“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(Today Jane had been reading Experimental Psychology, by C.G. Jung, first American edition, published by Jung’s heirs in 1968, etc.)

Now let us start with Jung for a bit. He presumes that consciousness must be organized about an ego structure. And what he calls the unconscious, not so egotistically organized, he therefore considers without consciousness, without consciousness of a self.

He makes a good point, saying that the ego cannot know unconscious material directly. He does not realize however, nor do your other psychologists, what I have told you often—that there is an inner ego; and it is this inner ego that organizes what Jung would call unconscious material.

Now the inner ego is the organizer of experience that Jung would call unconscious. The inner ego is another term for what we call the inner self. As the outer ego manipulates within the environment and physical reality, so the inner ego or self organizes and manipulates within an inner reality. The inner ego creates that physical reality with which the outer ego then deals.

Jung’s dark side of the self is the ego, not the unconscious. The complicated, infinitely varied, unbelievably rich tapestry of Jung’s, in quotes “unconscious,” could hardly be unconscious. It is the product of an inner consciousness with far more sense of identity and purpose than the daily ego. It is the daily ego’s ignorance and limited focus that makes it view so-called unconscious activity as chaotic.

(Jane could offer nothing about the second male. I do not know whether I have met the two men mentioned by Seth or not; I am inclined to think I haven’t. On the other hand Tom Hartley told Jane the party was primarily for newspaper people, and I have met some of this local group... I didn’t press Seth with questions since it seemed he preferred to continue with the Jung reply.

(In reference to this, I asked a question at break: Since Jung was “dead,” how had his published ideas now changed, etc.

Now we will continue with this discussion at our next session. Jung enlarged on some of his concepts shortly before he died. (Leaning forward, humorously emphatic:) He has changed a good many of them since then. Now you may take a break or end the session as you prefer.