“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

He has indeed learned, the hard way, lessons that he had to learn if he were to further develop. And yet these lessons all in all were self-given, and he is actually lucky, for they could have been far more difficult and the fruits of stubbornness could have been more bitter.

He has learned that the ego cannot set itself up against the inner self. He has learned to trust and have confidence in the inner self, and to listen to the subconscious which is a part of his inner identity.

The emergence of these psychic abilities was indeed resented by his ego, and initiated a necessary overhaul of personality, against which it protested. Ruburt will be more his natural and uninhibited intuitional self now. The ego had simply overgrown its bounds.

Now. You must not take too literally that which you read, but leave it to the inner self to interpret and decide, and leave it to our material also. For the material represents the very best of your knowledge as it is given to you. Do not let terms confuse you. They are by nature confusing and distorted.

Some of the books will contain good ideas that you can use. Others you will discard. You must first of all remember the simple truth—that there is no upper or lower to the self. There is no low subconscious and high superconscious. They are one and the same. You simply seem to know them separately.

In time you will experience them as one. Therefore, when you read, and various names are given to, levels of the self, remember this. This point alone will save you much bewilderment. The exercises, the way Ruburt has adapted them recently, are excellent. He should keep this view. You will always adapt in any case. These sessions and material represent your closest and most dependable source of inner knowledge, outside of direct personal mystical experiences.

They cannot be intellectually held apart from the whole self. You must actively practice what you both know in your daily living. If you do not do so you will forget what you know, literally. What is said in our sessions must be utilized, and for the sake of others as well as for yourselves.

A comparable change occurred in your personality, Joseph, after the sessions began. It was less difficult, mainly since you had been ill earlier, you see, and already forced to know the weight of the body when the ego fights the intuitional self.

You were therefore more willing to accept a psychic readjustment and experience. The self teaches its own lessons. The self knows the best way to get its message across.