“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(The following material is from the 898th session. Before the session I’d mentioned to Jane that I’d like something from Seth about my dream of early this morning. A copy is attached, and a copy of this part of the session is attached to the dream in my dream notebook.

In dreams you can recognize yourself even though the usual space and time references may be quite different than the ones with which you are familiar in the waking state.

The same applies to all “psychological” particles, to units of consciousness, and to their affiliations within personality. If you were your father’s son, you were somewhere your father’s daughter, and it was at that point of reference that you encountered the dream situation.

A daughter, however, would have given him a beneficial relationship, someone with whom he could discuss such feelings, as he did with you in the dream. With sons, he felt that he should not show emotions of defeat, and he felt that communication itself had the feminine overtones of an unfortunate nature.

The dream was simply a small scenario. (Long pause.) Such probable currents ride beneath all relationships. If your father did have daughters, rather than sons in the life that you know, he actually would have fared better in the physical world, because he would have felt it his duty to protect them financially: he would have considered them fairly helpless, and in need of his abilities. As his sons grew out of boyhood he felt that they dwarfed him. He was in a fashion frightened of the ideas of masculinity he grew up with—ideas he felt he did not embody, and he projected those upon his sons so that in a fashion they overawed him, or put him to shame.

Each son became the man he could not be. In the dream, however, you are a woman to whom he is able to express his feelings, and he therefore shows a side of himself to you with the paper-bag image.

(“Just one, about the dream. In it, my father and I were about the same age.”)

I referred to that, I thought, in my preliminary statement about time references—that you recognize yourself in a dream even if the other references do not agree with known reality. There is no contradiction in a dream if you and your father are approximately the same age, for example. From my understanding of it, there was no other significance to the age orientation, except that the two of you were adults, and thus would have had a long shared background behind you.

(“Okay.” I’d wanted Seth to say something more specific about my being the same age [as a woman] as my father in the dream.)

(10:30 PM. Jane didn’t remember the dream material. I thought it excellent, I told her. I was pleased to have tuned in to a probable reality, even if so briefly. More and more I appreciate the fantastic reality of dreams—the tremendous knowledge and variety, literally unending, that’s embodied within them. “Just think of the number of people who have dreams like that,” I said, “but who either don’t remember them, or pay any attention to them if they do. Look what they’re missing....” Later I thought that I should have asked Seth what kind of interpretation of the dream a conventional psychologist would have given.