“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

When consciousness leaves the body, it identifies itself with one of these portions, and travels in its form. Each form, embodying certain identity characteristics, has its own environment. Its abilities allow it to operate in particular dimensions.

Consciousness as manifested individually simply adopts various images, though some of these are not physical in your terms. There is nothing so strange at this, since in physical life there is the definite difference between the body form of the child, the young adult, and the old man. You do not think this strange, nor do you think of it as three separate forms, you see.

He will seem to have a physical perception. The sense apparatus, supposedly the exclusive right of the physical body, will be much more acute, and yet it will not be determined by any physical mechanisms. The form will be produced directly by idea, yet it will be a definite form in objective terms.

Under usual conditions it will not be perceived by those still in physical form. This form is much like the form in which you project, but the form which you project is not truly complete, for there must be some (underlined) division of vitality so that physical existence is maintained during out-of-body episodes.

Now when you leave one form for the other, it of course is in the trance state. This applies to other forms beside the physical. You may look back upon it and think it a dead image of yourself, you see. Some individuals in their first astral form see their physical bodies as dead images of themselves and become frightened.

Projection can occur then in those terms or directions also. This is however much more difficult, and of a different nature entirely. The consciousness that ordinarily projects in an out-of-body experience could not practically project into one atom. The realities are too different.