“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Consciousness cannot be separated from mobility. It is true that you focus within the physical system mainly, yet the inner self is highly mobile and embarks simultaneously upon a variety of projections. The closest example in your experience of this mobility is the dream situation.

What you must understand is that the psychedelic experience represents but a glimmering of the constant state of the inner self: not constant in terms of something static, however. With drugs, there are some dangers. There are dimensions in which you are completely incapable, and if through some molecular disturbance you fell into one of these it is possible that you could not find your way back. You do not understand me here, and it is difficult to explain. Your vocabulary is not equipped to deal with the concept. I will try.

The chemical changes brought about by such outside agents as drugs to some degree rob the inner self of its usual directive abilities, for the changes occur before the inner self has gathered itself together. It is not as psychically organized as it is in such experiences without drugs.

The inner self is highly capable and follows certain electromagnetic routes which it knows, and avoids other routes. Signals from the body reach it constantly. It is in immediate contact with the body on certain levels: survival levels. With these conditions satisfied, it can indeed travel further, so to speak, than in such an experience with drugs. I am comparing now the drug and drugless experiences at their best.

These are very simple suggestions. At our next session we shall go into this more deeply and define the psychedelic experience for you. There are many reasons why “illumination” (in quotes) occurs in the third and fourth decade. Such illumination represents the first contact of the ego with its inner self, and is only a beginning.