Consciously, you didn’t know what you were up to; unconsciously, you know very well.

The state of dissociation that you reach can be used most effectively. You blundered into it all unaware and unprepared, however. For shame.

The fact that you slip so easily into this frame should remind you of abilities that you had at one time in another life; then misused them. But without their previous experience, you would not have entered such a state so quickly, with so little knowledge and preparation.

If you recall, part of your mind was conscious in usual terms. You were capable of normal conversation; another part of your psyche was completely dissociated and waiting for your commend. It floundered like a wet rag in a foul wind. Since you were unaware of causing the dissociation to begin with, you were unable to find your blundering way out.

Schizophrenia is caused by a personality fragment that is broken off, so to speak, from the primary acting personality, operating often in direct opposition to it, but in any case, operating as a secondary personality.

Looking into a bottle you may not be able to form these images outside of yourselves, and so endow them with some physical reality, you might very well have turned yourself into schizophrenic personalities instead.

Many people are unable to endow fragments with such physical reality, and thus shove them more or less harmlessly away at arm’s length. Instead, the dissociated part of the personality dons another personality and battles with the dominant one for control. Many cases of so-called ‘possession’ can be laid to this alone.

Actually, the dominant personality, in our terms, can be compared to the dominant entity. Please understand that I am using an analogy here. As the personality on our plane actually changes, expands and grows to its potentialities, as it presents at various times varied images to the world (such as – if you’ll forgive me for using cliches – a smiling face, a sorrowful face), but is still basically the same personality, so on another level does the entity present at various times a varied appearance and speak in a different voice. AS the smiling and sorrowful faces also express and expand the personality, so, too, do the various reincarnated personalities express and expand as a whole.

Without the stages of childhood, adulthood and old age, the personality could not expand to its fullest degree, and without various incarnations, the entity cannot expand.

In dreaming, such a dissociated state reached, of course, the rule, only the ability is used to form dream images. But these dream images work for the entity as a whole and serve as a means for the various personalities to communicate; that is, in many cases, the previous personalities communicate with the present one. This is a means of acquainting the present personality with its ‘past’ and also of reminding it of its goals, without disturbing the blatant awake ego.

The entity never dominates a previous personality. Sometimes these personalities also travel divergent ways for their own benefit and with the entity’s full consent.

There is no such thing as division as far as the personality is concerned. Even a fragment can turn into an entity in certain cases. There are no rules that hold any living thing down to one form or one kind or existence.