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(Another two months have passed during Jane’s production of Dreams. [...] Those “unused gaps of time,” those long weeks passing between recent chapters for Dreams, have become very worrisome to me, for they fall outside of Jane’s natural creative rhythms. [...]

Jane worked less and less as the holiday season approached, although on December 15 she gave her fourth private session; its most evocative subject matter—art and child psychology—is separate from our themes for Dreams. [...] I was busier than ever, however: running the house, preparing for Christmas, helping my wife in various ways, working on the earlier notes for Dreams and trying to accumulate some painting time. [...]

[...] When you dream or sleep or think, you automatically add to other dimensions of a life cloud or dream cloud that emerge from the very actions of your own subjective motions.

[...] We talked about the many delays involved in our producing Mass Events and Dreams. She’s “felt good” about finishing Chapter 11 of Dreams a week ago, but has done little on Magical Approach recently, except to reread her rough work for the beginning of that book. [...]

(“Do you want to say a few words about the dream the dentist’s nurse told me about today?”)

[...] My question was not meant to pry into a personal life, merely to obtain what I thought would be interesting information about a certain dream related to me by Dr. Colucci’s nurse, voluntarily.)

(This would make the dream precognitive.

We have the story behind your stout friend’s dream.

In their dreams they were in contact. Consciously Paul remembered many of these dreams, until he felt pursued by Christ. It was because of a series of recurring dreams that Paul persecuted the Christians. [...]

[...] Were their dreams and other psychic experiences — other than the recorded instances — outstanding on a regular basis as they lived out their lives day by day?

On an unconscious level, however, he knew the meaning of the dreams, and his “conversion,” of course, was only a physical event following an inner experience.

John the Baptist, Christ, and Paul were all connected in the dream state, and John was well aware of Christ’s existence before Christ was born.

(Pause.) In a fashion dreams allow for a curious mixture of learning processes, while at the same time serving to introduce surprising developments. [...] That is, dreams promote the [...]

At the same time dreams have their startling qualities, promoting the insertion of unexpected developments, in which case they appear to deal with the breaking down of conserving principles. [...] They reinforce the past, for example, when you dream of past situations. [...]

(8:49.) Many people might wish that I would add many more methods to help you study dreams and their nature. In such a manner also dreams suggest nature’s spontaneous order throughout the centuries, and allow you to look at the species in a truer light. [...]

[...] That same evening she held the final session, the 935th, for Chapter 10 of Dreams. [...]

In a very simple example, consider that you yourself use your own energy to create your dream world. In this way also you create your so-called real camouflage world, the only difference being that the dream world images do not have duration in physical time although they have duration in psychological time. And believe it or not, actually your individuality has much more freedom in the creation of your dream world, and this is the reason why the dream world does not appear consistent to others.

[...] In some respects art creations are a meeting of the dream world and the world of camouflage patterns, but in a deeper way art creations represent the appearance or materialization in the actual element of physical time of inner realities. That is, the inner individualistic self forces its vision and knowledge into the world of camouflage pattern, giving its dreams a physical reality denied to the usual dream. [...]

I would like to go back to the difference between the dream world and the outside camouflage world again.

The self-conscious self on the other side of the subconscious has a freer hand in the creation of your dreams, since you are the only personality to whom they must be comprehensible. [...]

The flow of thoughts during the day, the background current of thoughts, is highly connected to dream activity. [...]

[...] These are like miniature dreams, in that they involve events not actually physically occurring—they are real to the imagination, however.

[...] The dream experiences reflect the assimilation of conscious and unconscious knowledge, and a new growing unity. [...]

(I did remember a vivid dream of last night, though, and described it to Jane. [...] Jane wasn’t in the dream. [...]

[...] I believe I also had some restless dreams about it last night, but couldn’t recall them today. [...]

(Jane had also had a very positive dream, she said. [...]

In your dream you were both persons—the young man and yourself. [...]

