“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

([Ron:] “If we didn’t interpret ego-sensitive ourselves you are saying that Seth II could speak more directly and nonsymbolically to us?”)

[...] In each life the new consciousness struggles to tie together the whole present personality, to use what is necessary from the subconscious for the good of the personality, and to keep submerged in the subconscious any knowledge that would threaten the dominancy of the present ego.

[...] The basic problems are necessarily kept from the personality by the entity simply because so many psychological undercurrents would sweep the ego off its feet, and pull the rug of sanity from beneath it.

[...] Almost instantly the present ego of the personality concerned would set up countermeasures against what it would consider an invasion. [...]

On your plane such transformations are carried on without the awareness of the ego with which you are familiar, and therefore other mechanisms become necessary. [...]

[...] Often the personality does receive a rewarding glimpse of the inner reality, but more often the ego is merely sent tumbling through frightening images of chaotic phantom realities formed by a suddenly-released subconscious, and with no guide. [...]

[...] This is an aid to the ego only. [...]

The unconscious and subconscious areas, however, are aware of much more of this information than the ego, for it receives only the minute residue of dream material as a rule. [...]

[...] But this is dependent upon my prediction as to which choice [of probable events] you will make, and the choice is still your own … Predictions, per se, do not contradict the theory of free will, though free will is dependent upon much more than any freedom of the ego alone. If the ego were allowed to make all the choices, with no veto power from other layers of the self, you would all be in a sad position indeed.

[...] When he heard the voices, rather than becoming confident, he began to rise up to more shallow layers, and the ego ruled the dream sequence that followed.

[...] Not only has his inner self expanded, but his ego has become stronger, even while it has become more flexible. [...]

[...] As an analogy here, the conscious ego could be said to exist within this copper tube, located at approximately its center.

[...] The ego is firmly attached to the use of the physical senses, however. [...]

[...] Your own ego and consciousness must learn and develop and not be coerced into any kind of submission, for you would resent it, as indeed I would resent and coercion. [...]

[...] In all cases, if the ego consciousness is to be reached, some sense imagery is necessary.

[...] (Long pause at 9:10.) Previous life memories, existing electronically and magnetically, may carry such intense charge that they superimpose themselves in the present physical structure, and form memory patterns quite alien to those of the present ego personality.

[...] He explained that Bill had allowed the hypnosis to proceed just so far before his ego called a halt, but that he could progress. [...]

—with the inner ego operating consciously to give continuity.

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

[...] Eve, rather than Adam, for example, eats of the apple first because it was the intuitive elements of the race, portrayed in the story as female, that would bring about this initiation; only afterward could the ego, symbolized by Adam, attain its new birth and its necessary alienation. [...]

[...] Practically speaking these capacities have been overlooked in human development simply because the ego hit upon the present method of perception, and clung to it.

I have explained somewhat earlier how the gestalt ego consciousness was formed, and to some degree explained its psychic composition, but there is much more to be said here. [...]

[...] The outer senses make this information meaningful to the physical organism, and the body consciousness, the ego. [...]

[...] Now, however, you should also become aware of other personalities who work with you when your normally conscious ego is quieted. [...]