“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(Reading some of the recent sessions on dreams earlier today, Jane got the idea that Seth would talk about dreams this evening.

I am somewhat taken back to discover that Ruburt, upon learning to use his abilities, would also attempt to censure the direction of their use.

You cannot deny the normal coming of night by refusing to face it, and closing the outer eyes would only result in those very characteristics of night which the self tried to avoid. Nor would the pleasant characteristics of night be ever known, but night would forever mean terror and chaos, since it would never be given the recognition due it, and never explored.

The information brings, because of its nature, much more than you might think in its implications. In wishing to close himself to such information, Ruburt would wish to close himself off from beneficial knowledge, and from the kind of exploration which in itself expands, and opens barriers that are not really barriers but doorways.

Now. Connected with the above material, but rather opaquely, I will continue along other but parallel lines. I would return again to those questions asked: What was the first act of creation? How did it all begin?

It is basically as meaningless in essence, to ask this kind of question as it would be to pause in the middle of a dream, and wonder when first the dream location was created: To stand facing a dream landscape and wonder at what point in time the rocks had their origin. For there is a great similarity between the so-called world of dreams and the so-called world of matter, as you should know.

(Jane had been delivering the material while pacing barefoot around the room. At one point she inadvertently knocked her foot against a metal coffee table leg. The blow made a good noise and I expected her to break off dictation, or at least wince. However she continued on as though nothing had happened. She now told me she felt her foot strike the leg of the table, but that ordinarily it would have bothered her a lot more than it did.

Your help, Joseph, has been most beneficial to him, and it is difficult naturally for him to manage this sort of data; but if he could not manage it he would not have received it, since we are developing an integration here. And I have protected him from a vulnerability to experiences that would be, or that would present, a danger to the overall balance of the personality.