“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(I brought the letter to 330 to show Jane. She’d gone to hydro this morning. While there, Lottie noticed that Jane has put on weight in her breasts and other portions of her anatomy. Then the supervisor of therapy there, Wendy, got to see Jane’s buttocks for the first time in a long while. She was amazed, Jane said, at the way those once-gaping wounds are filling themselves in.

(I thought the dream was another very positive one, and meant that Jane and I have left behind the old dead beliefs represented by Del. The fact that we were there in the summertime was also a good sign.

(Long pause.) Originally the early races of man knew better. Through the centuries, however, even while people gained valuable knowledge through experience, they also unfortunately began to lose—or distort—important elements of the inner knowledge that was their heritage.

Dreams, for example, were once as clear, vivid, and real as waking life was. People did not expect their dreams to be vague, or unreasonable or chaotic, any more than they expected waking experience to be. Men and women in fact learned how to deal with daily life—daily waking life—by studying the lessons they received in the dream state. To a large extent the young species relied on dreams to teach them all they needed to know, just as in your time people rely on schools instead.

Schools require a large body of knowledge already accumulated, of course, so to the early species schools as such were meaningless. Knowledge came from experience, and that experience was a product of both the waking and the dreaming states. Man tried out in waking life those lessons that he received in dreams.

(4:35 PM. I didn’t ask Seth to comment on the fund idea. It was soon time to turn Jane and massage her with Oil of Olay. She ate well after I’d had a nap. Our early evening hour passed as usual until I was getting ready to put on my jacket to leave.

(I hesitated, though I was a little tired. “Yeah, but it may be worth it to stay.” I got my notebook out again and sat down beside her. Seth came through right away.

Your feeling (underlined) of need was picked up by those others who follow your work and career, and feel that they know you both, particularly through your(to me) notes.

No specific data, per se, was received—only the feeling of need—and to that those people responded. They responded, then, to your feeling whether or not the feeling was justified in a basic way. You felt the need, in other words, even though I assured you that overall the matter would be solved on your behalf.

(I was beginning to get glimmerings of a number of questions that, as far as I knew, I hadn’t been stewing about, at least consciously. I was surprised. “I was wondering if our going with the fund idea would knock us into another probability,” I said to Seth—and already I knew the answer, since it wasn’t a very bright question.)

(7:12 PM. I was glad I’d stayed. Jane had a cigarette while I packed my stuff to leave. Unexpectedly, I’d stumbled across several questions. Above all, I didn’t want the fund idea, say, to lead to complications with the insurance deal, I told Jane, or perhaps to lead to a failure of a settlement there. That is, I didn’t want to desert the insurance angle; I felt we were owed something there. I knew full well that new events brought in new probabilities. This morning while working on the letter to Maude Cardwell, I guess I’d blithely took it for granted that the fund idea might supplement any insurance benefits. But then after supper, as I talked with Seth, I found myself wondering whether the fund thing would cause enough of a change in our probabilities to perhaps negate the insurance settlement, whatever it might be. I do have faith that we’ll be treated fairly. I want to note that I have faith that all will work out, that I’m not running from one hope to another while deserting previous ones.)