“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

In the sleeping state we see the personality as it is in operation. We see its abilities and its limitations. Our friend, the Jesuit, will do well to read our dream material, for dreams are a reflection of the needs of a personality and of the abilities. The focus of attention and concentration are magnified a thousandfold in the dream state, and dreams form the basis for your physical environment.

We have said this often. However, suggestions should always be given before sleep, that the subconscious will maintain the organic integrity of the physical organism. This is basic.

Such suggestions will serve to protect the integrity of the physical organism, for these suggestions also have an electrical reality and a chemical reality, as your fear of cats has a chemical and an electrical reality that forces you to act within that framework.

Because suggestions are formed of the same stuff that forms your physical reality, suggestions can indeed change the framework within which you operate. This is no Pollyanna hogwash. Many of the ways and the means have been given. My suggestions, if followed, will be fair enough proof of the validity of our material.

(It was 10:23. The material had been so interesting that I had forgotten the time. I had planned to hand Jane the test envelope at about 10:00. Her eyes had been open up to this point, but she now closed them and sat waiting quietly while I handed the envelope to Bill; he passed it to Jane. She held it lightly in both hands, her eyes still closed.)

I do not bother to state the material is light. It would be obvious; or that we have sealed envelopes. I have the impression of dark, and of a voice, and of initials. I would say again, J. B.

(Break at 10:28. Jane was dissociated as usual. She said she had no visual data during the material on the test; just the thought of the toothbrush and of herself. Her eyes remained closed until break.

(As usual, some of the test material obviously applied, and other statements seemingly did not. By now however we have learned that material in the latter category is not necessarily distorted; it could merely be another example of the sometimes far-reaching impressions that attach themselves to test objects. Seth has said very little about the reasons for this. So we were now curious to learn what application, if any, such statements as four, a masterpiece, a voice, etc., had to the test object. Again see my sketch of the photographic negative on page 255.

(This was a reference to Bill’s habit of closely scrutinizing Jane as she delivers the material.