“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] All the personalities within it are independent, and survive as themselves, yet it is only part of a larger identity—which is to say that it itself is within the sphere of another psychological organization system or gestalt.

A number of scientists — biologists, zoologists, and psychologists, among others — have recently published highly praised books in which they claim to show how our genes manipulate our individual behavior with only their own genetic survival at stake, even when we think we are displaying subjective qualities like altruism. [...]

[...] Why does science want us to live thinking that we’re creatures programmed only for the survival of our selfish genes? [...]

[...] The inner reincarnational structure of the human psyche is very important in man’s physical survival. [...]

The West has forced the individual to stand besieged and alone, undermined by evolution, in which the individual’s only meaning lay in the survival of his species. [...]

[...] Unless you learn never to distort the basic consciousness survival in terms of hatred, you will always have to deal with seemingly unresolved hatreds and aggressions.

Aggressions are merely the result of energy not clearly directed, invalid survival patterns. [...]

[...] Usually I get excellent results with the pendulum; I learned now that the visual-interference effects had been caused by my unsuccessful attempts to perceive a thought-form sent out by a survival personality. [...]

(I also learned that no particular painting of mine was involved, nor were my efforts to project this afternoon; that the survival personality was unknown to me, and that the pendulum couldn’t tell me who the personality was.

Your own survival as a species was your main concern. [...]

In the present circumstances you are carrying that idea forward — of species survival regardless of the consequences, the idea of changing the environment to suit your own purposes; and this has led you to a disregard of spiritual truths.

[...] Were such experience a part of the physical self, and dependent upon it, the personality could hardly survive physical death. [...]

[...] Therefore the personality that has survived makes no distinction on its own.

[...] Many personalities do not operate in such a manner, and I am not speaking merely of survival personalities in your terms. [...]

[...] Think of the subconscious now merely as an academic psychologist might; as that inner portion of the self who is concerned with physical survival. [...]

[...] These events can seem to be disasters or near disasters, and yet they can sufficiently mobilize the entire personality for survival’s sake. [...]

[...] In personal terms, again, each species is concerned not only with survival but with the quality of its life and experience.

[...] Inherently, each individual knows that he or she must die physically in order to survive spiritually and psychically…. [...]

[...] It is in immediate contact with the body on certain levels: survival levels. [...]

Your own instinct for survival, so-called, is the result, so to speak, of experience in other systems. [...]

[...] The survival instinct, strongly connected with the physical self, keeps it anchored in focus within your system. [...]

[...] Nature is everywhere filled with promise — not only the promise of mere survival, but the promise of beauty and fulfillment. [...]

[...] Joe also survived the hospital environment.

[...] It had to have hidden in its psychological roots the bloody remnants of the struggle for survival that now cast it in its uneasy role. [...]

(John Fuller is to visit us with his wife next Wednesday evening, to interview Jane for an article he is writing on survival. [...]

[...] The super-perfect, impractical self-image simply fell away: it could not survive such a situation. [...]

[...] (Pause.) In those terms — and, again, this is important — in those terms only, he appeared at the time of Atlantis, but the records were destroyed and forgotten except in the memory of a few who survived.