“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

That which was is constantly taken into what you call the present. The ego may choose to use or not use various reactions. It may reject various reactions as a part of the past, for it is the ego alone who is concerned with past, present and future. The ego’s denial of a reaction however does not cause the reaction to disappear from within the personality, at least as part of possible pattern reaction.

Many reactions, many patterns of reactions, are rejected by the ego upon some occasions and accepted upon other occasions, but as a rule such alternate behavior is annoying to the ego itself. The ego deals with cause and effect, and often denies particular reactions because it decides that they are not effective. The ego is fairly rigid, comparatively speaking. Rationalization is one method by which the ego justifies its acceptance of a reaction which it once rejected as ineffective.

As this point is reached the ego obviously becomes more disturbed. In very few cases however does the conflict reach this sort of proportion. A lack of communication between the ego and the inner self is obviously one of the main causes for such difficulties.