“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

You were taking notes as usual. He forgot what the session was about, remembering only one portion that seemed significant. The experience was quite vivid, obviously not a dream, yet not a normal waking event. Following this in a period of usual activity (the same evening), he sensed his own image speaking for me and sitting across the couch from him in our (Seth’s) accustomed position. This involved several kinds of perception, and the willingness to accept a greater mobility of consciousness.

Now: in the first episode mentioned the experience was the same, only more vividly experienced since the focus personality was not fully awake and did not have immediate sense data to handle. There, Ruburt was inside the image that he had projected. His main consciousness was merged with mine in the session format; while in the waking experience his consciousness was in the normal image, which sensed the projected one. In the first experience then Ruburt projected an image outward and his consciousness entered it, then he had a session by the same mechanics we always use. The unprojected portion of him listened. He wanted to retain what was said, and sought for methods. He tried to have you take notes, but realized the physical incongruities. He became confused, tried to take notes himself as the listening image, and realized those notes would not exist physically either.

The thing is, he does unconsciously project in such a way—particularly in the sleep state. There are classes at other levels of reality that he conducts in that way. Your concepts may limit your conscious experience of the psyche’s vast activity, but the psyche does not limit its experience.

In a society in which individuals were encouraged to work with the psyche and with specialists who understood it, illnesses would be seen as physical symptoms of inner imbalances. The symptoms would be used as exterior reference points while the other conditions at which they hinted were studied. The natural healing that would then result would be a sure-fire indication of the personality’s growth, maturity and overall health. Health obviously does not apply to the body alone, nor even to the mind. That is, I am not speaking of mental ill health, meaning neurotic conditions. The healthy person is one who is balanced at any given time in your terms, as far as his or her relationship with the psyche is concerned; with the world and its relationships.

In other ways the same kind of mechanism operates in the growing popularity of the books. You did not want the little ESP book to do any better than it did in the beginning. That does not mean that you are stupid. It meant that you understood yourselves and the temper of the times, and understood the rhythms of your own growth, even if consciously you may have railed against the conditions and poor sales.

Your reality is at every point, again, a perfect replica of your inner wishes and expectations. There are no exceptions. Plans in your own minds, barely conscious, already begin to bear fruit. You have projected books, paintings and activities into the future—the patterns wait there to be filled. This applies to individuals and to countries.