture” of the physical environment itself, with all of its great sweeping variety, and yet seasonal stability.

The body learned to maintain its stability, its strength and agility, to achieve a state of balance in complementary response to the weather and elements, to dream computations that the conscious mind alone could not hold. The body learned to heal itself in sleep in its dreams—and at certain levels in that state even now each portion of consciousness contributes to the health and stability of all other portions. [...]

[...] As language gains and attains its meaning not only by what is included in it, but also by what is excluded, so your consciousness attains its stability also by exclusions.

[...] You would not feel imprisoned as you often do within one corporal form, for you would understand that the body itself maintains its relative stability because of its constant give-and-take with the materials of the earth that are themselves possessed of consciousness.