“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

In the dream state these reactions are more easily triggered. This is the result of a lowering of egotistic guards, for the ego sets up controls that act as resistance to various channels, so that many connections are closed. All of these systems are interconnected. They all operate simultaneously. However, the personality is certainly not aware of their existence on a conscious level a good deal of the time.

The inner senses are connected then to the physical mechanism. Sometimes inner perceptions may be touched off as a result of stimuli received through the outer senses. In many cases however the stimulus comes from the deeper levels of the self, where however it may be translated into terms that the personal subconscious can use.

In such circumstances these perceptions may find their way to the ego, appearing as inspirations or intuitive thought. It is obvious that many such intuitions appear when the personality is in a dreaming state or in states of dissociation. The intuitions themselves, while seemingly mental, are action, and as such they produce changes in the physical organism, both chemical and electromagnetic.

For such habits operate not only in the waking state but in the sleeping state also, where the personality is even more open to suggestion. A vicious circle is therefore formed. It is often broken however, and in many ways.

Dreams are indeed symptomatic of the personality’s overall condition at any given time, but they also help form that condition. The connections here are extremely complicated, and yet use of suggestion in bringing about constructive changes through dreams can be of great benefit.

Ruburt is extremely cautious. This will not work to our disadvantage however, for his cautiousness in these matters acts as a strong balancing mechanism, so that he learns to deal with inner perceptions stage by stage. His personality is not overwhelmed therefore. We have taken his ego into consideration at all times, so that he can consciously assimilate what he has learned, as is preferable. At times this may mean that we progress slowly, but the progression is steady and firm.

(Jane tells me that “a mistake of sorts connected here somewhere” could refer to a mix-up concerning the room we had rented at the motel, but I do not recall this personally. It was nothing serious, Jane said, but a bookkeeping error on the part of the motel room clerk, to the effect that our room had been reserved for someone else, in advance; we were to be moved to another room, she said, but the transfer never took place. There was no unpleasantness involved.

A note here to Dr. Instream. This material is more illuminating because Ruburt is in training, so to speak; because the ways in which the personality receives, interprets and translates inner perceptions are more obvious now than they will be at a later date.

The development will make obvious certain stages by which the personality approaches such material, and this should be valuable simply from a psychological viewpoint.