“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(Shortly before session time Jane told me she had the thought that dreams and astral travel, or the astral body, were somehow connected. The session was held in our small back room. Jane began speaking while sitting down and with her eyes closed. Her voice was quiet, her pace quite slow and with pauses.)

We will now continue with our previous discussion, and carry it further. There are indeed connections between what is called ectoplasm and the composition of dream images. They are not the same thing, but they are closely allied. What is called the astral body is also composed of some of the same components.

It goes without saying that dream images certainly have form to the dreamer, even as physical objects have form. The astral body also has a form. These forms do not take up space in the way that physical objects do. There is less density, but there is still observable form. The images that appear in dreams exist as forms in another dimension. They are free of the necessity to follow physical rules of time and growth. They are constructed more immediately and directly and spontaneously than are physical objects.

There must be a connection however with the physical organism, and the connection, the physical connection, is both electrical and chemical. The connection between what you might call materializations, and the physical organism, are also electrical and chemical. The same applies to the connection between the astral body and the physical body.

The dream images however are projections sent out, so to speak, by the personality, and many astral projections occur within the dream state of which the waking personality is unaware. In this case the projection is simply of a kind that allows manipulation back and forth between two realities. The dreamer who dreams he was in Paris may well have been there.

Dream images, not astral projections, operate within certain electrical limits, limits that form the boundaries of the dream universe. Dream images are nevertheless almost fibrous projections, almost a thinned-out composition, more plastic basically than physical matter, but composed of a number of the same properties. For again there must be this connection between the nature of dreams and the matter of physical reality.