“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

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.

As leaves drop from the tree, so finally do dream images depart from close connection with the personality. Yet a psychic connection is always maintained to some degree. Dream images are often images which cannot be created for various reasons within physical reality at any particular time. Dream images may appear later however as physical images.

The field that connects the personality to this kind of pseudoimage is actually formed by extensions of psychic energy. Imagine it, the field, if you will, as a thin but sturdy thread that connects the pseudoimage with the original image. There are some limitations here then as to range. These are not basic limitations, but have to do with the individual’s ability to so extend himself. Many dreams involve such roamings on the part of the personality while it is within this sort of pseudoimage.

I feel that I should explain myself to some degree, concerning the infrequent unscheduled sessions that occur, and some of the reasons behind the voice effects, which indeed we do keep under control most of the time.

Do you have a test for me?

Give me a moment and we will see what we can do.

Again, something to do with two people, perhaps several, both males and females. The idea of rock and water and many colors, and a connection with a note. (Pause.) A place which you have both visited. Numbers. Too many people for comfort. A border.

Again a multiplicity of design. Initials, I believe R. B. In connection with you, Joseph. Your handwriting on the back. (Pause.) Having to do with a familiar place, a tent, and a landscape of a landscape.

(Jane interprets “a familiar place” as Elmira. Since the paper samples I requested were for watercolor paper, I can see where many colors and “a landscape of a landscape” can enter in, since I wanted to test the paper by doing some small landscapes at our landlord’s farm. In 1963 we borrowed from our landlord, Jimmy Spaziani, the Ouija board that led to the sessions. See my Introduction, plus various sessions, in Volume 1.

(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.