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The traveler must leave his own camouflage paraphernalia completely behind however, or he will go nowhere. It is possible, theoretically, to travel to any system in this manner, and bypass others you see. Such a traveler would not age physically. His physical body would be in a suspended state. The traveling consciousness would lose all physical conception of time however. A very few individuals have traveled in this manner to any extensive degree. Most of the knowledge gained escapes the physical organism however, for the experiences could not be translated by the physical brain.

When you travel, so to speak, beyond a certain range of intensities, even pseudoobjects must vanish. They exist in a cluster about, and connected to, your own system. The lack of even pseudoobjects obviously means that you have gone beyond your camouflage system. If it were possible for you, you would then travel through a range of intensities in which no camouflage existed. Then you would encounter the pseudocamouflage, you see, of the next system. This would or would not be physical matter, according to the system.

Now during some projections you may be aware of nothing as far as surroundings are concerned. There will be only the mobility of your own consciousness. If this ever occurs you will be traveling through such an uncamouflaged area. You could then expect to encounter next a more differentiated environment, that seemed to become more clear as you progressed toward the heart of another system.

The tangerine then would be compared to a group of many systems, and yet it would represent in itself but one small portion of an unperceived whole. The tangerine would be but one segment, you see, of a larger system. You can see then why projections would lead you in a far different direction from your normal linear sort of travel, and why time as you know it would be meaningless.

I welcome back our world traveler, and when you are a space and time traveler as well, then I shall also welcome you back. You all travel far beyond the confines of the world that you think you know, and you waken in the morning with little memory of where you have been. And here we have a traveler indeed, for you travel further than most, but you do not want to remember. That is perfectly all right, you go where you go and you travel where you travel, and if you want to tear your tickets up in the morning and forget where you have been, that is your own privilege. [...]

I want you to travel as far inward as you have ever traveled outward. I want you to travel further than you have gone before, to open up yourself with greater freedom and joy to other forms of consciousness that are your own; to other roads that exist for you, to other kinds of knowledge that you either may or may not be able to verbalize. [...]

[...] And know that you will return to the room, that the physical image is still within it, but allow yourself the freedom to travel between dimensions, to accept what comes to you gladly, even our Lady of Florence over there in the corner; to open up joyfully and follow, (to Florence) and you close your eyes. [...]

[...] And hold that feeling of exaltation and experience, hold it and remember it to the end of your days, and know that within you there is the road to travel whenever you will; the road to selfknowledge and to understanding. [...]

In Section 4, then, Seth has more to say about CU and EE units, cellular consciousness, ancient man, evolution, space travel, and other seemingly disparate subjects as he continues to develop his thesis that “biologically the species is equipped to deal with different sequences of time while still manipulating within one particular time scheme.” The reader is invited to experience his or her own “unknown reality” through the study of dreams and practice elements, and to try for psychic travel into other realities. Jane does her own traveling: The “psychic library” she’s learning to visit while in a certain state of altered consciousness is described, and the ways in which the library is related to the birth of her book, Psychic Politics (which is to be published in the fall of 1976).

One of Jane’s earlier travels through an altered state of consciousness, in September, 1972, resulted in the first session on her unique “slow” and “fast” sounds, then led into information on faster-than-light particles, black holes, white holes, and “dead” holes. [...]

Among other information in Section 5, Seth gives considerable material designed to help the reader achieve psychic travel; related here is his session on dreams and dream photography. [...]

[...] You are most certainly traveling through the private and mass psyche when you so much as walk down the street. [...] Interior traveling is no more subjective, then, than a journey from New York to San Francisco. [...]

Before a trip, you can produce travel folders that outline the attractions and characteristics of a certain locale. You are not traveling blind, therefore, and while any given journey may be new to you, you are not really a pioneer: The land has been mapped and there are few basic surprises.

Dictation (quietly): To explore the unknown reality you must venture within your own psyche, travel inward through invisible roads as you journey outward on physical ones.

