Advice to Jane, Thoughts and Fragments

Seth Early Sessions, Vol 7, Session 327

Advice To Jane And Rob On Dreams And Projections (Continued)

Now we will carry on a discussion begun in our last session.

Clairvoyance usually involves projection to some extent.  Telepathy may or may not, according to the circumstances.  Precognition requires projection, though here as with clairvoyance the projection itself may not be remembered.

Our sessions involve projection, although the extent varies.  The projection takes place on both Ruburt’s part and my own, and represents a psychic displacement of a kind.

On some occasions our separate personalities may merge during sessions.  At other times Ruburt may be projecting so well that his personality is relatively absent, and my projection in his place is relatively complete.

Distortions occur at transitionary points, or at points of imbalances.  There is a meshing then of data from various levels.  A projection obviously need not be conscious.  The waking self may be engaged in normal activities while the inner self is someplace else entirely.  There are more brief periods of forgetfulness however than people usually realize, and in these periods often projections have occurred.

Projections continue in the waking state, beneath it, as they continue beneath the dreaming state, you see.  Now you have learned the methods at least that allow you to become aware of some projections that occur during the dream state.  You realize that knowledge alone is not enough, that practice and ability play a considerable part.  There are methods that will allow you to catch yourself in the middle of projections embarked upon from the waking state.  This is considerably more difficult.

It can only be achieved as a rule after some proficiency has been gained with recalling dream projections.  Here you are dealing with the waking consciousness in its normally strong and dominant condition.  You must be able to let it operate and yet perceive beneath its surface the other conditions, the projection conditions, that are also operating.

You must allow the normal waking consciousness to become transparent, so to speak, without however disturbing its flow.  When this is accomplished you can also become aware of the projection conditions.  This is almost like working backward, for directly beneath the thoughts and impressions of waking consciousness, you will glimpse dream images like those that appear just as you fall to sleep.

These also must be allowed their motion and should not be hampered.  Beneath these however you will sense either light or darkness, images of light or darkness, and these will lead to the projection conditions or environment.  The only way to prove waking projections of this type to yourself is by following this method.

You are not attempting a projection here.  You are following levels of your own consciousness until you discover yourself in an environment of which the ordinary waking consciousness had been previously unaware.  This is a relatively difficult feat, for the waking consciousness must not be shut off, or you defeat your purpose.

Obviously the self that engages upon this study is not the waking normal consciousness, which becomes instead part of that which is studied, so another portion of the self is brought into activity.  All of these exercises provide training that helps you in all your other work.  This particular exercise however definitely requires some success in the recognition of dream projections.

Now.  This is a complicated maneuver.

The ordinary waking consciousness is left intact, you see.  Another portion of the self catches it unaware, leaves no ripple upon its surface, and looks beneath it to other layers of reality.  You are watching the self in motion.

It goes without saying that the part that watches also belongs to the self, but it does not belong to the self as the self is thought of in usual psychological terms.  You are bringing into operation, and exercising a higher faculty, and through these exercises this faculty matures.

It matures as far as the normal you is concerned, you see.  You are able to use more and more of its abilities.  I am telling this to you because you may find that you are performing this exercise spontaneously.  You are about ripe for it.  This other self, or portion of the self, can be utilized also in dream projections and in deliberate projections.  It is the part of Ruburt with which I normally work.

We must use analogies.  It can be thought of as the most exterior projection of the inner ego.  When you find yourself, so to speak, watching what you think of as the ego, then you are in contact with this portion of the self.  It is aware of both conscious and subconscious motivations and realities, and it is also aware of projections into other fields of actuality.  I have hinted before of these matters, for when I say that you will use this other portion of the self to examine waking consciousness and probe beneath it, I already presuppose a you that uses this self.  In other words, you are already magnifying the limitations of the self and extending them.

The self grows as you use it.  Its potentials always exist, on the one hand.  On the other hand, if you did not utilize them they may as well not exist now, for your purposes.  The whole self is being expanded, is beginning to know itself, for it always was what it will appear to be.  Yet until it realizes this, its existence cannot be valid completely in terms of self-knowledge or realization.

There are, again, no limitations to the self, but those that you create.  These become valid limitations for all practical purposes however.  When you learn, and you are learning, to extend the limitations of your self, you simply become aware of what you are already.  You become more aware, but there is always more to become aware of.

All Thoughts Are Also Projections

In one respect, and in quite a legitimate and objective manner, all thoughts are also projections.  They leave you in an objective actual manner, and exert an objective effect.  They are a part of your psychic identity projected outward, yet you do not feel any loss.  Nor are you aware of what happens to these thoughts.  You could not retain simultaneously all and exert all the thoughts of your lifetime thus far in any normally conscious way.  To do so would be psychological suicide.

You do retain coded memory of these.  The thoughts themselves, also psychic realities, were projected outward, changing and affecting the physical environment in direct and objective terms.  They acted independently of you after their projection.  Nevertheless they changed your environment.  Indeed, they form the environment.

Fragments

Various levels of consciousness are projected from the self in much the same manner.  They are united however as interior and subsidiary identities that are a part of your own, and they are sent out by the inner self for various reasons.  The thought is a psychological reality, a psychological and psychic identity but not a structured personality identity.  The self may send out fragments of itself in projections.  These may or may not be structured personalized identities though they will be dependent for their existence upon the whole self.

You will become practically concerned with the extension of the self as you know it in these terms.  You will become intimately aware of this other portion of the self very shortly.