“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(Jane said she had no idea of what Seth would talk about before the session began. She began speaking with a smile, her eyes open and very dark.)

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.

You will sometimes automatically translate this reality into physical terms. Such images will be hallucinatory, but it may take a while for you to distinguish their real nature. It must be understood however here that all physical objects are also hallucinatory. They may be called mass hallucinations.

There is a constant translation of inner reality into objects in the waking state, and a constant translation of ideas into pseudoobjects in the dreaming state. Within a certain portion of dream reality, ideas or thoughts can be translated into pseudoobjects, and transported. This can only happen within certain ranges of intensities. This is what happens when you adopt a pseudoform in projections, though I am simplifying this considerably.

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.

The thoughts would not be perceived if they were present, you see. If a certain intensity is reached here however, a peak of intensity, then you could perceive the spacious present as it exists within your native system. You could, from this peak, theoretically look into the other system, but you would not understand what you perceived. You would not have the proper root assumptions, you see.

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 undifferentiated layers move out like spirals then, through all reality. Little resistance is encountered with them. They represent inner roads that connect systems as well as divide them.

True motion has absolutely nothing to do with space. The only real motion is that of the traveling consciousness. (Long pause, eyes closed; one minute.) Spatially, a painting is flat. Its reality leaps out from its physical dimensions, and completely escapes them. (Long pause.) The depths within the painting do not physically exist, yet they are perceived.