“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(The heading The Wonderworks first came to Jane as she sat at her desk last Friday morning, May 17. She realized immediately that it was connected to the extraordinary series of dreams she began having early this month. [These total 33 so far and their number increases almost nightly. I’ve barely mentioned them in recent notes — just for sessions 696 and 698 — but Seth has had a good deal to say about them in current personal material.] Many of the dreams have been quite long and involved. I’d say that some of them are classics of their kind; Jane’s own symbolism is beautifully illustrative of the way dreams can offer insights and solutions to very real physical challenges. Her whole nighttime adventure here is a most practical one, and is worthy of an extended study elsewhere.

(Jane wrote an intuitive dissertation on the wonderworks idea as soon as she received the title; this took up two single-spaced typewritten pages. She was in “a slightly altered state of consciousness” while transcribing the data. The following excerpts from her paper show the unity that underlies her daily activities; for she thinks that her own dream experiences, “Unknown” Reality, and The Wonderworks — to use a set of recent examples — are so interrelated that practically speaking it would be futile to try to separate them.

(We also see creative connections between the way Jane produced The Wonderworks this month, and the book outline for The Way Toward Health last March, as described in Appendix 7. She conceived and delivered the latter while in a dissociated state also. And as with The Way Toward Health, she doesn’t know whether she’ll ever carry The Wonderworks any further.

“Seth straddles many of these points and appears in the dream levels of others at their personal symbol level. I haven’t gotten to the deeper level of dream experience yet, where I could meet him directly. At trance levels we intersect, but we don’t meet. This intersection of Seth-Jane in trance also happens in dreams, when book sessions occur there. Sometimes there is some separation, though, as when I’m aware of Seth giving me material … Seth is an ancient entity, however. When he comes into my dreams the automatic intersection takes place, so I’m not aware of him separately.

(Jane had been in another lackadaisical mood most of the day, yet she’d told me after supper that she wanted to have a session tonight. [...] “And it’ll be on the book … I’m not used to being so relaxed beforehand, though …” What developed was a very short session, and contrary to her expectations, Seth devoted half of it to Jane herself. [...]

[...] As stated, Seth returned after break with a discussion of the reasons for Jane’s excellent state of relaxation. [...] As she comes to understand her own belief systems more and more, Jane very gradually continues her physical improvement. [...]

[...] His material led Jane to do some excellent work with dreams on her own. See, for example, chapters 4 and 5 in The Coming of Seth, and Chapter 14 in The Seth Material. Actually, Seth and Jane dream data run through all of the books those two have produced so far, either singly or together.

[...] Actually I’ve never forgotten it because of the negative impression it made upon me; I remember bringing it to Jane’s attention at the time. [...] Jane and I still think it amazing that a man in such a position could make a statement displaying so little insight….