“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

The life of any given individual could be legitimately compared to the dream of an entity. [...] The entity is concerned with them in the same way that you are concerned with your dreams. As you give inner purpose and organization to your dreams, and as you obtain insight and satisfaction from them, though they involve only a portion of your life, so the entity to some extent directs and gives purpose and organization to his personalities. [...]

Your own dreams are fragments, even as you are fragments of your entity. An unrecognized unity and organization lies within all of your dreams, beneath their diversity. And your dreams, while part of you, also exist apart.

Still, I didn’t know what to make of the material Seth gave us on dreams and the personality that night. [...] We were to discover that the dream universe was far more valid than we had ever supposed, but what Seth said then sounded like nothing we had ever read or heard before.

In a dream, I have said, you can experience many days while no corresponding amount of physical time passes. [...] To go into this further, many have said that life was a dream. [...]

[...] The session came about after the three of us had spent some time discussing a recent vivid dream of Marian’s, and her telepathic adventure described in the 234th session. [...]

(Saturday evening the three of us sat in the living room discussing Marian’s recent dream, which she thought might presage her own death. [...]

(After we had talked for some time Jane told me that she felt Seth “buzzing around,” and that he could explain Marian’s dream to her should she be willing to listen. [...]

(Seth reassured Marian about the dream involving her dead mother, explaining how it was a case of Marian projecting her own subconscious fears, among other things. [...]

(Last night I had a very vivid dream in which I sold three of my paintings. [...] It’s the little painting of a dream of my own, in which I stand on the close edge of a roof, looking down into a city street. [...]

(“What do you think of my dream about my selling my paintings last night?”)

An excellent dream, in which the paintings stand for paintings—but also show that the fruit of your other endeavors will do well in the marketplace—that the marketplace will reward you—and that also includes the insurance situation. [...]

(The moment Seth mentioned the insurance connection, it fell into place with my dream—of course, I saw, both had to do with our receiving money from outside sources. [...]

[...] Use one book for dreams, and leave it on his desk overnight. As a preliminary to the instructions I have given you, for 7 days he should give himself dream suggestions, and on several occasions, though not every night, tell himself that he will awaken after a dream and record it.

[...] Ruburt should try on these nights one of his methods as he falls asleep, and if that does not succeed, tell him to use the other methods that he knows from the dream state.

Now you should begin the same week with new suggestions to recall your dreams, but do it this way, as follows:

(To me:) Before you sleep, simply imagine your open dreambook in the morning, with the dreams recorded. [...]

I awakened toward morning with my body quite sore and with the memory of an earlier dream scene. [...]

The dream comes to mind several times but don’t type it up till the weekend. [...]

JANE’S SILVER DREAM FRAGMENT

Dreamer “A” for example may pick up telepathically a small but particular portion of a dream by dreamer “B”. [...] However there will be at the very least an emotional connection between the event within dreamer “B’s” dream, that has strong meaning for dreamer “A”. A man may dream of a childhood experience in which he was bitten by a dog. Another man who was also bitten by a dog, may then for example telepathically pick up the original dream. Not because he is necessarily connected with the dreamer, but because the experience will strike at him emotionally, and he will then attract the dream.

Now, this same sort of emotional system operates in the sleeping state as well as in the waking state, though there are differences in that the personality will allow greater leeway in the dream state. [...] You know that telepathy and clairvoyance operate rather freely in the dream state. [...]

[...] Thoughts are often translated into dream images by a simple transformation. There is little difference indeed, basically, between physical images and dream images, and apparitions, and very little difference between these and thoughts and emotions.

You may now take your first break, and we shall consider these emotional systems in the relation to the personality in the dream state.

[...] I have mentioned earlier that in a dream experience, as far as the senses are concerned you may visit a particular location, experience a certain time duration; and yet the location does not exist and cannot be found in your space, and though you experience, say, five hours time in your dream, this perhaps takes up merely a flash of clock time, and the physical body does not age during the psychological dream experience in any proportion to the actual psychological reality involved. [...]

