Mobility Of Consciousness And Psychedelic Experiences

Seth Early Sessions, Vol 7, Session 307

Mobility Of Consciousness And Psychedelic Experiences

Consciousness cannot be separated from mobility.  It is true that you focus within the physical system mainly, yet the inner self is highly mobile and embarks simultaneously upon a variety of projections.  The closest example in you experience of this mobility is the dream situation.

These dreams make little impression upon the waking consciousness unless you train it and take it with you as far as it can go.  It is then able to translate the dream reality at least in part.  In the psychedelic experience the ego can be trained to act in the same manner.  Later it can serve as an interpreter.

It will indeed translate the data into terms that it can understand, but without such translation the normal waking consciousness might have no record of it at all.  Much of such experiences will remain untranslated.  The intellect simply will not be able to contain the data.  There is a point where the ego will be left behind but each time it will go further.

What you must understand is that the psychedelic experience represents but a glimmering of the constant state of the inner self: not constant in terms of static, however.  With drugs, there are some dangers.  There are dimensions in which you are completely incapable, and if through some molecular disturbance you fell into one of these it is possible that you could not find your way back.  You do not understand me here, and it is difficult to explain.  Your vocabulary is not equipped to del with the concept.  I will try.

There are electromagnetic systems that make up experience.  These may have counterparts, though not exact identities, within other systems totally alien to you as you know yourselves.  Given certain unusual circumstances, you could leapfrog, so to speak, and end up within an energy gestalt from which you could not return.  The personality structure simply would not take the transition.

Very vaguely indeed, this could be compared to a voice from one station suddenly being captured by another.  There is much more here, almost impossible at present to explain.  There are, from your standpoint, minutely sized systems that within themselves are infinite.  You could be drawn into an entirely different value fulfillment system.  All of this is very improbable, but it is possible and under drugs such experiences could result.

Thoughts, as you know, contain their own electromagnetic reality.  This means that each thought is an electromagnetic system in fact and not just in theory.  Such a system is the basis for your physical system and these are highly valid.  Theoretically only, with drugs it would be possible to be lost within an idea, caught in its electromagnetic reality, and forced to follow the ramifications and developments of the idea in various guises.  The value fulfillment system would be changed.  There would be development within that system, but you would be lost to your own system.

I mention such possibilities because such situations have not been dreamed of, and they should be taken into consideration.  Such experiences without drugs could happen not at all.  The alarmed personality would quickly return.  In the case of drugs however the chemical framework might delay such a return until it was too late.

The chemicals you see alter the system that you inhabit, as well as your own perceptions of it.  It is speeded up in many respects, and the problem is almost like returning to a moving ship in space, only the motion involved is conscious.  You would not have a stationary station to return to.

In trance states, there is a more or less stationary system waiting, so to speak.  In trance states, consciousness itself brings about the chemical changes within it as it, consciousness, travels.  Changes do occur within the body.  When consciousness alters its direction it automatically alters the physical system.  When it is ready to return the physical system is automatically prepared to receive it.

Now in the drug situation the state of consciousness desired is brought about by altering chemical properties.  Consciousness, travelling, cannot automatically manipulate the physical station.  Consciousness must stay out, you see, until the chemical situation has changed.

If difficulties arise, there is no stable station to receive the returning consciousness.  This does not seem to be a problem now, for the travelers are new at this.  As their members increase, however, some of these difficulties may bring problems.

The chemical doorway into inner reality is indeed a doorway.  In one regard, this is a projection from a molecular standpoint.  What is not understood is that worlds exist between one molecule and another, and worlds that you do not understand.  You could get lost in the life and death of a molecule under such conditions, and I am speaking in literal terms.

The chemical changes propel consciousness outward, or far inward.  This is aside:  A small dose of salt, regular salt, taken with the drugs would help maintain a certain stability.  It has a binding action on consciousness and acts as a cohesive.

The chemical changes brought about by such outside agents as drugs to some degree rob the inner self of its usual directive abilities, for the changes occur before the inner self has gathered itself together.  It is not as psychically organized as it is in such experiences without drugs.

This is something like drugging a child about to be born as a side effect of drugging the mother to make the birth easier, you see.  Without drugs, the psychedelic experience will not occur unless circumstances are excellent from all aspects.  There is little danger involved, as a rule.  The chemical changes are automatically byproducts of the mobility of consciousness in such situations.

The inner self is highly capable and follows certain electromagnetic routes which it knows, and avoids other routes.  Signals from the body reach it constantly.  It is in immediate contact with the body on certain levels: survival levels.  With these conditions satisfied, it can indeed travel further, so to speak, than in such an experience with drugs.  I am comparing now the drug and drugless experiences at their best.

I am not denying that the drug experience can be excellent, however.  There is a nitrogen balance that is disturbed in the drug experience.  There is an ingredient in nuts also that will aggravate certain conditions if nuts are consumed within ten hours before the drug experience.  If this happens, then the individual may be tossed back into a similar drug experience when nuts are consumed, even though no drug is given.  There are other substances that also have this effect.

Now, I do intend to give you further instructions and I will.  The drugs now given allow experience in one main direction only.  We will have more maneuverability.  Different drugs yet to be discovered will allow consciousness travel in some other directions, but when a chemical is used, it will largely determine the systems that may be explored.

Consciousness on its own has a larger choice.  The North-South position is still the best body position, though other positions may be used.  This applies to either the drug or drugless experience.  For various reasons, the time of the full moon is most beneficial.  Rainy weather is an aid.  For Ruburt, the time of ovulation is good.

These are very simple suggestions.  At our next session we shall go into this more deeply and define the psychedelic experience for you.  There are many reasons why “illumination” occurs in the third and fourth decade.  Such illumination represents the first contact of the ego with its inner self, and is only a beginning.