“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

To refrain from using energy is to have less of it. The use of energy is the basis for personality and the intensity of experience. There is no such thing as hoarding energy. The creative individual has more vivid dream experiences and more vivid waking experiences than other individuals. Creativity should not be considered as the property of those who work in the arts however, for it is not theirs exclusively.

Creativity is an emotional and psychic characteristic. It can be used in various ways. The dreams of the highly creative exist multidimensionally. Projections rarely occur except to creative individuals. Now I am taking considerable time to deal with projections because on a spontaneous basis they occur more or less constantly.

The consciousness exists however. The consciousness as it reasserts itself within physical reality has no memory of the interval in which it did not physically exist. The inner self however retains all memory. Dreams allow consciousness to disentangle itself from physical reality. For various reasons the intervals here, you see, are to some extent recalled.

A large variety of dreams are the memories of this nonphysical existence that constantly occurs, though in waking life you are seldom aware of them. This cycle that psychologists have recently discovered, having to do with the various dream levels, corresponds to the ebb and tide of consciousness as it appears within and disappears from physical reality. It creates physical reality, as you know.

Your idea of time does not exist within such intervals. You do not even take it with you. Now these nonintervals are indeed openings into other realities, and you can theoretically explore them. They exist as actually as physical reality. You are doing the same thing when you realize you are dreaming, and decide to explore, say, a distant landscape that appears within the dream.

For this is a noninterval to the inner self. This material is extremely important. One portion of you leaves the inner self to explore in depth a particular noninterval. To the inner self no time passes. You experience of course physical time. This noninterval however creates its own interval points that you also explore, in your dreams and waking projections that escape your ordinary consciousness.

They relieve the physical organism for one thing. They refresh it immeasurably for another. We will deal with dream projections in detail, and then we shall discuss conscious projections literally from the waking state. I will give you my directions for projections from within the dream state first.

We have not really begun full discussions of the types and kinds and degrees of dream experiences.

Some dreams as you know are more closely allied with physical reality than others. Some however are excellent as thresholds for conscious projection. What Fox called awake-seeming dreams are excellent. These can be produced during relatively brief naps also.

Our instructions will begin with the use of these dreams whenever they occur. You will know them by their intense vividness. These are dreams when at first you are certain that you are awake. It is sufficient to keep this in mind, so that in the middle of a dream you can realize what it is.

The pure and brilliant quality of the surroundings have much in common with the appearance physical reality has for children. The physical senses seem to operate with such efficiency that you think you are awake, but their brilliancy is superperfect. As soon as you realize what type of dream this is, then with practice you can project within it consciously, and explore your environment.