“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

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.

Now you have a mass-communications system upon which you rely. Only from legends do you receive any knowledge of the way in which past civilizations received their news broadcasts (quietly). The importance of dreams and intuitional information cannot be overemphasized, as a built-in psychic and biological method for knowing what is going on both in the near and far environment.

The physical explorations of your planet followed such dream information in one way or another. The explorers were not going out blindly. Period. The alternate waking and sleeping patterns—that is, one portion of the species sleeping while the other portion wakes—allows a clear division between waking and sleeping information. In the waking state you check your perception against physical conditions. You see whether or not others perceive what you do. Physical data are the result of pooled information to a large degree. If it is raining outside, everyone should get wet. In the dream state information is not immediately checked against the environment. It may be raining in a dream but your sleeping body remains dry. Your dreams largely involve conditions that were physical, or conditions that might be physical. There, then, the race deals with probabilities.

(10:20.) In practical terms there is a dream consensus of opinion, where tomorrow’s physical events are decided upon. They will be physically checked when they occur. In ages past, the most proficient dreamers picked up ahead of time the news, and passed it on to others. They dealt with symbols, but the populace understood the symbols as you understand your newspaper.

In the past, farmers used dreams to plant their crops, and weather dreams were very popular—that is, people actually dreamed about the weather in the past because of their concern and their more intimate relationship with the natural environment. Times of famine were indeed predicted in dreams and guarded against. Kings and courts, chieftains, needed their soothsayers. Even though, now, you rely upon physical communication, portions of the species are still connected through those ancient means—though there is not the same need to become consciously aware of the information.

If you think the paper will give you tomorrow’s weather, and only an issue of whether or not to carry an umbrella is involved, then you do not feel the same impetus, or a precognitive dream about the weather. Farmers still have such dreams more often than others. So do those who travel by air or water.

A dream may be said to be “ahead of its time” if it occurs tonight but foretells events that will not occur for a while. The dreamer is still very much couched in the physical world, however. It would be of some considerable value if you both emphasized your belonging in the natural world, rather than emphasizing the fact that you are ahead of your cultural times.

The eye improvements showed that the eyes are indeed simply strained. His momentary belief allowed improvement. Give us a moment.... I answered your question mentioned earlier, at least in part. Read it and I will offer more if you want (about how often an individual may have the same dream, say about health, until it “gets through” to the personality and is acted upon).

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.”

You should give yourself the last suggestion also, for it will help you utilize dream states more effectively.