“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] to finish my book, start up a definite dream schedule, that is, two or three scheduled long naps plus suggestions as I used to do for various kinds of out-of-bodies and dream states; a session a week as of now with the dream work perhaps making up for the second session we don’t have; and painting. [...]

If ever in a dream experience you defy gravity, then gravity is not a primary reality, but only a manifestation within your own physical system. If clock time is escaped within the dream state, then clock time is not a primary. [...]

A consistent, carefully recorded and extended examination of the dream state will, once more, permit you to compare those conditions and realities which show themselves in both the waking and dream states.

I have been leading up to this point in my own way, for the dream experiments that we plan will enable you to accumulate in time a list of primaries. [...]

[...] Identity is retained within the dream state, is it not?

[...] Your dreams do not suddenly appear exteriorized upon your images in place of your features, for example. [...] Your dreams appear on the interior screen of your mind.

[...] I do want to point out, however, that a state you usually call dreaming is but a dim indication of an inner reality of events (intently), an inner order of events from which the physical world emerges. I hope to show how the nature of dreams has helped shape man’s consciousness. [...]

[...] All of your grandest civilizations have existed first in the world of dreams. You might say that the universe dreamed itself into being.

[...] Now she was nervous, for she felt that Seth was ready to dictate his Preface for Dreams.

[...] If our dream interpretations appear complicated, it is because dreams are complicated, and we are viewing them from the entire group of levels in which they have meaning. [...] But such interpretations lack any full validity, since they lack knowledge of that rich tapestry, the subconscious folds of which dreams are composed and in which they have their validity.

Part of Ruburt’s dream, you see, did have to do with a ship; and here with a second vessel and the water, you find that information was given on a subconscious level to Ruburt concerning his friend’s journey. If you will reread that session dealing with the main dream you will see the connection. [...]

(In an effort to further clear up Seth’s rather involved interpretation of Jane’s dream of September 7, I made it a point to ask Jane just before the session was due tonight about the statement Seth-Jane had made on page 46, involving Jane’s friend, Marie Tubbs, in childbirth. [...]

Ruburt’s dream itself dealt with vessels. [...]

The dream body is the one with which you are most familiar. [...] This is the body that you use for ordinary dreams. [...]

At physical death, after the last reincarnation, then the normal body form is the dream body, and excursions are made from this point, you see. It is possible to suddenly switch from the third form to the dream body, but at a considerable jolt to the consciousness, as a rule. [...]

The mass of valid projections are indeed made from the dreaming body. When the excursion is over the return to the dream body is made with no strain, you see, for the ego is little concerned. [...]

[...] Now this is the form that you will use if you meet appointments with others within the dream state.

[...] Jane also had another series of dreams, but unfortunately could remember hardly anything of them. [...]

(Jane slept until noon, and again during the morning thrashed about often in her sleep, and sometimes whimpered or cried out, presumably because of a dream. [...]

(I showed Jane a copy again of my dream of April 23, and asked that Seth discuss it this evening, since I was sure it contained at least some positive omens for her.

(Saturday morning, April 25: When we went to bed, Jane dreamed about her mother and about writing about her life with Walt. [...]

In the dream his grandfather revives. [...] He [Ruburt] had a small experience of hearing a voice speak in his mind [yesterday]—a voice of comfort, all he remembered of quite legitimate assistance he received from other personalities connected with the French life, that came as a result of the French dream. [...]

(See the attached copies of Jane’s reincarnation and grandfather dreams of March 6, and her nightmarish experience of March 8. All of these are very important, I think, with the experience of March 8 taking precedence, I’d say. [...]

Ruburt did initiate a small religious order in the 16th Century, in France, and he was in love for many years with the man he met in his dream—a cleric. [...]

[...] The dream came to remind Ruburt of those connections, but also to remind him that his life even then was enriched by a long-held love relationship. [...]

[...] On that particular Saturday evening you were all involved in the same dream experience, but each of you received your own messages. [...]

(To Arnold.) And my congratulations here to our African God for the dream which was indeed quite significant. [...]

Now the dream state does indeed involve an acceleration. [...]

[...] You have also had visitors in one of your class dreams. [...]

[...] There is a vast difference between ordinary dreams and projections, whether or not the projections occur from the dream threshold. Dreams are constructed and sent upon their way. [...]

[...] You know that dreaming has definite chemical bases, that chemicals built up during periods of waking existence are released through dreams. [...]

[...] Usually, and without training, the chemical excess is used in the dreaming process. [...]

Also in periods of momentary indisposition however, the dreaming process may be blocked and the chemical excess accumulated. [...]

Now, many of these freedoms are quite natural to you in the dream state, and you form dream environments often to exercise such potentials. [...]

