“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Later you may not recall it, but you have a more direct connection with reality in the dream state, and the intensity of the dream experience is more completely perceived. I am speaking now in terms of basic reality. It is less camouflaged in the dream state. For this reason, in any projections you may be startled, for here you also enter a less strictly camouflaged situation.

When you travel, so to speak, beyond a certain range of intensities, even pseudoobjects must vanish. They exist in a cluster about, and connected to, your own system. The lack of even pseudoobjects obviously means that you have gone beyond your camouflage system. If it were possible for you, you would then travel through a range of intensities in which no camouflage existed. Then you would encounter the pseudocamouflage, you see, of the next system. This would or would not be physical matter, according to the system.

You would then encounter the heart of the camouflage area. The completely uncamouflaged areas at the outer edges of the various systems should remind you of the undifferentiated areas between various life cycles in the subconscious. This is no coincidence, as this general setup occurs in all realities.

As a rule there is little communication, you see, through those uncamouflaged or undifferentiated areas. They act in fact as boundaries, even while they represent the basic stuff of which all camouflage is composed. Without the camouflage, you see, you would perceive nothing using the physical senses.

The sentence is really meaningless however, because the physical senses themselves are camouflage, you see. There would be nothing to translate. It is only use of the inner senses that will allow you to perceive under these circumstances. Theoretically, if you can bridge the gap between various reincarnations, then you can bridge the gap between your system and another.

Once more, the undifferentiated layers or areas are composed of the vitality that forms the camouflage of all systems. It is not therefore—that is, such an area is not, therefore—a separate thing in itself, but simply a portion of vitality that contains no camouflage, and is therefore again unrecognizable to those within any given system.

You are in touch with infinity in such undifferentiated areas, for it is only camouflage that gives you your conception of time.

Nor do such projections involve necessarily journeys through space as you know it. There are systems, extremely vivid in intensity, that have no existence in physical reality. It is now thought, I believe, that time and space are basically one, but they are both a part of something else. They are merely the camouflage patterns by which you perceive reality. Space, as you experience it in the dream state, comes much closer to reality.

Projections that deal with your own system will of course involve you in some kind of camouflage. If none is present you know you are out of the system. The dream universe is obviously then strongly connected with your own, since pseudoimages are present. Already you are free to some extent from the space-time reality of your system. Therefore within the dream state you are in the outward areas of your physically-oriented universe, you see.

The traveler must leave his own camouflage paraphernalia completely behind however, or he will go nowhere. It is possible, theoretically, to travel to any system in this manner, and bypass others you see. Such a traveler would not age physically. His physical body would be in a suspended state. The traveling consciousness would lose all physical conception of time however. A very few individuals have traveled in this manner to any extensive degree. Most of the knowledge gained escapes the physical organism however, for the experiences could not be translated by the physical brain.

Practically speaking, this is seldom done, but it has been on occasion. The brain cannot contain such episodes. A portion of the self would retain these experiences. Now in a creative individual, some of these could be expressed symbolically in a painting or other work of art, but the ego could not consider them as actual.