“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

If physical laws were the only basis for actuality, then telepathy would be impossible. But then, dreams would be equally impossible. For in the dream state the personality is molded and changed through actions that do not exist within the physical universe. The personality reacts to dream experiences as it reacts to any other experience. It does not discriminate, as the ego does, between one kind of experience and another.

There is a chemical necessity, as I have said, that makes dreaming inevitable. But then these dreams in turn affect the personality in general, and affect the actions of that personality in a physical universe. It goes without saying that telepathy operates within the dreaming state quite as effectively as it operates while the individual is awake. In the waking state it operates subconsciously. But in all times there is no boundary, generally speaking, that exists to separate one psychological unit from another. There are differences between psychological units, and you concentrate upon these differences. Nevertheless one man’s dreams affect another’s, and that man is in turn affected by the dreams of his neighbor.

It goes without saying, again, that these communications follow in the lines of emotional attraction. For one thing, there are also individual differences which operate, so that any given personality will be more open to particular influences, and will tend to ignore others. For while there are no boundaries as such about the self, for practical purposes the self is a core of characteristic actions and reactions with which all environment is manipulated and handled.