“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] Jane had a cigarette in order to stay awake: “I keep dozing off and having these itty-bitty scenarios,” she said.

[...] Yet, since I’d been awake while she slept, we speculated that those same habitual cleaning chores had also occupied me enough consciously to mask my awareness of what another part of me was up to.)

[...] (Several years later, Jane was to list nine such inner senses in Chapter 19 of The Seth Material.) Jane said that upon coming slowly awake from her nap she’d had the very peculiar feeling of ‘growing larger.’ The laughing phrase she used was that she’d felt as ‘big as an elephant.’ Her boundaries of awareness seemed to have expanded. [...]

It is quite beneficial to suggest you will awake at once afterward, to write the experience down. [...]

[...] Then I experienced a false awakening: I thought I was awake, and about to get up to write down the dream. [...]

Then I recalled my previous experiments with dream states and knew that I wasn’t normally awake as I thought, but was wandering out in the living room, in an out-of-body state and hallucinating. [...]

[...] I snapped awake, in my body in bed. [...]

[...] As a rule when you are awake you do not know your sleeping self; you know your neighbors far better, so your sleeping self appears mysterious indeed. When you are awake, as Ruburt himself has written, you cannot find the dream locations that have been so familiar to you only the night before.

[...] If you will not listen to me when you are awake because it is too late, then I shall be like a recording machine so that you learn while you sleep. [...]

All layers of the personality are ‘conscious.’ They simply operate like compartments, so that often one portion of the self is not aware of other portions. As a rule, when you are awake you do not know your sleeping self; you know your neighbor far better, so your sleeping self seems mysterious indeed. When you are awake, as Ruburt himself has written, you cannot find the dream locations that have been so familiar to you only the night before.

[...] Some methods, to be given later, allowed us to come awake while dreaming, to take our conscious selves into the dream state, manipulate it and have deliberate out-of-body experiences while sleeping. [...]

In greater terms you are just as awake when you are asleep, but the focus of your awareness is turned in other directions. [...]

[...] It’s well known that parts of the brain are much more active when we sleep than when we’re awake, for instance, but I doubt that Seth was referring to such phenomena here.

Now: in the first episode mentioned the experience was the same, only more vividly experienced since the focus personality was not fully awake and did not have immediate sense data to handle. [...]

[...] After fifteen minutes I had to get her a cigarette, talk to her to keep her awake, etc. [...]

It is all right to be knuckleheaded when you are awake, but when you are dreaming, you should allow yourself more freedom—remember your love of color. [...]

[...] She kept everybody on the floor awake last night. [...]

[...] Some other clues, however, will appear when you are wide awake and going about your daily ways so keep good notes this week and you also. [...]

[...] She lay quietly on the couch, eyes closed, but in a few minutes told me she was awake. [...]

(Jane told me that upon slowly coming awake from her nap, and while she was listening to me move about the living room setting up the desk and my pad, etc., for the session, she had the most peculiar feeling of “growing larger.” [...]

(At the same time, on the occasions when she’d come half awake, Jane told herself that she remembered Seth’s material on expressing previously buried fears, and made strong efforts to go along with it by letting the feelings surface where she could encounter them. [...]

[...] This inner ego can also operate within the dream state, and in certain awake-seeming dreams it is the portion that realizes that the personality is not in its normal waking condition. [...]

[...] When you are at rest, awake but with eyes closed, images and pictures will often appear to your inner eye. [...]

[...] When you are awake for periods of time during those hours, very refreshing conditions exist mentally and physically. [...]

[...] Yet Jane woke me at the time and told me she had just seen an apparition, while awake. [...]