“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.

These dreams make little impression upon the waking consciousness unless you train it and take it with you as far as it can go. It is then able to translate the dream reality at least in part. In the psychedelic experience the ego can be trained to act in the same manner. Later it can serve as an interpreter.

It will indeed translate the data into terms that it can understand, but without such translation the normal waking consciousness might have no record of it at all. Much of such experiences will remain untranslated. The intellect simply will not be able to contain the data. There is a point where the ego will be left behind but each time it will go further.

The chemicals you see alter the system that you inhabit, as well as your own perceptions of it. It is speeded up in many respects, and the problem is almost like returning to a moving ship in space, only the motion involved is consciousness. You would not have a stationary station to return to.

In trance states, there is a more or less stationary system waiting, so to speak. In trance states, consciousness itself brings about the chemical changes within it as it, consciousness, travels. Changes do occur within the body. When consciousness alters its direction it automatically alters the physical system. When it is ready to return the physical system is automatically prepared to receive it.

Now in the drug situation the state of consciousness desired is brought about by altering chemical properties. Consciousness, travelling, cannot automatically manipulate the physical station. Consciousness must stay out, you see, until the chemical situation has changed.

If difficulties arise, there is no stable station to receive the returning consciousness. This does not seem to be a problem now, for the travelers are new at this. As their members increase, however, some of these difficulties may bring problems.

The chemical changes propel consciousness outward, or far inward. This is aside: A small dose of salt, regular salt, taken with the drugs would help maintain a certain stability. It has a binding action on consciousness and acts as a cohesive.

This is somewhat like drugging a child about to be born as a side effect of drugging the mother to make the birth easier, you see. Without drugs, the psychedelic experience will not occur unless circumstances are excellent from all aspects. There is little danger involved, as a rule. The chemical changes are automatically byproducts of the mobility of consciousness in such situations.

Now, I do intend to give you further instructions and I will. The drugs now given allow experience in one main direction only. We will have more maneuverability. Different drugs yet to be discovered will allow consciousness travel in some other directions, but when a chemical is used, it will largely determine the systems that may be explored.

Consciousness on its own has a larger choice. The North-South position is still the best body position, though other positions may be used. This applies to either the drug or drugless experience. For various reasons, the time of the full moon is most beneficial. Rainy weather is an aid. For Ruburt, the time of ovulation is good.