“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] As there is no contact between the entity and the ordinary conscious ego, so there is no contact on a conscious level between the self who dreams and the dream world which has its own independent existence.

[...] Jane sensed her grandfather’s feeling of identification with the rest of nature, however, and since as a young child she had not yet developed a strong ego personality, she felt no sense of rejection as did, for example, the other members of the family. [...]

Your ego is fearful and set up in arms about cats.

Imagine the analogy psychologically again, using the physical universe as the ego, with the dream universe in one direction and the entity on the other.

I decided to mention this since he is at the point now—I am speaking of Ruburt—when he will not accept the superficial reasons given by the ego for many reactions, but seeks to discover deeper causes. [...]

[...] There is Ruburt’s ego, and his subconscious, as you know. [...]

[...] There are methods and means, hidden to the ego, whereby the physical universe as you know it is constantly created and maintained. [...]

It is when you are doing psy-time and when you relax your ego enough and when you are spontaneous enough and when you realize that these other realities do indeed exist. [...]

[...] In this particular section he told the reader that he suspected that Freud’s terms, the ego, or the conscious and the subconscious, had in themselves led you seriously astray. [...]

[...] Coordination and communication between the inner and outer ego is also a strong factor here. [...]

[...] Even the ego must become aware of them.

“Imagine a body with a fully operating body consciousness, not diseased or defective, but without the overriding ego-directed consciousness that you have. [...]

[...] On the other hand, I wanted someone with a strong enough ego structure to contain what will amount to 40 years of mediumistic stability. [...]

Many of your resurrected occult schools speak of a recommended death of desire, the annihilation of the ego, for the transmutation of physical elements to finer levels. [...]

[...] The inner senses you see do not distort the data, but when you attempt to make such data available to the ego, then distortion to some extent must enter in.

[...] There is on her part a block, that operates in much the same manner as Ruburt’s ego on occasion, as far as our sessions are concerned. [...]

[...] I have told you that upon physical death the ego becomes the subconscious in the next existence, and that its conscious knowledge is retained electromagnetically.

It is one thing to conceive of basic time as being outside of physical time, for the sake of making a point; but it must be realized that Priestley’s time one, while only real to the ego, is nevertheless a part or a materialization that exists within this basic time framework, and the life force is at the same time within as well as without.

[...] It is subconscious to him or to his ego, but it is not without consciousness by any means. [...]

[...] That is, the similarity is one of organization, a variety of historical continuity, a strong and involved ego mechanism, a complicated camouflage code system; without, however, the dual inner and outer sense of alienation with which your race has become involved.

(Seth, in the 512th session in Chapter 1 of Seth Speaks: “Now at times I will be using the term ‘camouflage,’ referring to the physical world to which the outer ego relates, for physical form is one of the camouflages that reality adopts.”)

[...] (Intently:) Because of the particular kind of ego-orientation that the race decided upon, however, many probabilities of development inherent in the species have been latent. [...]