“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

You know that this is distortive. You recognize elements from the past, since your ego is familiar with them. You accept them into the organization of your perception on a conscious level, usually. The ego does not recognize elements of the future when they do appear within dreams, and it does not therefore admit them into perceptive patterns. The ego does not perceive their significance. It is only for this reason that certain events seem to be always in your future: this lack of recognition, identification, acceptance and organization into patterns that can be used and manipulated.

Even if they are recalled as dreams however, they may appear meaningless, for they are unfamiliar to the ego. Yesterday’s events reenacted in a dream touch off familiarity. Tomorrow’s events in tonight’s dreams do not, not at least to the ego. Generic codes apply in other words to the future as well as to the past, but mankind does not generally perceive them as such for they appear meaningless to the ego, because of the ego’s inherent nature and limitations.

The number four. (Pause.) Some connection with a February event. A scramble. Black and white colors. A photograph. Ruburt here thinks of the photographs taken in your studio, of him.

(“What’s that connection with a February event?”)

(In any event travel by various modes from a cluster of surrounding towns in that area would have been necessary for the artists attending the reunion.

(“Some connection with a February event.” Wendell’s letter of May 26 was in answer to a letter I wrote him last February. I do not have a copy of my letter, but am sure it was written in February because Wendell discusses my references to snow and poor weather. Our weather last winter was quite peculiar—we had no snow at all until the massive three-day storm of February 1, one of the worst in local history. Seth has more to say about February in answer to my first question.

(First Question: What’s that connection with a February event? “I am not sure, though the number 17 seems connected to it, or 14, between the 14th and the 17th of February.” As explained, the object for tonight contained a letter written by Wendell Crowley in answer to my letter of last February. My letter could well have been written between February 14 and 17.