“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

I would like to continue our discussion concerning the layers of the so-called subconscious, in connection now with a study of dreams.

For out of a seemingly endless number of possibilities, our individual dreamer actually discriminates with great care, choosing only those dream objects or symbols that have meaning to him; and those dream objects that can best serve his purposes. And even a simple dream that would seem to be concerned with trivial daily events is in reality concerned with much more.

(Break at 9:30. Jane was fully dissociated. She said that for some reason she was aware that when the session began she would be “far-out” right away. She had not told me before the session began, but now admitted that she had been very tired by 9 PM, after painting all day. But now she felt fine.

It is your focus, intensive, that of itself blots out other perceptions that would allow you to see that the question “What comes first?” is meaningless.

They will then think that there is no real comparison to be made between the two, since each individual dream world would be a conglomeration of diverse individualistic symbols, even if they were projected into a type of universe of which the conscious mind was ignorant.

The same sort of psychic agreement holds the dream universe together as holds the physical universe together. If a man could actually focus his concentration upon those hidden, feared, mainly unknown, unrecognized elements in the physical universe upon which men simply cannot agree; if he could focus upon the dissimilarities rather than the similarities in the physical universe, he would wonder what gave anyone the idea that there was even one physical object upon which men could agree.

He would wonder what collective madness made or permitted man to select, from a virtual infinity of what would appear as chaos, to select a handful, a mere handful, of similarities and call it a universe.

(Break at 10:46. Jane was dissociated as usual. She said she had indeed painted too long today; but although she was tired before the session began, she feels fine now. She said she could feel Seth close by now, but that he would end the session soon. She resumed in the same forceful manner at 10:49.)