“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Now, I would suggest that two main categories in particular be given special notice. These as you know will have to do with primary and secondary reality. And each dream should be scrutinized first of all with these main points in mind. You must look out for pitfalls, and use your critical faculties. Ruburt uses his critical faculties supremely well in scrutinizing my activities and nature, so I have no doubt that he can also apply them to the job at hand.

It should be obvious to you also that within your dreams a spatial location that belongs in present physical time can be experienced in the past or in the future within the dream framework, and there is much more here than meets the eye; and you must be careful so that you catch it. What you do with it will be up to you.

Now I will give you a short break, and again my welcome to our friends, and I do not mean to ignore them. We shall indeed have you, Joseph and Ruburt, working in your sleep, as Ruburt earlier remarked, and you shall be glad of it. For the dream will not be captured in a laboratory by scientists who will not look into their own dreams.

All layers of the personality are indeed conscious layers. They simply operate in the manner of compartments, so that often one portion of the self is not aware of other portions. As a rule when you are awake you do not know your sleeping self; you know your neighbors far better, so your sleeping self appears mysterious indeed. When you are awake, as Ruburt himself has written, you cannot find the dream locations that have been so familiar to you only the night before.

In your sleep you may have greeted friends who are strangers to your waking self. But consider the other side of the coin. For when you are asleep, you cannot find the street upon which you live your waking hours, and when you are asleep you do not know you waking self. The sleeping self is your identity.

I do have here a thought, my Jesuit friend. Surely you can arrange a spotlight, and we could set it here.

I also believe that he lost or misplaced an item from his own office at the school today. (Pause.) Or he misplaced it earlier and went to look for it today. The item having to do with cigarettes. A holder perhaps, or a lighter, but of that nature. (Pause.)

I also am of the impression that he received a letter today from a previous woman student, having to do perhaps with references that she was requesting. (Pause.)

One of the women in this gathering wears a large blue or gray brooch (pause) that I believe he has noticed. (Pause.) He has been or very shortly will be, informed of a change in his teaching schedule that he did not expect or anticipate, having to do with the morning hours of Tuesday and Thursday, I believe, though I am not certain of the precise two days. The change was not expected. (Pause.)

Now that our Instream material has been taken care of, we can do whatever you like, within reason of course. We can end our session, I can continue with the material that I have been giving you, or I will be glad to answer questions.

([Bill G:] “What significance do you attach to the fact that you seem to be right-handed, but left-handed in sessions?”)

My dear Jesuit friend. Do I not try to explain things clearly, and am I not grossly misunderstood? I have been saying for some time now that I am myself, and that Ruburt is someone else. It follows that our gestures would therefore be different. Would you not say so?

I do, and I use them in the manner that I have used mechanical faculties of my own when I had them.

It does indeed, though the face does not fully adopt my own expression. First of all, as far as the hands are concerned, to be left or right-handed has to do with inner mechanisms and brain patterns that come first, before the motions of the hands. Characteristically, I operated in certain manners that resulted in the primary use of my left hand, when I was focused within physical matter.

As to facial expression, this again is somewhat the same matter, for in this case matter does not matter. Physical expression, facial expression, is again the result of the personality’s characteristic method of manipulating the physical organism, and when I operated primarily as such I had my own characteristic way of doing so.

There is more involved in your questioning, you see, than you imagine. Do you have another?

I work carefully in cooperation with his ego, for we do not want to startle it. When such changes occur in an obvious manner, we shall see that you both are present.

The conditions are not physical conditions. These would be the simplest. The conditions have to do with the amount which Ruburt is willing to allow me to have of the physical matter of which he is composed, and of which he is naturally jealous.