“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(Pause at 9:23.) All of this is not as esoteric as it might seem. Almost every individual has had bizarre experiences with consciousness, and knows intuitively that their greater experience is not limited to physical reality. Most dreams are like animated postcards brought back from a journey that you have returned from and largely forgotten. Your consciousness is already oriented again to physical reality; the dream, an attempt to translate the deeper experience into recognizable forms. The images within the dream are also highly coded, and are signals for underlying events that are basically not decipherable.

(Pause at 9:50.) This period can last for only a few moments, for half an hour, or can be returned to. It is a cushioning, supportive, and expansive stage of consciousness. Suggestions given during this time are highly effective. Following this period there is an active state, that can occur, of pseudodreaming, where the mind busies itself with physical concerns that have managed to cling through the first two stages.

(10:11. Jane’s trance had been good. Her delivery tonight, without voice effects, with only short pauses and a minimum of gestures, was the kind that seemingly could continue indefinitely. At break I asked if Seth would title the first eight chapters of his book, as he began doing from Chapter Nine on. Resume in the same manner at 10:26.)

(Pause.) In the original experience, however, the true nature of the Speaker is apparent. The production of dreams is as “sophisticated” an endeavor as is the production of the objective life of a given individual. It is simply living on different terms.

(Pause.) Do not worry about the [first eight] chapter headings — we will get to them. We will end the session or answer any questions if you prefer.