“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

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.

The potentialities of human personality cannot be examined as one would crack open a nut to see what is inside. The dream experience is a living, moving action. To some extent it can never be captured, but we shall capture enough of it for our purposes. And the suggestion which I have given you will, after some practice, allow you to awaken and speak the dream into your recorder almost automatically.

The action performed within the dream; the location; the lack of specific location; the time in which the dream appears to occur; the apparent movements through time within any given dream; the emotional content; the surface psychological content; the work done within the dream; the familiar persons spoken to; the unfamiliar persons spoken to; the relation of the dream to past events and to events immediately preceding sleep; the dream events in relation to future events; messages that are given or sent in sleep.

As a side benefit, ultimately, recall of past lives may be achieved, and a synthesization, by yourself, of your past personalities.

Hypnosis is not generally understood in its true light. The hypnotist is not necessary except as a director; and indeed in most cases such a director is necessary. But the hypnotic state is simply a level of awareness in which the personality is freewheeling, so to speak, dissociated from physical reality in its usual terms.

This, if I may say so, is an excellent idea. It is this. Once a week to begin with, you will suggest before sleeping that you send a particular message, which you have written down, to another person whose name is also given on the piece of paper, that is of course dated.

He has told someone else of these particular experiments with us, and that person is particularly aware of him this evening. (Pause.)

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.