“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Basic reality is not a chaos. It is a raw material. All diversity implies a whole, and if you theorize a whole then you must also imply diversity. These personality structures are like you a portion of basic reality, or All That Is. They are simply able to use and express and act within a larger framework of it.

This does not mean that the word indeed would have no meaning. Psychological frameworks and psychic gestalts form the basis for individual reality regardless of system. All of these do imply a whole, but the very term whole would again be meaningless if the whole, through self-conscious individual parts, were not conscious of itself.

Of itself (underlined), however, it will not carry you further than this. Of itself, it will not give you insight into past lives or future existences. Of itself it will not lift you out of the framework of the physical system, but merely allow you to see that system as it is. It will allow you to experience your relationship with the system, and the system’s relationship with the whole.

It is precisely because the ego is excluded from the psychedelic experience with drugs that difficulties are encountered afterward. Given the opportunity the ego can and does merge with other portions of the self, and yet loosely maintains a psychological framework within which the experience can be translated in your terms.