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(3. I asked that Seth continue his material on the waking-sleeping patterns of the species on a global scale. He began this in the 800th session for April 4, 1977, following my questions noted in the 796th session for March 3, 1977. Seth does discuss the question tonight, and rather than break up this session by making it half regular and half deleted, I’ve inserted the proper notes in the 796th and 800th sessions to refer the reader to this deleted session. The material is excellent, and should eventually be published somehow. As an article? Psychic Magazine?)

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.

Deeper communications than you realize happen between the waking and sleeping members of the species, and in such a manner the formation of physical events is to some extent timed, or paced. The planning stages for events, and the inner communications necessary, occur on the part of the sleeping members, while the waking doers are involved in objective events.

Sleeping provides not only a rest from usual activity, but a recharge of energy. Waking life involves the expenditure of energy, so in this way a portion of the species uses energy while the other half is being replenished. In a manner of speaking, the mind sends out electromagnetic patterns that are used almost like aerial bridges, upon which the signals of consciousness travel invisibly through your world. This kind of foundation is continually laid with great diligence by the sleeping portion of the species. The waking portion provides, say, the material supplies that visibly appear as objects or as events. These objects or events must be laid upon that prior framework, however. These “invisible electromagnetic bridges” exist in networks that twine and intertwine, inclining reality to appear in certain fashions.

The preparation of the bridges, again, is an unconscious process, done in sleeping, though some “maintenance” is also carried on beneath usual consciousness, even in the waking members of the species. Other species are also involved, and the same applies. The sleeping-waking division then is not only a human one. It is as if, figuratively speaking, in sleep you build a constant foundation for waking life.

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.

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.