“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

You understood, when we were done, that you perceive but a very brief glimpse of a small part of action as it exists. On a conscious level you perceive less than this.

Action and consciousness are forever bound together, and we discussed the structure of the personality from this viewpoint. Action is perceived within your system electromagnetically, in terms of intensities. The personality as you know it is merely the result of action as you perceive it in certain groupings at any given time.

You can within them often perceive both your past and present simultaneously, but this has always been a characteristic of the whole self in any case. The whole self is not bound by any system. At various times more of the abilities of the whole self intrude, so to speak, upon the ego system. You then become conscious of action that escaped you earlier. This often occurs with the help of the dream state.

When you perceive merely the present personality, you are simply perceiving a small portion of action.

To perceive more of action immediately involves mobility, and I am not speaking in terms of space. The act of perception itself involves mobility through intensities, and the many facets of consciousness can only be experienced as a direct result of this inner mobility.

Now you are looking at the personality with the ego as your starting point. Other portions of the personality however perceive, or attempt to perceive, the whole self from their own starting point. The ego is seen in quite a different light when it is viewed by other portions of the self. It is not viewed—this was a poor term—as much as it was experienced, for no portion of the personality can be viewed as an object.

The ego is the only part of the self that regards physical objects as anything but symbols. It is highly difficult for other parts of the self to experience the ego for this reason. The ego, while always changing, is one of the most rigid aspects of identity. To the inner self neither house nor walls exist. They are perceived only as vague self-limiting ideas on the ego’s part.