“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] It is for this reason that each portion of All That Is, each most minute consciousness, is endowed with the impetus toward survival, change, development and creativity. [...]

[...] This is obviously necessary for physical survival. [...]

[...] Survival in your system is dependent upon the highly specialized, focused, limited but specific qualities of the ego. [...]

[...] On one level the body’s very survival is largely determined by the units’ propensities for selectivity and significance. [...]

Authority, generally speaking, is necessary for society’s survival—but it does not exist of itself. [...]

[...] When images of survival personalities appear, they must also utilize such properties.

[...] This is something different than your idea (underlined) of brute survival.

[...] They enter, then, such forms as are available or make such forms as could survive. [...]

[...] The physical organism is not only open to, but to some extent influenced by, many more areas of actuality than is supposed; and its survival is determined by a large variety of factors as yet hardly considered possible by your scientists or doctors.

Because the personality is that part of the individual which is conscious of itself as a part of action, and therefore aware of its relation with action, the personality is that part of the individual which survives physical death.

[...] Obviously the secondary conditions are to some extent necessary for your survival as a physical organism, but you are more than a physical organism now, and you shall be other than a physical organism in your future.

[...] He could not have survived as a contributing psychological unit within your system otherwise. [...]

The individual is, again, a stranger, almost an alien, in his or her own environment, in which he must struggle to survive, not only against the “uncaring” forces of the immediate environment, but against the genetic determinism. [...]

[...] If pure personal survival were all that mattered to the so-called subconscious, such acts would be impossible—and in fact, they would be inconceivable on man’s part. [...]

[...] This adds to the confusion, and it is a matter of physical survival that he largely ignores these messages while he learns to focus in physical reality.

[...] Within this framework it protects and maintains its own stability and survival.

Those who survive feel that they have been given a new lease on life, regardless of their circumstances: They could have been killed and were not. [...]

[...] When you consider survival after death, for instance, you imagine all the senses fully operating, though perhaps in a nonphysical body. [...]

This resulted in a mobility of consciousness that indeed insured his physical survival, and those intuitions that appeared to him in the dream state were remembered and taken advantage of in the waking state.

[...] And this part is certainly as legitimate and actually more necessary to you as a whole unit, as far as survival on your physical plane is concerned, than the part that also plays bridge or Scrabble. [...]

[...] However, I cannot say this too often: You are more than your conscious mind, much more, and the self which you do not admit happens to be the portion of yourself which not only insures your own survival in the physical universe which it has made, but which is also the connective portion of yourself with inner reality. [...]

He spoke honestly when he said that he considered it intellectual suicide to accept even the possibility of personal survival of death. [...]