“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Those of you who are new, just consider it as an adventure in consciousness and see what you can do with it. We close our eyes simply because it’s easier. I suggest that you close your eyes then. Those of you who are regular members of the class should have no difficulty in feeling that sensation that we get out of the back of our heads as if a pyramid were opening up.

I would like all of you to give yourself full freedom as far as perception is concerned. If you feel this particular sensation in the back of your head, you can just follow it. If you don’t, imagine the pyramid, the angle going out into a path that extends behind you. Those of you that have been involved in this before have simply to send your consciousness out through that pyramid so that it finds its own adventures. The others do this imaginatively.

There’s a door at the other end and that it can be easily opened. If you find your consciousness aware of other things, then follow those things but allow it its natural freedom and use it.  Unfocus your attention in the usual physical environment in which your’re involved. Your consciousness is like a light for you to use. Then use it freely. Look in other areas of perception than those you usually pursue. You may perceive colors. You may see people. You may see a scene. You may simply be involved in kinetic sensation. But whatever it is follow it and allow yourself the freedom to do so.

Consciousness has a feel the same way that a body does. When you do different things with it, it feels differently. The feelings themselves can be clues, so that when you feel them again they’re familiar. Consciousness isn’t solid, airy, distant thing that you just see through. It’s an alive, vital part of us. It provides various kinds of sensation. It’s free outside of the body, sometimes freer than it is inside the body. Therefore let it find its own way in this experiment. Let it go wherever it wants. Give it the same kind of a freedom that you would if you were holding a flashlight and flashing it through a forest. You wouldn’t say I’ll only flash the light in this direction because it’s a safe direction. You’d flash it all over so that you could see what was before you. Usually we just flash our consciousness in one direction and say this is real, but in this experiment at least, let us flash that light down that pyramid in whatever direction we choose.

Open thresholds that we’ll remember. If we feel new sensations or perceptions all the better. Realize, as best as you can individually, that you are not your consciousness. Your consciousness is yours for you to use. And use it gladly. Your consciousness is merely one more of your abilities. Give it freedom. Let it bring you clues as to the nature of reality. You don’t have to make any judgments. This is like taking snapshots of a strange land.