“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(The session was held in our large front room. Jane spoke while sitting down and with her eyes closed. Her voice was a bit stronger than usual, her pace faster. Much of the time she sat leaning forward with her head down somewhat. Her glasses were on when she began speaking, actually at 8:58, but she soon removed them.)

It is well known that emotions have a chemical reality, but it is not generally realized that dreams also have the same sort of property. Telepathy is indeed affected by chemical reactions, as dreams are.

If physical laws were the only basis for actuality, then telepathy would be impossible. But then, dreams would be equally impossible. For in the dream state the personality is molded and changed through actions that do not exist within the physical universe. The personality reacts to dream experiences as it reacts to any other experience. It does not discriminate, as the ego does, between one kind of experience and another.

It is formed equally by those experiences which are purely subjective, and which exist only within the psychological time framework. The subjective experiences therefore result in definite changes within the physical body framework. These changes are not caused because of a physical event, but because of an event occurring within a dream condition which has no reality in your physical universe.

If they are severed you would not have a sane unit, but a disjointed pattern not capable of maintaining balance.

It may not exist in space but it exists in some dimension as a form, and all forms have structure; and so dream images have structure and form, although they do not exist in your space. And so I have a structure and a form, although I do not exist in your space.

My form may be changed, but so do you change the form of your own thoughts. When you dream of a particular location, that location does then exist in fact. It has a definite reality, although it may not have a physical reality. Because you experience it, and you are partially physical, it does have some basis of reality in physical terms, even though it may not exist full-blown in physical terms.

There is a chemical necessity, as I have said, that makes dreaming inevitable. But then these dreams in turn affect the personality in general, and affect the actions of that personality in a physical universe. It goes without saying that telepathy operates within the dreaming state quite as effectively as it operates while the individual is awake. In the waking state it operates subconsciously. But in all times there is no boundary, generally speaking, that exists to separate one psychological unit from another. There are differences between psychological units, and you concentrate upon these differences. Nevertheless one man’s dreams affect another’s, and that man is in turn affected by the dreams of his neighbor.

There is an impression of an incident that occurred, of interest to Dr. Instream, in the middle of this week, possibly around Wednesday, that was unpleasant. (Pause.) Involving someone else, but with some connection to Dr. Instream.

(Designs are repeated in the label, but no blocks appear. The journey by automobile can refer to our driving home Saturday evening. There is an 1840 date on the label, but not 1965. I was of course involved with the test object, and my initials are R.B., but this can apply to any test object. We don’t know which “another” Seth refers to. The label bears parallel oval lines which can suggest a road or a path.