“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

In other words the ego is not familiar with the probable self, but certain portions of the subconscious are. For the subconscious, like the probable self, is aware of its existence in the inverted time system. The subconscious is aware of many realities which are not accepted by the ego as actual physical events, and it reacts to many stimuli of which the ego is completely unaware.

(Ordinarily, Jane said, she would have had a cigarette during the delivery; but this time she “got the message” that she was not to smoke. It came on a parallel level while she was speaking other words aloud. She felt no force preventing her hand from reaching for a smoke, yet she didn’t feel free to reach for one.

(“An initiation, and a bringing together of fragments.” We thought this of course a reference to Linda’s marriage. The use of the word fragments here, by Seth, led us to think that reincarnational motives might be involved in the marriage; but I did not think to quiz Seth about this when he resumed. In the very early sessions Seth began to use fragment as a reference to each physical personality manifested by the entity.