“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

This business of primaries and secondaries will concern us for some time, and in more ways than you suppose. For we are outlining the stages of an investigation of the nature and conditions of consciousness.

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.

(Her eyes began to open at times now as the session progressed. First they were narrowly open, then later opened quite wide. Her pace was a bit slower, and she was smoking as she resumed at 9:20.)

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.

Your psychological-time experiments will serve you well in the future in relation with these endeavors. We shall of course set you about studying the conscious state also. We shall have you using your physical senses to a much higher degree than is normal with you now.

(Jane’s eyes had been wide open during much of the last two pages of material. As in the last session her delivery had been quite enthusiastic and definite. Much of the time she had been smiling.)

All of these projects are interconnected, and they will help both of you in your writing and painting, and greatly increase your capabilities in your own fields. Again, we shall proceed cautiously, precisely but steadily, and always you shall be in control. But when we are finished, and it will not be for a long time, you should be able to travel from any state of consciousness to another and back again, safely, with full awareness of your identity.

He is still dependent upon it symbolically, however, generally speaking. The inner ego however can be utilized in such a dissociated state as such a director of activities, with sufficient training. I must emphasize that indeed years of training are required. But then the experience is ten times more rewarding and informative.

(Break at 9:47. Jane was dissociated as usual, she said. Her pace had indeed been fast, her voice average, her eyes wide open much of the time. She had smoked almost steadily.

(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.

(Jane and I tried an experiment involving one of the young couples that witnessed the unscheduled session of November 5. We saw them the next Friday evening also, November 12. We answered many of their questions during the evening. During the evening Jane felt that Seth could have easily come through, but in the interests of our experiment she did not allow him to. Seth accepted her decision, she told me at the time, gracefully and did not make any effort to go against her wishes.)

(End at 10:34. Jane was dissociated as usual. Her eyes opened at times, her voice was average, her pace rather fast.)