“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

All events are known in advance, but still there is a selectivity that is unknown. Dreams as you know have their own electric reality, their own psychic energy, and their effect upon physical events is extremely strong. The effect is undiluted, so to speak. The emotional intensity of a dream is very seldom recalled in its full strength.

Psychic action is being directed in a way not possible in the ordinary waking condition. Shared dreams present their own historic organization, for the shared memory of your race does not only include physical events, but reaches much further than this.

In some respects this dissipates the energy, of course. In the dream state you manipulate energy more directly. This is what you are doing of course in self-hypnosis: But, used for therapy, you are still trying to affect or change something physical.

You cannot for that matter perceive yourselves directly, but only through the sense apparatus which has been adopted by the self. You perceive directly psychological experiences, but you do not perceive these in their undiluted form. You protect yourselves and automatically sift out what is too vivid or intense at any given time.

An occurrence only remotely approaching this can be disastrous. Not because it is basically undesirable, for such an experience has the greatest potentials for development of the self. Such experiences can be disastrous simply because the self structure is not yet strong enough to assimilate and contain the intensity of the experience. In many cases dream experiences, as I have mentioned, are much more vivid and intense than waking experience. You do not even remember the majority of these. But the inner self is more flexible, you see, than the ego, and it can therefore contain greater intensities without undue alarm.

I do not know to what this refers. I have the impression of a swift, perhaps sudden turn to the left, I believe in an automobile at an intersection. No accident, but another car somehow involved. (A long pause.) A school nearby. I believe in the afternoon.

Now for our object. Rectangular, yet it rolls, or can roll. Rather light in weight, as say paper or cardboard, resembling a spool of some kind. But larger than a spool of thread. It is not an esthetic but a functional object. Perhaps it is a roll of paper.

(Pause at 10:15.) Dr. Instream is thinking of a class ring, with an insignia, that is shaped something like a flag but is not a flag, and has a connection with 27, or the year 1927.

I have the impression again of copper, but this may simply be connected with the kettle impression. Also blue, and white, and one strong darker color. Perhaps a dark green.

(As Seth states in closing, the impressions tonight are legitimate, but too far removed for our purposes. Jane and I saw many glimmerings in the material, but needed more specific data; too many meanings could be attached to many of the impressions. The envelope object was made in our presence; because we were present we feel an emotional rapport with the data which would be lacking for an outsider. A couple of examples will illustrate the nature of the data.

The impressions were legitimate indeed, but far too distant for your purposes. There is no need to take our time and go through them one by one.