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A fine tuning of focus takes place here, where Ruburt’s abilities are focused in new directions, directions that are unfamiliar to the ego. [...]

[...] If such inner data is to become at all conscious, it must be translated into terms that the ego can recognize. [...]

[...] These can be alternative courses to those who believe that there is no other way but to browbeat the ego — either through the use of chemicals or by other methods calculated to strip it of its powers at least momentarily, rather than teaching it to use those great abilities of assimilation that it does possess.

I will speak concerning the ego’s censorship, and even to some extent concerning the censorship of the personal subconscious.

[...] But the inner self is more flexible, you see, than the ego, and it can therefore contain greater intensities without undue alarm.

3. Seth packed a lot of information into the short 689th session for Volume 1. He discussed the innumerable experiments of consciousness with animal-man and man-animal forms; the great communication between man and animal in ancient times, and the deep rapport of both with their natural heritage; psychic and biological blueprints and cellular precognition; the growth of man’s ego consciousness; the beginnings of our god concepts and mythology; and more.

[...] Nevertheless there must be conscious control and the ego must be certain of its dominant position—not be afraid of being taken over, willy-nilly.

[...] Also to him a note: even his adolescent, seemingly-undisciplined times were disciplined, giving notice of continuing ego strength, balanced and sometimes over-balanced by intuitional development, in that he never ceased writing from the day that he began.

[...] The self is indeed multidimensional, and the driving force behind the self does not reside in the ego or in what you refer to as the subconscious.

[...] On the other hand, I wanted someone with a strong-enough ego structure to contain what will amount to... [...]

You should first of all admit that the feelings exist as a part of yourself, at the ego level. [...]

[...] Recognize in yourself the egos that you see in others. [...]

(Warren: “But isn’t this stuff all about the development of ego consciousness?”)

True identity is as much divorced from ego reality as the photograph is from the person. [...]

[...] It is this same sort of resistance, on a much simpler level, that he uses to block me whenever his ego becomes overly concerned.

[...] However his ego is very well in control, so well in control that on occasion when I would have spoken on these very matters I have not been allowed to do so. [...]

([Theodore M:] “How far would the ego accept it and wouldn’t it be dangerous?”)

[...] (This kind of thinking usually reminds me of a certain statement Seth made half a dozen years ago; see Note 7 for Session 727: “Creatures without the compartment of the ego can easily follow their own identity beyond any change of form.”)

You are ashamed to admit that to some extent you resent the payments that you both make, and this is the main reason why these fears were not recognized sufficiently by the ego, but forced into the subconscious where they made themselves known in this manner.

You have both advanced, particularly you see because you do not have the ego to contend with as an adversary. [...]

[...] This is one of the reasons why some projections are so confusing, particularly when the ego is taken along for the ride. [...]