“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.

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.

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.

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.