“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

This business of primaries and secondaries will concern us for some time, and in more ways than you suppose. For we are outlining the stages of an investigation of the nature and conditions of consciousness.

So far you have analyzed these dreams as best you could, but soon you will begin to look at them in a new way. The dream experiments with the recorder will be much more proficient. These investigations will also deal with a systematic examination into all levels of consciousness.

Autohypnosis then will be utilized in an effort to discover what experiences are common in various levels or trance states, and these shall be examined in a search for primary and secondary conditions. These experiments however are for the future. Some of the data I will give you as a guide, but much you shall do on your own. There is no way to probe the realities of consciousness except that a personality travels through all levels of consciousness open to him, and do so in such a way that he can retain and apply the information that he receives in these inner travels.

Now. There are indeed common mental experiences that exist in all levels of consciousness, and these are what we shall be after.

Your psychological-time experiments will serve you well in the future in relation with these endeavors. We shall of course set you about studying the conscious state also. We shall have you using your physical senses to a much higher degree than is normal with you now.

The investigation will allow you to probe into the realities of conscious wakefulness, extending your sensual perceptions so that you can probe further outward into physical reality. This is indeed an ambitious project. We shall proceed as we always do, slowly but steadily; and you shall change along the way, for the very actions involved will change you. I might add for the better.

All of these projects are interconnected, and they will help both of you in your writing and painting, and greatly increase your capabilities in your own fields. Again, we shall proceed cautiously, precisely but steadily, and always you shall be in control. But when we are finished, and it will not be for a long time, you should be able to travel from any state of consciousness to another and back again, safely, with full awareness of your identity.

For your identity is dependent upon primary reality, which is a certain kind of action, and all of this will lead to heightened consciousness under all circumstances.

The other person, a male, is an excellent receiver, by the way, and is partially in contact with Dr. Instream this evening. Whether or not he is consciously aware of this, I do not know.

Now, I do not see you, as a rule, as a series of separate compartments, but rather more in your entirety. It is therefore difficult for me to make distinctions as to your conscious intent and subconscious intent. And in many cases your subconscious intent comes through strongly.

There is conscious discipline which can be used by Ruburt, that can negate the subconscious permission, if you so determine, and this with practice will come very easily. As entireties—I use the phrase purposely—however, you respond to many influences that may or may not result in a session.