“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

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.

The intellect is a part of the ego, and its development is important. Therefore the appearance of separate events trains the intellect. Otherwise full use of the intuitions would be relied upon and the intellect would not develop, for the intellect is an important feature in the further specialization of individual consciousness and identity.