“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

You are, however, in physical existence using your body as a medium for learning and expression. You are each unique. (Pause.) Many of you for your own reasons pursue courses that do not involve an even development of abilities, an overall balanced picture, for example, but choose to express and experiment with certain qualities to the exclusion of others. Such a course would not, in physical reality, present you with anything like a balanced picture of perfection.

Now it is here that the seeming division in the self occurs, for in physical life the conscious mind must be connected with the brain, and in terms of time that organ itself must grow and develop. So all of your consciousness cannot be physically aware. The portion that must “wait for” the brain’s development is the part you call in life “the conscious mind.”

(10:06. Jane’s hour-long trance had indeed developed into a profound one. “Man, have I been out,” she said, trying to keep her eyes open. She finally gave up and leaned back in her rocker. “Are you tired of writing?” I said I wasn’t.