165 Why Your Ego Invented Time

The "Action" Figure: Insights from Session 165

Grab a cold drink and settle in, because things are about to get deep—and a little sweaty. We’re diving into the Seth Material, specifically Session 165 from The Early Sessions, Book 4, recorded on the sweltering night of June 28, 1965. While the weather was humid enough to melt a popsicle, Jane Roberts was in a deep trance, delivering some high-speed wisdom about why your personality is more like a fluid dance and less like a concrete block.

The Personality: A Spontaneous Collection

Forget everything you think you know about being a "stable" person. According to the source, you aren't a static construction; you’re a collection of spontaneous actions.

• Action is Everything: Personality is a "gestalt" of intertwined actions. It’s not just sitting there; it’s constantly regrouping around "unifying principles" that shift like the tides.
• Inner Health: If you’re looking to fix yourself, look inward. All basic adjustments to your health and personality come from within through these regroupings.
• The Multi-Dimensional You: You exist in many dimensions, and honestly, you aren't nearly as tied to the physical world as your ego wants you to believe.

The Ego: Your Over-Caffeinated Front Man

Seth describes the ego as a "front man"—an organized agent meant to deal with the physical world. But sometimes, the front man thinks he’s the whole band.

• The Warden Risk: If the ego gets too rigid, it stops being a spokesperson and starts being a warden, imprisoning your deeper self. Seth notes: "The ego... must not be too rigid, or too much a disciplinarian, or it ceases to speak for the whole personality, and becomes a warden, imprisoning the main expressive urges of the deeper self."
• Time is a Construct: The ego loves categorizing things into past, present, and future to feel permanent. The rest of your personality, however, couldn't care less about your calendar.
• The Neurosis Glitch: Neurosis often happens because the ego refuses to accept actions from the subconscious. It’s not that the thoughts are "buried"—it’s that the ego is standing at the door refusing to let them into the party.

Biology and Plant Vibes

Even your atoms have an opinion! The session explores how personality is diffused through your cellular structure.

• Atomic Knowledge: Plants don’t fear destruction like we do because they know they are part of a "continuing action." They understand they’ll just change into another kind of action later.
• The Stimuli Rejoice: At a deep biological level, life rejoices in all stimuli—pain or pleasure—as sensation. It’s only our picky egos that decide one is "bad" and the other is "good."

Secondary Personalities: The Emergency Backup

Sometimes, when an ego is too rejecting or weak, the personality creates a "secondary personality."

• Survival Value: This isn't always a bad thing! Sometimes a secondary personality is an emergency measure to prevent a total "personality cleavage."
• The Ruburt Factor: Jane (referred to as Ruburt) had a strong enough ego that she could host Seth without her personality structure falling apart.

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Credits & Study Resources This document is based on the Seth Material, which we highly encourage you to explore for yourself. All credit goes to the Seth Material and the publisher, New Awareness Network.

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