“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

The nonphysical systems are frightening to the ego-centered personality; but the bulk of the individual’s reality does not lie within the physical universe, but in those unknown areas. As you know the ego is the topmost portion, so to speak. Were it not for the dreaming self the ego would not exist. Were it not for past existences the personality as you know it would not exist.

Remember that reincarnation does not contradict the theory of the spacious present, for such lives within the spacious present are simultaneous. In dreams you journey through inner realities as actually as you walk physically through the matter of the physical world. It is true that the experiences you encounter may not be encountered by another in precisely (underline precisely) the same way, but physical experience is never the same for any two given individuals either.

Because dream objects appear and disappear, this does not mean they do not exist. In this particular instance the root agreement or assumption simply leads you astray.

In a given dream projection for example you may experience an episode that is obviously in the physical past, yet within it there may be elements that do not fit. In an old-fashioned room of the 1700’s, you may look out a window to see an automobile pass by. Obviously, you think, there is subconscious distortion here.

Yet you may be straddling time in such an instance, perceiving, say, the room as it existed in the 1700’s, and the street as it exists in your present. These elements may appear side by side. The car may disappear before your eyes, to be replaced by an animal, or the whole street may suddenly turn into a field. This is how dreams work, you may think. This cannot be a legitimate projection anywhere. Yet you may be suddenly perceiving the street, and the field that existed before it, and the images may be transposed one upon the other.