So do your dream images exist in the same manner, and you are as unaware of their existence as you are of your own subconscious existence. [...] You know you breathe, and in the same manner that you undertake physiological, biological and mental leaps and functions, so do you also create the reality of the dream world.

I have wanted to cover this because I can prove the existence of this dream world to you, and its continuity, always within the spacious present. You must understand psychological reality, psychological time, psychological experience, and the dream existence before you can learn to utilize many abilities, since in all the mentioned aspects, you use your abilities, that is your inner senses, on a subconscious level.

[...] These dream images also have their own free will, within limits. [...] The same applies to the dream world, and in our experiments the same will also apply.

Your dream was a psychological drama. (See my dream notebook for December 6, 1967.) The water did represent the streak of life. [...]

(Before the session I described to Jane my dream of Wednesday, December 6;and the second vision I had, of another painting, on the evening of Thursday November 30; the first painting vision being the one of Bill Gallagher on November 28,1967, and discussed by Seth in the 382rd session.

[...] 9, and sketched in my dream book.)

[...] Had the dream not ended you would have made your way across to him, in time (smile), to help him up when he fell—this symbolic of his difficulties in the past year. [...]

[...] I told you, for example, that dream reality consisted of more than you knew, and that the dream universe continued whether or not you perceived it. Within that context, those inhabitants dream—in turn—their own dreams, and form electromagnetic realities. [...]

[...] They will only perceive the shape and form that your own mental acts—thoughts and dreams—take within their own system.

[...] In the dream state, and at other levels of consciousness, you deal more directly with the formation of events. [...]

In dreams, then, you are involved in the inner process by which physical events are formed. [...]

The events that you recognize as official have a unitary nature in time that precludes those probable versions of them, from which they arose — versions that appeared to one extent or another in the dream state. [...]

[...] In sleep and dream states you do this often, correlating the newly perceived data with usual sense information, and organizing it all without a qualm. [...]

Now: such physicians, in their field, are like the mental physicists and dream artists (described in The “Unknown” Reality). [...]

His dream work, again, is highly important and significant —not only for itself, but also because it represents his reliance upon the inner world of his being. [...]

[...] He is working intimately with subjective and objective experience, correlating dream events and physical life.

[...] He will discover further correlations with his dreams and the wonderworks, and I will have other comments.

[...] He concluded his material by stating: “A system of checks and balances exists, however, so that in certain dreams you are made aware of these blueprints. They may appear throughout your lifetime as recurring dreams of a certain nature — dreams of illumination; and even if you do not remember them you will awaken with your purposes strengthened and suddenly clear.

(Perhaps the latter happening is already underway: Jane’s recall of, participation in, and benefits from such an exchange between her waking and dreaming selves has increased considerably in recent weeks. So have her records, since she keeps detailed accounts of all of her dream activities and correlating “conscious” events. [...]

[...] When Jane finished with certain challenges, Seth remarked, “… there will be a ‘birth’ of seemingly new concepts, simply because his [Jane’s] old mental barriers kept him from making certain important connections, and an increasing system of communication between waking and dreaming states.”

“When you are working with your beliefs, find out what you really think about the dream condition, for if you trust it, it can become an even more important ally because of your conscious cooperation.”

People dream of our books, for instance. They dream of the three of us. We become important symbols, both in their waking and dream lives.

[...] Beside using such expression, however, the speakers become the voices in people’s dreams.

[...] They are natural communicators, gifted so that their works affect not only the conscious lives of others, but also change and alter dream patterns.

[...] You are not effecting top-level changes only, meaning surface realities, but the books are reaching into that creative medium of individual and mass dreaming—where all important change must begin.

[...] Now this includes not only reincarnational material in your terms, but the realization that the personality in the dream state is actually as alert and conscious as it is in the waking state. Now pretend for a moment that you are your dreaming self. [...] You would gain little information, and yet you are in the same position attempting to understand the nature of the dreaming state with your waking consciousness. [...]

Once psychology realizes that the personality is also alert and conscious in the dream state, then indeed its precepts and its bases must change. [...] Now your sleeping self is awake all of the time—you dream all of the time. Your dream life is continuous, only your waking ego closes out the inner stimuli and does not see it, for it must concentrate upon physical daily reality. [...]

