“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

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.

Very vaguely indeed, this could be compared to a voice from one station suddenly being captured by another. There is much more here, almost impossible at present to explain. There are, from your standpoint, minutely sized systems that within themselves are infinite. You could be drawn into an entirely different value fulfillment system. All of this is very improbable, but it is possible and under drugs such experiences could result.

Thoughts, as you know, contain their own electromagnetic reality. This means that each thought is an electromagnetic system in fact and not just in theory. Such a system is the basis for your physical system and these are highly valid. Theoretically only, with drugs it would be possible to be lost within an idea, caught in its electromagnetic reality, and forced to follow the ramifications and developments of the idea in various guises. The value fulfillment system would be changed. There would be development within that system, but you would be lost to your own system.

I mention such possibilities because such situations have not been dreamed of, and they should be taken into consideration. Such experiences without drugs could happen not at all. The alarmed personality would quickly return. In the case of drugs however the chemical framework might delay such a return until it was too late.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I am not denying that the drug experience can be excellent, however. There is a nitrogen balance that is disturbed in the drug experience. There is an ingredient in nuts also that will aggravate certain conditions if nuts are consumed within ten hours before the drug experience. If this happens, then the individual may be tossed back into a similar drug experience when nuts are consumed, even though no drug is given. There are other substances that also have this effect.

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.