“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Finally you were led to travel to the top where there were no defined steps, but a smooth, steady ascent with no steps as such to follow. You got there first and helped Ruburt. This means that in your inner self you have a clear idea of the goals which Ruburt, for many reasons, some quite legitimate, hides from his practical self.

On a physical level the dream had another meaning—that after awhile he will not be worried about stairs and walking. The method of getting upstairs will no longer concern him, simply the ascent, and that the two of you together are conquering the physical situation.

The man represented the reason for the symptoms—the dark side, which you both decide to avoid. You leave him in the woods, and then begin the ascent.

It means that you have no more association with it, that you leave it in the woods from which you both emerge for the ascent.

Christian dogma speaks of the ascension of Christ, implying of course a vertical ascent into the heavens, and the development of the soul is often discussed in terms of direction. [...]

Now: The symbolism of ascent or descent, or of light and dark, would be meaningless to other realities with different perceptive mechanisms. [...]

[...] For one thing, the dream represented an attitude, of course, that truth was something apart from man, hopefully to be acquired, and definitely involving an ascent.