The Nature of the Psyche: Its Human Expression
About This Book
The Nature of the Psyche: Its Human Expression is Seth's most direct examination of the psychological nature of the human being — the specific dimensions of the psyche that conventional psychology has not yet recognised (or has recognised but misinterpreted), and the relationship between these deeper dimensions and the surface personality that psychology has primarily studied. Seth's approach to psychology is continuous with his broader metaphysical framework: the psyche is not primarily biological (a product of the brain) but multidimensional — a being that exists across multiple dimensions of time and space simultaneously and that is in constant communication with aspects of itself that the ordinary waking consciousness does not directly perceive.
The book addresses sexuality and gender with particular depth — Seth's position (that sexual identity and orientation are expressions of the soul's exploration of the full range of human experience and are not to be evaluated in terms of any single culture's norms) was remarkably progressive for the mid-1970s when it was delivered. He also addresses the nature of creativity, the relationship between the conscious and unconscious mind (which in Seth's framework is far more complex and more populated than either Freudian or Jungian models suggest), and the specific relationship between the personality and the entity or 'oversoul' from which it springs.
What You'll Learn
• Understand Seth's model of the psyche as a multidimensional structure: the specific 'layers' or dimensions he identifies (the conscious personality, the inner self, the entity or oversoul) and how they relate to each other in the total architecture of the psyche — including the dimensions that conventional psychology has not recognised
• Grasp the teaching on sexuality and gender: Seth's understanding that sexual orientation and gender identity are expressions of the soul's exploration of the full range of human experience across many lifetimes, not fixed characteristics that define the fundamental nature of the person — and what implications this understanding has for self-acceptance and for the social evaluation of sexual diversity
• Recognise the dream dimension of the psyche: how Seth presents the dreaming self not as a shadow or reduced version of the waking self but as a fully active dimension of the psyche that is engaged in its own creative and problem-solving activities — and how the waking personality benefits from developing a more conscious relationship with this dreaming dimension
• Learn the creativity teaching: how Seth explains the creative process as the waking self's consciously directed collaboration with the inner self's access to vast stores of knowledge and possibility — and what specific practices support this collaboration
• Appreciate the relationship to other Seth books: how The Nature of the Psyche's specific focus on psychological structure provides the foundation for understanding how the creative power described in 'The Nature of Personal Reality' is actually exercised — the specific psychological mechanisms through which consciousness creates experience
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