Seth: A confident ego is indeed a prerequisite for psychic venturing, for it is only the confident ego which ultimately feels secire enough to give leeway to the inner self in the long run. snip - break, Robs comments about Jane in trance... For safetys sake a firm relationship between the ego and its environment should be considered a prerequisite for serious and extensive psychic investigation. THE EGO MUST HAVE SOMETHING TO COME BACK TO. This is extremely important. I do not mean to discourage the personality in his laudible interest in unseen reality. I DO want to caution him that first steps must be taken first if his inner goals in this direction are ever to be achieved, without unnecessary difficulties for the ego. With such a firm foundation he will indeed be most successful, and he can achieve such a foundation. Then he can apply inner knowledge to the egos environment. The feet of the ego, of any ego, must not rest on quicksand, or when the venturing self returns there will be no sound foundation to recieve him. If this sounds difficult then indeed it is, because I will not deal in platitudes, and the exercise of the inner abilities demand, as a bulwark, the sometimes difficult achievemnt of an ego that can adapt itself in the outer environment, and so hold its own while the inner self is then freed to go its way. Discipline then should not only be considered, as it is by some schools of thought, as a mere mental discipline over the mucles, or various portions of the body by the inner self, but indeed a discipline in terms of training of the ego by the inner self, so that the ego as a personality achieves a well-balanced relationship with the physical universe. snip Robs comments about Jane -- And despite ALL comments to the contrary, this is by far the most difficult discipline, but without it the inner self is not secure in its journeys, and it is like a boat with no harbour to recieve it, and like the man without a country, with no place to return. The personality, to SOME (underline some) degree has been led away bu those who begin such a journey without first making sure of thier return. Legitimate, balanced psychic journeyings will result in a beneficial effect as far as the ego and its ability to handle its concerns are involved; and whenever such journeyings or investigations result in a lessening of egotistic control over circumstance then anyone so involved should instantly ask himself questions, and abruptly halt. I do not speak here of acquaintances who do not understand the importance of psychic investigation. I speak now of the egos ability to handle itself. And psychic investigations will, and should, increase the ability IF it is properly begun, and IF the ego is properly related to the physical environment. snip - material to and about the young man specifically mentioned in the session ---- meditation routines, expressing himself when feeling wronged etc. The personality also contains good intellectual capacities, and he should examnine psychic experiences in the light of his intelligence also. There are truths which the intellect cannot perceive, but the intellect knows the ego, and represents a firm and reliable pathway between the inner self and the ego; and psychic experiences --- I repeat, psychic experiences --- will not suffer from such scrutiny. TES, book 3, session 90, pages 29-31, (C) L.Butts - sethquotes
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