“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

These methods will suffice. He must also remind himself however to assist you, and to contact your astral self. If he finds himself astrally awake and sees only your physical body, then you are either on an unconscious astral trip already, or your astral body has not left your physical one.

This method simplifies things for you, since on those two nights you need only tell yourself that you will listen for Ruburt’s call. You will both learn added control by traveling together. You can also travel further in a cooperative effort.

I would like you to seriously embark upon the hobby of out-of-body travel. There is no reason why you cannot become proficient at it if you are strongly enough motivated. You will find all kinds of people that can serve as models for you. The alteration of consciousness involved will also enable you to make several distinct and advantageous changes of focus, in line with your own work.

For your particular purposes you might imagine that you are walking through, or traveling through, one of your own paintings. Try to throw your consciousness into the environment you have painted. Observe particularly the colors that would be observable to you in many out-of-body states. There are gradations with which you are not familiar. They will inspire changes in your own palette.

[...] It would be to your advantage if the two of you traveled together, however. [...] If Ruburt is projecting, he should try to rouse you astrally.

I was particularly aware of my lower astral legs, hovering above the physical ones, and took great pleasure in wiggling them about, enjoying the marvelous sense of freedom and lightness they possessed. [...] My astral legs felt rubbery, so loose and flexible! I could see that they were light-colored, translucent from the knees down — this without my sitting up in my astral form to see them.

I was still walking very slowly, with my astral eyes slitted to cut down the focus of distractions. [...] I felt it hard and round, perfectly normal in my astral hand. [...] What had I done wrong now? I opened my astral eyes fully and stared down at my hand. [...]

[...] This time I decided to try and get up astrally, just walk around the room and observe the various stages of activity. [...] The second time I succeeded, getting used to the fine distinction between moving the astral body up while leaving the physical one alone. [...]

(Shortly before session time Jane told me she had the thought that dreams and astral travel, or the astral body, were somehow connected. [...]

[...] What is called the astral body is also composed of some of the same components.

[...] The astral body also has a form. [...]

[...] The same applies to the connection between the astral body and the physical body.

[...] First however imagine your consciousness out of your body in its astral form. Next, feeling that you are in the astral form, tell yourself that from that image you will be able to see the image of the person that you were in your immediately past life.

After you have managed to feel yourself above your body in your astral form, you again tell yourself to see the image of the same past self. [...] When you have succeeded, then still feeling yourself in the astral form, tell yourself that you will next see the image of the life before last: the image of the person you were, then repeat the other steps.

[...] I will give you more reincarnational data on your own lives; as you travel to the center of yourself however you will feel (underlined) and know your own pasts as directly as the circumstances permit.

[...] Now when you feel that you have this new image of your past self before you, then imagine that your consciousness is moving from your astral form into this past self. [...]

[...] Oddly enough, I didn’t mention “astral projection.”

[...] My astral eyes were functioning. [...]

[...] My astral body was in the same approximate position, perhaps six inches above. [...]

[...] My astral legs felt quite rubbery, so loose and flexible were they — and somehow, from my prone position, I could see that they were light-colored and translucent from the knees down!

[...] You only recognize the physical materializations, but as mentioned earlier in this book, you send pseudoforms of yourself out from yourself of which you are not aware; and this is completely aside from the existence of astral travel or projection, which is a much more complicated affair.

In the same way in the midst of life, you dwell with so-called ghosts and apparitions, and for that matter you yourselves appear as apparitions to others, particularly when you send strong thought-forms of yourself from the sleep state, or even when unconsciously you travel out of your physical body.

You appear in astral form in realities that are comparatively more advanced than your own. [...]

[...] Besides this the two of you travelling together could help each other retain proper consciousness and purpose during projection. If Ruburt knows he is projecting he should try to remember you, and to rouse you astrally. [...]

(Below, Seth discusses a projection experience of Jane’s on Friday, May 9, that involved her perception of my astral presence in the apartment although I was at work at Artistic Card Company that day.)

[...] In the same way do you travel in other realities without being aware of your journeys. [...]

