Dreams and Projections (continued)

Seth Early Sessions, Vol 6, Session 269

“Awake-Seeming” Dreams

There were some notes I wanted to give you concerning dreams in which you feel certain that you are awake.  When these dreams are unusually vivid, then the ego is aware of participating.  The ego is not using its critical faculties however as a general rule.

As you realize, you can use the critical faculties.  But you see when you do so you realize that you are not in your normal waking condition.  In awake-seeming dreams you are indeed awake, within of course a different psychological framework.  Indeed, within a different framework of reality.

You are operating at a higher level of awareness, and you are using inner senses.  These enable you to perceive an added depth or dimension, and this is responsible for the increased sense of vividness, and also for the sense of exhilaration that sometimes occurs within this particular sort of dream.

The next step of course is to allow the ego to use its critical faculties also within the dream state.  You are then able to realize that while you are indeed awake, as you seem, you are awake within a different condition.

When this occurs you will be able to use your normal abilities in addition to other abilities used while in the dream state itself.  You will be certain of your identity.  You will realize that your physical self is sleeping, or in a dream state, and that the inner self is fully awake.  Now this represents a definite increase in the scope of consciousness, and a considerable expansion over the usual limitations set by you upon the self.

Only then can you fully begin to manipulate the conditions that exist, and communicate the knowledge that you receive to your own ego.  For the time, you see, the ego becomes a direct participator in such experiences – at least to some degree.

Projections (continued)

Almost all of your dream experiences do involve projection of one kind or another.  These experiences vary in intensity, type, and even duration as any other experiences vary.  It takes a good deal of training and competence to operate with any real effectiveness within these situations.

All in all the intellect plays some part, but the intuitional qualities are the most important.  There are chemical changes that occur with the physical body when projections occur.  There are also electromagnetic variations.  These vary according to the form in which the projection occurs.

The projected form does make some impression upon your physical system.  In other words, it is possible for it to be detected.  It is a kind of pseudo-image, materialistically speaking, but it has definite electromagnetic reality, and chemical properties.

Now.  Animals have indeed sensed such apparitions.  There is hardly any magic involved.  They react to the chemical properties of the apparition, and build up the image from it – from them, the properties.

These chemical properties however are more diffuse in an apparition than in a physical form.  The chemical composition of a storm perhaps will give an idea of what I mean.  They are indeed small disturbances, you see – they form small disturbances within your physical system.

As a rule they are not solid in the same way that clouds are not solid, and yet they have shape, and to a certain extent boundaries, and of course movement.  They definitely have a reality, you see, though you cannot usually perceive it with the physical senses.

Perhaps this diffused quality is the most important difference between such an apparition and a physical form.  There is an atomic structure.  In some ways however the structure is less complete than a physical form.  There is always a minute difference in the physical body’s normal weight when the individual is projecting.  The excess chemicals built up during the waking condition are used to help form the projecting images.  There is a slight loss of electromagnetic potency and chemical potency when the individual is projecting.

There is much to be considered here.  Identity is not dependent upon physical existence.

Electromagnetic Reality

Electromagnetic reality belongs to the inner self.  It is not a property that belongs to physical matter, although it does appear in physical terms.  The second and third projection forms have electromagnetic realities.

The chemical properties of the body are the result of certain electromagnetic changes.  Chemicals are therefore byproducts of electromagnetic realities.  The electromagnetic properties, again, belong to the psychic, not the physical structure.

In physical existence a certain portion of the inner self’s electromagnetic properties are used by the physical structure of the body.  Subtle changes occur in the body when the inner self projects.  This projection is not dependent upon physical life – that is, the survival of the human personality also is then not dependent upon physical survival, nor need it be supported by physical life.  The electromagnetic properties simply revert to their original source with the inner self, and are no longer utilized in the construction of a corporeal image.

All consciousness exists first and primarily in electromagnetic terms, although consciousness may project itself into many various forms.  It is never completely imprisoned within those forms however.  You see, I have somewhat explained this to you.  As physical beings your perception, your physical perception, is slowed down to a necessary but very extensive degree.

A Lifetime Is A Moment Point Experienced Through The Ego

The span of a whole man’s lifetime is no more than a moment point.  The ego is the portion of you equipped to explore and experience this moment point in depth.  Value fulfillment demands this slowing down of perception.  This is most difficult to explain.  Consider using psychological time.  You have experiences within a few physical moments of physical time, experiences that are entirely independent of your time structure.

You are exploring the inner contents of a moment, delving into its experience.  Now this is what the ego does you see within a lifetime, only to a greater degree.  In projections, and in your dreams, your perceptions to some extent enable you to leap out of the ego’s time limitations.  The physical body is indeed the ego’s vehicle.  You do not need it, you see, for projections.

We have just covered some rather important material, and we shall discuss it more thoroughly.