“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(On Thursday, August 12 we received a letter from Dr. Instream that was somewhat puzzling to us; in the letter he did not mention receiving the copy of the 175th session, which we mailed on August 5. The session contained some clairvoyant-telepathic material, presumably referring to Dr. Instream or people he knows, that we were interested in checking out.

(It was a very hot and humid evening and we held the session in our large front room, where we have a cooler. Because our windows were open traffic noise was rather bothersome to me. Jane spoke while sitting down and with her eyes closed. Her voice was quiet—too quiet as it developed. I had trouble hearing her, and shortly after she began speaking she hiked her chair closer to my table, and her voice acquired a little more volume. She used many pauses.)

He must avoid a do-or-die attitude. He does best when he allows his mind to wander, and not when he hems it in. In his psychological time experiments lately, he has concentrated with his will, though he did not realize he was doing so. Again, this leads to a constriction.

His book will be successful in many ways, and there will be other such books. On a subconscious basis Ruburt actually suggested his recent levitation dreams, with most effective results. He was not confident enough of his own abilities, and the dream success was most beneficial from this viewpoint.

(Break at 9:22. Jane was dissociated as usual for a first break. Her eyes had remained closed; her voice had been loud enough to rise above the traffic noise. The noise had bothered me, but Jane said that as she was speaking she was aware of no distractions.

(It might be interesting to digress a moment to discuss the point raised by Seth in the last paragraph. I believe he is referring here to an experience of mine. As far as I can recall, this was the first time I became consciously aware that a dream could influence waking action.

(On Tuesday night, June 22, I had five dreams which I wrote in my dream notebook the next morning. Dream number five was a very short one, in color. In it I found myself approaching a certain traffic light in my car. I was on a side street, two blocks from the printing plant where I work. In the dream I sat waiting for some little time for the light to turn green, giving me access to the main highway, Lake Street. I seldom take this route in actuality, since this particular light is set to favor the heavy flow of traffic on Lake Street. Anyone approaching it as I did in my dream can wait for up to a couple of minutes for it to change.

(When I was a few car lengths from the light, the dream suddenly popped into my mind. Just as in the dream, I found myself stopping for a red light. The effect was so startling that I at once began to wonder whether it was possible to act out dream suggestions in waking life. My self-questioning was particularly intriguing because I could have chosen from a half-dozen routes to work; yet I had picked a course that enabled me to act out the dream of the night before, while not being consciously aware of the dream.)

(Break at 9:48. Jane was dissociated as usual. Her eyes had remained closed, her voice had been a bit stronger, her pace had picked up quite a bit during the delivery. Her brogue had again been apparent at times.

(End at 10:20. Jane was dissociated as usual. Her eyes had remained closed. Her pace had been good, her voice average and with an occasional touch of brogue. The hot and humid evening had not bothered her during deliveries.)