“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

It must be recognized also that these portions of the self exist in each incarnation. In the materialization of personality through various incarnations, only the ego and the layers of the personal subconscious adopt new characteristics. The other layers of the self retain their past experiences, identity and knowledge.

The ego receives, in fact, much of its stability because of this subconscious retention. Were it not for past experiences in other lives on the part of deeper layers of the self, the ego would find it almost impossible to relate to other individuals, and the cohesiveness of society would not exist.

For as many layers of the self compose the whole self, so many selves form a gestalt of which you know relatively little, and of which I am not yet prepared to tell you.

His dream represented several layers of information; on a superficial layer it represented his knowledge that fear of physical childbirth is not a deterrent to him. On another level it represented a knowledge that a future endeavor would at first appear to be two separate endeavors, two separate accomplishments not connected to each other; but on later examination it will be seen that they are unified.