“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

In our dream experiments therefore, this is one of the purposes that we hope to achieve. The ego is not equipped of itself to delve directly into nonphysical realities. If the ego is trained to be flexible however, it will accept such knowledge from the subconscious, and other wider horizons of the self.

Our ego must have its feet upon the solid earth, it is out of its element, naked and in an unfamiliar environment, outside of the normal characteristics of physical existence. Its basic distrust of dream experience is necessary for the overall balance of the personality. Physical reality is a rock to which the ego must cling, and from which it achieves its power, energy, position, and reason for existence.

This provides necessary balance and necessary control, and results in the sturdy anchorage of the personality in the environment in which it must survive. You have here one of the main reasons why you must request the subconscious to enable you to recall your dreams. The ego would see no reason for such a memory, and on general principles attempts to repress them.

Again however, through this excellent balance and these fine controls, the ego will accept knowledge derived from the dream state, as a man might accept a message from a distant land in which he does not care to dwell, and whose environment would both mystify and frighten him.

In our dream experiments then, we will allow you to bring such messages to the ego. We will attempt to map this exotic country in such a way that the ego can understand what is there in terms of resources, that can be used for its own benefit. We shall map this dream state from various perspectives, until you know it very well.

I want to give you some more material to further fill out our outline for future sessions dealing with dream reality. I have intended to give you both an evening off entirely, out of the goodness of my heart, and because we will be concerned very soon now with relatively significant discussions, and a break will do you good.

We will be involved with a study of the characteristics of the dream world in general, and attempt to isolate it as a separate reality simply for the purposes of examination. Then we shall consider it rather carefully in its relation to physical reality, using comparisons and dissimilarities.

This will then allow us to proceed into the relationship between the waking and sleeping personality, and discover the many ways in which the personality’s aims and goals are not only reflected but sometimes achieved in and through the dream condition.

Usually the dream state is considered from a negative standpoint, and compared unfavorably with waking reality. Emphasis is laid upon those conditions present in the waking condition, and absent in the dream state.

We shall however consider those aspects of consciousness which are present within the dream environment, and absent in the physical environment. No study of human personality can pretend to be thorough that does not take into consideration the importance of the dream reality.

We will deal also, as I mentioned previously, with the nature of space, time and distance as they appear in the dream environment. And some of our experiments in this line will be very illuminating.