“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

I began to have out-of-body experiences (astral projections) as I sat in the living room, speaking for Seth. [...]

[...] I am here to tell you that your joy is not dependent upon your physical body, for in your terms I have none. [...]

[...] You are as disembodied as I. You have a vehicle to use, a body that you call your own, and that is all. [...]

And, as far as I know, Seth has no imprisoning body. [...] Curious thought — I can also imagine some good-humored game of musical chairs in which I try to get out of my body, while Seth tries to get into it. [...] Seth doesn’t have any great interest in taking over my body for any length of time, while I have an insatiable curiosity about the experience of getting out of mine.

[...] When the body lies in bed, it is separated by a vast distance from the dream location in which the dreaming self may dwell. But this, dear friends, has nothing to do with space, for the dream location exists simultaneously with the room in which the body sleeps.

[...] We simply use the body in a different way.

[...] This book is about Seth, dreams and “astral projection” — all aspects of a different kind of consciousness than the objective one with which we are usually occupied.

When you feel your consciousness withdrawing, the first step is this: Forget the physical body or what you are to do with it. [...] There is no need to experience the hallucinations mentioned by Fox [in his book, Astral Projection]. If the projection is a success, you will instantly lose contact with the body using this method. [...]

According to the intensity of the projection and to the systems visited, the body may become more or less rigid when consciousness returns to it. [...] Momentarily, the body uses less sugar. [...] It also aids in connecting the consciousness to the body.

Once you are out of the body, then you are dealing with a different kind of reality, but the experience is as valid as any other. [...] The molecular structure of the projecting self is of a different nature than that of the physical body. [...]

Without moving my physical body and with my physical eyes closed, I reached over and checked my dream book, finding that the page was blank. [...] (When I got out of bed here, I believe that I was in my dream body, without realizing it.)

[...] Dr. Eugene Barnard, a psychologist then at North Carolina State University, came out publicly with a statement favoring astral projection. He said that he had propected his consciousness out of his body, and that no hallucination was involved. [...]

I had no idea how to tell Rob that I was out of my body, as Seth was carrying on as usual. My body, I knew, would be animated, as Seth talked. [...] But I had no connection at all with the body that sat in the living room. [...]

Again, this experience suggested all kinds of questions concerning Seth’s and my relationship in an out-of-body episode. Presumably he stays in my body, while I go out of it, but this is a simplification, I’m sure. [...]

[...] One night as I lay in bed I had a spontaneous out-of-body experience in which I seemed to be in a crowded room speaking urgently to Bill Macdonnel (our artist friend). I shook his shoulder none too gently and instantly snapped back to my body. [...]

[...] Forget the physical body, or what you are to do with it. [...] If the projection is a success you will instantly lose contact consciously with the physical body. [...]

There is no danger of not returning to the physical body, generally speaking. [...] The physical body is obviously not doing so.

[...] The fear and panic that could make the body vulnerable is not present, and the body escapes danger precisely because consciousness is not there to cause panic reactions.

(Astral Projection, by Oliver Fox. [...]

“I say ‘sounds’ — yet these inner body sounds can only be compared to an interior body situation where sound operates as light. [...] These operate within the body.

“Each frequency, so to speak, functions as a messenger, triggering body response before an actual reaction is apparent … In any body difficulty, the light and sound frequencies become out of tune, you might say. [...]

[...] As I speak he is experiencing certain sensations, in which his body feels drastically elongated (pause), the head reaching out beyond the stars, the whole form straddling realities.

Now in a sense the physical body does this always — that is, it sits astride realities, containing within itself dimensions of time and being that cannot be even verbally described. [...]

[...] He was also involved in some astral travel. This is not unusual, for the inner self frequently leaves the body when the body sleeps.

[...] You perceive but the lowest point of its reality, so I will tell you now that the various stars and planets and heavenly bodies that you observe in your universe do indeed exist as such, but only within your system.

[...] However, these heavenly bodies appear as something entirely different, you see, within other systems.

[...] These heavenly bodies represent moment points in other systems. [...]

[...] I believe there will be extra freedom in out-of-body experiences for Ruburt. [...]

[...] Jane snapped right out of trance, quite alert; she remembered the last part of the data and said she “got scared” while giving it, re astral travel. [...]

What you call the astral body does much of its traveling when you are not consciously trying to experiment. [...]

There is a body of water, though not large, nearby. [...]

These capsules can be seen by you under certain circumstances, and have been called astral bodies—a term which does not meet with my pleasure. [...]

It is this sense which directs your own growth physically, and which forms the cells of your physical body and constantly changes the stuff of your body.

[...] To some extent it could be compared to an extra layer of skin surrounding the physical body, except that it is not constructed in the same manner upon your plane, and is invisible to you under ordinary circumstances.

Now this does not mean that a stationary body of any kind cannot materialize itself upon another plane. [...]

[...] One had to do with the kind of body Sally had at her disposal. Seth said, “Now the new body is, of course, not a new one at all, but simply a body not physical in your terms, one that you use in astral projections, one that gives the vitality and strength to the physical body that you know.

[...] When you leave the physical body, the other body is quite real to you and seems as physical, although it has many more freedoms. … Sally is delighted with this body, comparing it with the [sick] physical one. She is trying to cut off all identification with her physical body, whether it is alive or dead in your terms.

[...] When the body is worn out, we really want to get rid of it. [...]

“When we leave the physical body, where do we go?” the minister asked. [...]

[...] Since her physical body was quite dead, she was in her astral body; yet she was acting confused, and her mind was still unclear, as if she still had hardening of the arteries.

[...] For the effects of the body are felt in the mind, and the mind’s effects are felt in the body.”

[...] Her body defenses were lowered. [...]

“If you think, ‘I have a headache,’ and if you do not replace this suggestion by a positive one, then you are automatically suggesting that the body set up those conditions that will result in the continuation of the malady. [...]

[...] We were both to have our first out-of-body experiences, or “astral projections.” [...]

A few nights earlier, another student, Shirley, just missed having an out-of-body experience. [...] Shirley felt Seth nearby a few nights later and was just about to leave her body when she got frightened and held back.

I ‘come to,’ realizing that my body is in bed sleeping. [...]

[...] Suddenly I feel the shell of my physical body for what it is — my own creation — and am aware of how much more I am. [...]

[...] You think of the body as a warm house indeed, and you are loathe to leave it.

[...] We will also discuss this later, in connection with so-called astral travel.

[...] Only a small amount of energy is focused into the physical system during sleep, enough simply to maintain the body within the environment.

In midnight thickets
Dreamers plunge,
While the moon
Shines calmly on.
The town is sleeping,
Bodies lie
Neat and empty
Side by side.

Appointments are made and kept,
And records scrawled in haste,
While bodies wait in crisp white beds,
All untouched and neat and safe.

[...] Rob asked if I could travel in astral body outside room, she said possibly. [...]

[...] If you will imagine the various reincarnated personalities—and this is a most unpleasant analogy—as the various limbs and other faculties of the entity, then you will see why if one fragment is disintegrated it can be regenerated in the same manner that a physical cell of your body can be regenerated.

[...] We can expect ectoplasmic creations separated from the body of the medium.

[...] During these she lay quietly on the bed with her eyes closed and tried to contact Peggy and Bill either by acting as a receiver of data, or projecting her astral body to their location. [...]

I looked over and down at a pool, and felt that beyond this either the ocean or a large body of water was visible. [...]

[...] I could feel the blanket over me and my pillow at neck move in odd fashion as if my physical body was making unaccustomed movements, but thought I was motionless. [...]