Seth | A long read on the role of projection in our reality
“All limitations, basically, are self-adopted. They may be necessary at one time or another, but they can never be primary realities. Limitations, in other words, are illusion. You have to deal with them only because you have created them. Your exterior circumstances are the materializations of inner climate.
We are all existing in many dimensions at once. The primary difference between us is that I am aware of my existence in many dimensions, and you are not aware of yours. We form a new dimension in our sessions. I give voice to ideas that are known to various levels of your personalities, yet I am not at the level of your personalities.
There are no limits to the types of projections that can occur, basically speaking, for there are no limitations to the self, and a projection is an extension of the self. Your present existence is of course a projection. Activities based upon the framework of your present existence must be initiated within a system of chemicals and physical properties which make physical existence possible.
If life within the physical organism is to be maintained, then consciousness must return to it. This does not mean that consciousness is dependent upon the physical organism. There will be [an] endless series of projections in other existences, and these will have no chemical basis as you know it. Your traveling consciousness appears as an apparition within some other systems.
Your own thoughts have a reality that you do not understand, and their own kind of form, or psychic content, and this content exists not as pure energy, but as energy with form and shape. And when it is perceived by you, then it has bulk. The bulk is the result of your own perception. The bulk, or mass, is perceived whether or not the ideas have ever been materialized as physical matter. Whenever you come in contact with a particular idea form, and this will only happen in projections, then you will automatically perceive that form with bulk or mass.
In other systems the same energy idea will be transformed in a different way entirely, even as the physical objects within your universe are perceived in entirely different ways to others not within your system. Any given physical object exists in the manner in which you are accustomed to perceiving it. This (Jane struck the arm of the rocker in which she sat) for example exists as a chair. It also exists as sound. It has a counterpart that can, under given conditions, be perceived exclusively in terms of any of your senses.
You can hear the chair as a musical note in a trance state, for example, or with the use of drugs. You are still dealing in terms of your senses, however. You are seeing—or perceiving, rather—separately, the various components that are usually organized to form the solid object.
With the full use of the inner senses, however, it is theoretically possible to perceive all the shapes and forms that have ever been, or will ever be, adopted by the atoms and molecules that compose the particular chair. This kind of experience is beyond the power of drugs. It is true to say that in one sense both you and Ruburt are a part of the table and the chair, and the room in which they sit.
You organize yourselves out of other matter, you see. The difference is a psychic one, and not a physical one as it appears. The inner identity extends itself over larger and larger groups of energy forms, and acts as an overall psychic pattern. But all is connected.
Now. Projections further extend the self and the identity, only this time in realms where the physical self cannot follow. Now this kind of projection, this extension of identity, is the true nature and the creative aspect of aggression. This and not war, is the meaning of aggression. It is a forward thrust of creative activity, forever extending itself in this manner, and instantly changed, and no longer what it was.
Projection then is aggression. The self thrusts forward into new dimensions, and this is creative. Painting a picture is aggressive. You are thrusting energy into new forms. All this you see implies a destruction, but only in your limited terms. Each projection, for example, is the death, in one way, of the limited self that stood earlier.
Each painting that you create represents the death of the self that you were before you created it. The changing cell forever dies in this manner, and yet only this symbolic death ensures psychic survival. There is no basic moral problem then when you consider the true nature of aggression, for it is highly creative, and without destruction there would be no existence. These are two faces of the same coin.
A projection, an out-of-body experience, is a creative act, and again all creative acts are basically aggressive. Now, you change those dimensions in which your projections take place. You cannot visit them and leave no mark.
The ego, as a rule, is frightfully leery of such action, since to it an out-of-body experience always symbolizes physical death. At the same time the ego becomes more assured after successful projections, since it discovers itself not only intact but immeasurably enriched. Indeed, the ego both fights, fears and desires any creative act. Any creative act, including the production of any art, necessitates a momentary release from the ego, an escape from it, which the ego fears.
Yet again, the ego is enriched and therefore allows the self more freedom. Successful projections therefore will ultimately lead to more projections, and they will be more easily executed.”
TES6 Session dd279 August 15, 1966
