“All layers of the personality are 'conscious.”

—  Jane Roberts

They simply operate like compartments, so that often one portion of the self is not aware of other portions.
Source: Seth, Dreams & Projections of Consciousness, (1986), p. 202

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American Writer 1929–1984

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