“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

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.

Therefore, your dilemma. Now you exaggerated the dilemma to some extent, but the whole symbolism represented your fears. The situation is not that bad and there is hope yet. It is the feeling that the fugitive will always be hunted down and that there is safety in numbers and that if you leave the numbers, or the institution, you will be hunted down.

It means that symbolized so that you can see the situation as you see it. You are deliberating that this represents one stage of your feelings. Now you should have a series of dreams representing other aspects of the entire situation. You will have a dream, for example, that emphasizes what you will find if you leave this institutionalized framework. You have only taken one aspect and dramatized it for yourself. You will take other aspects and dramatize those also.

Now, I forgot to smile. I will smile. Now I am used to speaking to the whole Northeast, this is what you get here in the living room.

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.

Now I will let our friend return.

(To Sue.) Now for our friend, Ruburt’s edification I was indeed, old Dr. Seth speaking to you in your dream. Ruburt’s unconscious can go its own way and do its own thing and I go my way and do my own thing.

(To Arnold.) Also heed that the ordinary happiness and pursuits within society as you know it are not enough for you, and that you realized that the seemingly contented people were indeed imprisoned. Now that is also an important element of the dream, you were not content, you see, to stay within the environment and you did feel an inner terror to be so imprisoned.

That (Camp) is a relative of yours and the two of you (Sue and Bette) are connected, but not in this reality in a probable reality; and for a woman that this Camp might have married but did not. Now you see I can speak on tables as well as chairs. Now the relationship that did not take place in this reality took place in another and in that reality the two of you are connected and this accounts for the feelings that you have had toward our friend here (Sue).

Now this is our first example in class of a relationship existing in a probable system so take note of it.

Now conventional religion requires tribute and so the men came to you at the door. Now you saw them hooded and with red hoods, this meant several things to you on a subconscious basis. First of all, robbers come hooded and they do not come to front doors but to side doors and to doors not usually used. They came, therefore, as hooded strangers and they were requiring tribute and you did not know whether or not the cause was legitimate or if you should contribute to it. The conventional religions were symbolized as St. Paul to you.

Now in the back of your mind, and you may yell at me later, conventional religion is symbolized by the Catholic religion because of its fantastic organization. And in your mind the Pope represents that organization and he paid tribute. He gave to these hooded robbers that came in at the side door. He did not give much, but he gave, and he gave because any religion must pay tribute to the inner knowledge of the self and the true inner knowledge does not come in through the front door. It comes in through the side door when you are least looking for it.

Now the red hoods had a peculiar significance, subconsciously speaking, to you because the red subconsciously meant violence and the idea in the back of your mind that religions through the ages have often resulted in violence and also Cardinals, you see, wear red hats at times.

Now in your own way, you were asking the same kind of question that he was asking and you set your own kind of drama about it.

You ended up giving two quarters. Now two quarters, in terms of money, is a small amount, two bits, and yet two quarters also symbolize one half and this is the main meaning of your dream for you are half convinced and half not convinced and you gave in case they were right. It is a good point of housewifery prudence and spiritual prudence as well, but you would not have given had not this authority figure of the Pope done so ahead of you which means that presently you are looking for direction and hoping to find it and also that you are not going to give to any red-hooded beggars who knock at your side door. It also shows that you are deeply considering matters and that you are more open.

Now in the same kind of a dream, say two years ago, you would not have opened the side door. The connection with your aunt simply has to do with present-life connections and the terms of the house to you. Now the house, to you, represents in one way, the seat of personality also, the inviolate place and you do not open the door to strangers or give them access into the secret self unless you feel that there is a good reason.

It is, indeed. Now you are a good matter-maker since you made the matter of the image that now sits before me. You are all matter-makers and I bet none of you have been called that before.

It seems to have a dim connection for you having to do with a young woman who received on that date, a letter of an emotional import. Now I am not sure if the woman’s name was Lillian, but a Lillian was somehow connected with the event. The episode was not a traumatic one. It was simply an emotional one, a trivial incident, however, that you picked up telepathically. It sprang to your mind because of the connection of a desk with a letter.

The event was subconsciously recognized by you and had to do, I believe, with a woman with whom you worked with, whom you are at least partially involved in that you meet her now and then. She is not in the room in which you work but I believe, some two doors down or two places removed. I do not know if she is there now, but she was at that time and you met her in the hallway. It was a telepathic connection on your part that subconsciously simply came to the forefront of your mind with the date.

Now this bargain does not only have to do with your psychic work but to your entire life situation and in a way you have the same goals but you have a division of labor that you have subconsciously decided upon. You want to be cautious, yet you want to find out what there is about the nature of reality and in this implied bargain you are the one who will make the inroads or seem to go ahead to have the freedom and spontaneity to do so. As our past sessions show in class, you also have a strong sense of responsibility. Now at this time, it seems too much to bear both at the same, and so our friend here is being the critical one for you and then you can free yourself for this trance work knowing that any questions of a critical nature that you might have will be asked by her and, therefore, you will feel free to go ahead.

Now she feels strongly but this is her responsibility, not so much to hold you in line, as to prove to you that you have nothing to fear. That she will be there for you helping the steps out as you go ahead. It is a built in safety system upon which both of you have subconsciously agreed and again this applies to other aspects of your life as well.

Now she also has a great inner interest and so for her and for both of you, you are traveling these inward roads for both of you and she is carrying on the critical aspects for both of you. You could not be burdened if you thought them through with these deep questions of criticism for they could send you back to a rigid attitude. I am saying that you have a good working relationship that will change and be flexible in time.

That is a portion also of your self that you do not admit. Fears that you have. Now the fears are natural enough. You do not need to be afraid of the fears, for example. Again, it is a division of labor, she acquiesces in all this far more than she knows, as you doubt it, far more than you know. She counts on you to go ahead and to break into these inroads and to make progress as you count on her to double check your every step along the way.

Now, my dear friend, if the smile is not good enough for you this evening, then you will have to wait.

I will give you one of my best when I get rid of Ruburt’s cigarette. There, now I have smiled happier smiles but someone has told jokes. I knew that would do it, it made you smile in any case.

I will bid you all a fond good evening and I would like it if some of you would think of some of the matters that we have discussed here this evening. When you think up questions personal involvement must be connected or they will have no real meaning to you. Think in terms of your own personal reality, your own personal life and how these theories apply to who you think you are now.

Now I bid you all a fond good evening and I am smiling the best smile that I can make these features smile and if that will not do for you, you will have to wait until the sun rises in the morning.