“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(I described an excellent dream I’d had last night. Once again in brilliant color — one of those you keep returning to. Jane and I had moved back to 458 W. Water Street, only now the house was much bigger than it really is, had many more apartments in it — they were all in good shape, with numerous stairways connecting them on a split-level layout. They weren’t closed off from each other as apartments usually are, so that the numerous tenants could have free interchange with each other if they chose to. But when I wanted to be by myself to paint, I had a corner studio I could retire to where I could work in privacy — a very nice room. Jane was very active and healthy, walking about normally. In the dream I was involved with painting, but not writing.

(3:55. I began questioning Jane about her religious training in Catholic grade school. I’d started roughing out a note this morning having to do with Seth’s statement in a session for Chapter 5 of Dreams. In it he’d referred to early humans living for several centuries — the only time he’s ever made such a reference. I planned to look up the ages of some Biblical patriarchs, and wanted to know what Jane might have been taught about such people, and their ages.

(After our talk about religious questions, I wrote a short note quoting Jane — one that I may use in the note for Dreams — and got her okay on it.)

Beside this, however, their energy was utilized in a different fashion than yours is. They alternated between the waking and dream states (long pause), and while asleep they did not age as quickly. Their bodily processes slowed. Although this was true, their dreaming mental processes did not slow down. There was a much greater communication in the dream state, so that some lessons were taught during dreams, while others were taught in the waking condition.

(Pause at 4:33.) Now: your dream represented the larger rooms of beliefs into which you are emerging. The many people, and connecting rooms, represented the new structure of vaster beliefs that are all interconnected while you are still, however, concentrating upon the private creative self, and from that viewpoint viewing the world — hence your private corner in which you painted, as from that corner of private creativity you viewed the large interacting structure of new beliefs.

(4:40 p.m. I thanked Seth for appearing. Jane had some ginger ale before I turned her on her side. I didn’t note it in my dream account earlier here, but I’d described to Jane how I’d asked whoever owned 458 W. Water Street these days how much our rent would be. I did this several times, but received no answer. I expected it to be good, and was afraid it would be high. Seth hadn’t commented, and I didn’t ask him.)