Adventures in Consciousness: An Introduction to Aspect Psychology

In 1963, Jane Roberts and her husband, Robert F. Butts, had been experimenting with a Ouija Board when a personality calling himself "Seth" began formig messages. Soon Miss Roberts began passing into a trance and speaking with Seth's distinctive voice. Her own The Seth Material was followed by Seth Speaks and The Nature of Personal Reality, both dictated by a personality "no longer focused in physical reality." But increasingly, Seth's voice was simply a springboard to further experiences which baffled Miss Poberts and her ESP class. Individsuals clashed heatedly over events that had transpired, apparently, in past lives. But if "past" lives are indeed finished, why did Robert Butts seem transformed into the still-present self he had "been" in late Roman times. With Seth's vibrant and original personality before them, why did some class students speak for "selves" that seemed drab and colorless by comparison? Why do the same transcendent perceptions that Miss Roberts enjoys frequently lead others into psychiatric breakdowns? And what of the Sumari, gracious entities that sing through Miss Roberts in a non-syntactical languange that listeners imediately understand? Even in the light of the most advanced psychology, the least of these "adventures in consciousness" simply make no sense. Miss Roberts sets out to account for this entire range of "unofficial" experiences. And what emerges is nothing less than a whole new theory of human personality - an "Aspect Psychology" that encompasses and explains the full, incredibly versatile, multidimensional range of man's normal psyche.