Conscious Projections, Time and "Awake-Seeming" Dreams

Seth Early Sessions, Vol 6, Session 275

Conscious Projections

Now.  Using energy generates energy.

The more creative energy you generate, the more you are able to generate.  You do not use up energy in biological terms, and to think so is an error.

To refrain from using energy is to have less of it.  The use of energy is the basis for personality and the intensity of experience.  There is no such thing as hoarding energy.  The creative individual has more vivid dream experiences and more vivid waking experiences than other individuals.  Creativity should not be considered as the property of those who work in the arts however, for it is not theirs exclusively.

Creativity is an emotional and psychic characteristic.  It can be used in various ways.  The dreams of the highly creative exist multidimensionally.  Projections rarely occur except to creative individuals.  Now I am taking considerable time to deal with projections because on a spontaneous basis they occur more or less constantly.

Conscious projections – I should clear this: Projections that are conscious one – usually occur only to highly creative individuals.  Spontaneous projections however do occur constantly to every consciousness.  You do not dwell within your physical universe as completely as you imagine, and as I have told you, you exist as long out of it as you do within it.

Pulsating Atoms And Our Time Perception

This does not mean that you do not exist however in the apparent interval.  Our discussion concerning the nature of matter is important here, for I explained the pulsations that occur in atoms.  Your perception of time causes many difficulties when you try to examine reality as it exists independent of matter.  The limitations of verbal communications make some explanations difficult.  (See Volumes 1 and 2, for example.)

You understand the concept of the spacious present.  It appears to you of course that this room and everything within it is more or less in constant existence, between the limitations of its creation or manufacture, and death or material decay.  Within the time structure of your perception, this chair for example has been in constant existence since you purchased it.

I have told you that pulsations occur as energy enters into an atom and then departs from it.  There is an interval in which the chair simply does not exist, but you do not perceive it.  A mechanism something like an afterimage allows you to see matter as continuous.

Now the length of this interval would seem unbelievably brief from some perspectives or systems, and centuries long, you see, if viewed from different systems.  You yourselves do not perceive it at all.  Consciously you do not perceive the intervals during which you yourselves simply do not exist as material organisms.

We have, again, almost a mental afterimage that gives you the illusion that one moment leads smoothly to the next.  You do exist during these intervals, but you do not exist in any physical terms.  It is not a matter – if you will excuse the pun – it is not a matter of the consciousness escaping from the body.  It is a matter concerning the fact that no physical body exists from which to escape.

The consciousness exists however.  The consciousness as it reasserts itself within physical reality has no memory of the interval in which it did not physically exist.  The inner self however retains all memory.  Dreams allow consciousness to disentangle itself from physical reality.  For various reasons the intervals here, you see, are to some extent recalled.

A large variety of dreams are the memories of this nonphysical existence that constantly occurs, though in waking life you are seldom aware of them.  This cycle that psychologists have recently discovered, having to do with the various dream levels, corresponds to the ebb and tide of consciousness as it appears within and disappears from physical reality.  It creates physical reality, as you know.

There is an ebb and tide.  Your consciousness is not fully focused within physical reality, even during those intervals when you exist within it.  The focus varies considerably, and in certain rhythm.

The amount of focus and the intensity varies according to the individual, but consciousness is never entirely focused within physical reality.  Now when conscious projections occur you are taking advantage of these intervals between materializations.  You may call these nonintervals, actually.

“Nonintervals”:  Intervals Between Materializations

Your idea of time does not exist within such intervals.  You do not even take it with you.  Now these nonintervals are indeed openings into other realities, and you can theoretically explore them.  They exist as actually as physical reality.  You are doing the same thing when you realize you are dreaming, and decide to explore, say, a distant landscape that appears within the dream.

You may say that these noninterval experiences are subjective, but no more are they subjective than your physical life is.  Theoretically you could explore these endlessly.  Practically you cannot.  Now in your physical life as you know it, you are indeed exploring such a nonintervals.  Do you see?

For this is a noninterval to the inner self.  This material is extremely important.  One portion of you leaves the inner self to explore in depth a particular noninterval.  To the inner self no time passes.  You experience of course physical time.  This noninterval however creates it own interval points that you also explore, in your dreams and waking projections that escape your ordinary consciousness.

In exploring these nonintervals however you also create that which you explore, for none of this exists without creative consciousness.  This evening’s material, read along with the discussions concerning the nature of action, will give you a more comprehensive idea of what I am trying to tell you.

Conscious Projections Are Journeys Into Other Nonintervals

This process is literally endless.  The abundance of energy at your command is more vast than you suppose.  Conscious projections are journeys into other nonintervals, and they are extremely valuable to the whole personality.

They relieve the physical organism for one thing.  They refresh it immeasurably for another.  We will deal with dream projections in detail, and then we shall discuss conscious projections literally from the waking state.  I will give you my directions for projections from within the dream state first.

Projection From Awake-Seeming Dreams

We have not really begun full discussions of the types and kinds and degrees of dream experiences.

Some dreams as you know are more closely allied with physical reality than others.  Some however are excellent as thresholds for conscious projection.  What Fox called awake-seeming dreams are excellent.  These can be produced during relatively brief naps also.

Our instructions will begin with the use of these dreams whenever they occur.  You will know them by their intense vividness.  These are dreams when at first you are certain that you are awake.  It is sufficient to keep this in mind, so that in the middle of a dream you can realize what it is.

The pure and brilliant quality of the surroundings have much in common with the appearance physical reality has for children.  The physical senses seem to operate with such efficiency that you think you are awake, but their brilliancy is superperfect.  As soon as you realize what type of dream this is, then with practice you can project within it consciously, and explore your environment.