“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

The heavy hydrogen molecules had a large part to play in the birth of that (earlier) system. Consciousnes had first to create the void or the dimension in which the system could exist, and also to endow that void with all the probabilities for development that have come about in your time and are to come about. The void, in other terms, can therefore be compared to a mind, and who can predict what images or thoughts will be given birth there? There are, as I have told you, countless such systems, and yet within them all there is identity and direction.

Instead, the inner self is intimately connected with each reality, though you are not aware of it; and the inner self can trace its own connections through the network of any existence and still keep its identity.

Its sense of identity spontaneously goes beyond the change of its own form. It has no ego to cut the “I” identification short. Creatures without the compartment of the ego can easily follow their own identity beyond any change of form. The inner self is aware of this integrity of identity, but the ego, focused so securely in physical reality, cannot afford this luxury.

Any consciousness is, therefore, innately aware of its basic identity. The inner self knows what is behind the physical stars and planets that the eye views, but the ego would be swept aside in panic at such realization.