“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(Certainly we hope that as he continues with Mass Events Seth will comment extensively on Three Mile Island, just as he’s in the process of doing about Jonestown. In fact, material on Three Mile Island developed in the session held this afternoon, which is the main reason we decided to give these excerpts here.

This also has to do with large events, that you might for convenience’s sake think of for now as psychological objects — that is, events seen and recognized by large numbers of people in the same way that objects are.

(4:45. “I’ve learned something this afternoon,” Jane said during a brief, unannounced break. “I’ve thought of it before, but finally I’m getting it through my head that the sessions are much better when I don’t have any concern — and when I feel concern, I find it harder to get into it. I began to get cautious toward the end there, in some fashion…. I think we’d have gotten more on the nuclear thing otherwise.” She didn’t think any fear of making predictions that might turn out to be wrong had anything to do with this concern.

(“I should mention a couple more things, though. This happened at a time of day when I’m not usually at my best — around 4 in the afternoon. And I’ll often get things like I did the first part of this session, when I was busy with the dishes. I’ll notice it, then say to myself that I’ll tell Rob later…. So I wonder how often I’ve missed out on some good stuff by doing it that way. Especially when I even forget to tell you about it….”)

1. Sue has to do a considerable amount of research for Conversations With Seth, incidentally, especially locating, then interviewing — in person, by telephone or by mail, as the case may be — numerous class members. Many of them are scattered about the country by now, and some are abroad. Sue has also devised a questionnaire to be filled out by those cooperating in her study.

2. Much of Jane’s trance material on how individuals use dreams personally came through in answer to a question of mine that we’d often speculated about lately: If most people do not remember their dreams most of the time, of what use can their dreams be to them? The question was really based upon our belief, indeed our certainty, that everything in nature is intentional and useful; therefore dreams must fulfill important roles in people’s lives — but how, in ordinary terms? Here are quotations from the answers Jane gave while in trance today:

“Even if you don’t consciously remember your dreams, you do get the message. Part of it will appear in your daily experience in one way or another — in your conversation or daily events.

“Great discrimination is used to do that; for example, one newspaper item is noticed over others because a certain portion of that item represents some of the dream’s message. Another portion might come from a neighbor — but from the dreamer’s interpretation of the neighbor’s remarks, that further brings home the dream message. In such cases the individual will scarcely be aware that a dream is involved….