[...] You have both traveled together in such a fashion often from the dream state, without your knowledge. [...]

[...] We ordered Oliver Fox’s Astral Projection. Astonished, I discovered that my experiences followed his rather closely, even though most of my projections to that date had been spontaneous. [...]

[...] It has been called the astral body. [...]

[...] You can levitate much more freely, traveling within the solar system. [...]

[...] In it, it is possible to travel beyond your solar system, and to perceive the past, present and futures of other systems as well as your own. [...]

[...] She was out-of- body often, she said, and on at least one occasion was aware of my own astral presence with her. Jane recalled at least three episodes of astral travel. [...] Jane said she was aware of wanting to contact John’s wife Peg during these travels, without the experience being “unpleasant” for either of them...

[...] The new body is of course not a new body 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.

There will be some more travel on your part (Sue and Ned). [...] Houses are to be entered—astral houses, physical houses, thought-form houses—they are to be entered. [...]

This does not mean that we do not sometimes leave our bodies and travel in our dream or astral bodies to other physical locations. [...]

[...] Whether I was astral-traveling or whatever, these people were really having a good laugh at my expense.

[...] This was not an astral plane, but a lower one.

“But this fact is Ruburt’s safeguard in his out-of-body travels—as long as he remembers it. [...]

[...] I wanted to try turning over astrally, and I wanted to try reaching up toward the ceiling astrally, to see if I could touch it. [...]

[...] By the time that feasible intersystem space travel is practical, the psychic abilities are developed to a very high degree. [...]

[...] There are differences in language and culture, and it takes a certain amount of earth time to travel through space to visit them. [...]

Because of space travel a visitor might come as a young man, and return some 40 earth years later still appearing as a young man, leading to the idea of immortality and eternal youth of the gods.

Here is a clue for so-called astral travel. [...] When the inner self in its constant motion travels through an impulse range which it has once experienced, to the ego this will appear as a journey into the past.

[...] I must put the words into Ruburt’s mouth, and now and then we travel where words are not enough. [...]

[...] Your psychological experiments give you familiar ground there to walk upon, to travel on; grounds of reference and even of safety.

[...] First of all, any effective large-scale space travel will be mental travel.

[...] In some of your dream states you do travel through other dimensions and other systems. The extent of these dream travels is determined by your own ability.

I use the term space travel loosely. [...]

[...] The mental body, sometimes called the astral body, is the next one that you will inhabit. [...]

(At 8:55 PM Jane had the impression of the name, Alice Prentice, as that of the deceased high-school classmate of mine, who was now dead, that I had helped astrally. [...]

(See page 24, 426th session for August 5. My question: What frameworks, left behind by the traveling self A can be used by others?)

Mentally and emotionally such a personality may even travel down(Jane made a descending gesture) to help another. [...]

[...] So in a larger sense, as personalities leave your system, as they travel into other dimensions, they also set up electrical pathways, and each personality who does so makes those paths easier for others. [...]

When consciousness leaves the body, it identifies itself with one of these portions, and travels in its form. [...]

[...] When consciousness changes, or travels at certain frequencies, it automatically changes its form. [...]

[...] Some individuals in their first astral form see their physical bodies as dead images of themselves and become frightened.

(Ray Van Over described in some detail certain experiments he was organizing in which astral travel would be predominant. [...]

[...] In their astral forms they adopted their normal dress, hence the varying costumes. [...] This is why he was told he could travel no further. [...]

This does not mean that either of you need travel about in a constant flurry of lectures. [...]

[...] The wife in astral form was also here. [...]

(Astral Projection, by Oliver Fox.)

Now I do not like the term astral bodies, simply because of the sometimes weird connotations connected with the phrase. [...]

Certain dream experiences are valid out-of-the-body experiences, in that you do indeed travel in this mental vehicle. [...]

[...] On occasion you travel in this form.

[...] In the face of such beliefs the ideal of psychic development, or astral travel, or spiritual knowledge, or even of sane living, seems so remote as to be impossible. [...]

Many people write requesting that I outline the proper methods for achieving astral projection, for example, or psychic advancement, or spiritual understanding. [...]