“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

First of all, there are rhythms of consciousness. It is almost true to say that your species could not survive if all of its members were awake at any given time.

Inner cooperation is maintained on the part of people in opposite portions of the world—methods that could not be utilized if all woke or slept at the same time. This hardly seems of ordinary interest at all, yet preplans for battles, for example, have been received in sleep states, in which an enemy in a far country planned an invasion and the signals were received through the world’s internal network of communication.

Again, the alternate waking-sleeping patterns keep the traffic signals clear, so to speak. This also allows for a clear focus in each given area—but more, it assures that no overloads occur. Certain kinds of energy are utilized in the formation of physical events. If all of the nations were awake, say, at the same time, such an overload would be almost certain.

Cultures of diverse natures communicate in ways impossible otherwise, and all of the great explorations of one country by another have involved prior dream contact.

The alternate wake-sleep patterns of the world then, again, help pace the information. Some of those communications are cellular. You pick up broadcasts from all over, and literally on a million stations. The world mind needs all of that information in order to produce continuous world events. Because of its particular structure the work is divided. The world mind, then, in your terms, could not be conscious all at one time, and the varying graduated waking-sleeping patterns—the overlapping between the extremes you mention—provide overall balance and allow for smooth communications of an inner kind.

There are all levels of codified information, then—molecular, electromagnetic, chemical—and these are all interrelated. The natural world as you think of it depends upon these interactions. Your weathercasters try to predict the weather. They usually fail to a large degree. They deal with exterior patterns that, on that level, can be charted. The weather, however, is the result of the world’s natural moods, and intuitive predictions would be far more predictable, for they would deal with those variables that cannot appear, or be predicted, at the exterior level.

Our books, all of them, make immeasurably greater impact upon the world than many books that are best-sellers—for many of them are read and forgotten.

Many are indistinguishable from others in people’s minds, but our books literally do change people’s realities, and ultimately their lives and all of the people with whom they come in contact. In that regard the books are powerful, and their impact cannot be ascertained in mundane ways. You are, then, using your point of power to affect your world—a point you should each remember.

Now: you spoke earlier this evening of moments in boyhood when you simply observed and appreciated the natural world. If you are each ahead of your times in certain terms, you are very much in the natural world. You are in your times then in important biological and psychic ways, interconnected with all other physical creatures, and with the natural world itself. There is a cultural world, and a natural one.

Alienation in small doses can be a stimulus for achievement, but overdone it is of no help at all. Your feelings, so brief this evening as you looked outdoors, were therapeutic, rewarding, positive. Your cells were even aware in their way of your emotion. The summer night was here, present to your senses. Had you at the same moment instead thought, for example, about Prentice-Hall in a negative way, or about any other negative event of the past or probable future, you would have responded to an event that in an important way was not immediately a part of the facts of the natural world.

What I said to you about your moment with the evening, my remarks about responding to the present moment—these all involve ways of dealing with basic attitudes in your individual and joint behavior. I have given Ruburt physical and mental suggestions that should relieve stress and produce motion and creativity.

I want to add a note about dream programming, however, very brief: have Ruburt tell himself that healing can be accelerated as he sleeps, and “that help and inspiration can appear at all levels of his experience.”

One more remark: you may take a session night if you want to, to review these sessions. You must convince yourselves that the point of power is now, in all regards.