“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

The ego cannot see that this moment point is open, so to speak, and represents an opening into many other dimensions. These dimensions may be traveled through; but they may not be traveled through by the ego, for the ego can only perceive those dimensions which it is physically equipped to see, or perceive.

Other portions of the self, on the one hand, are not so limited. It must be clearly understood however that these other portions of the self are incapable of the ego’s intense focus within physical reality. Their focus is elsewhere. However, these selves are not limited as is the ego to one main field of perception only, in the manner which Dunne believes. Dunne does leave intervening areas between dimensions which may be perceived by an observer from a neighboring dimension, but all in all his serial selves are to some large degree prisoners of those dimensions in which they exist.

Now. These other selves are more freewheeling. There are indeed limitations inherent within their structure, but in all cases any given identity is more than the dimension in which it finds itself. Its limitations may be great, but the limitations are set not by the identity’s nature but by the dimension in which it exists.

The identity may, and will, move out of its dimension into another, and it therefore has within it the innate capacity to perceive more than it is allowed to perceive at any given point by the limitations set upon it.

Two of these statements may appear at first glance to contradict themselves, but you shall shortly see that they do not, and you are left for now with a pretty question: for does the self, or identity, then form the perceptive dimension in which it exists, or is it created by the dimension?

To this degree Dunne was correct. But the important point, if you will forgive a pun, is that these moment points are all intensities, electrical realities, and traveling through such dimensions involves a transformation of energy from one intensity to another. The whole self, or the entity of which I speak, is composed of all of these selves, but it must be realized that all divisions between these selves are illusions, basically speaking. For the sake of discussion we separate them, but in doing so we almost manage to change the very nature of that which we attempt to study.

Other portions of self one are to some extent aware of these other dimensions. Now you see where we are heading. For now consider what we shall call self A. And we shall say that he is the physical self in the physical universe. He is composed of physical matter, he is composed of psychological matter, a portion of this latter being ego. From your own work you realize however that this individual, or self A, is indeed more than physical matter, even while he exists within the physical dimension.

In the dreaming state and in other states of consciousness, he can indeed to some degree become aware of perceptions which will be neglected by the ego alone. In other words, psychologically there is only one portion of self A that is limited in its perceptions to the physical dimension, and that is the ego.

If self A were limited to the perceptions of the ego, and if self A were limited then to the dimensions in which it found itself, then my dear friends precognition in dreams would be impossible, and in order to perceive the future self A would of necessity be forced to discontinue existence within the physical system.

You were dealing, indeed, with a legitimate perception into a dimension outside of the ones with which you are familiar, and with a distortion of a sort on your part, as once again you attempted to translate inner data into a form that could be perceived by the physical senses.