“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Now certain chemical changes must come about in the physical organism before projection can occur. Were it not for these you would still be imprisoned within the corporeal image. You know that dreaming has definite chemical bases, that chemicals built up during periods of waking existence are released through dreams. Not only are they released but they form a propelling action that allows energy to flow in the opposite direction. As chemical reactions allow the body to utilize energy and form physical materializations, so the excess built up then becomes a propelling force, allowing action to flow in what you would term subjective directions.

These chemical excesses are a natural byproduct of consciousness that is bound up in physical materialization. The more intense the characteristic experience of reality, the greater the chemical excess that is built up. Consciousness itself, when physically oriented, burns up chemicals. The more intense the individual the hotter the fire, so to speak, and the greater the chemical excesses that must be released.

Now where the ego operates you will always find chemical repercussions; to some extent or another then the physical body will be involved. Deeper or less familiar portions of the self exist without a chemical manifestation. These usually take electromagnetic forms to some degree however.

Now this same chemical reaction must also occur, only more strongly, before a legitimate projection of the self from the physical organism can occur. This is one of the main reasons why such projections happen rarely. Usually, and without training, the chemical excess is used in the dreaming process. In periods of exuberant energy and well-being a more than normal amount of excess accumulates. This can trigger a projection.

Now in the drug situation the state of consciousness desired is brought about by altering chemical properties. [...] Consciousness must stay out, you see, until the chemical situation has changed.

[...] In the case of drugs however the chemical framework might delay such a return until it was too late.

The chemicals you see alter the system that you inhabit, as well as your own perceptions of it. [...]

[...] In trance states, consciousness itself brings about the chemical changes within it as it, consciousness, travels. [...]

[...] Your feelings with their chemical interactions have, beside their subjective reality to you, electromagnetic properties, as indeed your thoughts have. But your bodies must rid themselves of chemical excesses in the same way that land must clear itself of excess water. There are what I am going to call here “ghost” chemicals — aspects of normal chemicals that you have not perceived so far, where certain thresholds are approached in which chemicals are changed into purely electromagnetic properties, and energy released that directly affects the physical atmosphere.

[...] Physically speaking, there are chemical interactions when thought occurs, and memories ride on the chemicals’ smooth flow. [...]

(11:20.) As your body is in a state of constant flux and chemical interaction, so is the atmosphere, which reflects on another level all of the psychic, chemical, and electromagnetic properties that exist within the body.

[...] Such individuals operate at a high pitch, and en masse emit inordinate excesses of what I have called ghost chemicals.

Certain chemical changes must come about in the physical organism before projection can occur. [...] You know that dreaming has a definite chemical basis, that chemicals built up during period of waking experience are released through dreams. [...] As chemical reactions allow the body to utilize energy and form physical materializations, so the excess built up becomes, then, a propelling force, allowing action to flow in what you would call subjective directions.

These chemical excesses are a natural by-product of consciousness that is bound up in physical materialization. The more intense the characteristic experience of reality, the greater the chemical excess that is built up. Consciousness itself, when physically oriented, burns up the chemicals. The more intense the individual, the hotter the fire, so to speak, and the greater the chemical excesses released.

This same chemical reaction must also occur, only more strongly, before a legitimate projection can occur. [...] Usually the chemical access is used in normal dreaming. [...] In periods of momentary indisposition, however, the dreaming process may be blocked and the chemical excess accumulated. [...]

[...] It is a kind of pseudo-image, materialistically speaking, but it has definite electromagnetic reality and chemical properties. [...] They react to the chemical properties and build up to the [perception of] the image from these.

Excess of chemicals within the body are drained off by the subconscious through its ability to act as a channel between fields of actuality. The chemicals are sent as projections into other fields which need such chemicals. [...]

[...] Energy may not be properly directed toward releasing from the physical field of the body excess chemicals into other fields. A buildup of such chemicals can be deadly, leading to among other things forms of insanity, schizophrenia, and other disorders which show themselves in mental or personality symptoms.

