“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] There were some notes I wanted to give you concerning dreams in which you feel certain that you are awake. When these dreams are unusually vivid, then the ego is aware of participating. [...]

When this occurs you will be able to use your normal abilities in addition to other abilities used while in the dream state itself. [...] You will realize that your physical self is sleeping, or in a dream state, and that the inner self is fully awake. [...]

[...] In awake-seeming dreams you are indeed awake, within of course a different psychological framework. [...]

[...] These enable you to perceive an added depth or dimension, and this is responsible for the increased sense of vividness, and also for the sense of exhilaration that sometimes occurs within this particular sort of dream.

[...] Your negative dreams, therefore, reinforce the waking pattern. [...] If you are interested in disasters and looking for them, then telepathically you will also pick up disasters so that your dreams always seem negative and filled with foreboding. If, however, your conscious thought patterns are positive, then your dream patterns will also be the same. [...]

[...] This not only happens in the waking state, but you also become more open in the dreaming state to telepathic communications from others of a negative pattern. [...] You not only attract negative conditions therefore in the physical world that you know, but you open yourselves up to these in the dream reality. [...]

Those of you who are negative, therefore, will find this reflected not only in your waking life but in your dreams. [...]

([Sue:] “Was the dream I had some months ago involving sessions about my shoulder legitimate?”)

[...] His dream work will (underlined) show fruits, and he and Ruburt are involved in dreams together, though they do not recognize themselves in those dreams.

The dream was not simply Tam’s dramatization of a message sent by Ruburt, yet dramatization was involved. Ruburt acted out his ideas of a conventional medium for Tam, who in a dream state perceived Ruburt’s dramatization.

(I asked if Seth would discuss Tam’s dream of January 1, 1973; her cold symptoms dating from last October; and the letter Seth has promised to dictate for correspondents. [...]

As far as Tam’s dream was concerned, I have a few things to say.

Any dream is experienced differently by these various aspects of the self. There is not one objective dream that is merely perceived in various fashions. The various levels of the self create their own dreams, which do have meanings to all layers of the personality. But you cannot think of a dream as a concrete block that is for example chipped off in pieces that then apply to these imaginary levels. [...]

[...] Suggestion can shape dreams, and the dreams themselves then operate as action. A strong dream can be a more significant psychic action than any physical experience, and it can change the course of the personality completely.

I have told you that dreams are a continuing process, whether or not the ego wakes or sleeps, and whether or not it has, or retains, any knowledge of the dreaming. [...]

[...] This is usually the level that is visited by the living in projections from the dream state.

[...] It is from this area that some disturbed personalities have those dreams of returning to the physical environment.

[...] In your dreams you have been here.

6. You tell class about a dream. [...]

[...] Dream objects are

Now, you have all been changing your relationships, not only because of what has gone on in class physically, but because of what you have been doing in the dream states. And as you know, in another layer of reality, this is the dream state, and in that level of reality I am telling you to remember your dreams, and I have already told you that this evening you will have a class dream session, and this is it. And in this level of reality, I am telling you that you will have a class dream session this evening, and in that other level of reality, you will remember. [...]

[...] Ruburt told us last week to become aware in the dream state at the Alpha III level, and I did, and I had my tape recorder on next to me, and I gave myself the suggestion that whenever I got something, I would turn it on...”)

[...] And that ancient knowledge is dependent upon what was done here, and in some few other groups, and in what is being done in the dream state throughout the world. [...]

(Since February Jane has had a series of dreams and psy-time experiences involving her dream book, which is now at Parker. [...] The latest, on July 5, revealed the dream book as published.

(“What do you think of Jane’s series of dreams, involving her dream book?”

[...] The personal problems here have led to an increase of spontaneity in the dream state, and to added evidence of clairvoyance. [...]

[...] My answer tells you of course that the last dream was also precognitive.

In your latest series of interworkings, you and Ruburt,¹ with your dreams and so forth, with Ruburt’s notes and your own, were both heading in the proper direction, dealing with issues that are important personally, and that also have a much broader impact.

[...] You had instant feedback — the interplay of a creative nature between the two of you involving your dreams and the camera,³ and so forth. [...]

[...] You can make your own connections here, as per Ruburt’s camera experience, and your own dreams of late.

Being your own natural and magical self when you dream, you utilize information that is outside of the time context experienced by the so-called rational mind. [...]

[...] She told me of a dream she’d had last night, vivid, involving her walking, putting on new clothes while in the middle of a street, of leaving the hospital and going across a street into a Five and Ten, of putting pretty decorations in her hair. I said the dream was a very good one, and once more set the stage for the act of walking. [...]

(I typed yesterday’s session this morning, and didn’t get to work on Dreams, “Evolution,” and Value Fulfillment until after 10:30. [...]

[...] “You wouldn’t get anything done on Dreams if you had to type longer sessions,” she added. [...]

(Jane described a very vivid and even exhilarating dream she’d had last night, in which she’d been playing with her own collection of trinkets, sitting on the floor, and so forth. [...] Jane said she was really enjoying the dream, after supper, when Debbie Harris arrived for a visit and woke her up.

Ruburt’s dream was excellent, showing that he is now making the best of his past, rediscovering playful beliefs — the trinkets — and sources of pleasure and activity. [...]

