“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] I painted portraits of her as I met her in my dreams. [...] Deliberate therapy, some of that.

[...] As the many hours of our calls quickly accumulated, Laurel and I came to understand through dreams that we had shared reincarnational relationships. [...] She helped me proofread Seth, Dreams, and Projection of Consciousness for Stillpoint Publishing. [...] She’s worked as a researcher of Jane’s material for The Magical Approach — the book she has “most dreamed of working on.” [...]

[...] Upon awakening, she told me that she remembered receiving hints about the new possible book in two dreams during the previous week. She’d written the dreams down, as usual, while wondering about their significance without being able to explain them: “But this material doesn’t go into Adventures,” she noted after one of the dreams, since she’d thought of that possibility first.

Medicine and Therapy as Used to Perpetuate Illness

“He is studying the use of painting in therapy,” Seth said. “Not only working with patients and using art as therapy, but working with the idea that some paintings in themselves have a healing effect.” [...]

[...] You may become aware of it [or of one of your probable selves] while in the dream state occasionally. I have told you that dream images have a definite reality. [...]

“You may dream of holding an apple, for example, and awaken to find it gone. [...] The I of your dreams can be legitimately compared to the self that experiences probable events. [...]

[...] The probable actions were definitely experienced, however, and such experience makes up the existence of the ‘probable selves’ just as dream actions make up the experience of the dreaming self. [...]

[...] We hoped to obtain more material on dream therapy. [...]

[...] In the waking state you are usually not aware of your dreaming existence. In your dreaming existence your physical environment is replaced by your dream environment. [...] Our study of the dream state will take us into many other discussions, for you will learn much about the nature of uncamouflaged reality.

[...] In the dream state obviously we have an example of such change. One of the main reasons why this is possible within the dream state, rather than in the waking state, is that survival necessities have usually been satisfied.

[...] This is excellent therapy incidentally, for the release of the emotions automatically releases the symptoms. [...]

(“Is the pendulum good for dream interpretation?”)

[...] Therapeutic dreams should be requested each night for now, as standard practice. [...]

By far the most immediately helpful suggestions have to do with dream therapy, with problem solving, and the search for abilities as shown within the dream state.

(On Tuesday night, June 22, I had five dreams which I wrote in my dream notebook the next morning. Dream number five was a very short one, in color. [...] In the dream I sat waiting for some little time for the light to turn green, giving me access to the main highway, Lake Street. [...] Anyone approaching it as I did in my dream can wait for up to a couple of minutes for it to change.

(When I was a few car lengths from the light, the dream suddenly popped into my mind. Just as in the dream, I found myself stopping for a red light. The effect was so startling that I at once began to wonder whether it was possible to act out dream suggestions in waking life. My self-questioning was particularly intriguing because I could have chosen from a half-dozen routes to work; yet I had picked a course that enabled me to act out the dream of the night before, while not being consciously aware of the dream.)

Abilities unused by the waking personality are utilized in the dream state. A study of dream activities will often allow the waking personality to recognize abilities of which it is not aware, to discover talents that are not being used. [...] There is no doubt that the whole self is a composite formed by the various aspects of the personality as it is seen in the waking and dream states, and at other levels of operation.

[...] The unconscious, the color black, and death all have strongly negative connotations in which the inner self is feared; the dream state is mistrusted and often suggests thoughts of both death and/or evil. But changed wake-sleep habits can, again, bring about a transformation in which it is obvious that dreams contain great wisdom and creativity, that the unconscious is indeed quite conscious, and that in fact the individual sense of identity can be retained in the dream state. [...]

When you find yourself as alert, responsive, and intellectual in the dream state as you are in waking life, it becomes impossible to operate within the old framework. This does not mean that in all dreams that particular kind of awareness is achieved, but it is often accomplished within the suggested wake-sleep pattern.

Animals follow their own natural waking-sleeping schedules, and in their way derive far greater benefits from both states than you, and use them with greater effectiveness — particularly along the lines of the body’s built-in system of therapy. [...]

[...] Important therapeutic information that is given in dreams, and meant to be recalled, is not remembered because your sleep habits plunge you into what you think of as unconsciousness far too long.

Much of the needed development takes place in the dream state. I wanted to mention that particular dream of yours, Joseph, in which you saw yourself at your back window. [...]

[...] When you carry the waking I into the dream state, this is one approach to this different consciousness. [...]

[...] In periods of exuberance, when you are working well, and your health is extraordinarily good, when you are able to remember and manipulate your dreams, then such periods are signs of the emergence of this new consciousness.

[...] The symptoms are these: Poor memory, or none, of his dreams; no poetry; a consistent lower-than-usual level of exuberance. [...]

I have told you that dream reality is more cohesive than you may have supposed. Such characteristics as shared dreams go a long way to stabilize dream reality. When you dream of others they know it. When they dream of you, you know this. [...]

