“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Now. There were some notes I wanted to give you concerning dreams in which you feel certain that you are awake. When these dreams are unusually vivid, then the ego is aware of participating. The ego is not using its critical faculties however as a general rule.

The next step of course is to allow the ego to use its critical faculties also within the dream state. You are then able to realize that while you are indeed awake, as you seem, you are awake within a different condition.

Only then can you fully begin to manipulate the conditions that exist, and communicate the knowledge that you receive to your own ego. For the time, you see, the ego becomes a direct participator in such experiences—at least to some degree.

The span of a whole man’s lifetime is no more than a moment point. The ego is the portion of you equipped to explore and experience this moment point in depth. (Smile.) Value fulfillment demands this slowing down of perception. This is most difficult to explain. Consider using psychological time. You have experiences within a few physical moments of physical time, experiences that are entirely independent of your time structure.

You are exploring the inner contents of a moment, delving into its experience. Now this is what the ego does you see within a lifetime, only to a greater degree. In projections, and in your dreams, your perceptions to some extent enable you to leap out of the ego’s time limitations. The physical body is indeed the ego’s vehicle. You do not need it, you see, for projections.