“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

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.

(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.

In the past, again, poetry was an important method of communication, but the “rationally” tuned mind suspects it. There is often nothing to be checked in it against physical reality in a concrete manner, for the message is intuitional and internal. People like poetry as a rule in your society only when it is dealing with conventional subjects, or directly with nature, so that in a way, now, the intuitions are used “to a rational end.”

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.

You are surrounded physically by only so much to be immediately dealt with, mentally or physically. You are also surrounded by imaginative events, however, here, in the terms of our discussion. I mean events that have no immediate, present natural existence. They either existed in the past or might in the future.