“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

In certain areas of mass shared dreams, collective mankind deals with the problems of his political and social objective structure. The solutions which he makes within his dream reality are often, however, not the same solutions that he accepts within physical reality.

The dream solutions are held as the ideals, however. Without for example mass dreams, your United Nations would never exist. This type of mass dream is one of several varieties. It is true indeed that all dreams to some extent are shared, for the privacy that you imagine exists within them is, as Ruburt correctly supposed, an illusion.

Practically speaking you see, if you were aware of the constant barrage of telepathic communications that do impinge upon you, it would be most difficult to retain identity. Identity would suffer if it were forced to perceive more impressions than it could effectively handle. Shared dreams are therefore well beneath awareness.

I have told you that dream reality is more cohesive than you may have supposed. Such characteristics as shared dreams go a long way to stabilize dream reality. When you dream of others they know it. When they dream of you, you know this. There would be nothing to be gained however in conscious awareness of these conditions.

This is a slight aside. Many people dreamed of Jack Kennedy’s death in advance, as you know. On one level this knowledge was available to the man himself. This does not mean that the death had to happen. It was a vivid possibility. It was also one of many solutions to several problems. While it was not the most suitable solution, it was the closest man could come at that particular time in physical reality.

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.

Dreams you see are also imprinted within the cells electromagnetically. We will take a simple example, those who are not prejudiced against those races who are kept downtrodden. They dream individually and collectively of changing the situation. They act out in their dreams the various ways in which such a changeabout could occur. These dreams actually bring about the resulting change that will then happen in a historic manner. The very energy and direction you see of the dreams themselves will help change the situation.

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.

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.

(As to why Jane hasn’t dreamed of Seth himself, although she has dreamed of the sessions, etc. Seth states he doesn’t dream of Jane, either.)