“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(The session was held in our back room, and was a quiet one. Jane began speaking while sitting down and with her eyes closed. Her voice was average. Her pace was slow at the beginning but soon picked up speed. She began speaking at 9:01.)

This however would involve many a nightly vigil. A better procedure would be to hypnotize a subject, and you would need a good one, and suggest that under hypnosis he repeat the dreams of the night before. There are many opportunities for an investigation of dreams along these lines, and the results would yield more legitimate information.

For the investigator himself, through his actions, inadvertently brings about, in specific instances, those results for which he looks. The particular experiment may then seem to suggest conditions which are by no means general ones, but which may appear so. In hypnosis the subject is not as much on guard as a subject of an experiment when the subject knows in advance that he will be awakened by the experimenter, when electrodes are attached to the physical organism, when the conditions of the sleep laboratory are substituted for his ordinary nightly environment. It is impossible to study dreams when an attempt is made to isolate the dreamer from his own personality, to treat dreams as if they were physical or mechanical. The only laboratory for a study of dreams is the laboratory of the personality.

A tenuous one. Marleno knew about your experience at York Beach, and because of circumstances in her own life she visited the general territory. An emotional connection with the sessions did have quite a bit to do with her particular visit to York Beach, however, and there was on her part a subconscious knowledge that Dr. Instream had been there also. I have told you that telepathy operates continually, and has strong emotional connections, so this should be no surprise.

(I had intended asking one more question, concerning the source of the material Jane gave on the envelope test. So much of it appeared to be of opposite or reverse nature to the test object that it seemed to fit a pattern.