“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Quite frankly, I believe that normal dreams are the outside shell of deeper inside experience. The interior reality is clothed in dream images as, when we are awake, it is clothed in physical ones. Dream objects and physical objects alike are symbols by which we perceive — and distort — an inner reality that we do not seem able to experience directly. In certain states of consciousness, particularly in projections from the dream state, we achieve a peculiar poise of alertness. This lets us briefly examine the nature of our consciousness by allowing us to view its products — the events and experiences that it creates when released from usual physical focus.

Consciousness forms its own reality, physical and otherwise. I think there is a “mass” dream experience, however, as there is a collectively perceived physical life and definite interior conditions within which dream life happens. Only inner experimentation will let us discover this interior landscape. Perhaps one day we will move freely within it, alert, conscious and far wiser than we are now.

[...] This can be a joyful and an alert experience. [...]

These other portions of your own consciousness are alert even in the sleep state. [...]

The facts are that when you close off the conscious mind that you know, another more alert conscious mind takes over; a conscious mind that belongs to you that has far more vision than the one you usually use; a conscious mind that is aware of more than you are usually aware of. [...]

[...] the conscious alert self of which your present conscious mind is but a shadow. [...]

[...] When you do Psy-Time regularly, you become alert to data that comes through the Inner Senses. [...]

This intuitional alertness carries over into daily life and into the sleeping state. [...]

[...] The caveman, for example, while sleeping was on the alert for predators. The mysterious aspects of the natural night in outside surroundings kept him partially alert. [...]

[...] His sleeping periods were instead for two or three hours, stretched through the nighttime from dusk to dawn, but alternated by periods of high wakefulness and alert activity. [...]

[...] After a shorter nighttime sleep period, we have no difficulty waking up easily, alert and ready to go. [...]

[...] They are as alert or as unalert to their situation as you are to your own. [...]

Now, in primary constructions, a consciousness, usually fully aware and alert, adopts a form — not his “native” one — and consciously projects it, often into another level of reality. [...]

Tell yourself that you will, while sleeping, be alert to any changed atmosphere within the room; for there will be a change. [...] Now tell yourself that your conscious mind can be alert while you sleep and dream, alert enough to recognize a changed atmosphere.

[...] In natural circumstances the animals, while sleeping at night, are still partially alert against predators and danger. There is within the innate characteristics of the mammalian brain, then, a great balance in which complete physical relaxation can occur in sleep, while consciousness is maintained in a “partially suspended, passive-yet-alert” manner. [...]

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. [...]

[...] You have to learn how to distinguish your psychological state from the reality in which you find yourself, if you want to maintain your alertness and explore that environment. [...]

[...] If you are alert you may even take snapshots — only as far as inner tours are concerned, the snapshots consist of clear pictures of the environment taken at the time, developed in the unconscious, and then presented to the waking mind.

[...] So it is the conscious alert mind that must take these pictures if you hope to later make sense of your inner journeys. [...]

[...] All of its dimensions are faithfully and instantly produced as experience when you learn to take your “normally alert” conscious mind with you; and when you are free of such limiting ideas, then at those levels you can glimpse the inner powers of your own psyche, and watch the interplay of beliefs and symbols as they are manifested before your eyes. [...]

[...] This is a sign Seth said to be alert for, in the 130th session. [...]

[...] I felt she had alerted her ego somehow, and that it was balking at going through the usual psy-time routine. [...]

[...] Now I would like you again to be alert both with the people that you meet during your daily lives and to the people that you meet in the dream state. [...]

It is within all of your capabilities now to be alert enough in the dream state to recognize these personalities. [...]

At a certain point you will feel alert and conscious but very light. [...]

[...] You must be receptive and yet alert and it is that point of alertness that you sometimes lose. [...]

[...] You are far more alert, far more aware than you are in your waking state. [...]

[...] (I didn’t.) I suggest that you give instructions to the effect that a portion of you will remain alert in sleep to such an encounter. [...] There may be a change of air pressure in the room that could alert you. [...]

[...] It is the I who is aware and alert within the dream state and who watches the dreaming self. [...]

[...] Use a balanced alertness and passivity. [...]

[...] I want you to be alert to the movement of muscles—the message of nerves. [...]

Concentrate upon the idea of your body being a field awakened by the wind and the rain—awakened into sensation—not necessarily passive, then, but in a strange condition between alertness and passivity.

[...] It rises into prominence in somewhat the same fashion, riding upon other possible versions of itself; alert only because — in your terms — of hidden pauses within its alertness.

Once psychology realizes that the personality is also alert and conscious in the dream state, then indeed its precepts and its bases must change. For information is given to you not only in your waking, conscious, alert daily life but in what you would call your unconscious sleep state. [...]

[...] Now this includes not only reincarnational material in your terms, but the realization that the personality in the dream state is actually as alert and conscious as it is in the waking state. [...]

[...] He is using more nourishment, building new cells, and should be alert so that he eats however often when he feels the impulse. [...]

[...] They were forever alert and on guard.

Communication, in fact, was one of their strongest points, and it was developed to such a high degree simply because they feared violence so deeply and were constantly on the alert. [...]

The enlightened conscious mind is always alert for such messages. [...]