“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

This does not mean that they will appear within your own system however. They are as real and as unreal as physical objects. Little attention has been given to the pathways opened, even in the physical brain, as the result of psychedelic experiences. Those portions of the brain, seemingly unused, deal with these other dimensions, and physically (underlined), you begin to use these portions, though minutely, for the first time, under psychedelic situations.

It is possible (underlined) that the psychedelic experience for these individuals would involve consciousness expansion directed toward (underlined) usual physical reality, and bring about a more unified personality structure from society’s standpoint. Insanity as a term means nothing. All mental life is characterized by divergent perceptions of any given set of sense data that is recognized as Reality, with a capital R.

A disciplined but intuitive ego then becomes a necessity in order that such new experience may be brought under useful control, in your (underlined) terms. The ego become more necessary you see, not less, for it must learn to synthesize the gained experience in recognizable terms within your system. Otherwise if the ego is pushed aside it will rise up in arms and in opposition, and can be highly dangerous.

It goes without saying that in our methods the ego is changed rather completely but gradually in many cases, and only through its own willingness to do so. It recognizes its identity as a part of, underlined, the inner self. Therefore basically it has no need to fight the inner self, since it knows its survival is dependent upon this inner framework.

In other words, portions of the inner self have joined the strictly egotistical functions. The ego in such cases is so attuned that it becomes almost something else. We are coming here toward a definition of illumination in psychic terms. The ego is not, underlined, banished. It joins with portions of the inner self previously unconscious, and illuminates the whole personality. It is no longer primarily physically oriented. Therefore it is no longer an ego in the terms usually meant.

Again, this is an important point. The ego has accepted the goals of the inner self. Its identity has already changed, so that its main concern, underline main, is no longer primarily with physical manipulation, but with inner growth and development.

This does not mean that it ignores its earlier functions. In true expansion of consciousness then, you become more and more aware, more conscious, underlined, of inner realities that were previously never realized on a conscious level. Since the ego is presently your main vehicle of consciousness, it will not be obliterated. It will indeed be resurrected. It simply changes not only its form, but its inner core, accepting as a part of itself realities which it previously ignored out of fear, ignorance and insecurity.