When you travel into such realms you usually do so from the dream state, still carrying your private symbols with you. [...]

Nerve impulses travel outward from the body, invisibly along these pathways in much the same manner as they travel within the body. The pathways are carriers of telepathic thoughts, impulses and desires that travel outward from any given self, altering and changing the seemingly objective events.

There are all kinds of events traveling along the same pathways, equally used, that do not appear physically. [...]

[...] While focused within that living scene you can learn to travel through it, leaving the “surface” picture intact and whole. [...] While fully enjoying the physical aspect you find that there is some part of you left over, so to speak; and that part can travel into other realities. [...]

(Long pause.) Once individual travelers took those snapshots, and they represented original interpretations of other realities. They stood for individual versions of certain travelers taking brief glimpses of strange worlds, and interpreting their experiences to the best of their abilities. [...]

[...] Those travelers no longer tried to make their own original snapshots of the strange environments and realities through which they passed. [...]

[...] For instance: If you plan to travel to a distant country in your own world, you can find such publications to tell you what to expect. [...]

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

[...] Consciousness, travelling, cannot automatically manipulate the physical station. [...]

[...] This does not seem to be a problem now, for the travelers are new at this. [...]

[...] With these conditions satisfied, it can indeed travel further, so to speak, than in such an experience with drugs. [...]

[...] You will both learn added control by traveling together. You can also travel further in a cooperative effort. [...]

I would like you to seriously embark upon the hobby of out-of-body travel. [...]

For your particular purposes you might imagine that you are walking through, or traveling through, one of your own paintings. [...]

[...] The ideal will be to travel together. [...]

[...] So far, your ideas of space travel involve that kind of surface navigation. Earth trips, however, are made with the recognition of their surface nature.² When you think in terms of traveling to other planets or to other galaxies, though, the same kind of surface travel is involved. As closely as I can explain it in your terms, your concepts of space travel have you going around space rather than directly through it.

“Effective” space travel, creative space travel on your part, will not occur until you learn that your space-time system is one focus. [...]

4. For one instance when Seth discussed our coming attempts at space travel, see Note 4 for Session 702, in Volume 1. Here’s part of the material I quoted from the 40th session: “It is very possible that you might end up in what you intend as a space venture only to discover that you have ‘traveled’ to another plane [probability]. [...]

(Slowly:) Your idea of space travel, for example, is to journey over the “skin of your universe.” [...]

There are other ways to travel, and we will see that you learn of them. [...] We will get you used to the idea of foreign lands and then we will teach you to travel into lands that are really foreign.... [...]

[...] And then you can travel through these other doors, but you must be able to stand on your two feet in this universe.... [...]

[...] And if you travel too quickly and too far, you will not have confidence, for in the back of your mind you will think: if I do not feel secure in physical reality, then why should I feel secure here... [...]

[...] and the answers will form steps upon which you can walk and will serve as foundations within which you can travel within yourselves. [...]

There are other ways to travel, and we will see that you learn of them. [...] We will get you used to the idea of foreign lands and then we will teach you to travel into lands that are really foreign—and we will give you an idea of the vocabulary used—and it will not be as simple as “good morning” and “good evening” or “where can I find a can of beans?”

[...] And then you can travel through these other doors, but you must be able to stand on your two feet in this universe—and then you will go consciously where your body cannot follow and you will find your answers. [...]

[...] And if you travel too quickly and too far, you will not have confidence. [...]

[...] And I will make you search for the answers—and the answers will form steps upon which you can walk and will serve as foundations within which you can travel within yourselves. [...]

[...] It is not impossible, however, at all to travel seemingly through time as well as space. I say seemingly because this traveling really has little to do with transportation as such.

In this instance of traveling by personality-essence, any contact would be telepathic, and a potential observer would see nothing, using the outer senses alone.

In this case the body would appear visible on the bed while another, identical body would appear in the new location to which the personality-essence had traveled. [...]

[...] There are gradations in the degree of materialization here, in that the secondary body would be absolutely normal-appearing in all respects, or could be less so, according to the ability of the traveler.

