“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

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. Now this altered ego retains its highly specialized self-consciousness, and yet it can now experience itself as an identity within and as a part of action.

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. Action never ceases its own exploration of itself. All That Is can never know itself completely, since action must always act and each action creates a new unknown.

One thing you should know: action cannot stop. It is powerless in this respect only. It cannot destroy itself. It can change form. It often changes direction. 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.

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. They exist in codified psychological structures within your personality, as you exist in the same manner within each of their personalities.

All action will be expressed. Now to some degree you have a root nature, then, and many of your dreams will be similar. You are far from identical with these probable selves, and yet if you met them you would instantly know that you had found unknown portions of yourself.

Each probable self you see also has future selves. This multidimensional identity is a psychological structure with which we shall be dealing in our discussions. The term includes the whole self as it consists of the self that you know, probable selves, reincarnated selves, and selves more highly developed than the self that you know.

These make up the basic identity structure of one whole self. Again, this does not mean that the portions are not independent and individual. Also, the divisions are arbitrary to a large degree, for they can indeed be carried further, for example, to the entity.