“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(Saturday night, February 12, Jane had a vivid dream that she believes to be significant, and hoped Seth would discuss it this evening. It is included later in the session.

Now. We shall indeed discuss Ruburt’s dream in good time, when he is not expecting it. For now, I would like to add somewhat to our discussion concerning inverted time and probable events.

There is a constant give and take between the probable self and the dreaming self, for much data is received, particularly by the dreaming personality from the probable self, or the self that experiences what the ego would term probable events.

The same can be said for the probable self. Were it not for the experience of this probable self and for the information which it gives, via the dreaming self to the subconscious, then it would be most difficult for the ego to come to any kind of a decision within the physical universe.

Of itself however it does not make these judgments in those terms. The decision as to whether or not a particular probable event should be perceived as a physical one depends, of course, upon the nature of the ego which would then experience it. The probable self does not make the decision, but merely passes on the data which it has received through its own experience with the event.

(Ordinarily, Jane said, she would have had a cigarette during the delivery; but this time she “got the message” that she was not to smoke. It came on a parallel level while she was speaking other words aloud. She felt no force preventing her hand from reaching for a smoke, yet she didn’t feel free to reach for one.

The ego receives, in fact, much of its stability because of this subconscious retention. Were it not for past experiences in other lives on the part of deeper layers of the self, the ego would find it almost impossible to relate to other individuals, and the cohesiveness of society would not exist.

The human organism does not spring full blown, erupt into existence at birth, and laboriously then begin its first attempt to gain experience. If this were the case you would still be back in the stone ages.

(I read the data to her before she opened the envelope. Jane pointed out three instances in it where she had personal associations with Seth’s data, and as it turned out all three would have been in error had she voiced them.

(There follows a copy of Jane’s dream of Saturday, February 12, as taken from her dream notebook. Jane believes the dream to be a significant one, and had hoped Seth would discuss it this evening:

His dream represented several layers of information; on a superficial layer it represented his knowledge that fear of physical childbirth is not a deterrent to him. On another level it represented a knowledge that a future endeavor would at first appear to be two separate endeavors, two separate accomplishments not connected to each other; but on later examination it will be seen that they are unified.