“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

There are many portions of the self, as you know. They do assume a form that is visible within their own dimension. These portions of the self are all simultaneous; in various stages of consciousness you become aware of other portions of the self, and an I identifies itself with one or another of these.

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.

One form may indeed serve, and then consciousness may project out of it into a new form that is familiar with other dimensions. In Ruburt’s experience three different forms were used. He spoke, incidentally to his Father Trainor, and Lizzie Roohan together, while he was in the second form. He was then led by me into a further dimension of reality in which his third form was used. You must remember that all of these portions of the self exist at once, and that the whole inner self knows them as a part of its own identity. (Lizzie and her mother shared the two-family Saratoga, NY home with Jane and her mother.)

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.

A personality may or may not realize the fact of physical death, for example. Literally, he may or may not find himself in a physical-seeming environment. He will be in a form, however, and will seem so to himself also.

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.

Since these selves exist simultaneously, it is then possible for consciousness to enter, or really form, such an image, undergo experiences within the characteristic pattern of reality, and then project to another image. In all cases consciousness forms the image. When consciousness changes, or travels at certain frequencies, it automatically changes its form. It is indeed possible to be involved with more than one form at once as in usual projection.

You can enter a trance state in any form, you see. The time element is important when you project from the physical image. It becomes less important the further away you get from the physical form. Since all of these selves are simultaneous, it is also possible to project yourself into one of your own previous identities.

Any real psychology must take all these levels of the self into consideration, for the physically-oriented self that you know is largely formed by the subjective self of which you know so little.

Survival personalities can recognize an earthly projectionist, for the form is not fully materialized in their terms. Many of you do, while projecting, council and help those who are newly dead in physical terms.

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.

Practically speaking, three other forms are available to you in projections beside the physical, though others are theoretically available. It goes without saying that the consciousness works as hard at night as in the daytime, and always the experiences become part of the whole inner self.

We have been speaking of ascending selves in your terms. In your (underlined) terms, there are also, of course, descending selves, in that each atom and molecule has its own consciousness and contains all the characteristics inherent in consciousness itself. It is individualistic, it contains qualities you term personality qualities. It adopts form, gains experience, and develops through value fulfillment.