“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Your ego gains assurance from what seems to be the memory of its immediate past. A man who loses memory of past events feels insecure and lost, but other types of personality gestalts operate far differently. Instead of a time sequence that governs or seems to govern thought, mental activity of any kind, and overt action, you have associative processes, offshoots, and possibilities. To some extent you can gain an idea of this through an examination of your own stream of consciousness. But the comparison is highly superficial, for here too continuity reigns, even though associations are given greater play.

There is always a creative strain, in which consciousness attempts to express itself, and this has been explained earlier. The fact remains that All That Is is ever straining to be more. In all universes that we know, creativity and expansion are the rules.

They also emerge within realities, and can attain consciousness superior, in further developments, than that presently known by man.

Some systems are built entirely along these lines. Always there is the expansion of consciousness, though the lines of these progressions may be quite alien to your own. There are far too many complicated discussions along this particular line, so we will not attempt the matter now, but merely note it as one we will develop in the future.

The self that stabbed you in the back was the self negatively (underlined)developed in this life’s early existence. It tried to stab you in the back, and did so, but you were able to retaliate and to slay your would-be assassin.

Notice however that the knife used could have been a more dangerous, lethal one, for that self did not really want to kill you. It was simply a portion of you, formed by negative inferences, that became an unwitting enemy of the self you had become. When it was slain it gained freedom, for the negative elements were released from their compulsions, and the ritualized behavior that was symbolized by the formal clothing of your dream.

The idleness, if prolonged, is not idleness. Concentration upon physical data takes the conscious mind off for a trip, and it gives the inner self greater freedom to initiate new developments and intuitional creations. These, incidentally, can help you understand the true nature of time. Now take your break.