“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Instinctively you leave your body for varying amounts of time each night while you sleep, but those journeys are not “programmed.” You plan your own tours, in other words. As many people with the same interests may decide to visit the same country together, on tour, so in the out-of-body condition you may travel alone or with companions. If you are alert you may even take snapshots — only as far as inner tours are concerned, the snapshots consist of clear pictures of the environment taken at the time, developed in the unconscious, and then presented to the waking mind.

(The quotations also indicate how pervasive the regular Western view of “reality” is in our society, and what an undertaking it is to step outside of that framework or just to enlarge upon it. Jane is still in the process of that objective, intellectual — and yet very emotional — movement of her psyche [as I am], but she’s made considerable progress. In each of her books she tries to more clearly communicate the details and developments of her journey. [I note also that neither one of us is trying to get rid of our Western orientation, or to desert it — but to understand it more fully.]

1. A note added six weeks later Seth further “develops” his camera analogy (as dream photography, for instance), in Section 5. See sessions 719–20.