“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

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.

It attempted to stop other portions of the personality from entering into the ego framework. This ego that so behaved was then simply a group of particular qualities belonging to Ruburt, that were given control for a while to meet particular circumstances, and then stubbornly refused to return to the whole personality.

There had been in the past overweight, and in this instance there was in some portions of the body an overextension of tissue about the joints. The morning symptoms incidentally have to do with this life however, bringing back earlier fears of facing the day, you see.

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.

You see however he felt that he was learning maturity by ignoring the subconscious. This is at the base of these problems. He mistrusted the most reliable portion of his present personality. He automatically rejected the sweaters as giving warmth on a subconscious basis.