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The dream book incidentally (which Eleanor Friede now has) in different form—far different—will be published. So will Adventures—and when he is in a better position to evaluate his Adventures. He did not want Dreams published. Adventures initially was a way of leading him back into “I” writing, and toward Aspects and Rich Bed.

After Seth Speaks was duly accepted, and while he was working on Adventures and Rich Bed initially, then he improved. The creative energy splashed over psychically in some poetry and in Sumari. Following that period he began to realize that Adventures for the present had served its purpose. Again he had another psychic book, and hopes of a contract, and Tam did not want Rich Bed.

(10:35. It is Wednesday, January 3 as I finish this session. Jane has already cleared the matter with Tam—who incidentally had a vivid dream Monday night, in which in distorted form he learned that Adventures was to go by the board. Many elements in Tam’s dream tallied with events depicted in this session, bearing out Seth’s contention that Tam already sensed the conflicts over Adventures, etc. We are to send him what’s done on Seth’s new book.

(At a quick scan I thought the ideas answered all the questions we’d had about the symptoms over the years—explaining, for instance, their onset before the psychic developments, etc. They seemed to offer a unified theory to cover the years of our marriage, and even Jane’s childhood. I saw at once that if valid they also meant Jane must shelve her projected book, Adventures in Consciousness, and concentrate on things like Rich Bed, the Dialogues (poetry), and, perhaps, let Seth do his own thing in sessions. If this included writing books, okay. But crisis time was here, and something had to be done. I was somewhat puzzled that I hadn’t asked my pendulum this specific set of questions before—or had I? If I had, perhaps I hadn’t understood the answers, I thought; because certainly no action had been taken because of them, along the lines now contemplated....

(Long involved adventure type dream, spy adventure I think; I climb cliffs, castle moats etc, seeking clues and am very effective. [...]

Adventures served as the vehicle that brought to light many of his feelings against the psychic field, or rather his part as he saw it in it. [...]

[...] In distorted form he picked up that Jane and I had decided on January 2 that Adventures in Consciousness would not be written or contracted; that in daytime working hours Jane was to go full steam ahead on her own writing, etc. [...]

[...] Tam knew the purposes of Adventures from the beginning—as did Ruburt, but neither of them could act on that knowledge consciously, for it did not serve as yet their conscious purposes.

[...] He made several distortions, substituting you (RFB) and the book I suggested (Through My Eyes) rather than Ruburt and Adventures. [...]

[...] My book is finished so I will have plenty of energy left to deal with all of you, and to send you on whatever adventures you are willing to pursue—even our friend, Edgar, over here. [...]

Now I bid you a fond good evening, and I expect from you all some excellent dream adventures this week into other areas of reality. [...]

1. For those who are interested in publishing matters: Like counterpoint endeavors, Jane’s Dialogues and Adventures have become interwound with her Seth books. [...] Then in Volume 1 of “Unknown” Reality, Seth refers to Adventures on occasion, while I give information about it in Note 3 for his Preface, and Note 5 for Session 680, among others.

Jane finished Dialogues last year (in March 1973), and now (in June 1974) is halfway through the final draft of Adventures. I’m to finish illustrations for each of them by the end of this year, if possible, since Prentice-Hall will publish both books in 1975. Therefore, I have much work to do on the 40 pen-and-ink drawings for Dialogues, and on a series of diagrams for Adventures.

[...] He plans to attend ESP class tomorrow night, then stay over Wednesday to read and discuss the two works Jane has in progress, Adventures in Consciousness: An Introduction to Aspect Psychology, and “Unknown” Reality. [...]

3. A note added five months later: Diagram 11 in Chapter 19 of Jane’s Adventures is relevant to Seth’s material here. [...]

It is time that you regarded such difficulties instead as challenges that are a part of a creative adventure that you have yourselves chosen. You chose the adventure because it was the kind best suited to your own individual value fulfillment. [...] It would, again, help considerably if you thought of your work more as an adventure, an exciting creative adventure, than of work in your old terms.

[...] (with emphasis) is instead implied, and that entire reorientation will effortlessly bring about a new relationship of Ruburt with his body, with his life, and with the adventure the two of you have embarked upon. [...]

[...] I didn’t get to actually show the hole in the glass, though, but for some little time I kept laughing and saying, to everyone’s surprise and amusement, that I’d really had that adventure this morning.”

