“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(The session was held in our back room. Just before it began Jane admitted, again, to a slight nervousness at the projected clairvoyant experiments involving Dr. Instream. She began speaking while sitting down and with her eyes closed. Her voice was quiet, in contrast to last night’s noisy unscheduled session. Her pace was slow, with many pauses. It was another hot and humid night.)

Dream images are in a most vital manner extensions of the self. They are projected from the self, extending outward indeed like branches from a tree. Yet they are individual, and have an amount of freedom as even leaves do. And as branches are composed of all those elements that make up the whole tree, so indeed dream images are composed of those elements that make up the personality.

It is obvious that the dream images are not responsible to the ego, however. While they contain within them compositions that are also seen in the physical self, these properties appear in different percentages. As leaves bring vital nutrients to the tree trunk, so also do dream images bring nourishment to the personality.

There is on occasion an extension of self, whereby the Jane ego can also participate, though in a temporarily subordinate manner. The experience is valuable to Ruburt in that he sees that no invasion is involved; and that when his emotions are stilled there is still an emotional reality, as my emotions come to the foreground.

The emotional energy I use as when I show good spirits, are the same energies that propel themselves outward through the voice. This is somewhat more complicated than it may appear. There is a similarity here between the extension of my self outward through Ruburt, and the extension necessary for example in an individual’s projection of a pseudoimage.

The exercise involved here will also help Ruburt in giving the material, and it will help in understanding the operation of the self under such conditions. As such these tests may be considered quite practical portions of the material itself, and we shall use them on various occasions to make certain points.

(I believe the book of Jane’s that Seth refers to here is her new project, dealing with the Seth material itself. Jane has been casting about for a good way to present the material, and has about decided upon her approach. She is not quite sure of it however as yet.

(The reference to a kitchen extension concerns our efforts to get our landlord to enlarge our very small kitchen. The house is having a new roof put on now, and the man doing the job is going to speak to our landlord about the kitchen project when the roof is finished. We had about given up on the kitchen idea for this year, but now our hopes rise again. Jane has been focusing on our landlord, whom we like very much incidentally, each day, concerning the kitchen. It will be interesting to see the results.