“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.

Your own instinct for survival, so-called, is the result, so to speak, of experience in other systems. The original problem was far different. A way was needed to teach these personalities to focus long enough, in your terms, intensely enough, within any given reality.

(“I was just going to ask you about him.”)

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.

All was silence. You and he were about to step out upon the plain, and he held back because he did not want to disturb the messages.

There was no empty space, no new road, only the way before you both, that would necessitate your treading upon these jottings and transposing your footsteps over those that were there.

Now the plain was empty. The people coming in from the left represented later generations, in your terms, who had not yet arrived at the plain. The people to the right were those who had already passed beyond it. The plain was empty because it was the repository of ideas. The ideas had been put there by those who had already left.

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.

(Jane was gesturing quite emphatically in here, arms and hands echoing her words, eyes open and very dark, etc.) Now the crest. This represents the concept that these ideas will be so given that they become the springs which will bring new nourishment to an arid world psyche.

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.

(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.

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.

And within that context he knew it was now the time for him to walk out upon those messages that had gone before, and change the distortions, for he knew there would be no other birth and death for him, the time of reincarnations being finished.

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.

(Jane leaned forward. As Seth her eyes were wide open and very dark; her manner was amused and hearty.)

(11:50. This was the end of the session. Jane had delivered the above material almost without pause. Her trance had been good, and she remembered little of the material.