Seth Early Sessions, Vol 7, Session 309
Changes To The Ego Through Psychedelic Experiences
Now I will say more concerning the changes
worked in the ego as a result of our sessions, and from the psychedelic
experience in general. The ego structure
as such remains, of course. The
responsibility of dealing with manipulation within the physical universe
remains, but in some respects the nature of this manipulation changes. It becomes more direct: Physical properties
are manipulated more and more on the mental level.
Many actual physical intervening steps are
cut out. The ego becomes more similar to
the inner ego than to its old self, comparatively speaking. This altered ego is aware of large portions
of inner reality that were previously denied.
Structurally it remains intact, and yet it has changed chemically, and
electromagnetically. It is able to open
up so that inner experience can be received.
In the past, for example, the ego accepted
only knowledge that came through the senses through the physical
surroundings. Now it is open to inner
data to a large degree. Granted, certain
interpretations must be made.
Nevertheless, once this freedom is achieved, the ego can never return to
its former state.
The personality is more integrated, yet
through its acceptance of inner data, the ego, to use the term lightly, has
expanded. It has not shrunk. It is now composed of various elements from
the whole personality. Retaining its own
consciousness of reality it can now afford to step out of itself momentarily in
order to gain further experience.
Definition Of Ego
I have told you that the ego, generally
speaking, is self-conscious action that attempts to set itself apart from
action and to consider action as an alien object. Now this altered ego retains its highly
specialized self-consciousness, and yet it can now experience itself as an
identity within and as a part of action.
This is a cornerstone for consciousness and
for personality development. It is only
a first step, however. Without it, no
further development of consciousness can occur.
This particular step is not attained by all within your system. You are at this point now. This state has been called cosmic
consciousness, but it is hardly that.
The next step is taken when identity is
able to include within itself the intimate knowledge of all incarnations. Yet in this state, the independence of the
various reincarnated selves is not diminished.
Each of these steps of consciousness involves identity with the inner
recognition of its whole identity with All That Is.
As each separate identity then seeks to
know and experience its other portions then All That Is learns who and what it
is. Action never ceases its own
exploration of itself. All That Is can
never know itself completely, since action must always act and each action
creates a new unknown.
Action must then travel through itself from
every conceivable point, and yet the journey, you see, itself being action,
will create new paths.
Now, in dealing with such matters, I have
to explain them from the standpoint of psychological structures with which you
are familiar. When your own projections
improve and grow more frequent, it is at least possible, with your abilities,
that you will come into contact with some different psychological structures,
and then I can tell you more.
One thing you should know: action cannot
stop. It is powerless in this respect
only. It cannot destroy itself. It can change form. It often changes direction. It is so many-dimensional that it must
experience itself as individuals.
Individuality is a direct result of the overall oneness of this
action. Action is also a direct result
of individual identities, for without these psychological dimensions, oneness
could not multiply itself.
Our Multidimensional Psychological Structure
Other psychological structures beside your
own have their being in realities you will find difficult to comprehend, even
though they may be connected with your own, and you knowingly, may be part of
them. What you may term the reality of
possibilities is an example. There are
many yous in that system, and each you is related psychologically in a
personality structure. The you that you
know is a part of this. In this system,
all the other yous seem to exist in a probable reality.
To any of them, the others would seem to
exist in a probable universe. Yet all of
you are psychologically connected. This
is literally endless. All of you did not
have the same parents, for example, and these are portions of probable
situations existing in your own parents’ separate lives, as you think of their
lives.
In two probable realities, your mother, for
example, did not have children. You do
not exist in these. In some she married
but not the man you know as your father.
A psychological connection exists between the first son in that reality,
and yourself.
In some probable systems, you and your
mother would both exist, do both exist, but as compete strangers, you
see. Now these psychological connections
are valid and not merely symbolically so.
This self that you know has also set up and initiated probable realities
of its own. I mean this literally, you
see. I want to make this clear.
Emotional charged feeling immediately sets
up what you think of as a tangent. It is
expressed in some reality system. This
is the inner nature of action. Those
inner thoughts or desires, impulses not made physically real in your terms,
will be made real within other systems.
Now, the inner self is psychologically influenced
by these probable personalities, for they are all psychologically connected
and represent a whole personality structure, a whole personality gestalt with which
you as you know yourself are utterly unfamiliar.
Your psychologists are dealing with one-dimensional
psychology at their best. In the dream state,
the portions of the larger structure sometimes communicate, in highly codified
symbols. It would be highly improbable to
imagine that you could decipher these so as to be easily aware of them now.
There is even a certain feedback system that
operates here, and yet you must understand that all of these other identities
are independent and fully individual. They
exist in codified psychological structures within your personality, as you exist
in the same manner within each of their personalities.
They remain latent within you and unexpressed
within this system. You have their abilities,
unused. You remain latent in their personality
structures, and your main abilities are unused within their systems. Yet all of you are a part of one self, you see,
in a multidimensional psychological structure.
All action will be expressed. Now to some degree you have a root nature, then,
and many of your dreams will be similar. You are far from identical with these probable
selves, and yet if you had met them you would instantly know that you had found
unknown portions of yourself.
Now, these do not represent more highly evolved
selves, necessarily at all. Certain abilities
will be more developed in them than in you, but certain of your abilities are more
developed than theirs. In other words, I
am not now speaking of portions of yourself that exist in your so-called future.
Each probable self you see also has future
selves. This multidimensional identity is
a psychological structure with which we shall be dealing in our discussions. The term includes the whole self as it consists
of the self that you know, probable selves, reincarnated selves, and selves more
highly developed that the self that you know.
These make up the basic identity structure of
one whole self. Again, this does not mean
that the portions are not independent and individual. Also, the divisions are arbitrary to a large
degree, for they can indeed be carried further, for example, to the entity.
The psychedelic experience then represents a
first necessary step, and that is all.
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