Dreams you see are also imprinted within the cells electromagnetically. [...] They dream individually and collectively of changing the situation. They act out in their dreams the various ways in which such a changeabout could occur. These dreams actually bring about the resulting change that will then happen in a historic manner. The very energy and direction you see of the dreams themselves will help change the situation.

The dream solutions are held as the ideals, however. Without for example mass dreams, your United Nations would never exist. This type of mass dream is one of several varieties. It is true indeed that all dreams to some extent are shared, for the privacy that you imagine exists within them is, as Ruburt correctly supposed, an illusion.

[...] In the dream state you manipulate energy more directly. This is what you are doing of course in self-hypnosis: But, used for therapy, you are still trying to affect or change something physical.

The getting out of oneself that is involved is excellent therapy, and therapy that does others good, as well as the self involved. [...]

[...] When we begin our dream experiments with the recorder, we will also keep a daily weather record, again as suggested by Seth.

(6. The next step will be to seek medical help—namely, going to a hospital for tests, therapy, diagnosis, medication, whatever. [...] The idea isn’t that a stay in the hospital will work a miracle cure —though I’d be delighted if it did —but that some help or easing of Jane’s symptoms might eventually be achieved through therapy or whatever. [...]

[...] She’s even let go writing up her recent dream material, some of which has been excellent, with apparent precognitive information of a positive nature.

(Jane has had several vivid dreams since we held the last session; they’ve been of the type described in recent private sessions—combinations of nightmarish events and characters, along with flashes of insight into the causes for the symptoms, and visions of herself walking normally, etc. [...]

(Pause.) Both physical stalling of late—and the dreams and occasional feelings of panic—have been incentives of a kind to deal with the deeper beliefs. [...]

(For the last five weeks Jane has been intrigued by ideas about Seth’s next book, which, she said, would concern “the therapy of value fulfillment.” Seth has also used the phrase in connection with a next work.⁴ Now it appears that he’s settled upon a formal title for his book — one that Jane has received from him several times lately: Dreams, “Evolution,” and Value Fulfillment.)

[...] We will hope to show man’s origin as existing in an inner environment, and emphasize the importance of dreams in “evolutionary advancement,” and as the main origin of man’s most creative achievements.

[...] Your therapy was highly successful. I refer to your shopping endeavor (on Saturday March, 29) and the therapy of delight in small things, and laughter.

This sort of behavior continues of course whether you are waking or sleeping, and is highly involved in the construction of dream images and constructions. [...]

[...] She did say her panicky feelings had to do with the session about her mother Marie yesterday, and a dream she’d had last night. [...]

[...] I see it as a good thing, since I’d told her to do so, and that it may serve as excellent therapy and reinforcement of new beliefs.)

We will also discuss a matter which will be of extreme interest in the area of therapy, for we will be concerned with health and its relation to the dream universe. [...]

[...] We will almost immediately embark upon a more concentrated study of the personality as it operates within its dream reality.

In future sessions, in the immediate future, we will deal with the dream universe in relation to many new aspects which we have not considered in the past.

You will then discover that this dream situation can be used for your own advantage. [...]

[...] In this situation two are involved, and “therapy” must involve each of you. [...]

(To me:) You imagine a quiet home in the country—the dream in that regard in your mind, knowing full well you have no intentions of using “valuable time” to mow grass, fix pipes or tend to furnaces. [...]

[...] I was eager to get Jane started on a program of self-therapy through the Seth material in order to help her counter—or at least supplement—the standard rigid medical framework we’ve been encountering for the last month, or since she went into the hospital on February 26, 1982. [...]

(I’m also trying to whip up some enthusiasm to begin work on Seth’s latest book, Dreams, “Evolution,” and Value Fulfillment, for which we recently signed the contract, and took money. [...]

(We have had two short “sessions,” during which Jane dictated passages for the intro to Dreams while I wrote down her words. [...]

[...] They may be perfectly normal people—even gifted in other fields rather than in the specific field of their dreams. [...]

[...] Frank’s gadget can now serve as an excellent natural physical therapy, particularly useful at this stage, sending the message also that Ruburt is willing to let such relaxation occur. [...]

We will be involved when we are alone with variations of the dream condition, and with dream therapy, and the nature and classification of dreams. [...]

[...] They will involve dreams, and we will work for awhile in an effort to train you so that clairvoyant dreams can be received at your suggestion. [...]

The stuff or fabric or makeup of dreams has not been covered here, nor have we discussed the actual ways in which the personality uses energy to construct his dreams and project them. [...]

We will try to arrange my tests for you as far as clairvoyant dreams and suggestion are concerned, so that these tests also add definite objective knowledge to the nature of clairvoyance in general.

Now, we will have a fairly brief session, simply because I am adjusting my techniques of therapy according to Ruburt’s reactions.

(“How about those vivid dreams he’s had lately. [...]