You can learn to change your physical environment, therefore, by learning to change and manipulate your dream environment. You can also suggest specific dreams in which a desired change is seen, and under certain conditions these will then appear in your physical reality. [...]

[...] In childhood and in the dream state, each personality is aware to some extent of the true freedom that belongs to its own inner consciousness. [...]

[...] Only through the use of the intuitions and in sleep and dream states, as a rule, can you perceive the joyfully changing nature of your own, and any, consciousness.

[...] Ruburt should specifically request dreams in which he is running, with speed and flexibility, dreams in which he dances well, and dreams in which he experiences a magnificent sense of vitality and physical exuberance.

[...] These dreams should be rather specifically requested.

[...] I emphasize the therapeutic dreams again. [...]

[...] Now I will do this evening what I can do for Ruburt while he sleeps, by way of redirecting his inner energies while he dreams. [...]

Three nights ago he had a dream that symbolically also gave him the same directions. At another time we will go into the importance of dreams on their various levels, and outline the kinds of dreams more thoroughly than has been done by psychologists to date. The subject will be of great interest to you, and we shall use your own dreams as examples.

Mark may not remember his dream. Ruburt has the sometime habit of recording his dreams, and an interpretation of them at some times would be helpful. [...]

Mark’s dream was significant.

(I had been hoping Seth would discuss Bill’s dream. [...]

(Jane discussed a positive, energetic dream of last night, which isn’t recorded here. She said that last night’s dream sequences were her celebration of her bodily abilities — her insistence on the excellent workings of the body. [...]

[...] In dreams, however, you often feel as if you are in another location entirely, and all of your senses seem pivoted in that location. [...] You may dream that you are running or walking or flying, yet those activities are divorced enough from that area where imagination, motion, and physical actuality meet, so that your body remains quiet, relatively speaking, while you seem to be moving freely somewhere else.

[...] Many men dreamed of being the messiah, yet the dream went even beyond the confines of Jewish identity, and was far more international than any would-be messiah realized. [...]

[...] Myths always weave in and out of historical context, even as dreams are related to daily life. [...]

The interweaving of “dream reality” with the world of facts, however, is precisely what causes a myth to begin with, and is the source of its tremendous power, for it combines the two realities into a construct powerful enough to charge civilizations with new vitality, and literally to reshape man’s course. [...]

[...] In a manner of speaking, now, it would make little difference which man was finally given the kingly robes—for the greater reality of the dream was so encompassing that it would come to be, whether one or 10 or 20 men’s lives were historically joined together to form the Christ. [...]

[...] Its power and strength then returned to the dream universe. [...] In private dreams, men then related to the main figures in the drama, and in the dream state they recognized its true import.

[...] These dramas are also privately worked out in the dream state. The God-personified figures first were introduced to man in the dream state, and the way then prepared.

[...] Multidimensional awareness is available to you in your dreams, however, in some trance states, and often even beneath ordinary consciousness as you go about your day.

(I did have a couple of questions pertaining to Jane and her dreams. [...]

[...] In some dream states you may visit a particular location and then perceive the location as it was, say, three centuries ago and five years hence, and never understand what the dream meant. [...]

[...] As one dream is like a stone thrown into the pool of dream consciousness, so any act appears in this pool also in its own guise. [...]

[...] On such occasions your attention is focused elsewhere, in what you might call mini-dreams or hallucinations, or associative and intuitive processes of thought that go quite beyond normal focus.

Inner portions of your personality also have memory of all of your dreams. [...]

Ruburt’s interpretation of the other dream was correct, and represented intuitional knowledge. [...] It is also tied up with the fact that you are now beginning to remember your dreams once again.

[...] Ruburt’s dream was a legitimate experience. [...]

This does not mean that experience is a dream, by any means. [...]

(Seth now discusses my dream of July 30, 1968; I described it to Jane before the session. [...]

April 12 have a “dream” that a man is talking to me about Mass Events primarily, saying that he’s seen a copy and there is nothing about the disclaimer to anger me, that it’s ok, and then mentioning God of Jane. [...]

JANE’S DREAM/NOTES

[...] All That Is “pulsates” with a truly infinite yearning to particularize all of its attributes, to know itself through individualizing all of its dreams, its slightest thought, its most monumental discovery. [...]

(“Do you want to say something about my dream, in which I get shot?”)

Now all of those issues, in one way or another appeared in your dream, where for the sake of understanding you became the victim. [...]

Many such people feel before death that the body is a shell from which death will free them—and here you have a verbal symbol: the shell of the body, with a gun shell, and the soul being propelled out of the body, though that was not part of the dream. [...]

Now we do not have any precognitive dream. [...] There is a reason the dream comes at this time. [...]

(Seth begins his discourse on Harvey McIntyre’s dream. [...]