“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Whether or not you realize it, you have already begun such an investigation, and Ruburt’s careful notes and recordings of his dreams, over nearly a three-year period, and your own dream recordings, are only the beginning.

So far you have analyzed these dreams as best you could, but soon you will begin to look at them in a new way. The dream experiments with the recorder will be much more proficient. These investigations will also deal with a systematic examination into all levels of consciousness.

The potentialities of human personality cannot be examined as one would crack open a nut to see what is inside. The dream experience is a living, moving action. To some extent it can never be captured, but we shall capture enough of it for our purposes. And the suggestion which I have given you will, after some practice, allow you to awaken and speak the dream into your recorder almost automatically.

And now, if Ruburt worries that he does not carry his share of the work load, because you spend so much time typing our sessions, then the work of typing the dream experiences, both his and your own, shall be his. These dream records shall be kept continually throughout the years, and will yield valuable information. Information, incidentally, that can stand quite on its own regardless of my connection with it, and it shall be added to your life’s work.

I mentioned earlier that with training you can do this in your sleep. You have no idea as yet of the amount of data that can be obtained through these efforts. The dreams will be scrutinized for many elements. Some you are familiar with and some you are not.

The action performed within the dream; the location; the lack of specific location; the time in which the dream appears to occur; the apparent movements through time within any given dream; the emotional content; the surface psychological content; the work done within the dream; the familiar persons spoken to; the unfamiliar persons spoken to; the relation of the dream to past events and to events immediately preceding sleep; the dream events in relation to future events; messages that are given or sent in sleep.

Dreams will be categorized in various ways when enough of them are gathered. You will find I believe that particular kinds of dreams occur with definite seasonal variations. Particular interest should be given to the space that you perceive within a dream. Are you, for example, aware only of the specific location in which the activities happen, or are you aware of a further space extent?

You will learn to take a certain portion of purpose with you through suggestion, so that you can attempt to enlarge the dream space of which you are first aware. You can extend it in other words. The investigation will always be concerned with the search for primaries and secondaries. On many occasions an apparent primary reality will later be seen to be secondary, as a result of experiments with the trance state.

(An overall impression I have is that Seth is very interested in the forthcoming dream-recording project, and that along with various tests this will occupy us for a long time. Jane and I have made a tentative recording setup in the bedroom, and probably will begin experimenting with it soon.

This information to be sent by you in the dream state. It will not be restrained by the ego to any large degree. There will be some difficulties here however, since the information, if legitimately sent, will be picked up by the individual in his own dreams, and therefore may escape detection. For this reason an order, may be in order, if you will forgive my pun, such as “come and see me Thursday afternoon.”