It is possible to treat such disorders from a chemical standpoint, as is sometimes being done, but the acquired artificial chemical balance will in most cases not be maintained, because the inner self, the deep subconscious, has not been signaled that an error is being made. [...]

I mentioned earlier the connection between excess chemicals and the dream field. [...] Before we take a break, let me tell you that hormones within the physical body have not only a chemical but an electric, rather electromagnetic, basis and reality, and that these also are connectors with other fields of existence.

[...] Not only does the human system for example become influenced chemically, electronically and psychically by physical weather, but also the human system electronically, electromagnetically, chemically and psychically affects and creates the climate in which existence is possible.

The chemical connections are the most easily discovered. The discovery however comes about, or is coming about, as a result of studies made concerning the effect of physical weather upon the individual, in chemical terms. [...]

[...] Perhaps the word abundance of chemical energy would be more correct. The chemical energy is above that which is ordinarily needed by the individual physical organism, yet it must be used. [...]

There is a constant give and take between psychic and chemical components which actually cause your daily weather, your weather cycles, seasons, droughts and storms. [...]

Many have come to me, or written after “bad trips”; the young especially, always great searchers after truth, and very tempted to look to the chemical, LSD now,¹ as the latest method of finding it. [...] I am talking about a chemical that is a result of your technological knowledge.

[...]

[...] The Soul in Chemical Clothes.”

[...] The doctor offered greater freedom and the hope that perhaps chemically the doors to truth, within his own soul at least, could be opened. [...]

These chemical properties however are more diffuse in an apparition than in a physical form. The chemical composition of a storm perhaps will give you an idea of what I mean. [...]

[...] The excess chemicals built up during the waking condition are used to help form the projecting images. There is a slight loss of electromagnetic potency and chemical potency when the individual is projecting.

The chemical properties of the body are the result of certain electromagnetic changes. Chemicals are therefore byproducts of electromagnetic realities. [...]

[...] There are chemical changes that occur with the physical body when projections occur. [...]

[...] (Pause.) There will often be chemical imbalances in such a situation, unconsciously produced by the individual, sometimes in order to allow him to work out a series of hallucinatory events. Such sustained “objectified dreaming” necessitates a change, chemically, from the normal state of waking consciousness. [...]

[...] If there are chemical imbalances they are often corrected quite automatically in the dream state, as you act out situations calling up the production of hormones, say, that would be summoned in a like waking situation. [...]

[...] But naturally and left alone, any chemical upsets in the body will right themselves after the inner problems causing them are worked out through any of a variety of innate healing methods.

[...] One of the latest ideas is that certain mental conditions are caused by chemical imbalances. [...]

[...] We will discuss the ways in which this can be encouraged, as well as the role of the conscious mind as the director of “the soul in chemical clothes.”

[...] There are other chemical hallucinogens, for example, that are not mentioned above.

[...] The chemical percentages are important here; that is, the chemical percentages vary from those found in the body during what you call normal states of consciousness.

Dream images are composed in part as a result of chemical excesses that are built up normally by the organism in the waking state. Physical materializations are built up by bringing about this condition of excessive chemical action.

It is true that a state can be produced in which such materializations can occur, by artificially producing the chemical imbalance necessary. [...]

[...] Since all things have an electrical and chemical reality, the food that you eat is also important, and it is for this reason that I made certain suggestions concerning your diet.

There are chemical and electrical connections that cannot be ignored here. For a dream has a chemical reality and an electrical reality. It is built up, on one level, of chemical components that have an electrical basis, and it is through these connections that transformation within the nerve structure of the physical organism is made.

[...] There still must be a connection with the physical organism, and here our chemical and electrical components enter in. Each dream is actually built up through a chemical synthesis that follows strong electrical pathways.

Such suggestions will serve to protect the integrity of the physical organism, for these suggestions also have an electrical reality and a chemical reality, as your fear of cats has a chemical and an electrical reality that forces you to act within that framework.