[...] I have told you often that there are methods by which you can indeed take your waking self into the dream state and follow your own travels. Now you follow them but you (Rose) will not remember; and you (Sally) follow them sometimes; and you (Rachel) follow them sometimes; and you (Amelia) are beginning to put one foot upon the path; and you (Brad) have not as yet allowed yourself to remember any of your dream encounters. [...]

Do not become bored and think that I have no regard for you (Amelia) because I am speaking to our older class members, for you are coming along well with your own progression and your dream memories will get much better. [...]

We will go more deeply into a discussion of the ways and means by which both dream images and other materializations are constructed. For there are various balances, or rather various delicate imbalances, which must be maintained; and there are differences also in the makeup of dream images, which are usually seen only by the dreamer, and some other more physical materializations which may be created by the semi-waking self, and under certain circumstances seen by others.

The dream images are indeed extensions, not only of the psychic or inner self, but a definite extension of the electromagnetic and chemical properties that operate through the physical self. It is indeed as if extensions of nerve endings reached out in self-expansion, making new connections, and this is indeed what occurs in the creation of dream images.

[...] An understanding of the methods used by the dreamer to construct dream images will, however, allow you to understand more clearly those other constructions. [...]

Dream images are composed in part as a result of chemical excesses that are built up normally by the organism in the waking state. [...]

[...] You see within yourself the various shapes of dreams to a certain extent. You do not see the dream itself, for even here, after giving a dream reality, electrical existence, you must break it down into simpler terms so that you can perceive what you have indeed created.

But thoughts have shapes, as do dreams. [...]

[...] Each and every thought and dream and experience that any human being has had exists as an individual, distinct electrical impulse of particular, unduplicated intensity. [...]

This electrical reality will be a basis for many future discussions, and you will see the basis behind my contention that dream locations indeed exist in actuality. [...]

[...] His dream was a mixture of telepathy, and this legitimate telepathic message was colored by the other elements that made up the dream, and this was subconscious fantasy. That is, he wove a dream about a legitimate telepathic communication.

The dream data was correct in its bare essentials. [...] The picture in the dream was partly subconscious guesswork with a touch of clairvoyance. [...]

[...] When she told Ruburt of the operations, Ruburt leapt to the conclusion that this was the meaning of the dream, and that the dream data had been incomplete.

I think that before tonight, subconsciously Ruburt knew the true meaning of the dream. Part of the subconscious fantasy in the dream was of course valid, representing a watered-down version of the actual communication. [...]

[...] In the waking state you are usually not aware of your dreaming existence. In your dreaming existence your physical environment is replaced by your dream environment. [...] Our study of the dream state will take us into many other discussions, for you will learn much about the nature of uncamouflaged reality.

[...] In the dream state obviously we have an example of such change. One of the main reasons why this is possible within the dream state, rather than in the waking state, is that survival necessities have usually been satisfied.

[...] We hoped to obtain more material on dream therapy. [...]

[...] To my knowledge nothing is known about the healing effect that often occurs in dreams themselves. For a wholly destructive attitude of mind has been changed overnight in the dream state to a constructive condition, and the whole electromagnetic balance has been changed.

The overall health of the individual and the delicate balance of electromagnetic properties are important, for when the organism is set deeply in destructive patterns, then this may be also felt in the dream state, so that destructive dreams add to the overall unfortunate state.

Dreams are indeed symptomatic of the personality’s overall condition at any given time, but they also help form that condition. The connections here are extremely complicated, and yet use of suggestion in bringing about constructive changes through dreams can be of great benefit.

In the dream state these reactions are more easily triggered. [...]

[...] You have had several dreams involving in this particular episode. If you give yourself the proper suggestions, you can remember some details from that existence; and also suggest dream information. [...]

(I have no dream recall of the above life. My dream recall has been very poor recently, etc.)

(Jane and Tam have been discussing her second book for P/Hall; the subject possibly to be on dreams, Seth, and astral projection.

[...] This is a portion of your personality that speaks to you in your dreams. [...]