“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

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.”

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

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.

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.

So also Ruburt felt. (Jane learned forward, quite intent.) It was safer where he was, and he hesitated to take that first step. And the step is the publication of the book, and the ideas that it entails.

Now. In other terms and on another level Ruburt felt that symbolically at least he was between birth and death, that egotistically speaking the way of darkness had been parted; and in these terms the mountain to the left represented death, from which he had come, and birth, for he emerged through birth from death; and the mountain to the right represented the death that in your terms has not yet come.

It was not for example odd in its construction, for you will enter the new dimension through doors that appear familiar, as Ruburt is a friend and not a stranger.

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.