“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

I will discuss our dream material for a short while, for it is important that you understand it. For in the same way that dream images are projected outward from the personality, so also are thoughts projected, and all influences that extend from one personality to another.

All such projections have an electromagnetic and chemical reality that has its origin within the field of the given personality. This projection of energy is one of the main characteristics of your kind. Dreams and dream images are then projected by the individual in sleep, and also in the waking state, although on a subconscious basis.

It is well known that emotions have a chemical reality, but it is not generally realized that dreams also have the same sort of property. Telepathy is indeed affected by chemical reactions, as dreams are.

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.

It is formed equally by those experiences which are purely subjective, and which exist only within the psychological time framework. The subjective experiences therefore result in definite changes within the physical body framework. These changes are not caused because of a physical event, but because of an event occurring within a dream condition which has no reality in your physical universe.

Such subjective events therefore manipulate physical matter through the personality who experiences them. The field of reality for any given personality must and does include all these areas of activity, for they give form and dimension to his existence. I have said earlier that the individual could not exist in a physical universe if he did not also exist in the dream universe. Again, there are chemical and electromagnetic connections that cannot be severed between all these states of consciousness.

It may not exist in space but it exists in some dimension as a form, and all forms have structure; and so dream images have structure and form, although they do not exist in your space. And so I have a structure and a form, although I do not exist in your space.

My form may be changed, but so do you change the form of your own thoughts. When you dream of a particular location, that location does then exist in fact. It has a definite reality, although it may not have a physical reality. Because you experience it, and you are partially physical, it does have some basis of reality in physical terms, even though it may not exist full-blown in physical terms.

The connections between dream images and the physical body are always maintained. There is a difference in mass, and a difference in thickness of molecules. Nevertheless the dream location does exist in its own legitimate reality, and its reality is to some extent dependent upon physical reality.

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.

I am not speaking, now, of some nebulous indirect fashion. A man is affected by the dreams of his fellows in quite definite, realistic and practical ways. He is affected by them both chemically and electromagnetically, and he in turn also affects others in the same manner.