[...] If you are on a fine liner, however, with all conveniences, then the ocean becomes an enjoyable adventure.

Traveling from one shore of it to another becomes a vast learning adventure, in which both sea and sky are observed in all of their moods and nuances while you are safely ensconced all of the while. [...]

[...] You do not remember the most important part of these nightly adventures, and so those you do recall seem bizarre or chaotic as a rule. [...]

[...] Of course you try to translate your nightly adventures into physical terms upon awakening, and attempt to fit them into your often limited distortion of the nature of reality.

As your daily endeavors have meaning and purpose, so do your dream adventures, and in these also you attain various goals of your own. [...]

[...] You should not embark upon an exploration of these nightly adventures if you are depressed, for at this time your own psychic state is predisposed toward depressing experiences, whether awake or asleep. [...]

5. Jane is now working on the final draft of her own theoretical work on psychic matters, Adventures in Consciousness: An Introduction to Aspect Psychology. She started Adventures in July, 1971, and has stayed with it through all of her other writing projects. It’s first mentioned (as Adventures in Consciousness) in Chapter 21 of Seth Speaks; see the 587th session. In her glossary for Adventures Jane defines the living area as “The ‘paths’ our lives follow from birth to death.”

A note added later: Adventures (or Aspects, as we also call it) was published in September, 1975, by Prentice-Hall, Inc. [...]

I might add that if the York Beach adventure was a strong sign for us of psychic development to come (even if we weren’t able to interpret much of it at first), then Jane’s reception a month later of her manuscript, Idea Construction, was another; and that experience contained obvious psychic elements. [...]

[...] Her whole nighttime adventure here is a most practical one, and is worthy of an extended study elsewhere.

1. See Chapter 15 of Adventures in Consciousness.

[...] Today, Tuesday, is my ESP class day, which means that I have a little less time for my writing, so after giving Rob the small description I intended to type a chapter of Adventures in Consciousness.⁴ I’d lost some writing time lately because of business matters, and because I was trying to catch up on the mail, so I was particularly concerned about getting back to Adventures.

“The ghostly, off-center Saratoga adventure bypassed and blurred usual neurological processes, allowing him to slip through. [...]

Those of you who are new, just consider it as an adventure in consciousness and see what you can do with it. [...]

[...] Those of you that have been involved in this before have simply to send your consciousness out through that pyramid so that it finds its own adventures. [...]

Now: since out adventure first began, you have each had to learn much, and alter patterns of thought and belief, in your terms deeply ingrained. [...] Ruburt knew that the adventure required a finesse, a juggling of realities, and he felt a maturity or wisdom that his years had not given him. [...]

[...] It has to do with the dance of consciousness that is within you and with the sense of spiritual adventure that is within your hearts. [...]

And there are high adventures that rise to circle the moon,

Now I have said this before, that one of our most extensive travelers is completely unaware of her nightly adventures, and again I will not look at anyone in particular because I would not embarrass you. [...]

[...] In a dream you may experience say, an episode in which you are involved with adventures that last for years, and when you wake up you have not aged for (4?) years. [...]

[...] When the body sleeps you are no longer focused within it, instead you embark upon other adventures and, in your terms, you advance your own education. [...]

(To Sue.)Now, our Mathilda over here, you see I am not looking at her, is becoming more and more aware of her nightly adventures. [...]

[...] To keep the discussion simple, I will answer you in reincarnational terms; but as Ruburt is discovering as he writes his Adventures in Consciousness,⁶ many more elements are involved.

Now, as Ruburt has also written in his Adventures — with some help from me now and then! [...]

6. When this session was held, on the first of February, 1974, Jane was ready to begin the final draft of her manuscript for Adventures. In Volume 1 of “Unknown” Reality, see Note 3 for Seth’s Preface.

9. In Adventures, see Chapter 13, with diagrams 4 and 5.

[...] It has to do with the dance of consciousness that is within you, and with the sense of spiritual adventure that is within your hearts.

Each person alive is embarked upon the same kind of adventure, dealing with it, however, according to his or her own characteristics and situation. [...]

[...] When he decided not to do Adventures (a week or two ago) the book became more important in both literary and financial terms.

[...] All of the reasons had to do with Eleanor and Rich Bed, and Adventures, Tam, Jane’s feelings of being cut off by Eleanor and Dick, etc. [...]