“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Now Ruburt’s ego, so hard to win over, is now up in arms because it regards me as its exclusive property. [...]

Egotistically you make arbitrary designations of necessity, perceiving only portions of any given action; again, the ego attempting to separate itself from overall action, and to see itself as an entirely independent structure.

[...] You identify instead with your present ego, so when you think in terms of life after death you really mean a future life of the ego that you know. [...]

The invisible environment within your mind is not as lonely as you might think, and your seeming inner isolation is caused by the ego’s persistent guard. [...]

In that state, with the functions of the ego somewhat stilled, there is some considerable communication between various portions of the entire identity. [...]

“For one thing, Ruburt’s ego is extremely strong. His intuition is the gateway that relaxes an otherwise stubborn and domineering ego.” [...]

[...] Even so, Seth said that my strong ego was an asset to our work when I didn’t overdo it, since it kept my whole personality on an even keel and allowed me the psychological strength to handle and develop my abilities.

[...] Such beliefs clutter up your conscious mind with negative suggestions that can only frighten the exterior ego and impede the great strength and vitality that is your heritage from lending you the fullest possible strength and support.

Only then can you fully begin to manipulate the conditions that exist and communicate this knowledge that you receive to the ego. For the time, you see, the ego becomes a direct participator in such experience, at least to a degree.

[...] When these dreams are unusually vivid, then the ego is aware and participating, but generally it is not using its critical faculties. [...]

[...] The next step, of course, is to allow the ego to awaken its critical faculties while within this state. [...]

[...] This experience is also less startling to the ego than a more abrupt projection, and the ordinary nature of the activities — walking into the next room, for example — will be reassuring. [...]

[...] Then these split personality fragments or images can be kept under scrutiny without taxing the present ego to distraction. [...]

[...] Remember that they did exist … by the same token your triumph reinforced the healthy aspects of your present egos.”

[...] If really large areas of the self are inhibited, a secondary personality can be formed, grouped about those qualities distrusted and denied by the primary ego, and usually opposed to it. [...]

[...] I have told you that it is extremely limiting to regard the ego as the complete self or personality, or to think that the ego makes up the entire identity.

The identity, indeed, is as much and more the inner self as it is the ego. [...]

[...] This is the result of a lowering of egotistic guards, for the ego sets up controls that act as resistance to various channels, so that many connections are closed. [...]

In such circumstances these perceptions may find their way to the ego, appearing as inspirations or intuitive thought. [...]

[...] We have taken his ego into consideration at all times, so that he can consciously assimilate what he has learned, as is preferable. [...]

[...] The process had finally to become conscious in your terms, with the ego highly involved. [...]

The ego found poetry acceptable and never challenged it. [...]

[...] It can be concentrated or turned by the ego in literally endless directions. [...]

[...] (Pause.) The ego can use the conscious mind almost entirely as a way of perceiving external or internal realities that coincide with its own beliefs. [...]

The cat focuses upon one thing at a time even though it has no strong ego. So Jane concentrates while I give her the messages, even though it is not the ego which is concentrating. [...]

[...] This is a means of acquainting the present personality with its ‘past’ and also of reminding it of its goals, without disturbing the blatant awake ego.

[...] These dissociated states often occur in sleep, when the ego is quieted. [...]

[...] Far be it from me to tamper with Ruburt’s precious ego. [...]

[...] His ego satisfaction, which is so hungry, and his actual need for finances, should be satisfied and could be through his writing, as I told you.

[...] His ego will lap up whatever praise it needs through being an assistant to the director. [...]

[...] It is because the ego is tied to its past that it sees the past seemingly rise up. It has the ability to see what is coming, so to speak, but while the frightened ego is still in control it chooses to see only a portion of what is possible, and before the point of death it usually chooses to hide in the past.

[...] You will already have learned to recognize the spacious present for what it is, and the conscious ego will not be so bewildered and confused by the sudden perception that is involved.

[...] Now in a creative individual, some of these could be expressed symbolically in a painting or other work of art, but the ego could not consider them as actual.

This is coded, shielded, even from his own ego. [...]

[...] You see, you are so convinced that you are guilty and you are so convinced that your ego is the most important part of you, when instead it is only the portion of yourselves that you focused upon as a child. [...]

[...] You use many of your natural and native abilities when it seems to your ego that you are unconscious. [...]

What you think of as (underlined) male ego-oriented characteristics are simply those human attributes that the species encouraged, brought into the foreground, and stressed. [...]

In your present framework, because of the male-female specialization — the male orientation, the implication that the ego is male while the psyche is female — you force upon yourselves great divisions in which operationally the intellect seems separate from the intuitions, and you set up a situation in which opposites seem to apply where there are none. [...]

[...] The ego part of the structure concentrates with great intensity, directing itself within those coordinates that form physical reality.

[...] The deep connections that occur, for example in various reincarnations, are not apparent to the ego. [...]

[...] The limitations are those adopted by the ego, in many cases for good reason.

One dream will enable the ego to solve pressing immediate problems. [...]

[...] Only the ego makes any distinction. [...]

[...] When the excursion is over, the return to the dream body is made with no strain, you see, for the ego is little concerned. [...]

[...] Dream projections are quite different, in any case, and the ego is already protected, as mentioned by Seth.

As you know, it is almost impossible for you to be aware of the full perceptions possible, for the ego would not stand for it. [...]

[...] It would be difficult to carry the memories of the present ego personality with you. [...]