“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

The whole self slowly regains knowledge of its own reincarnations, and learns of its relationship to its own entity. I have said that a personality may become another entity. There is no rule against it. It is a matter of inherent strength and ability and also of desire. Many personalities upon receiving knowledge of their entity prefer to remain part of it, though they are always independent individualities within the whole entity, as even the cells of your physical bodies are part of the whole self. They greet the entity as a son greets his father. There is no coercion involved here, and this is an important point.

The cells of your physical body incidentally also have their awareness, which may seem minute and insignificant to you, but they make independent decisions upon which you depend in very important degrees. Your term, instinct, is a very unfortunate one, and coined to begin with because you insist that no organism except man has any consciousness.

The cells are independent, as they are individuals. They are also dependent upon the driving organization of your subconscious, following its directions even to cancerous reproductions, which on their part is of course growth.

You as a physical being are also dependent upon many forces that you do not understand, so there is no contradiction in saying that the cells are individual and independent, and yet dependent upon stronger organization. There is no coercion put upon the cells, because each cell is what it is because of its innate ability and strength. Nor is there any coercion as far as a personality is concerned, which is a part of an entity. There are laws of development, which are the only real laws, and which govern such matters. Or really, such matters govern themselves. When capabilities grow there are ways of further growth which become open.