“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Now, my dear friend Joseph: Reincarnation and projection, you see, are one and the same thing.

They simply appear to be different. As a rule the ego is not aware of its departure from one physical organism and its growth into another. This is a projection. The years of growth, as I have told you, are illusion. Value fulfillment is the law of the universe, and it appears as growth within your system.

The journey itself is as instantaneous as a projection from here to, say, Puerto Rico. You are simply delving more deeply into the moment point in the reincarnational instance. In your (underlined) terms you are staying there longer.

When you are attached to the physical organism your projections are not as complete—the difference between a reincarnational instance and a simple projection from the physical state. Obviously the sense data appears the same. In both instances you appear to be physically perceiving, and so you are. In a projection you are still within the physical system as a rule, though there are definite exceptions here.

Now this distortion may possibly be a hangover from a previous existence, but it is a distortion. Projections in fact should give you an excellent idea of the reality of reincarnations. In an excellent projection you forget the self on the bed. You are in an entirely new environment, but you are still beset by certain personality tendencies that are yours.

In reincarnations also you carry along many of these tendencies. In the middle of a projection you may suddenly remember the self on the bed, and in the middle of a given existence you may suddenly remember a previous self. I have also told you that the term previous in this connection is used only for your convenience.

There are points in that book which we have not yet discussed, for the ground has not been prepared sufficiently. Reincarnation and projection are as real and as difficult for the ego to grasp, as the nature of dreams. You can begin to understand the effect of dreams at least upon your daily life. Reincarnations and projections of which you are not consciously aware have an equal effect, a stronger effect, upon your daily existence.

Now my dear friend, the technique involved in projections will be literally invaluable to you.

You will learn through experience many and excellent methods that can be utilized for your advantage. Through projections you will become acquainted with the mobility and stability of the inner self, as separate from the physical apparatus.

Literally, death will no longer appear frightening. You will already be acquainted and trained to leave the physical body. From a conversation I overheard, so to speak, neither of you properly understand the importance of that material. For best benefits it had to be given before serious projections on your part, and not after.

(“A mission with unforeseen consequences.” The article on page 12 of the newspaper, dealing with the Dominican seminary in Portugal, has to do with the journey to the United States each year of a priest, Rev. Fernandes, on a fund-raising mission. The subtitle of the article also reads: “Project in Portugal Aided by Funds Raised in U.S.”.

(“Connection with something green as a meadow.” The same article describes in some detail how the Dominican order in Portugal now has converted an old farm into a new seminary, which is “largely self-supporting, having its own kitchen, laundry, reservoir, farm, fruit and vegetable garden, and vineyards,” etc.