“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

That state which you achieved could be likened to my state, except that I am fully conscious and able to use the abilities inherent in it. As Joseph supposes it may well have been possible for you to have levitated had he so suggested it, and he used extremely good judgment in restraining from such a suggestion.

Many so-called cases of possession can be laid to this alone. The dominant personality can be likened on your plane to the dominant entity. Please understand that I am using an analogy here. As the personality on your plane actually changes, expands and grows according to its potentialities, as it presents at various times varied images to the world, such as—if you’ll excuse me for using clichés—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 the sorrowful face also express and expand the personality, so too do the various reincarnated personalities express and expand the entity as a whole.

While I am with you I am in a way that I will explain later attached to Jane, in that I see what she sees, and so forth. I can of course dissociate myself but the effort involved in doing this and returning is really not quite worth the effort. It is like putting one sort of diving equipment on, removing it for another, and then redonning the first. Costumes are not always physical attire. They may also serve as a sort of vehicle, in the manner of the diving equipment.

So you see that the laws operate in such a manner that we are more or less kept in our place. Controls are applied. This subject will come up again and I will go into it more deeply. You have also seen that your cat can sense me to some extent when I am in his environment, so we do not get away with much.

It is not however at all physical in your terms… And so here I suppose we will run into a block. The physical human form is extremely important to all entities, and they retain its idea shape for a long while. Again I will have more to say about the idea shape, which is somewhat like the physical genes and the blueprint, only on a different manifestation level. I believe, though I am not positive, that this human idea shape vanishes at some point and changes into another that is somehow more fitting and ideal. The entity in itself may only be a part of something else.

There are various types of dreams and dream fragments. I will follow this through also later, since in these beginning sessions I am giving you what may be considered a broad outline to be filled in. These dissociated states often occur in sleep, an excellent time since the ego is quieted. At such times it is extremely possible for present personalities to be visited by others such as myself, but only on the bidding of the entity itself.