It is possible, theoretically, to travel to any system in this manner and bypass others, you see. Such a traveler would not age physically. [...] Only a very few individuals have traveled in this manner. [...]

To travel somewhere else, will yourself there. Often travel seems instantaneous. [...]

When you travel beyond a certain range of intensities, even psuedo-objects must vanish. [...] If it were possible, you would then travel through a range of intensities in which no camouflage existed. [...]

[...] You can then explore the environment in which you find yourself or travel to another location. [...]

Now: I want to emphasize again that while all this sounds difficult in the telling, it becomes much more clear intuitively when you learn to experience what you are, for if you cannot travel inside your physical body to find your identity, you can travel through your psychological self.

[...] If you could travel within your body, you could not find where your identity resides, yet you say, “This is my body,” and, “This is my name.”

[...] Now I am sure it may seem inconceivable to you, but the fact is that this I am-ness is retained even though it may, figuratively speaking, now merge with and travel through other such energy fields. [...]

[...] The soul is a traveler, as has been said so often; but it is also the creator of all experience, and of all destinations in your terms. [...]

[...] We have not quite completely explained the idea of traveling through intensities to you, simply because words are inadequate. The idea of traveling through intensities gives the result, in your system, of traveling through time, as I have told you.

(“The travel connection again. [...] In any traveling Wendell might have done from his home in Edgewater, NJ, to New York City, trains and cars could very well have been involved.

The travel connection again. [...]

(In any event travel by various modes from a cluster of surrounding towns in that area would have been necessary for the artists attending the reunion.

4. In the 40th session for April 1, 1964, Seth had something to say about the challenges space travel will present to our own civilization: “… you are severely hampered as far as space travel is concerned, by the time elements involved … In your terms it will simply take you too long to get where you want to go. [...]

[...] Space travel will be dumped when your scientists discover that space as you know it is a distortion, and that journeying from one so-called galaxy to another is done through divesting the physical body of camouflage [matter]. The vehicle of so-called space travel is mental and psychic mobility, in terms of psychic transformation of energy …”

So-called objective science gives you a picture, a model, that has served well enough in its own fashion, enabling you to travel to the moon, for example, and to advance in a technology that for a time you set your hearts upon. [...]

[...] It’s only a little after ten-thirty, but I feel that I’ve really traveled a long way since the session started …”

[...] Also, understand that what you think of or experience as space travel is another camouflage. Space travel so-called is an idea that makes sense only on your plane. [...]

Funny because you think of them as vehicles traveling through your own camouflage space. Any vehicles would travel through their own camouflage space, and in some instances are doing so, even now, in the so-called space taken up by your earthly universe.

[...] And in certain instances as you attempt space travel, you will travel through what inhabitants on another plane will think of as their own particular “solid”—in quotes—and you will never know the difference.

You can, or you will be able to, travel within your own camouflage universe. [...] This is travel along what we may call for simplicity’s sake a horizontal level.

[...] First of all, any effective large-scale space travel will be mental travel.

[...] In some of your dream states you do travel through other dimensions and other systems. The extent of these dream travels is determined by your own ability.

I use the term space travel loosely. [...]

[...] It is, you see, quite possible for an individual in his dream travels to visit other planetary systems, of the past, present or future. [...]

When you begin a physical journey, you feel yourself distinct from the land through which you travel. [...] When you begin your travels into your own psyche, however, everything changes. [...] You form the roads, your method of travel, the hills or mountains or oceans, as well as the hills, farms, and villages of the self, or of the psyche, as you go along.

(9:15.) When in colonial times men and women traveled westward across the continent of North America, many of them took it on faith that the land did indeed continue beyond — for example — towering mountains. When you travel as pioneers through your own reality, you create each blade of grass, each inch of land, each sunset and sunrise, each oasis, friendly cabin or enemy encounter as you go along.

[...] It is not simply an alien land, to which or through which you can travel. [...]