Because suggestions do have an electrical and a chemical reality, they can therefore change the framework within which you operate. [...]

[...] I believe the chemical Seth may have been groping for is purine. I knew this word but Jane did not; nor did she understand the formation of crystals near joints because of this chemical, which could then cause swelling. [...]

[...] In this case this represented an entire, almost complete, transformation of the circulating system, and a change of chemical interactions. [...]

The swelling has to do with a chemical that encouraged in certain parts of the body only a retention of fluid, and this was aggravated by beer consumption, and also by the drinking of whole milk.

(“Can you name the chemical, approximately?”)

When Augustus Two was in control of the body the chemical makeup varied considerably. [...] The chemical changes were caused by the transition in beliefs that operated, and not the other way around.

If chemical alteration were made in Augustus Two he would return to the Augustus One personality, but the change would be artificial — not permanent, and possibly quite dangerous.

The chemically inhibited tendencies would to some extent be forcefully blanketed through medication. [...]

It is well known that emotions have a chemical reality, but it is not generally realized that dreams also have the same sort of property. Telepathy is indeed affected by chemical reactions, as dreams are.

All such projections have an electromagnetic and chemical reality that has its origin within the field of the given personality. [...]

[...] Again, there are chemical and electromagnetic connections that cannot be severed between all these states of consciousness.

There is a chemical necessity, as I have said, that makes dreaming inevitable. [...]

The soul is not only dressed in chemical clothes, but wears the apparel woven from all of the elements of the earth. As physical creatures you will be partially changed by any chemical or element, or food or drug that becomes part of your living system, but those effects will follow the nature of your beliefs.

[...] These can be alternative courses to those who believe that there is no other way but to browbeat the ego — either through the use of chemicals or by other methods calculated to strip it of its powers at least momentarily, rather than teaching it to use those great abilities of assimilation that it does possess.

Your dreams and the physical events of your lives constantly alter the chemical balances within your body. [...]

Another dream might provide a “dreaming” peaceful interlude in which all stress is minimized, with the overactive output of certain hormones and chemicals quieted as a result.

There must be a connection however with the physical organism, and the connection, the physical connection, is both electrical and chemical. The connection between what you might call materializations, and the physical organism, are also electrical and chemical. [...]

The reality and the framework within which these sessions exist have electrical and chemical organizations also, that require a delicate focus that was upset this evening. [...]

Distractions, or fear of distractions, have their own reality, and set up strongly positive electrical charges which can be detrimental, although other conditions, chemical and electrical conditions, must also be considered. [...]

When I speak of the terms electronically and chemically I do so for simplification, since electronics and chemicals are two facets of the same thing, merely manifestations of something else as heat and cold or fire and ice are manifestations of something else. I can exist electronically or I can exist chemically, and there is no contradiction or distortion in this statement. [...]

[...] Otherwise you would have a willy-nilly chaotic arrangement, with the personality incapable of maintaining any discipline as far as his own chemical and electronic components were concerned.

(“Can you give us an instance of your chemical state?’)

(“When you’re in an actual chemical state.”)

Emotional outbursts or reactions do cause chemical conditions, and certain chemical conditions can facilitate such communications. However, it is a fact that as a rule the communications cause the chemical reactions rather than the other way around.

On a particular level however this makes little difference, because such communications are carried on constantly at subconscious levels, seldom reaching ego awareness, so that individuals are subconsciously conditioned—and underline subconsciously conditioned—therefore expecting, all unknown to the ego, such communications when certain chemical changes come about; since these chemical changes also occur for other reasons when these conditions occur, on a practical level communications will then most easily happen. These chemical changes without the proper subconscious focus point, will result in clairvoyance or telepathy strong enough on some occasions to be conscious. [...]

[...] In so-called higher forms, the chemical process itself allows for the creation of an ordinary image. This brings about further thermal responses and chemical alterations, that allow the thought processes to proceed.

[...] Such thermal pictures are found in what is called the old brain, and to these, the body responds with changes of temperature that sparks various chemical reactions.