“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.

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.

You will learn to take a certain portion of purpose with you through suggestion, so that you can attempt to enlarge the dream space of which you are first aware. You can extend it in other words. The investigation will always be concerned with the search for primaries and secondaries. On many occasions an apparent primary reality will later be seen to be secondary, as a result of experiments with the trance state.

You will learn to deal with primaries, while giving secondary realities their due. Give unto Caesar the things that are Caesar’s... I am sure you see what I mean.

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.