“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Before we speak any further about projections, the structure of the self must be more thoroughly discussed.

Without these chemical and electromagnetic connections, (voice louder) the ego as such would not exist. The ego is largely dependent upon the physical mechanisms that compose the corporal image. It has its beginnings with corporal birth. While we speak of the ego, this part of the self is hardly permanent or constant, but ever-changing. However the intellect is also a portion, or an attribute, of the ego.

Obviously the ego is a part of the whole self. Directly its experiences must be physically oriented, and yet with training it can also learn to appreciate realities that are not physical. It must not be pushed, but with the proper attitudes it can and must participate to some extent in all psychic experiences, if the overall stability is to be maintained.

Now where the ego operates you will always find chemical repercussions; to some extent or another then the physical body will be involved. Deeper or less familiar portions of the self exist without a chemical manifestation. These usually take electromagnetic forms to some degree however.

Now this same chemical reaction must also occur, only more strongly, before a legitimate projection of the self from the physical organism can occur. This is one of the main reasons why such projections happen rarely. Usually, and without training, the chemical excess is used in the dreaming process. In periods of exuberant energy and well-being a more than normal amount of excess accumulates. This can trigger a projection.

The north-south position is extremely important in this context, and indeed a necessity for any efficient dream records. The reasoning parts of the brain can work most efficiently along with the intuitive portions of the self when the physical organism is in that position.

The whole organism operates more effectively, generally speaking, in such a position, but more than this, the whole self operates more as a single unit. The intellectual processes are to some extent diminished in other positions. This has to do as I have said with electromagnetic properties.

Projections involve many more aspects of the whole self, and are a mark that the personality is progressing in important ways. The inner senses are allowed their greatest freedom in projection states, and the whole self retains experience that it would not otherwise. When this knowledge becomes part of the usual waking consciousness, that is when you realize what you have done, then you have taken a gigantic step forward.

We shall discuss various kinds of projections in detail, for you will become acquainted with them. Unless the structure of personality, or of the self, is clearly understood, projection itself will not seem possible. A self that is conceived of as a physical composition only would never be able to project, nor survive physical death.

Through the years a history of personal projections will serve to prove to you the nonphysical aspect of the self. You may even meet me (smile, eyes open wide) in some future projection. My meetings with you here involve to some extent projections on my part and on Ruburt’s part. As yet he is not consciously aware of these projections. When I am here, he is often somewhere else. Part of him remains to keep check on me, and unfortunately this is the part that could be, but is not as yet, aware of his other surroundings.