“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(Before the session tonight I said I was curious about Seth’s interpretation of my dream of October 9. This will be given in the appropriate place in the text. Jane said that Seth was going to talk about the electromagnetic units discussed in the last session—she could “feel him buzzing around.”)

(Here is my dream of October 9, that I asked Seth interpret: “Color. I dreamed that I had a cancerous wart or nodule right at the tip of my right thumb, where it bothered me to hold a brush or pencil. Had been there a long time. I believe a doctor told me it was cancer—not very dangerous, could be removed in his office. I had to climb up a long ladder set against a building wall to get to the doctor and even as I talked to him I had to stand below him and look up. He was dominant, round-faced with thick glasses. Wore a white coat, I believe, and peered down at me like an owl.”

I did want to give you some more material this evening however along these lines... I am pleased with the book. It is a good beginning, and I will have more to say along these lines on another evening. Your dream is largely explained by Ruburt’s interpretation.

(Shortly after I had the dream, Jane gave me her own interpretation of what the dream meant. I thought she did well, and agreed with her version since it appeared to be spontaneous. Since Seth’s own interpretation agrees with Jane’s— though more detailed—it isn’t necessary to give Jane’s version here, beyond saying the dream concerned my own artwork and related affairs.)

The fear was of an overreliance upon structure. This occurred to you one afternoon, three days before the dream, as you were working.

You ignored the feeling, and there may have been a slight physical symptom at the same time for this reason. This may have involved a plum—I believe it did, and this was somewhat connected in leading you to thumb in your dream.

There is an old nursery rhyme (pause), that you heard as a child. I cannot get it clearly, something like Tom Tucker with his thumb, and the next line had to do with a plum. (Pause.) This was part of the association leading to the dream. As mentioned, Ruburt’s interpretation was correct. The climbing up was also connected with fruit, as you might climb a tree to pluck it. (Pause.) There were no health connotations to the dream, it did not have that kind of meaning. You recognized your fear when you saw it in the dream as objectified on your thumb, and then you allowed it to disappear.

(Note that the dream came after I had resolved some of the above-mentioned problems. I was still somewhat uneasy about the decisions I had reached by October 9, but decided to go ahead anyhow, that I was belaboring what were probably rather innocuous points by that time.)

The dream also shows that you are achieving good contact with your creative self, and that you were able to utilize the help available. Now do you have questions?

(“Just briefly: What do you think of that little painting of the trees I did?” This is why, earlier, I asked Seth which painting the dream referred to; I was just finishing up this painting while beginning the fruit still life, on October 9.)