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The ego chooses channels of reception with great discrimination; and, again, it censors anything which it feels is a threat to its own dominance. In sleep however many dreams are of a telepathic nature, with strong clairvoyant overtones. It is the ego’s persistent discrimination in choosing the stimuli to which it will react that in a large measure determines the nature of physical time as it appears to the personality. The ego, because of its function and basic characteristics, cannot make swift decisions as can the intuitive self. Therefore it perceives events in a peculiar manner, almost in slow motion, so that the whole effect is of a series of separate events, one happening before or after the other.
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You are midway here. In the future the ego and the intellect will expand sufficiently so that they can contain and use and appreciate all the other functions and portions of the self which they now mistrust. Individual identity will then expand to include a greater variety of impulses and stimuli, which do not necessarily come from the self, and yet maintain specialized identity.
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