“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

These dreams make little impression upon the waking consciousness unless you train it and take it with you as far as it can go. It is then able to translate the dream reality at least in part. In the psychedelic experience the ego can be trained to act in the same manner. Later it can serve as an interpreter.

What you must understand is that the psychedelic experience represents but a glimmering of the constant state of the inner self: not constant in terms of something static, however. With drugs, there are some dangers. There are dimensions in which you are completely incapable, and if through some molecular disturbance you fell into one of these it is possible that you could not find your way back. You do not understand me here, and it is difficult to explain. Your vocabulary is not equipped to deal with the concept. I will try.

This is somewhat like drugging a child about to be born as a side effect of drugging the mother to make the birth easier, you see. Without drugs, the psychedelic experience will not occur unless circumstances are excellent from all aspects. There is little danger involved, as a rule. The chemical changes are automatically byproducts of the mobility of consciousness in such situations.

These are very simple suggestions. At our next session we shall go into this more deeply and define the psychedelic experience for you. There are many reasons why “illumination” (in quotes) occurs in the third and fourth decade. Such illumination represents the first contact of the ego with its inner self, and is only a beginning.

The psychedelic experience under these circumstances transforms the ego also in beneficial ways. [...] The ego can organize the old data when it undergoes a psychedelic experience as a part of the whole self. [...]

Ruburt has been reading about drugs that induce the so-called psychedelic experience.

[...] For in a very dim manner, the psychedelic experience can give you some glimmerings as to the nature of these more advanced psychological structures.

The psychedelic experience is a most fruitful one. [...]

[...] But there isn’t any one psychedelic experience for all, either in terms of time or content — the whole thing is too intensely personal. [...]

[...] Little attention has been given to the pathways opened, even in the physical brain, as the result of psychedelic experiences. Those portions of the brain, seemingly unused, deal with these other dimensions, and physically (underlined), you begin to use these portions, though minutely, for the first time, under psychedelic situations.

[...] The psychedelic experience is primarily the expansion of consciousness. [...]

It is possible (underlined) that the psychedelic experience for these individuals would involve consciousness expansion directed toward (underlined) usual physical reality, and bring about a more unified personality structure from society’s standpoint. [...]

[...] On other terms psychedelic experience, with or without drugs of course, enlarges the range of electromagnetic realities that you perceive.

Now I will say more concerning the changes worked in the ego as a result of our sessions, and from the psychedelic experience in general. [...]

The psychedelic experience then represents a first necessary step, and that is all. [...]

(This is a good place to describe Jane’s latest “psychedelic thing,” as she put it, or experience with an altered state of consciousness. [...]

[...] So that expression would come through poetry also with its “psychedelic” experience, regardless of our specific sessions.

[...] He became relaxed and psychedelic one day fairly recently when he washed windows and you made a remark to the effect that you would not like to be at the mercy of such things. [...]

[...] (A one-minute pause.) In certain terms, “psychedelic experience” cannot be explained within your limited frameworks of reference — not because such illuminations are beyond explanation but because your present systems of belief are too limiting.

[...] Frequent psychedelic-type experiences paralleled Seth’s dictated material, and my own creative and psychic abilities developed into some entirely new areas.

[...] The psychedelic drugs alter the neurological inner workings, and therefore can give some slight glimpses into other realities.

[...] In the next session, Seth explained more about root assumptions and for the first time mentioned psychedelic experience in connection with projection.

[...] Indiscriminate use of the psychedelic drugs can severely shake up learned patterns of response that are necessary for effective manipulation within physical reality; break subtle connections and you disturb electromagnetic functions. [...]

[...] Some of the effects of LSD⁷ and other artificial psychedelic drugs give you a hint of other probable directions your consciousness might have followed, or might still follow. [...]

[...] So that expression would come through poetry also with its “psychedelic” experience, regardless of specific sessions….

The psychedelic experience, or any mystical experience, is sometimes apt to put you in touch with what may seem to you to be a future self. [...]

[...] At times such signs have marked the beginning of a pronounced altered state of consciousness for her, but she added that she wasn’t going into “a psychedelic experience” now.

[...] The psychedelic drugs alter the neurological workings, and therefore can give some slight glimpses into other realities.

[...] Indiscriminate use of the psychedelic drugs can severely shake up learned patterns of response, that are necessary for effective manipulation within physical reality, break subtle connections and disturb electromagnetic functions.