“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Give us a moment…. For what would seem to you to be eons, according to your time scale, men were in the dreaming state far more than they were in the waking one. They slept long hours, as did the animals—awakening, so to speak, to exercise their bodies, obtain sustenance, and, later, to mate. It was indeed a dreamlike world, but a highly charming and vital one, in which dreaming imaginations played rambunctiously with all the probabilities entailed in this new venture: imagining the various forms of language and communication possible, spinning great dream tales of future civilizations replete with their own built-in histories—building, because they were now allied with time, mental edifices that automatically created pasts as well as futures.

Then in your terms man began, with the other species, to waken more fully into the physical world, to develop the exterior senses, to intersect delicately and precisely with space and time. Yet man still sleeps and dreams, and that state is still a firm connective with his own origins, and with the origins of the universe as he knows it as well.

All languages have as their basis the language that was spoken in dreams. The need for language arose, however, as man became less a dreamer and more immersed in the specifics of space and time, for in the dream state his communications with his fellows and other species was instantaneous. Language arose to take the place of that inner communication, then. There is a great underlying unity in all of man’s so-called early cultures—cave drawings and religions—because they were all fed by that common source, as man tried to transpose inner knowledge into physical actuality.

(Pause.) In a fashion those ancient dreamers, through their immense creativity, dreamed all of life’s creatures in all of their pasts, presents, and futures—that is, their dreams opened up the doors of space and time to entities that otherwise would not have been released into actualization, even as, for example, the units of consciousness were once released from the mind of All That Is.

(9:25. And for the first time in a long while, Jane did take a break during a session. “You did well,” I told her.

“Yes, I was really going to town.” Even though her delivery had been on the quiet side, still at times Seth had come through with considerable power. “In the winter I like to start sessions earlier,” Jane said, “so I can finish sooner and watch TV for half an hour—it’s relaxing and cozy, especially when we’re alone…. I think the rest of the session will be about me.”

(“Well, for someone who wasn’t with it too much, I did okay,” Jane said when the session was over. She was rejuvenated to a degree. Both of us were impressed anew by Seth’s present and potential creativity. “If it weren’t for all that mail we get, I’d try at least three sessions a week,” she added. “But you don’t have the time to type any more, with all you’re doing now.”

“I’d make the time. It would be worth it.” And I reminded Jane that back in the days of her ESP classes, she’d often given three sessions a week. We held the last class in February 1975, as we prepared to move to the hill house from our downtown apartments.)