(Long pause.) When you are dreaming you cannot pinpoint your dream location in the same way that you can determine, say, the chair or the bureau that may sit on the floor by the bed in which you dream. [...]

In the beginning, physical space had the qualities that dream space has to you now. [...]

[...] There are walks [warps?] in space and time through which you can travel—and in dreams you have been where I am. You are dreaming. [...] The inner senses will allow you to awaken, and to see the awakening reality behind your dream. [...]

You hope, you dream, that your lives will be creative... [...]

You are in a dream. [...]

[...] It is, indeed, real and so are dreams real. Pretend then that the room itself is a dream from which you are almost about to awaken, and with your eyes closed still, you will awaken from this room into another place and another time, and with your eyes closed you will awaken to another reality as valid and legitimate as this one. [...]

[...] Feel also within you the tremendous energy and vitality that gives existence to your physical image and propels the reality of your thoughts and images and gives any kind of reality to your dreams. [...]

[...] A classroom that you visit in the dream state, and that is quite as real as the physical room that you visit once each week, and in that existence there are other students, and they are all portions of your own realities. [...]

[...] That night, all night it seemed, I was concerned with the hostages, uneasy, though I don’t recall actual dreams. [...]

(After watching the televised events from all over the world, Tuesday night I dreamed that in the future all households would be connected to interconnecting computers, keeping track of all inhabitants, actions, goods, and so forth. [...]

[...] Both of us were still puzzled as to what’s been going on since Day 1. I told her I’d had another dream last night about our moving back to 458 West Water, but that I couldn’t recall it. This in turn triggered her own memories that she’d had several dreams last night that she couldn’t recall either.

[...] I answered Christmas cards for half an hour, then worked on Dreams.

And the others of you will find your dream nights stabilizing. Your dream classes, therefore, will become more clear. The experiment that began as I said is still continuing and some of this will also appear in your dream state. [...]

[...] And when the speakers speak to each of you in the dream state and in your private hours then they do not need words. [...]

Our cousin of Richelieu (Bette) over here should have a meeting with an old friend in the dream state this evening, so remember. [...]

(A note: Jane’s very rich and vivid dream series is still underway, and she continues to keep detailed records. [...] She recorded five dreams last night, for instance. I last mentioned her recent dreams in Appendix 11, for Session 698. That appendix contains excerpts from The Wonderworks — material which Jane wrote last month while in an altered state of consciousness, and which was at least partly inspired by her dream series. In some of the deleted portions of these sessions, Seth has rather extensively discussed Jane’s dream work and related activity. [...] It’s important to note here that Jane’s dream connected experiences include some new, and very exciting, psychic developments for her.)

[...] Some of these civilizations did not need spaceships.⁴ Instead, highly trained men combining the abilities of dream-art scientists and mental physicists cooperated in journeys not only through time but through space. [...]

(Using conventional reincarnational terms, I half jokingly asked Jane if she’d ever been a dream-art scientist, say, or a mental physicist. [...]

From the 742nd session in Section 6: “Atlantis is a land that you want to inhabit, appearing in your literature, your dreams, and your fantasies, serving as an impetus for development … It carries also, however, the imprint of your fears, for the tales say that Atlantis was destroyed. [...]

[...] In some of your dream states you do travel through other dimensions and other systems. The extent of these dream travels is determined by your own ability.

Some of you are rather rigidly held within your own system even in your dreams, and though you exist within other dimensions such individuals are not aware of them. [...]

[...] With time you and Ruburt would do well indeed to set up experiments in which you try to contact each other while you are in the dream state. [...]

[...] Once more, remember in your dream experiments that you will be able to perceive not only your own constructions, but upon some occasions the constructions of others.

(When I asked her, Jane said today’s session and motions could be interpreted as being related to her dream for last night. She’d dreamed that once certain things, events, were set into motion, they inevitably would continue in their motion until they came true — then the world would end. [...] I said this seemed like a symbolic statement, the dream, that old beliefs meant she had no hope of extricating herself from a foregone conclusion. [...]

