“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

With training some direction can be given, so that the information can be effectively used by the normal waking personality. With such training these experiences will lead you to other portions of your own entity. This is rather important.

This does not mean that they will appear within your own system however. They are as real and as unreal as physical objects. Little attention has been given to the pathways opened, even in the physical brain, as the result of psychedelic experiences. Those portions of the brain, seemingly unused, deal with these other dimensions, and physically (underlined), you begin to use these portions, though minutely, for the first time, under psychedelic situations.

Once these physical pathways are opened, the way becomes easier. The pineal, pituitary, and thalamus are important here. The salt mentioned earlier has a connection with the thyroid. The physical brains alone, the unused portions, have it within their ability, for example, to hear color, to smell sound; in other words, these portions contain among other things functions, unused mainly, that would allow you to perceive physical reality in various other fashions. These undifferentiated areas existed first before the specialized sense apparatus was uniformly adopted.

As a species you could just as easily have smelled color rather than viewed it, you see. These portions of the brain, once activated, then allow you to switch sense impressions from one sense mechanism to another, you see.

With our methods the ego is taken into confidence, you see. (Long pause.) Insanity, as it is labeled, is sometimes merely the result of a strange situation, in which certain individuals use the ordinarily dormant portions of the brain as well as, or sometimes largely in place of, the recognized portions. The perception of reality is therefore largely alien to society.

In other words, portions of the inner self have joined the strictly egotistical functions. The ego in such cases is so attuned that it becomes almost something else. We are coming here toward a definition of illumination in psychic terms. The ego is not, underlined, banished. It joins with portions of the inner self previously unconscious, and illuminates the whole personality. It is no longer primarily physically oriented. Therefore it is no longer an ego in the terms usually meant.

It becomes more and more a portion of the supraconsciousness. Its new function is to help direct the overall personality so that inner abilities and illuminations can also reach physical reality.