“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

First of all the landscape and the surroundings were, indeed, symbolic but they represented to you several things. They represented culture and civilization, both as it has existed in the past, and as you see it in the future. The people within the environment appeared happy because they did not think and everything was done for them and life was, indeed, like an institution and they could not leave.

You felt, you see, that on entering this institution or this culture or civilization, that something had been taken from you symbolized by you as the fluid that was taken from the brain. The fluid represented several things, it represented seminal fluid in terms of creativity and energy. It also represented the water or fountainhead of spiritual creativity so that both ages merged and you felt that this had been drawn out from you in order to keep you contented within this artificial framework. Now you are considering, to some extent, leaving the framework while pretending still to be inside it.

(To Arnold.) The dream was an exquisite creative production, you see, and in a way a commentary from other layers of yourself, not only on the present state of civilization as you see it, but a commentary upon civilizations in the past so that both past and present images were transposed, one upon the other.

Now the past images also represented not only the past in the historical context of civilization, but the past as it applies to your own personal subconscious. The past of memories in this life. The feeling also in your early past you had thought of escaping, looked in that direction and found structures. Now the structures were also symbolic in another way. The structures also represented neat pyramids of thought that were bright, shiny, smooth and prefabricated in a way.