Space Travel

Seth Early Sessions, Vol 6, Session 260

Space Travel

There are a few points however that I wanted to make this evening.  First of all, any effective large-scale space travel will be mental travel.

(Seth first mentioned this in the early sessions, shortly after January 1964.)

I use the term space travel loosely.  In some conditions such expeditions will be powered by pooled mental or psychic resources.  You may journey within your own solar system using vehicles, but you will not make any effective breakthrough beyond your solar system unless psychic and mental resources are developed.

Of course mental or psychic journeys into other dimensions and systems are possible, and when I speak of dimensions I am not referring to space systems.  Mentally you can cut through space, physically you cannot.  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.

Some of you are rather rigidly held within your own system even in your dreams, and though you exist within other dimensions such individuals are not aware of them.

Now.  Mankind did at one time have what you may call a heavier body than at present.  This particular body type has not vanished entirely by any means.  The mental body, sometimes called the astral body, is the next one that you will inhabit.  You inhabit it now, of course.

Training and disciplined experimentation in the manipulation of this body will be of great benefit, for you will be facing some of the conditions that you will have to face when the physical body is discarded.

You will be gaining considerable experience of a vital kind.  You will learn to maintain stability and identity in the midst of a bewildering number of strange and previously unknown situations.  With time you and Ruburt would do well indeed to set up experiments in which you try to contact each other while you are in the dream state.

Perhaps I shall contact you both some night under those circumstances.  Once more, remember in your dream experiments that you will be able to perceive not only your own constructions, but upon some occasions the constructions of others.

As you progress the sense of identity will be strengthened to meet, you see, the new challenges.  As I mentioned earlier, in your cases the personality has set up certain safeguards so you will be in no danger.  When such safeguards are not erected however, there is some danger.

Ruburt’s own experience, in maintaining his own identity independently, while also allowing me to speak through him, will be to his benefit.  It is, you see, quite possible for an individual in his dream travels to visit other planetary systems, of the past, present or future.  Such visits are usually spontaneous and fragmentary.

It is best that they remain so.  Take advantage of them when they happen within the dream state, but at this time do not attempt any such endeavor from the trance state.  There are too many difficulties involved.