“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

The ego as you know it, the conscious self within your time system, this ego, let us say, arrives at and experiences event X.

I am making this discussion as simple as possible, and using the conscious self simply because less difficulties are presented in explanation. It is obvious, for example, that some events are experienced by the subconscious also, that may or may not be experienced by the ego.

As I have explained the ego to you, within your system it can only perceive in terms of continuity, in a straight-line fashion so to speak, one event after the other. It can only choose to experience one event out of all the probable events at a time. The ego is however the only portion of the self that is, in the main, limited to follow experience along these lines.

The package of experience that you can focus upon and make sense of, is indeed composed of many small packages, but the whole package of reality is actually much larger than this. There is however a portion of the self that can and does experience events in an entirely different fashion, and this portion of the self goes off on a different tangent. For when our individual perceives event X, this other portion of the self branches off, so to speak, into all the other probable events that could have been just as easily experienced by the ego.

The ego must choose one of all these because of its physical time limitations. But this other portion of the self can, and does, delve into what you could call event X1, X2, X3, et cetera. It can pursue and experience all of these alternate events, and it can do so in the same amount of physical time that it takes for the ego to experience event X alone.