“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Do not touch another figure if you have reason to believe that it is a traveling form like your own. You will have to learn to distinguish. When you realize that you are dreaming, and if in the dream you are with another person, then tell him that you are both dreaming, and note his response.

(Long pause.) You understand how physical matter is formed. You will be dealing with realities in which the durability of images is far different. You will be much more aware of the shifting guise of materialized images. You will be aware of the mental energy and psychic force that gives all objects their existence.

You will to some degree learn control amid a conglomeration of energy forces that have no objective form. All objects as you know are energy. If the energy is focused in a particular manner, then you have physical objects within your system.

There are also potential objects. The energy is focusing toward materialization. There is also energy that will never focus in this way. The bulk of this energy is mental, or exists in such a way that you will never perceive it as form. It has motion. This motion follows certain laws which we will not discuss at this time.

It is very simply the energy that composes your universe, only you are usually familiar with it when it is formed into matter exclusively. Now it is this that may carry you to other systems, though the word carry seems to imply a motion backward or forward. The motion may feel backward or forward, but instead there is an immersion into various depths.

One point: There is involved here a freedom from your physical time that can be gained in no other way. This freedom is extremely refreshing, and has therapeutic results unless the experience is overindulged in. There is a benefit for the physical body also. It is momentarily free of any irritating demands put upon it by a divided personality, automatically for example free from aggressions and unhealthy aspects of this nature. I mentioned that double and even triple projections can occur as you adopt forms. These forms represent forms that your personality will take in future existences.

They are adopted to meet the particular requirements of the environment in which they are used. In some dreams individuals see what they imagine to be the image of their own dead self. Instead they have been projecting, and see one of their own projected forms that they have themselves just vacated.

These forms do exist, as your physical body does. They are fused however with your inner self. They are not physical, but they do exist in the whole package of the self, perhaps like the skins of an onion, you see. They are merely the forms that your own consciousness takes in different dreams.