“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Ruburt did well to relax the last few days, and he will now find that he applies himself to his various endeavors with renewed energy. I am glad that he put his dream book aside for a while, merely because he will have much more data for it within a short time. He can be working out his ideas however in the meantime, as this will be most beneficial. Even though some of his ideas will change, he will still need these present ideas as a basis.

Now. If you would have some idea of what the probable universe system is like, then examine your own dreams, looking for those events which do not have any strong (underline) resemblance to physical events in your own conscious existence. Look for dream individuals with whom you are not acquainted in your waking life. Look for landscapes that appear bizarre or alien, for all of these exist somewhere.

Now. In reality the possible system does not achieve its order through subjective association, but the term, subjective association, is the nearest that I can come in approximating the basic causes for this order.

Now. First of all, some of these states of activity take place so far beneath the ego or the subconscious that you simply do not know of them.

(Jane’s eyes now began to open widely. They were very dark. Her delivery was most emphatic, and she used many gestures, speaking rapidly.)

Now, my dear friends, your self-consciousness is the self-consciousness of the ego which you know, and which you consider your self. But where this self -conscious self ends, another self-conscious self begins. The two selves, being self-conscious selves, cannot be aware of any reality but their own.

They cannot be consciously aware of each other. Now the ego interprets all it perceives mainly in terms of its self. Other portions of the self, also self- conscious, interpret what they perceive in terms of themselves.

Now. You have become somewhat aware of the subconscious. This means that your ego has enlarged its conception of the self, of itself, to include certain activities of which it is now aware. Progress in the development of personality in the long run will be determined by the ability of the whole self to recognize and become aware of all of its self-conscious portions.

Now, a very brief break and we shall continue.

(It was now time for what we thought would be the 41st and 42nd Dr. Instream experiments. As usual Jane sat with her hands raised to her closed eyes. She was not smoking. On the whole her pace was not slow, although broken by many short pauses. Resume at 10:05.)

Now, give us a moment, please—some moments—for this.

Now. Something round for this evening’s object.

Now, a turnabout for Dr. Instream of some sort, I believe professionally, or in his professional life. Ten students in particular. Tuesday at eight. An acclimation, acclaim.

(Break at 10:28. Jane was dissociated as usual. Her eyes had remained closed except for the possible instant noted during her pause at 10:12. In spite of the many brief pauses her pace had been good. On the average it is now much faster during these experiments than it used to be.

(“A connection with grassy land”, led Jane to say a connection could be seen with the envelope object after all. When she gave this impression, she had the mental impression of grain; thus her voicing the word grassy came from the mental grain. Jane had the idea, now, that the envelope object advertised beer, made from grain.

Now. We shall shortly end our session.

By the person not familiar to you, I meant to refer to someone not a friend—this being your obnoxiously pleasant Rice—and this was the grain. Now, you see.

(For a while the couple then disappeared from view and we forgot about them. Much later, around midnight, when the floor was crowded, Jane and I saw Hack again. Now he was obviously feeling good, and dancing with another woman. Hack is what they call a slow and smooth dancer. To the amusement of most people, Hack and the woman, whom we did not know, put on quite an exhibition of exaggerated, sinuous, close-contact dancing.

(Jane smiled. Her eyes were opening now, and she lit a cigarette.)

A simple one-word question would probably not be harmful, but it is best for now to wait until the end.

Now. On those occasions where there is some bleeding through, I attempt to make some specific points in any case, that are identifying.

(Now see my notes on page 305, concerning my consciously forgetting the contentsof the double envelope used in this evening’s experiment. I was sure that subconsciously however I knew the contents well.