“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Give us a moment … Whether or not you remember your dreams, you are educating yourself as they happen. You may suddenly “awaken” while still within the dream state, however, and recognize the drama that you have yourself created. At this point you will understand the fact that the play, while seeming quite real, is to a certain extent hallucinatory. If you prefer, you can clear the stage at once by saying, “I do not like this play, and so I will create it no longer.” You may then find yourself facing an empty stage, become momentarily disoriented at the sudden lack of activity, and promptly begin to form another dream play more to your liking.

The black man is somewhere a white man or woman in your time. The white man or woman is somewhere black. The oppressor is somewhere the oppressed. The conqueror is somewhere the conquered. The primitive is somewhere sophisticated — and, in your terms, somewhere on the face of the same earth in your general time. The murderer is somewhere the victim, and the other way around — and again, in your terms of space and time.

After the experience was over I wrote a description of it, and made two pen-and-ink drawings — full-face self-portraits that hardly look like the me I know. One of the drawings is very successful, and I plan to do an oil painting from it.

[...] You are afraid to consider future lives because then you have to face the death that must be met first, in your terms. [...]