“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

The consciousness so attuned however is only a small portion of the individual’s total consciousness. In your system it is now fashionable to refer to this as the ego. The psychological structures are indeed so imprinted. However they are also aware and conscious of huge portions of themselves that are not so imprinted. They are aware of themselves simultaneously as individuals imprinted so as to react within several systems.

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.

Of itself such an experience will not give you psychological mobility through other portions that compose your own becoming psychological structure. I say here “of itself" because certain personalities will be advanced enough to use such an experience as a springboard into precisely these discoveries. (Long pause.)

We are bringing the ego inward, so to speak. It is partaking of this consciousness expansion. In the past the ego has been overexaggerated. It has ruled the roost. This does not mean that the changing pendulum must now attempt to eliminate the ego. Any expansion of consciousness must also include this portion of the self.

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.

(Jane also said the embossed data is legitimate, and stemmed from two things on the object: the “squiggly" frame I indicated in the drawing, and the fact that the center portion of the object had added dimension or thickness because of the two pieces of paper—actually one-ply drawing paper—being pasted together.