“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

It however retains its identity, you see, while partaking to the extent of its desire and ability in the superior aspects of this greater gestalt. Even as you, according to your desire and ability, can partake of the superior qualities of your supraself.

An awareness of the existence of the supraself is in itself of great benefit. The author of Ruburt’s new book calls this God, and I am simply telling you what it is. The supraself is indeed a portion of a higher gestalt, which is part of yet another higher consciousness-gestalt. This is true. But this supraself is you in a highly personal way, and it is superior in many aspects. It controls and organizes larger portions of action.

[...] The full extent of these policies in their specific form is not realized by the man’s superiors. The man thinks he is acting in response to demands put upon him by his superiors.

[...] Peg says that H [the man] does believe he is acting in response to his superiors. [...]

[...] Then the superiors who will have already suspected the man’s compulsive behavior, will see the true situation. [...]

[...] I have no need to worry about my intellectual superiority. [...] He is however still at the stage where he takes pleasure in intellectual superiority, and somewhat looks down upon those who are not so intellectually gifted. [...]

[...] It is therefore all the more important that he always try (pause), to use discipline and caution, that he think in terms of helping other individuals, and that he not glorify his own position egotistically, thinking, “Since I can heal you, I am therefore superior to you,” even though the idea is partially hidden from his own consciousness, and even though he feels kindly—put in here that I smiled—while feeling so superior.

Now in the affair of the raise, you picked this up, Philip, first of all telepathically from the mind of your superior. [...] And your behavior at the meeting reinforced your superior’s decision, and made it certain.

There will be others if you remain with the company, for much of your superior’s income is dependent upon your own, and he has only at the most two other salesman in his territory which are lucrative for him. [...] And your superior himself worries about his own position.

[...] Ego-wise, John doubted the whole thing, especially so since he had not been getting along too well with his superior recently.

[...] John clashed with his superior at the meeting, and because of his outspoken actions had no thought of getting a raise.)

[...] Such groups make people dissatisfied with the self as it is, and try to superimpose the idea of a superior self—realistically impossible. [...]

[...] They are afraid of making mistakes, terrified of betraying this sensed inner psychological superior. [...] You end up with what can amount to two main inner antagonists: a superior self and a debased self. The qualities considered good are attracted to the superior self as if it were a magnet. [...]

[...] It becomes assigned on the one hand as a possession of the superior self—in which case it must be used for great adventures, heroic deeds. On the other hand, the person feels unable to use energy in a normal fashion, since in the ordinary world no venture could live up to the superior self’s exaggerated ideals. [...]

[...] He then can avoid putting his “talents and superior abilities” to the test, where he feels he would certainly fail. He half realizes that the superior self and the debased self are both of psychological manufacture. [...]

[...] Remember, we are dealing with a scattered force, various elements of the personality sent out to do different tasks—and in a fashion they are caught between the superior self and the debased self. [...]

He is bound to set himself up as aloof and superior to the man in charge. He may be superior in many ways, but certainly not in all respects, and his disdainful reactions would naturally affect the poor new director. [...]

At the gallery, Ruburt interprets everything now between himself and the new director in terms of implied superiority or inferiority.

[...] His immediate superior is basically not his friend, although personally they may get along well. [...]

(John agreed with Seth’s statement, concerning his immediate superior not being, basically, his friend. [...]

There is an individual within the political organization who, all unwittingly, gives information to Philip’s superiors through a family in-law relationship. [...]

[...] He said that as far back as last January his suspicions had become aroused, when one of his superiors had mentioned John’s involvement with a political organization. [...]

[...] Some schools of thought, then, have it that only the genetically superior should be allowed to reproduce, and there are scientists who believe that all defects can be eradicated through judicious genetic planning.

[...] There are no inferior or superior races. [...]

[...] They may appear as superior characteristics of one kind or another, but they must be biologically stated as the variations from the genetic norm.

By themselves, whether they appear as superior or defective conditions, they necessitate a different kind of adaptability, a change of subjective or physical focus, the intensification of other abilities that perhaps have been understressed. [...]

A young adult gifted in a particular area may hold a belief that this ability makes him or her superior to all others. [...]

[...] Women, now trying to assert their rights, often fall into the same trap, but backwards — trying to deny what they think of as inferior intuitive elements for what they think of as superior logical ones.

[...] Such beliefs are often given to children, appearing in such forms as, “don’t be a showoff,” “don’t be an exhibitionist,” followed by, again, the dire warning that your fellow creatures suspect any neighbor who is different or who shows any superior abilities.

(4:40.) Ruburt, at one period, even feared that the young psychologist at Oswego was correct — that his psychic abilities were mere attempts to prove himself superior to you.^* These are all beliefs that both of you have wrestled with over the years. [...]

[...] And on this level the parent is astonished, delighted at the superior accomplishments of its children, the superiority of the offspring, and yet also jealous to some extent.

[...] Was her mother the Mother Superior before?”)

Her mother was not the Mother Superior. [...]

[...] This inner ego or inner self should not be thought of as superior to your ordinary mind. [...]

[...] It contains portions of the self that are—I hesitate, you see, to say superior, for he is not to get conceited—but portions of the self that contain more abilities than those usually held by the ego.

[...] It is not meant in any way to give Ruburt the idea that he is superior to anyone else. [...]

[...] Some may even have superior understanding of physical and psychological space. [...]

[...] And all of this applies to me as much as it does to you, in case you think I’m setting myself up in a superior position.” [...]

(In the 82nd session, which was held on the evening of August 27, 1964, Seth said: “When man realizes that he, himself, creates his personal and universal environment in concrete terms, then he can begin to create a private and universal environment much superior to the [present] one, that is the result of haphazard and unenlightened constructions.

After making those points, however, I note with some amusement that I find it difficult indeed to believe that many millions of people must wait for a handful of their “superior” peers — philosophers, scientists, psychologists, parapsychologists — to tell them it’s all right to believe in at least a few of the inner abilities that each of us possesses, to whatever degree. [...]

He does not realize the full strength of his psychic acquiescence, you see, which is far superior to his egotistical half-denials.