[...] Now, after today’s session I read the first session for Chapter 1 of Dreams to her. [...]

[...] Seth-Jane’s abilities remind me of material I wrote recently on how certain portions of the psyche must very shrewdly and carefully construct dreams in advance, so when the dreams are played back they render just the right messages to the other part or parts of the psyche that need them. I’m not being contradictory here when I write that dreams are also spontaneous productions.”

I plan to mention certain secular affairs that I’ve kept track of while Jane has been producing Dreams, but mainly these notes will deal with personal and professional events in our own lives. [...] Portions of it came from Dreams itself. [...]

[...] It’s a nonbook one, and I’ll comment later on why I’m presenting it in Dreams. [...]

See the opening notes for Session 918, which Jane held on June 2 for Chapter 8 of Dreams. [...]

(The following isn’t dictation, of course, but concerns instead a very vivid dream Jane had the day before yesterday, and Seth’s interpretation of it this evening. We’re presenting that dream material here because it contains elements of general interest, and covers points some readers have touched upon in their letters to Jane [and Seth]. Jane’s dream made me a little envious [even if an element of fear might be involved in such an event], since I don’t recall ever having had one like it. [...]

[...] But beside that, the child uses the early years to explore — particularly in the dream state — other kinds of material that suit its own fancies and intents, and it constantly receives a stream of information that is not at all dependent upon its heredity or environment.

[...] He will be acquainted in the dream state with other young budding musicians, though they are infants also. [...]

(“Dream, Saturday afternoon, March 11, 1978.

(The following account is from Jane’s dream notebook, and is included here because Seth mentions it in the 107th session. This dream is also directly related to Jane’s dream of November 8. See pages 128-129.

[...] Much of this material will be discussed along with data concerning the construction of the dream dimension. [...]

(Jane’s dream, Monday, November 16, 5 PM [as Jane took a nap]:

[...] Doctor Kiley is also dead, has been for some years, at least seven, and was a brother of Helen McIlwain; she was in my dream of November 8, relating to my mother and Seth’s subsequent statements concerning her death. [...]

Among other information in Section 5, Seth gives considerable material designed to help the reader achieve psychic travel; related here is his session on dreams and dream photography. [...]

[...] The reader is invited to experience his or her own “unknown reality” through the study of dreams and practice elements, and to try for psychic travel into other realities. [...]

[...] As Seth comments in the 742nd session for April 16, 1975, in Section 6: “It is obvious that when you move from one place to another you make an alteration in space — but you alter time as well, and you set into motion a certain psychological impetus that reaches out to affect everyone you know … Such messages are often encountered in the dream state. [...]

For this session we will leave our material concerning dreams, to discuss another matter. We will however return to the dream data at our next session.

[...] I expressed concern because Jane was interested in receiving all the material on dreams that she could get. She thought her next book might deal with dreams.

[...] In our dream material we will go deeply into the nature of health suggestions given in connection with the dream situation, and such suggestions may be considered a part of this evening’s list. [...]

[...] All of which incidentally is reflected in the dream state, and in the nature of dreams themselves.

[...] In your dreams you have communication with that larger portion of yourself that is your identity. [...]

[...] If you examine your own dreams, you know that for yourself. [...]

Now while you dream, you do have contact with other portions of yourselves. [...]

(I described my vivid dream of last night—in which I’d been rummaging through a bunch of items on the top shelf of our refrigerator. [...]

(“Can you say a word about my dream of last night?”)

You and Ruburt interpreted the dream correctly—the idea being that nourishment can come in many different cans, or under many appearances—already prepared, already available and at hand, even though you may not at first realize the fact. [...]

[...] I used the pendulum briefly in the bathroom while Jane was having a cigarette, and learned that the bothersome effects were caused because I hadn’t been working on Dreams as much as I felt I should. [...]

You have, in the dream’s meaning, your father who wants to be left alone, who likes to work in solitude, and who is quite uncomfortable with the expression of emotion. You have, in the dream’s meaning, your mother given to explosive bursts of emotional expression, who it seems makes emotional demands. In the dream’s meaning, she chased after him, and in that context you felt one portion of yourself making demands upon another portion that resented the emotional involvement, the emotional outbursts that that portion naturally expressed. [...]

[...] Ruburt mentioned your dream contest. [...] While we are working on our new book you may find yourselves involved with some new types of dreams. [...]

This will be a fairly brief session, but we will begin with your dream about your parents (on Wednesday morning, October 10). [...]

In the dream they both stood for completely different attitudes of your own, and here you see them objectified in your separate parents—for you do indeed identify those different tendencies with your parents to a strong extent. [...]

[...] Soon after Tam Mossman suggested in early October that she do a book on her dream about Emir,² Jane began work on that project with her usual enthusiasm. The dream became Chapter 1 of the book, and inspired the rest of it; she’s having great fun writing the story, and is sending it to Tam chapter by chapter as it comes out of her typewriter — a procedure she’s never followed before. [...]

[...] In your dreams you visit “casting agencies.” [...] In the dream state, then, often you familiarize yourself with dramas that are of a probable nature. [...]

Not only does television actually serve as a mass means of communal meditation, but it also presents you with highly detailed, manufactured dreams, in which each viewer shares to some extent. [...]

[...] It reflects and rereflects through millions of homes the giant dreams and fears, the hopes and terrors of events in the most private individual.