“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

If you compare the whole self with an ocean, then the topmost wave at any given time would represent the ego. It is not by or of itself a separate thing, but part of the whole, forever changing, to return to the whole and be tumbled under and emerge again in new form.

Various portions of the self therefore face physical reality at any given time as the ego. The process is constant. An attempt to maintain the status quo is of course natural on the part of the ego, but when this becomes a stubborn effort to maintain dominancy then the difficulties arise. The self throws up those portions of itself that it considers most able to handle the changing physical environment at any given time.

Give us a moment here. (Pause.) To some extent the symptoms did represent caution. He did not want to move until he was sure of his direction once more. It was the stubborn ego in this case that prevented him from seeing clearly the direction which had been given by other portions of the self.

The stability of the whole self is dependent upon the mobility of each portion of the self. When the physical system is in good operating order, then the various portions of the self are operating properly. The fault will not always lie with the conscious or subconscious, however, but in other layers.