Psychedelic Experience and Psychic Illumination

Seth Early Sessions, Vol 7, Session 308

Mobility Of Consciousness And Psychedelic Experiences (Continued)

Now.  The psychedelic experience is primarily the expansion of consciousness.  This implies inner mobility.

With training some direction can be given, so that the information can be effectively used by the normal waking personality.  With such training these experiences will lead you to other portions of your own entity.  This is rather important.

The personality becomes aware of parts that deal with other dimensions.  It learns to manipulate with other root assumptions.  The mobility experience automatically adds value fulfillment.  Memory of past lives can be achieved under some circumstances.

Our sessions are experiences in the expansion of consciousness.  There will be questions as to whether or not some images in some such periods are legitimate or imaginary.  The questions of course will be meaningless.  The images will be quite valid in their own system, and if you travel within it you will see them.

This does not mean that they will appear within your own system however.  They are as real and as unreal as physical objects.  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, you begin to use these portions, though minutely, for the first time, under psychedelic situations.

Once these physical pathways are opened, the way becomes easier.  The pineal, pituitary, and thalamus are important here.  The salt mentioned earlier has a connection with the thyroid.  The physical brains alone, the unused portions, have it within their ability, for example, to hear color, to smell sound; in other words, these portions contain among other things functions, unused mainly, that would allow you to perceive physical reality in various other fashions.  These undifferentiated area existed first before the specialized sense apparatus was uniformly adopted.

As a species you could just as easily have smelled color rather than viewed it, you see.  These portions of the brain, once activated, then allow you to switch sense impressions from one sense mechanism to another, you see.

It is like your stereophonic reality from many levels.  You are operating on mono, you see, as a rule.  There is no doubt that this sort of experience is new to the ego, which is used to interpreting sense data in highly rigid and specialized terms.

With our methods the ego is taken into confidence, you see.  Insanity, as it is labeled, is sometimes merely the result of a strange situation, in which certain individuals use the ordinary dormant portions of the brain as well as, or sometimes largely in place of, the recognized portions.  The perception of reality is therefore largely alien to society.

It is possible that the psychedelic experience for these individuals would involve consciousness expansion directed toward usual physical reality, and bring about a more unified personality structure from society’s standpoint.  Insanity as a term means nothing.  All mental life is characterized by divergent perceptions of any given set of sense data that is recognized as Reality, with a capital R.

Those who perceive this set of data in such a way that agreement is reached are called sane.  But none of you perceives the same reality.  Those whose ideas and perceptions of reality are completely out of line with the general agreement are called insane.  The terms only show that reality as you know it is the result of private perceptions.  Reality is built up as a result of these private perceptions.

The emotional impact behind them determines their strength.  They are passed on telepathically.  You recall however that individuals receive in certain electromagnetic patterns, or pattern ranges, far better than they do in others.  Some individuals therefore will simply not telepathically receive the dominating reality assumptions, but will be tuned to different ranges, highly unsatisfactory to them.  It becomes quickly apparent that their view of reality is entirely different from their neighbors’.

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

Barriers are cut away, and once you become used to receiving within a larger range you will be able to do so in your future.  These ranges, once opened up, then do not entirely close up to you.  It becomes easier for you in your future to receive within them.

A disciplined but intuitive ego then becomes a necessity in order that such new experience may be brought under useful control, in your terms.  The ego becomes more necessary you see, not less, for it must learn to synthesize the gained experience in recognizable terms within your system.  Otherwise if the ego is pushed aside it will rise up in arms and in opposition, and can be highly dangerous.

It goes without saying that in our methods the ego is changed rather completely but gradually in many cases, and only through its own willingness to do so.  It recognizes its identity as a part of the inner self.  Therefore basically it has no need to fight the inner self, since it knows its survival is dependent upon this inner framework.

The ego to some large extent, you see, has extended its functions and performance.  Since our sessions began, for example, it has expanded in both of your cases.  It has expanded not because it has grown more egotistic but because it has accepted as a part of itself, intuitional realizations and inner psychic responsibilities in a way that it did not consider before.

Psychic Illumination

In other words, portions of the inner self have joined the strictly egotistical functions.  The ego in such cases is so attuned that it becomes almost something else.  We are coming here toward a definition of illumination in psychic terms.  The ego is not banished.  It joins with portions of the inner self previously unconscious, and illuminates the whole personality.  It is no longer primarily physically oriented.  Therefore it is no longer an ego in the terms usually meant.

Again, this is an important point.  The ego has accepted the goals of the inner self.  Its identity has already changes, so that its main concern is no longer primarily with physical manipulation, but with inner growth and development.

This does not mean that it ignores its earlier functions.  In true expansion of consciousness then, you become more and more aware, more conscious of inner realities that were previously never realized on a conscious level.  Since the ego is presently your main vehicle of consciousness, it will not be obliterated.  It will indeed be resurrected.  It simply changes not only its form, but its inner core, accepting as a part of itself realities which it previously ignored out of fear, ignorance and insecurity.

It becomes more and more a portion of the supraconsciousness.  Its new function is to help direct the overall personality so that inner abilities and illuminations can also reach physical reality.

The material in tonight’s session is highly relevant, and we shall continue it.

The ego has completely changed its structure.  It has changed its electromagnetic identity in your cases, since our sessions.  It has learned, to some extent, to assimilate your inner experiences.  In the long run this is the most effective method.  And in the long run no consciousness expansion can occur unless the ego structure is so altered.

There are other methods that also alter it, but our methods are the most advantageous from many standpoints.