“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

2. Seth’s creative use of “hallucinations” here is certainly at variance with the concepts ordinarily associated with the word. In a dictionary, for instance, hallucinations may be described as sights and sounds apparently perceived. Hallucinations are tied in with some mental disorders; with objects not actually present. Logically enough, then, in the dictionary one of the synonyms for hallucination will be a word like “delusion”: a belief not true, a persistent opinion without corresponding physical evidence.

Shadows can be pleasant and luxurious, and on a hot sunny day you are certainly aware of their beneficial nature. So some dream hallucinations are beautiful, comforting, refreshing. They can bring great peace and be sought after for themselves. You may believe that God exists as a kindly father, or you might personify him as Christ or Buddha. In your dreams you might then encounter such personages. They are quite valid, but they are also hallucinations cast by your own thoughts and feelings. Dreams of Heaven and Hell alike fall into the same category, in those terms, as hallucinations.

Now, using an analogy only, let me explain that your thoughts and feelings also give off shadows (intently) that we will here call hallucinations.² They are quite valid. They have as strong a part to play in dream reality as shadows do in the physical world. They are beautiful in themselves. They add to the entire picture. A shadow of a tree cools the ground. It affects the environment. So hallucinations alter the environment, but in a different way and at another level of reality. In the dream world hallucinations are like conscious shadows. They are not passive, nor is their shape dependent upon their origin. They have their own abilities.

Stormy dream landscapes are on the one hand hallucinations, cast upon the inner world by your thoughts or feelings. On the other hand, they are valid representations of your inner climate at the time of any given dream. Such scenes can be changed in the dream state itself if you recognize their origin. You might choose instead to learn from such hallucinations by allowing them to continue, while realizing that they are indeed shadows cast by your own mind.

Remember that in one way, your physical existence is the result of mass hallucination. [...] You have your private hallucinations now, only you do not realize what they are. Such hallucinations as I have been speaking of, intense symbolistic encounters, can also occur in your sleep states, when the personality is at a time of great change, or when opposing ideas must be unified, or if one must give way to another. [...]

It is possible for example to lose yourself momentarily in the hallucinations that are being formed, and in such cases another teacher must bail you out. Delicate probing of the psychological processes is necessary, and the variety of hallucinations in which you may become involved is endless. [...]

[...] Vivid hallucinations may form experience quite as real as any in mortal life. [...]

[...] At death, the consciousness hallucinated the river vividly. [...]

In the same fashion, the person who hallucinates the voice of God or a demon actually does so to preserve the idea of sanity in his own mind. [...]

If the therapist tries to convince such a person that the hallucinated personage does not exist, then this threatens the person’s concepts of personal sanity.

In this case, I think that Rob projected to the studio, and hallucinated the rest of the events or performed them in the astral body. Had he been more critical at the time, he could have caused the hallucinations to disappear, continued with them or left the apartment.

[...] Was this a distortion or hallucination? I willed all hallucinations to vanish, but everything remained the same. [...]

[...] How will I know its not a dream or hallucination?” he used to ask. [...]

[...] This told me at once that I was hallucinating and if I didn’t watch it, I could fall into a dreaming state. [...]

A belief in hell fires can cause you to hallucinate Hades’ conditions. A belief in a stereotyped heaven can result in a hallucination of heavenly conditions. [...] Such hallucinations, I assure you, are temporary.

[...] You are not left alone, therefore, lost in mazes of hallucination. [...]

[...] Is physical life a hallucination? [...]

Your reality is the result of a hallucination, if by this you mean that it is only the picture shown by your senses. [...]

[...] Anything that does not normally belong there may be an hallucination, part of the usual dreaming process. [...]

[...] You can accept such images and play around with them or watch them to see what develops, but only if you realize they are hallucinations. [...]

The images and forms Seth speaks about in that session would not disappear when you banished your own hallucinations, as mentioned earlier. [...]

[...] It must be an hallucination.”

[...] Yet she herself first came up with the insight tonight that the panic was expressing itself through her disorientations and/or hallucinations. [...] Yet the next moment she was back hallucinating. A few minutes ago she’d told me that she had to have the session in order to get rid of the anxiety-hallucination complex. [...]

[...] It also took me a bit to realize that it was starting to show itself in the form of hallucinations or disorientation. [...]

[...] She was also hallucinating again, wondering if it was safe to sit up and relax. [...]

[...] He was like a truant so he caused the hallucination so that he would return to his body. Now the nature of the hallucination was his own doing. He used his own fears to cause the hallucination. [...]

[...] You are, in other words, apparitions and in a gigantic mass hallucination you all agree upon the people that you see, and you all pretend that you are the selves that you see but you are far more than this. [...]

[...] Let it sustain you, let it carry you again safely back to the hallucination of the physical room and the projection that you now accept. [...]

[...] Welcome back to the hallucination that you accept so easily. [...]

[...] It does no good to call these forms hallucinations, for they are no more hallucinations than the chair in which my friend Ruburt now sits. [...] ‘Whether or not the automobile is a sensory hallucination, it can kill you,’ he said. And I tell you that whether or not these projection images are hallucinations, they can be dangerous and you must respect the reality in which they exist. [...]

[...] There is no need to experience the hallucinations mentioned by Fox [in his book, Astral Projection]. [...]

[...] With the dream projections, I was more intrigued by the manipulations of consciousness involved (the trick of staying between hallucinations and physical reality) and the methods. [...]

[...] Physically speaking it does no good to call such images hallucinations, for they are no more hallucinations than the chair in which my friend Ruburt now sits.

[...] Whether or not the automobile is a sensory hallucination, it can kill you, he said. And I tell you, whether or not these images are hallucinations, they can be dangerous, and you must respect the reality in which they exist.

[...] There is no need to experience the voice hallucinations mentioned by the author, Fox. [...]

[...] The others involved are vivid hallucinations, and he may not realize this.

[...] Some may attempt to gain revenge in this way, finding satisfaction in gaining control over another, finally, but the victim in such a case is only the hallucinated image of the victor.

[...] When you realize that the physical creature is a hallucination then you will not need the images. I am not telling you that reality is a hallucination. I am telling you that each hallucination is a face that reality takes and that within them all the nature of reality resides. [...]

[...] Hallucination has also been involved during the daylight hours—or at least disorientation. [...]

[...] She hallucinated a tree and other objects as I worked on these notes. [...]

([Gert:] “Would we at anytime hallucinate, say, the strangers?”)

You hallucinate the reality that you know to begin with. [...]

[...] You may speak with dead friends or relatives, revisit the past, greet old classmates, walk down streets that existed fifty years earlier in physical time, travel through space without taking any physical time to do so, be met by guides, be instructed, teach others, perform meaningful work, solve problems, hallucinate.

[...] Now you may hallucinate the same sort of thing after death, use it for a symbol, and undergo a spiritual battle of sorts that would, of course, not be necessary had you more understanding. [...]

It is vital, then, that any therapist convinces the client that while the superbeing is a self-construction, and/or that the voices are hallucinations — this does not mean that the client is insane.

[...] I had a hell of a time last night—I went into dream states and hallucinations the whole night. [...]

[...] However, if a personality believes strongly in the reality of hell, for some time after death he will experience the hallucination of a hell which will be of his own creation.

[...] You can hardly follow your dreams while you consider your dreams hallucinations. [...]