“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

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.

(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.

(The bare ground episode concerned a small experience I had as I walked into the kitchen before taking my nap. I glanced out the window and saw the ground bare of snow, and thought that I wouldn’t have to shovel snow. Immediately I began to feel light sensations of anxiety in my chest. Next I began to remind myself of Seth’s material in the last three private sessions—to live in the present and stop projecting into the future, that my body didn’t deserve to be treated that way, and didn’t understand such musings. The sensations went away, and I napped peacefully.)