[...] She told me about a vivid dream she had last night, and I refer to an interpretation of the dream at the end of the session.

In one particular dream, you created the circumstances. The dream was loaded with psychic energy, and literally produced reality. In one dream you saw yourself moving closer to New York. This was not the same dream however.

(See my dream notebook. I had a dream in which I returned to comic work on September 13,1966—about five weeks ago. This dream also involved a friend at my present job, at Artistic Card Co., and that part of the dream also worked out.

(On October 15, 10 days ago, I dreamed Jane and I moved closer to New York City so I could sell my paintings—or so I wrote, rather than comics for instance. In the dream I saw a big city skyline in the distance, beyond the small town we moved to. Bill Ward—not in the dream—lives in Ridgewood, NJ, a commuter town for New York City.)

[...] You did this quite unconsciously, and you made the contact in a dream, to your friend Crowley, sometime ago—approximately three months I believe.

[...] During the early morning hours of the 6th she had a very vivid and joyful reincarnational dream involving herself, and a dream in which she returned to her own past in this life. “I rarely have reincarnation-type dreams, but awakened around 2:00 A.M. with this and the following dream,” she wrote the next day. [...] The second dream concerned her strong reaction to the death of her maternal grandfather, Joseph Burdo: “Little Daddy,” as Jane had affectionately called him, died in 1948 in the family’s hometown of Saratoga Springs, New York.

It developed, however, that Jane’s reincarnational adventure might end up doing double duty: Not only had it given her insights concerning her sinful self, but now she picked up from Seth that his remarks about it could result in dictation for Dreams. [...] She asked if I’d mind work on Dreams this evening, and I said of course not—that she and Seth have the absolute freedom to talk about anything at all. [...] She wasn’t nervous about going back to Dreams. [...]

“The dream representing his grandfather symbolically allowed him to go back to the past in this life, to a time of severe shock—his grandfather’s death—which occurred when (Ruburt, at age 19) was beginning to substitute scientific belief for religious belief, wondering if his grandfather’s consciousness then fell back into a mindless state of being, into chaos, as science would certainly seem to suggest. In the dream his grandfather survives. [...] 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.

Jane, again, dreamed often of walking, running, dancing, moving normally. To me those dreams were messages of encouragement not only from her own psyche, but from that certain other version of herself that I referred to in Note 2 for this session. [...]

The dream book incidentally (which Eleanor Friede now has) in different form—far different—will be published. [...] He did not want Dreams published. [...]

It (Adventures) also served to regenerate his creative abilities, which had lagged in Dreams. Seven saved him from another Dreams (book) and also provided him with a contract.

[...] Jane has already cleared the matter with Tam—who incidentally had a vivid dream Monday night, in which in distorted form he learned that Adventures was to go by the board. Many elements in Tam’s dream tallied with events depicted in this session, bearing out Seth’s contention that Tam already sensed the conflicts over Adventures, etc. [...]

(Late yesterday afternoon my pendulum told me that Jane’s symptoms stemmed from her feeling that she had failed to become a successful “straight” writer—a novelist, poet, essayist, et al.; that she felt she had failed as the serious writer she had always dreamed of becoming, that the psychic work represented a turning down a wrong path; that actually, basically, the psychic work represented failure to her rather than success. [...]

All of this is also connected with your beliefs about the waking and dreaming states, white being acquainted with the day, and black with the dreaming condition. [...]

[...] The conscious mind is better able to remember and assimilate its dreaming experience, and in dreams the self can use its waking experience more efficiently.

[...] In some of these philosophies the daylight is seen as pallid, for example, in comparison with the true brilliance of knowledge that illuminates the dream state, and black is the symbol then of secret knowledge that cannot be found with normal consciousness, or be scrutinized in the light of day.

[...] In these instances the beauty and illumination of your dream state can be clear in the conscious mind, and used to enrich your physical life. [...]