“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

There are electromagnetic systems that make up experience. These may have counterparts, though not exact identities, within other systems totally alien to you as you know yourselves. Given certain unusual circumstances, you could leapfrog, so to speak, and end up within an energy gestalt from which you could not return. The personality structure simply would not take the transition.

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.

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.

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.