The Individual and the Nature of Mass Events by Jane Roberts

Author:Jane Roberts [Roberts, Jane]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Amber-Allen Publ., New World Library
Published: 1995-09-01T07:00:00+00:00

SESSION 834, FEBRUARY 5, 1979

8:59 P.M. MONDAY

(After supper this evening Jane read some notes I’d written recently, in which I speculated about why I paint portraits — my "heads," as I call them — out of my "imagination," instead of using live models of "real people." I’ve often wondered if at least some of my motivations for working this way have reincarnational or counterpart1 inspirations. I remarked tonight that it would be nice if Seth would discuss the subject, and Jane replied that she thought he’d do so.

(That statement, in fact, plus her desire for material from Seth on a question of her own, made her wonder whether we’d even receive any book dictation tonight. Then, no sooner had we sat for the session than Jane asked me to write down what she was about to say, since she had the material available whether or not Seth got to it: "A new part, or chapter heading: ’People Who Are Afraid of Themselves. Controlled Environments, and Positive and Negative Mass Behavior. ’" I told her I thought Seth would not only have plenty of time to cover our respective questions, but would come through with some book work too, and this was the case.

(We’re presenting his material for me because it has good general application: If Seth deals with my own painted images without even mentioning the words reincarnation or counterparts, still he does reveal how such "residents of the mind" make up part of each person's innate knowledge of his or her own greater—or larger—self.

(Whispering:) Good evening.

("Good evening, Seth.")

About your material, and allied matters.

As I have often said, there are concepts most difficult to explain, particularly concerning the nature of consciousness, for often in your frame of reference certain concepts, quite valid, can appear contradictory so that one will seem to invalidate the other.

I try to strongly state the pristine uniqueness of the individual. I also say that there are no limitations to the self. The two statements can appear to be contradictory. When you are a child, your sense of identity does not include old age in usual experience. When you are an old person, you do not identify yourself as a child. Your sense of identity, then, changes physically through the years. In a way it seems that you add on to yourself through experience, becoming "more than you were before." You move in and out of probable selfhoods, while at the same time — usually with the greatest of ease — you maintain an identity of yourself. The mosaics of consciousness are brilliant to behold.

When I speak of mosaics, you might think of small segments, shining and of different shapes and sizes. Yet the mosaics of consciousness are more like lights, radiating through themselves and through a million spectrums.

The infant sees mental images before birth, before the eyes are open. Your memory, it seems, is your own — yet I have told you that you have a history of other existences. You remember other faces, even though the mind you call the conscious one may not recognize the images from that deep inner memory.

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