“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.

You will need to use your wits carefully, for secondary realities will often appear to be primaries. I mentioned earlier that it might seem that walking, for example, was a primary, since it appears that you walk in your dreams. You also walk in the waking state, and you can actually walk, and also appear to walk, in the trance state. Nevertheless, walking is part of the primary of motion.

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 continue. Man will not learn the basic nature of reality by studying the physical universe alone, nor will he learn it by studying the personality as it operates within the physical universe alone.

The nature of reality can only be approached by an investigation of reality as it is directly experienced in all levels of awareness: reality as it appears under dream conditions, under other conditions of dissociation, and as it appears in the waking condition.

Most studies even dealing with the conscious state are extremely superficial, dealing only with those upper layers of egotistical awareness that are immediately concerned with the manipulation of the self within physical reality.

Now there are indeed connections between these two conditions. And there are definite realities that exist in both states, and these uniting realities will be what you are looking for. For only by finding these can you discover the nature of the human personality and the nature of reality within which it must operate.

(Jane and Bill now made their drawings of the clock, without seeing each other’s or mine, and my copies of all three are below. It’s apparent the three of us agreed pretty closely on what we saw. Note that only Jane points up the uneven gilt surface in her version.)

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

([Bill:] “I was curious as to what you would say.”)

([Peg:] “What does it take to make them obvious? You said something about conditions.”)

What we need you see are various elements that usually combine spontaneously, but that can be caused to combine when they would not usually combine. This I can usually take care of fairly well. However, I have freedoms that Ruburt does not have, and I am freer to use my abilities than he is.