“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(10:40.) Now, briefly: The overall stance of the species is largely maintained by the waking-sleeping patterns that you mentioned recently. In such a fashion, one large portion of the species focuses in physical reality while the other large portion holds a secure foothold in inner reality —

(Our cat, Willy Two — or Billy — had been sleeping beside me on the couch. Waking up now, he stretched, jumped down, then up into Jane’s lap as she spoke for Seth. Billy sat facing her. I laid my notebook aside and picked him up. Seth spoke as I carried the cat to the cellar door.)

— working on the interior patterns that will form the next day’s realities, and providing probable previews of future events. Waking and sleeping reality is therefore balanced in the world mind — not the world brain.

However, the sleeping portion of the species represents the brain’s unconscious activities in the body — particularly when you think of the motion of all of the species’ actions en masse in a given day. Those conscious motions have an unconscious basis. If you think of a mass world brain — one entity — then it must wake and sleep in patterns. If you think of mass daily action as performed by one gigantic being, then all of those conscious actions have unconscious counterparts, and a great intercommunication of an inner nervous system must take place.

Diverse cultures are thus able to communicate as the cultural knowledge of various parts of the world is given to the sleeping portion of the entire organism. When they sleep, the waking nations add the day’s events to the world memory, and work out future probabilities.