Expanding Outer Ego Awareness

Seth Early Sessions, Vol 7, Session 283

Expanding Outer Ego Awareness

You cannot escape action.  The ego attempts to so order events as to direct action along its own lines.

It must, of course, succeed to some extent, or the physically oriented personality as you know it would not exist.  The ego is of course a part of action.  There are endless levels of action however, which the ego does not perceive.  It is possible for the inner and outer egos to merge to some extent, and this merging when it occurs does indeed represent the formation of a new kind of consciousness.

This concept is hardly a new one.  It is not a generally accepted theory, but it has ancient roots.  When you carry the waking I into the dream state, this is one approach to this different consciousness.  There is also an opening up that can occur in the waking condition.  When this occurs the inner and outer egos merge.  The outer ego recognizes its own duties, but it is aware that more is involved.

It senses realities usually closed to it.  It thinks, “There is more, but beyond I cannot follow.”  Here with this realization the inner ego may suddenly open.  Intuitive springs rush to the surface, and because the outer ego has already been alerted, it is able to accept these realities while still performing its ordinary duties.

The knowledge then available is first of all creative, intuitive knowledge which the outer ego may translate into intellectual terms when possible.  But it is no longer fearful of intuitive data.  It no longer fights the inner senses, nor does it fear for its own survival in the midst of intuitional onrushes.

It recognizes its position as a part of the whole self.  This is indeed a released, free consciousness.  It does represent a giant step forward.  It opens doors otherwise closed, and it automatically brings with it a state of excellent, buoyant physical health.

Identity is no longer limited to the outer ego alone.  The outer ego is now familiar with the whole self, or the entire identity, and has available to it strength of which it was not previously aware.  In periods of exuberance, when you are working well, and your health is extraordinarily good, when you are able to remember and manipulate your dreams, then such periods are signs of the emergence of this new consciousness.

In the beginning you will not retain it steadily.  It will grow by leaps and bounds however.  It’s growth has nothing to do with your physical time, but with inner value fulfillments of which you may not be consciously aware.  This last is important.  Contrary to usual opinion, periods of poor health are often the result of egotistic rather than subconscious manipulations.  You become over concerned with the egotistical situations, and hamper the inner self.

You tie yourself in knots, so to speak.  You think so rigidly of concerns that are primarily insignificant to you, as a whole self and make a fetish of them.  You identify, despite your knowledge, mainly with the ego.  This cuts you off from the inner self.  I am speaking generally here, to you, Joseph, applying no more to you than anyone else.