“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

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 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 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.

Now I have told you that dreams are caused in part—underline in part—by chemical excesses built up within the human system. Dreams also carry the weight of emotional excesses that cannot be adequately expressed within daily physical action.

Now I shall tell you that physical weather is also caused in part by psychic energy, rushing through the human system and through the systems of all living creatures, and also by an excess, a chemical excess, beyond that which the individual organism can handle.

(Seth began talking about dreams by the 15th session, then began to give material on their chemical excesses soon after. [...]

[...] But your bodies must rid themselves of chemical excesses in the same way that land must clear itself of excess water. [...]

Here you can find individuals of great energy; of unstable, “excessively” temperamental natures, and with intense capacities for creativity and innovation. [...] Such individuals operate at a high pitch, and en masse emit inordinate excesses of what I have called ghost chemicals.

[...] There are great correlations between thunderstorms and psychic storms, for example, and between unstable electromagnetic properties of both feeling and thought, the brain’s ability to handle these, and its need to rid itself of excesses. [...]

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. [...] The more intense the individual, the hotter the fire, so to speak, and the greater the chemical excesses released.

[...] In periods of exuberant energy and well being, a more than normal excess accumulates. [...] In periods of momentary indisposition, however, the dreaming process may be blocked and the chemical excess accumulated. [...]

[...] These chemical excesses are used up, for one things, in your own creative work. [...] This energy results, also, in chemical excesses that can be utilized in projections, without drawing energy away from your other work.

Excess of chemicals within the body are drained off by the subconscious through its ability to act as a channel between fields of actuality. [...]

[...] Energy may not be properly directed toward releasing from the physical field of the body excess chemicals into other fields. [...]

I mentioned earlier the connection between excess chemicals and the dream field. [...]

Many people, however, fear spontaneity: it evokes extravagance, excesses, and dangerous freedoms. [...]

Any excessive behavior may enter in, including oversmoking, overeating, and overdrinking.

It also helped rid the body of excess fluids — the phlegm, and so forth. [...]

[...] The improvements in the eyes today were partially the result of those processes, as the sinuses and so forth were flushed out, relieving the eye muscles, and also ridding the areas of some excess fluid.

[...] You also possess what is often called the subconscious, and this merely consists of feelings, thoughts or experiences that are connected to your conscious mind, but would be considered excess baggage if you had to be aware of them all of the time. [...]

The ideas of penance, fasting to excess, the personal abuse of the body, such as self-flagellation — all of those practices are conducted in the belief that suffering is something to be sought in itself. [...]

In their own way they become what we will call pure emotional constructions, forming patterns that operate through emotional impetus that is received from and transmitted by individuals who thereby discharge and yet direct excesses of emotional energy, which the various personalities can no longer hold within the personal domain.

[...] Excesses over this survival construction are used in various creative aspects, and represent the basics for culture and civilization.

Your wars are of course excess, poorly controlled emotional energy. [...]

He took excessive means, as he said today, to avoid going to excess.

It may store urine to retain minerals at one time, and urinate seemingly to excess in another. [...]

[...] I peeled excess tape off some of her dressings. [...]

(I glued a square of the burlap to a wood panel with a very white acrylic gesso that is used to prime artists’ canvas, then used a razor blade to trim off the excess around the edges after drying. [...]

[...] The excess chemicals built up during the waking condition are used to help form the projecting images. [...]

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.

The chemical excesses built up in the waking state are automatically changed as they are drained off, into electrical energy, which also helps to form and sustain dream images. [...]

[...] Because of the intenseness of their waking existence, the chemical excesses build up at a faster rate. [...]

People in such societies often suffer from malnourishment, frequent beatings, an excessive use of the enema, and often indulge in physical punishment. [...]

[...] These are in your terms, excesses of energy that shoot out from you like stars  but coalesce into a shape and a form. [...]

To his way of thinking he cut out all excess baggage, so he had a spare diet, physically speaking. [...]

[...] They are not at low ebb, but an excess of energy will serve you both well during your symposium.