“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

The next step is taken when identity is able to include within itself the intimate knowledge of all incarnations. Yet in this state the independence of the various reincarnated selves is not diminished. Each of these steps of consciousness involves identity with the inner recognition of its whole identity with All That Is.

As each separate identity then seeks to know and experience its other portions then All That Is learns who and what it is. [...] All That Is can never know itself completely, since action must always act and each action creates a new unknown.

This is a cornerstone for consciousness and for personality development. It is only a first step, however. [...] This particular step is not attained by all within your system. [...] This state has been called cosmic consciousness, but it is hardly that.

[...] What you may term the reality of possibilities is an example. There are many yous in that system, and each you is related psychologically in a personality structure. The you that you know is a part of this. In this system, all the other yous seem to exist in a probable reality.

There is even a certain feedback system that operates here, and yet you must understand that all of these other identities are independent and fully individual. [...]

[...] It is powerless in this respect only. [...] It is so many-dimensional that it must experience itself as individuals. Individuality is a direct result of the overall oneness of this action. Action is also a direct result of individual identities, for without these psychological dimensions, oneness could not multiply itself.

The psychedelic experience then represents a first necessary step, and that is all. [...]

[...] This altered ego is aware of large portions of inner reality that were previously denied. [...] It is able to open up so that inner experience can be received.

In the past, for example, the ego accepted only knowledge that came through the senses through the physical surroundings. Now it is open to inner data to a large degree. [...] Nevertheless, once this freedom is achieved, the ego can never return to its former state.

I have told you that the ego, generally speaking, is self-conscious action that attempts to set itself apart from action and to consider action as an alien object. [...]