“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

They maintain overall identity however, and follow through, or keep track of, these individuals which are themselves. A very small case in point would be an individual who is as aware simultaneously, of all his incarnations within your system, aware of them happening at once, and yet aware of himself as the whole who experiences these existences.

The ego indeed is a fiction, but a highly useful one. It is an artificial division, indeed ever changing, and yet the illusion of its existence must be maintained while you are in this existence. It need not be inflexible, with training. With training it will be willing to grant you much more freedom, and yet it will remain intact.

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.