The Brain as Metaphor for the Inner Self

In the excerpt below from Session 93 of the Seth Early Sessions, Seth describes our Inner Being as being one and yet compartmentalized for efficiency. In our illusion of physical reality (camouflage reality) we have constructed a brain which beautifully symbollizes that structure. Seth also goes on to point out that consciousness isn't a being, rather its the current focus of the Inner Self. This is very Zen!


While the self is whole, it is however compartmentalized for efficiency's sake, but beneath consciousness the doors are open. Again, the conscious self is most necessary. However it cannot be stressed too strongly that consciousness is merely a state of focus, and not a self.

"Consciousness is the direction in which the self looks at any given time.

"That is perhaps the most important sentence of this session, and many others. For the direction of focus of the self does indeed change, and even in your own daily lives you experience the fact that what is conscious today may not be tomorrow.

"The self, in this manner, looks about. The direction in which the self looks is not the self. In dreams the self looks elsewhere, and the "I" is a conscious "I", and the working ability is tremendous. The inner self perceives realities that it observes in many directions, being free from the intense focus within limited directions of camouflage existence.

"It often constructs its dreams in such a way that the symbols within will sift through all areas that are themselves less able to survey large vistas, but whose energies are focused along specific lines.

"Without dreams the whole self would have no way of holding its various manifestations together, and the so-called conscious present personality would soon falter. Imagine if you will now a band of men, some in cars with the high beams of the headlights gleaming, so that some generalized conditions can be seen; and some with low beams showing only the road that the automobiles directly pass. The men can be compared to personified areas of the subconscious, with partial vision of existing conditions.