“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.

And now, if Ruburt worries that he does not carry his share of the work load, because you spend so much time typing our sessions, then the work of typing the dream experiences, both his and your own, shall be his. These dream records shall be kept continually throughout the years, and will yield valuable information. Information, incidentally, that can stand quite on its own regardless of my connection with it, and it shall be added to your life’s work.

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.