“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Almost all of your dream experiences do involve projection of one kind or another. These experiences vary in intensity, type, and even duration as any other experiences vary. It takes a good deal of training and competence to operate with any real effectiveness within these situations.

All in all the intellect plays some part, but the intuitional qualities are the most important. There are chemical changes that occur with the physical body when projections occur. There are also electromagnetic variations. These vary according to the form in which the projection occurs.

The projected form does make some impression upon your physical system. In other words, it is possible for it to be detected. It is a kind of pseudo- image, materialistically speaking, but it has definite electromagnetic reality, and chemical properties.

Perhaps this diffused quality is the most important difference between such an apparition and a physical form. There is an atomic structure. In some ways however the structure is less complete than a physical form. There is always a minute difference in the physical body’s normal weight when the individual is projecting. The excess chemicals built up during the waking condition are used to help form the projecting images. There is a slight loss of electromagnetic potency and chemical potency when the individual is projecting.

Electromagnetic reality belongs to the inner self. It is not a property that belongs to physical matter, although it does appear in physical terms. (Pause.) The second and third projection forms have electromagnetic realities. (Pause.) We are going slow here to get this material through clearly.

In physical existence a certain portion of the inner self’s electromagnetic properties are used by the physical structure of the body. Subtle changes occur in the body when the inner self projects. This projection is not dependent upon physical life—that is, the survival of the human personality also is then not dependent upon physical survival, nor need it be supported by physical life. The electromagnetic properties simply revert to their original source with the inner self, and are no longer utilized in the construction of a corporeal image.

All consciousness exists first and primarily in electromagnetic terms, although consciousness may project itself into many various forms. It is never completely imprisoned within those forms however. You see, I have somewhat explained this to you. (Smile.) As physical beings your perception, your physical perception, is slowed down to a necessary but very extensive degree.

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.