“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(Humorously again:) You do not consider a dream as a success or a failure. If the dream ends in a moment of destruction you do not consider the dream a failure. In the overall then, when I told you that the planet was dispensable, I meant it somewhat in those terms, for while in your reality you are vulnerable, and agony is real, still it is not the whole reality, and success and failure have no meaning in those (underlined) terms.

The consciousnesses that have made up your race gain valuable experience. You must not forget that the analogy between your physical reality and the dream state does have a basic truth.

Now, Ruburt has had the first of the seven dreams. (See the 497th session, for July 7, 1969.) It is the dream of the sands, and I mentioned the series of dreams earlier. I want to give you an explanation of that dream.

(“I don’t think Ruburt thought of the dream that way.”

(Jane had the dream in question on August 22, 1969, a Friday night, and has it recorded in her dream notebook. She described it to me at breakfast Saturday morning, mentioning the impression it had made upon her, but without connecting it to Seth’s series of seven dreams.)

Subconsciously Ruburt knew that the dream was important. He did not know it was the first of the seven.

Now. I will have a few comments for our friends here, and I want to continue with the material that I have been giving you. In the meantime take your break. Your own first dream should come shortly.

First, the dream. Ruburt saw you and he standing in the middle of an infinite plain of sand. The sands were marked with names and messages. To the left and to the right there were mountains of sand. To the left he saw people approaching the sands upon which he stood. To the right people were leaving the plains of sand, yet the plain itself was empty, filled only with the messages that were written there.

Now. You and he had both come from another direction. The messages represent (pause) philosophies and ideas (pause) that the Seth material and his work will change. The dream is personal and yet more than this, these messages and philosophies will be buried not only by the material but by psychic awareness on the part of many individuals like yourselves.

Two things in the dream held him back: a gigantic nostalgia for the writings in the sand that had remained for so long, the jottings of children—and for a moment he did not want to be part of anything that would wipe them out. He wondered aloud in the dream whether or not you and he should really be there: what credentials you had that would give you the right to make new footprints.

The old ideas had not been wiped out. The new ideas had not yet taken hold. Part of your responsibility will be to tread upon the old ideas, to clear the distortions; and Ruburt, realizing this, hesitated, but he recognized in the dream exactly what was involved.

You are clearing the sands for them, and giving them new guideposts and in Ruburt’s dream he felt them waiting.

There are others behind you that Ruburt never saw, for you are not alone, nor the only ones involved. The dream was a statement of the situation and of his position. The next one will begin as he is bold enough to walk out upon the plain with you.

(10:33. Jane said she had been far out in trance. As she spoke she was back in the dream location; she saw the sand and the water; amusingly, she also worried about the water “coming back in,” she said. Her pace had been fairly rapid.

(During break we also discussed some topics Sue and Carl were interested in, expecting that Seth would discuss these after break. Sue also wrote out a copy of her dream of Tuesday night, August 26, and gave it to me for these notes:

(“I find myself in a room with Carl and Jane, as Jane. She gestures at me and I step out of my dream self —I remember giving my “body” good health suggestions. A strange man [or is it a conscious projection of one of us?] forms a tiny Colonial-type house in the air, and it enlarges until it’s regular size. Then Jane, as Seth, pushes us at the house. Suddenly we are in a car, plummeting through moonscape-like scenery. Awake.”

(That same night Carl also had a dream involving a large white house, but upon awakening could not recall it clearly.

(Below her dream account Sue had written: “Consciously, I know that Colonial-type houses represent great comfort to me. Whenever I see one, the house sort of radiates comfort at me.”)

Give us a moment, Joseph. (Long pause.) I told you to take a week to prepare yourself through dream recall for your experiments. For several evenings, see yourself in the environment of Ruburt’s dream as given. As you fall asleep give yourself the suggestion that you and he begin to walk upon the sand. See the both of you together, and hand in hand. Now Ruburt should do the same exercise.

They would however definitely go where their experience could be best utilized, and where their intimate knowledge of destruction be best used as a tool. To some degree such a destruction would be felt in all realities. Some probable selves would have shattering dreams of disaster. Other worlds would quake with the psychic reflections.

It is often bathed in dreams, and it drifts back to other lives and places as a release and a relief from the struggle that is involved in the new formation. This is the dilemma of creation. The inner self does all of this spontaneously, as both of your parts spontaneously—each of your selves spontaneously play their own role.