“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(I planned no envelope test for this session, thinking that the test material on the Gallaghers in Puerto Rico, and on Dr. Instream, would be enough for one session. I was more interested at the moment in having Seth finish his analysis of Jane’s two dreams, which he began last session, and made it a point to say so just before the session tonight.

I will finish discussing the dreams.

Now, concerning Ruburt’s second dream. Let me say first of all that the many rooms and apartments to be explored all represented various facets of psychic realities, hence his anticipation in the dream. The shop within the apartment had to do with the physical dimension and various physical abilities which are based on past-life experiences.

In his dream he is also aware that these people like him, and that in some manner he has been acquainted with them in the past. This also brings forth feelings of rediscovery and joy that accompanied the dream. The persons involved were good friends indeed in a past life. They were images of the men whose voices spoke to him in his earlier dream, when he was so frightened; and when he leaped so gracefully from the banister, I was the one who extended an arm to assist him.

In the dream however I was a young man with olive skin, from a previous existence. That is, it was myself in a previous existence. There were the other men whose voices were also heard in the first dream. This time however the intended vote of confidence was given emotionally, through smiling gestures and so forth.

His dancing and high spirits are self-explanatory. His excellent mood upon awakening showed that the import of the dream was clear to him on a subconscious basis.

I do have a few more remarks, very few, on this second dream. However now I suggest a brief break.

(Jane said she hadn’t consciously connected the voices in the first dream with the olive-skinned males in the second dream. She well remembered the young man who gracefully assisted her off the banister in the second dream. He had, Jane said, exceptionally beautiful and smooth olive skin. He was not very tall, but short, slim and well proportioned, with dark hair. Jane doesn’t recall this young man’s features specifically, nor for that matter the features of any of the other males. She remembers the fact that they were all smiling, and their smooth olive skins.

(“No. I thought you might like to finish up on Jane’s dream material.”)

It is interesting to see how the second dream was intertwined with events and concerns having to do with everyday realities.

They formed the outer framework for the second dream. At the same time the dream generated sufficient energy to lift Ruburt and his moods from a slavery to physical events. That is, the dream allowed his native good spirits to return in force, and to operate in a healthy fashion regardless of physical events.

The therapeutic dream cut short Ruburt’s poor mood by a good two weeks, and the same tactics can be utilized in the future most productively.

Your own dreams just written down have to do with a change of pace on your part.

(This surprised me. Seth here referred to two rather brief but vivid and colorful dreams I had written down just before tonight’s session began. Jane came back to the studio just as I finished. I told her I was noting a couple of dreams down, but did not describe them to her since time was getting short.

(During our daily life we do not take the time to describe in detail each dream we have to the other, unless obvious connections arise in future events, or the dream happens to be unusually vivid in some way. My two short dreams mentioned above were a little more vivid than usual, but otherwise not unusual, I thought. I now tried to lead Seth on.

(“I didn’t tell Jane anything about those dreams.”)

(On the spur of the moment I began to concentrate on having Seth tell me more about this man. I was not sure whether he referred to this man as being part of my dreams, of whether he meant this unseen man existed physically.

The symbol of a road involves the distance from one life to another, and the change from one set of parents to another. The aggression can be channeled into the pursuit of your goals. There was something to do with a child in the dream somewhere.

(Copies of my two dreams in question follow. I am quite sure that I remembered but parts of both dreams. At any rate there follows what I wrote in my dream notebook.

(Dream # 1; Monday night, October 18: In color. I was showing a young man in his early twenties some things about drawing. He was blonde, a man I did not know. Deep voice, straight hair, white shirt sleeves. He had a drawing board to which he had fastened a sheet of rough watercolor paper, and carried this around with him. I saw that he had covered the paper with fine-line figure drawings and portraits, in pencil and pen. This is an unusual way to work on watercolor paper. Good drawings, and I still remember one profile head in line, quite clearly.

(Dream # 2; Tuesday night, October 19: In very bright and vivid color. Had to do with our Ford station wagon, which is blue. In a big old garage with Jane, I was ready to drive the car away, but then seemed to look up at it on a hoist. I saw that the radiator was pulled away from the rest of the motor, that hoses and other connections dangled, and that the oil and water had drained away. I realized the car hadn’t been used in a long time.

(At break I did not tell Jane anything about the contents of either dream. I thought that what Seth had said so far was related to the dreams in most cases, without being very specific, and was especially interested in his remarks about the intensity of color; this is true of the second dream especially. I also thought the material on my being close to achieving a goal good, in that I have had definite feelings along this line lately. Nor had I said anything to Jane about this; it is my habit to see how things work out instead of making predictions.

(I did mention to Jane at break that I was concentrating on a question. I then added another question, I told her, but said no more other than that. I wondered whether Seth could answer the two questions. The second question was merely whether Seth could tell us anything about the blue car featured in the second dream.

(Jane said she wished Seth had not taken a break, but had continued with the dream material. I did not know whether I had said too much myself or not. Jane resumed in the same quiet manner, with her eyes closed, at 10:44.)

The lake however was in the early part of the first dream.

You may take a short break, very brief. Then ask any questions that you prefer, and we shall end the session. Questions having to do with the dream, incidentally.

The failure perhaps was my own. The dream material should have been continued without a break. However I felt that Ruburt might need one. Still we have done well, as you should discover when you read your dreams over once more.

(Jane was very curious as to what new abilities lay in store for her, especially the one that Seth said she would shortly discover. We speculated that Seth’s method of interpreting my dreams in this session might have something to do with it.)