“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Ruburt’s ego reared its rather belligerent head during break. [...]

[...] The ego comes in, and we are lost.”

[...] And with his focused memory at his command, man’s ego was born, which could follow its own identity through the maze of blazing impulses that beset him, could recognize itself through the pattern of continuing constructions and could separate itself from its action in the physical world. [...]

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

[...] When Ruburt’s abilities mature, and when if ever he is able to forget that awesome ego, we will really show some signs. [...]

When such developments occur, then you have the awareness of the whole self, and the ego does not need to fear for its survival. [...]

[...] You simply invented a continual time system as a vehicle of perception for the ego, and it operates at that level only.

[...] You have allowed the ego to become overly developed and overly specialized. [...]

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

What you consider your consciousness, or your self, or your thinking ego, represents of course only one portion of your entire consciousness, that part which you are using at this time. [...]

The experience will be must less startling to the ego than an abrupt projection, and the ordinary nature of the activities, walking into the next room for example, will be reassuring. [...]

[...] When you or Ruburt wonder if this material comes from the subconscious, you often take it for granted that the subconscious is personal, exclusively dealing with matters of your egos’ personal past. [...]

[...] The ego simply will be bypassed, but the other layers of the self, and the neurological structures particularly, will continue to operate as always. [...]

[...] It manipulates in a larger number of dimensions, until it is able you see to handle many, not just one, of its own egos at any given “time”—and you may put time in quotes—while still maintaining its own inner stability and individuality. [...]

The inner ego knows what it is about. [...]

(Jane was also correct in suspecting that her suggestion to go slowly, after her first ego-alarm, was literally interpreted by her subconscious; hence the later manifestation of symptoms quite a while after her experiment had “ended.” [...]

[...] This source contains past, present, and future information; only the ego experiencing time as we know it. [...]

[...] I’m convinced that this sort of exercise is most valuable in that it helped to shake our consciousness out of its usual focus in objective, ego-oriented reality.

[...] I tried not to be frightened and told myself that the intuitive self sensed something exciting going on, even if the ego was worried. [...]

[...] At the moment of perception the traveling consciousness perceives through the inner senses, and by itself automatically makes the necessary adjustments so that the ego can perceive the data in its accustomed way.