“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] Now, chemically the physical body does need to dream. That is, dreaming is a necessity if the physical body is to survive. [...]

Without dreams the outer camouflaged self would lose all touch with inner realities, or would be in danger of thus denying its own heritage; and therefore the physical body is so constructed that excess chemicals must be discharged and transformed into human action, or the physical mechanism would be clogged with poisons.

[...] His body was asleep but his consciousness was drifting. [...] It seemed to come literally from out of the sky, down into another room outside of (next-door to, actually) the one in which his body slept. [...]

Projecting your consciousness out of your body, therefore, provides at the same time an inner probing of consciousness itself, as well as experience of its manifestations. [...]

[...] The dreamers would travel out-of-body in various directions to see the extent of drought conditions, and to ascertain the best direction for the tribe to take in any needed migration.

“The body is at each and every stage also filled with health and vitality. [...]

[...] For one thing the activity engages body, mind and spirit in joyful pursuit. [...]

[...] Physically your touches activate portions of the body that have collected various feelings. [...]

[...] The body chose today to work on the upper portions, evidently. [...]

[...] He must then behave, he thought, in a measured, reasoned, quiet, calm and disciplined way: and to see that he did, he slowed down the motions the body could make. [...]

[...] Certain conditions are happening within the body that will very soon now bring about very noticeable actual physical improvements in motion and overall coordination.

[...] Each morning, Jane is placed upon a litter that is lowered into a large tub of gently-swirling warm water that massages her whole body. [...]

There is in other words no need for you to punish the organs of your body that were involved in that birth.

[...] when I’d grown so used to seeing her cradle them against her body and across her chest.

They possess an innate love of the body and all of its parts. [...]

[...] She said that she had felt sensations of “freezing cold” at her forehead and a few other parts of her body. [...]

So your physical life is the result of a spectacular spontaneous order—the order of the body spontaneously formed by the units of consciousness. [...]

(Very long pause.) The body’s motion already begins to assert itself. [...]

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 mentioned beliefs are obvious enough when I tell you of them, but their opposing natures gave confusing data to the body consciousness: Write and do not write.

Tonight Ruburt was exhausted, in one way, from comparing your joint beliefs with those of your brother’s family; of checking his own body beliefs (Jane touched her knee) with theirs and seeing where his were detrimental — but also from contrasting his personal psychic and creative abilities with theirs, and that exhilarated him. [...]

[...] At the same time there is often that unevenness, as all portions of the body start up again, so to speak. [...]

[...] You would enjoy chores done then, for your body and mind would both be refreshed by the different activities.

[...] Surely he must be aware that his mother’s characteristic pose in bed was one that necessitated a complete turning of the upper body, whenever she wished to look one way or the other; and that her neck, because of her arthritis, could not turn normally.

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….