“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Now I have been speaking about psychological structures that are far more complicated than those with which you are familiar. We can tie these two subjects together very nicely, dear friends. For in a very dim manner, the psychedelic experience can give you some glimmerings as to the nature of these more advanced psychological structures.

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.

The separate incarnated personalities however are still separate identities. This is no contradiction at all. The personality structures of which I am speaking are far more advanced than this example. They are aware of many existences within many systems. They organize the basic ground reality into many patterns, and then operate and manipulate within them.

You are as a rule aware of one system only and not generally conscious of yourself as anything but a creature of that system. I refer here to humanity at this time. These psychological structures through value fulfillment, ever enlarge their abilities to form new realities and to act within them. It should not be forgotten that these environmental systems are directly created by those who dwell within them, and this includes your own.

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.

In some personalities they will lead to what you call a mystic experience. They will carry the personality into new realms of perception. They will momentarily break up usual patterned organizations of perception. You will see with new inner eyes. To some extent you will view some aspects of reality apart from the usual physical structures that you impose upon it as a whole. There is therefore a freedom for the inner self.

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.)

A trained and flexible ego will be able to momentarily relinquish its dominancy during the experience itself. We will have more to say here in connection with these advanced psychological structures, and what is called the psychedelic experience. At our next session, I will begin also to answer Ruburt’s questions concerning such an experience without drugs. You have many hints, and I will give you further instruction.