“It wasn't that I mistrusted the Seth personality, but I felt it was a personification of something else -- and that "something else" wasn't a person in our terms. It was, I felt, a consciousness different from mine, but to call Seth a spirit guide, meaning a nonphysical person in usual terms, just didn't fit to me.”

— Jane Roberts

Source: Adventures In Consciousness: An Introduction to Aspect Psychology (1975), p. 132

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