“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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

You have what you may think of then as a split action, where one portion of the self, the inner ego, is allowed to travel through the other states of action that compose the whole self, purposefully as a director, and retain the knowledge thereby received.

I get the number 3 4 1, but do not know to what it refers. Also some turbulence in domestic rather than professional affairs for today. Having to do with a relative, and a variation in usual schedules, daily schedules. (Pause.)