“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

If Ruburt had done the same thing from the dream state, this could have resulted. A very slight amount of physical weight was lost on Ruburt’s part. This will always occur when any kind of projection is experienced. Much of your intimate existence implies projections of various kinds. Thoughts are indeed small projections of yourself, sent outward.

You have yet to experience a complete projection, but this will come. Your fear, Joseph, in the window dream projection, shows that you are proceeding with great caution here.

(See my dream notebook for the very vivid dream-projection experience of August 20,1966.)

The conflict itself, you see, results in energy. Your dream projection at the window signaled that you did not want to go further at that particular point. You are afraid of emotional demonstrations, as you know. At the same time the withheld emotional energy acts as a propellant, you see.

The initial experience however almost had to be spontaneous at this time, or it would not have occurred. Your dream activities should accelerate with the change of seasons. I speak of you both here. A feeling of expansiveness and discipline should be maintained, but in that order.

There is an interesting similarity—and this is the last I will say—between last Friday’s episode and the ways in which the dream is basically constructed—the same emotional basis and projection, the same sort of symbolism. (One minute pause.)

I mentioned the caffeine. I should also note that if coffee does not prevent or inhibit sleep, it will stimulate dream projections, and also aid you in bringing the critical faculties into the dream state. If the body can achieve a deep state of relaxation, unbothered by the caffeine, then the caffeine does activate the reasoning processes; and sufficiently enough to help them operate for a while, while the body is in slumber. Alcohol will not help in this particular case.

(“Did I refuse to project in that dream?”

(See my dream of September 17 in my dream notebook. Jane and I had discussed this before the session. The setting of the dream was the same—my studio—as the dream of August 20, mentioned on page 69. In the first dream I had found myself outside the studio windows, but not falling. In the second dream I had refused to leave the safety of the studio, which is on the second floor, for fear of falling. It seemed to me to be a clear refusal to project.)

In that dream, and in several others which you have forgotten. This is for the best however. No projection should occur until you are ready, or when you are ready. The dream itself showed your attitude, and you have already begun to change it.

Even in the dream state, do not try to force yourself to project. You distrust the spontaneous nature, you see, that is at the base of all existence, but you only mistrust it at one level, which is fortunate. It is a learned reaction.