“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(At break I reminded Jane that we wanted Seth to discuss her May 29 dream experience with book work, but no sooner had I done so than she began describing her dreams of last night. [...]

(Last evening had also been very warm, and Jane had slept poorly: She kept waking up with data about dream landscapes being “right there” before her, and wondered if she could travel among them “like crossing fences from one backyard to the next.” At the same time she knew that all of these localities were part of a mass dream landscape. [...]

(And yet, as if to puzzle us further, Seth did talk about dream material that Jane had obtained just last night. [...]

(Seth was all ready to go, Jane added now as we discussed her dream material, so the session resumed at 12:03.)

[...] Both of us remember the dream of Jane’s that Seth discussed. [...] She also immediately wrote it down, in detail, in her dream notebook. She had the dream on the night of Sunday, August 30; and the next day she was given the assistant directorship at the gallery.)

[...] Ruburt also had a dream which gave him clear warning of trouble, the dream in which he was at the home of the art gallery president. [...]

The final culmination of the dream, when he did scream and run away, represented his subconscious giving him its solution. [...]

His dream had nothing to do with me. [...]

[...] (Long pause.) There was a day when the dreaming world, in your terms, suddenly awakened to full reality as far as physical materialization is concerned. [...] There were ghost excursions there — mental buildings, dream civilizations which then became actualized.

[...] Your own impulses naturally lead you to seek creative fulfillment, the expansion of your consciousness, psychic excursions, and the conscious knowledge and manipulation of your dreams.

[...] Physically the species appeared — all species appeared — in the same way that you might imagine all of the elements of a highly complicated dream suddenly coming alive with physical properties. [...]

[...] There are ramifications quite unspeakable, although in certain states of trance, or with the aid of educated dreaming, you might be able to glimpse the inner complications, the webworks of communications that connect your official earth with other probable ones. [...]

Your dream showed you the opening of another probability that has emerged as a result of your joint efforts. The dream took place at 458 because it is an offshoot of an unrealized probability that opened there on two occasions (in 1973 at our apartment at 458 West Water Street, Elmira, New York).

Your dream shows that Ruburt’s determination—with your own determined involvement—have strongly attracted you to that probability again—and this time in the dream you saw it actualized. [...]

(The two dreams Seth referred to took place on April 24, 1978. See my dream notebook for their accounts. [...]

Your other dream involves Miss Bowman’s desire for death—her knowledge that although her mother died at an old age she is young and active at another level of reality—and it was Miss Bowman’s image of her mother as a younger woman that you saw. [...]

(Pause.) Your dreams involving worries about sexuality actually represented, of course, worries about your worth as a contributing person, your sex and work being thus equated. Knowing that, had the eye affair been a dream, it could also be interpreted as a sexual regeneration. [...]

[...] When we got up this morning I told Jane that I’d had a dream that we’d been participating in group sex at a party, but that I couldn’t recall anything more than that. No one we know was in the dream, and actually I recalled only the preliminary stages of the affair, not any actual sexual activity.

(Recently Jane has requested a healing dream from her subconscious. See her following dream report.)

He felt that the dream book had let him down when it was rejected. [...]

The dreams he had tried to give him warning of probabilities, and he should have questioned me or used the pendulum. [...]

(“Can you tell me about the dream I told Jane, concerning the primitive men?”)

(Last night Jane had several revelatory dreams, but on awakening could remember no details. [...] She definitely wanted Seth to discuss these dreams tonight.)

Particularly when he is in the dream state, so-called. You have had a characteristic distrust of fantasy, you see, that even extended itself into your knowledge of your dreams; and a fear of flinging yourself off from the recognizable. [...]

[...] Ruburt was definitely given information in several projections from the dream state early this morning.

Your closest approximation will be, again, your experience with time in the dream state—or instances in which complicated problems are suddenly solved for you in dreams or in other states of consciousness, so that the answers appear full-blown before you.

[...] She’d mentioned this morning that Seth might resume work on Dreams, and because of that feeling spent part of the day reviewing sessions for the book. [...]

[...] In dreams there is greater leeway in that regard. [...]

2. I suggest a rereading of Chapter 2 for Dreams, in Volume 1.

[...] The apples did provide the painting connection with the girl, and the dream was very simple—a distorted view into tomorrow’s mirror. I am more concerned that you each to some degree have inhibited your subjective freedoms, and not allowed yourselves the opportunity for an even richer diet of dreams and psychic experience. [...]

(A copy of Seth’s comments about my dream, which did contain some precognitive elements, is attached to the dream in my own notebook.)

(“Will you say something about my dream of last Saturday morning?”)

As you noted, the dream provided a distorted glimpse of your visitors.

[...] When our next session arrives I will discuss the furthermost level of the subconscious from the present ego, the particular advantage of the undifferentiated levels, and at least begin a discussion of dreams and the types of dreams that spring from the various levels.

(In line with the material of the last session, Jane had been studying her dream notebook with renewed respect, and I had resolved to begin one without yet doing anything about it. [...]

You should keep track of your dreams, Joseph. [...]

All dreams are not clairvoyant. [...]

We will be involved when we are alone with variations of the dream condition, and with dream therapy, and the nature and classification of dreams. [...]

[...] They will involve dreams, and we will work for awhile in an effort to train you so that clairvoyant dreams can be received at your suggestion. [...]

The stuff or fabric or makeup of dreams has not been covered here, nor have we discussed the actual ways in which the personality uses energy to construct his dreams and project them. [...]

We will try to arrange my tests for you as far as clairvoyant dreams and suggestion are concerned, so that these tests also add definite objective knowledge to the nature of clairvoyance in general.

[...] Were it not for the dreaming self the ego would not exist. [...]

[...] In dreams you journey through inner realities as actually as you walk physically through the matter of the physical world. [...]

Because dream objects appear and disappear, this does not mean they do not exist. [...]

In a given dream projection for example you may experience an episode that is obviously in the physical past, yet within it there may be elements that do not fit. [...]

[...] A dream about it, for instance, may so frighten you that you avoid the event and do not experience it. If so, such a dream is a message from a probable self who did experience the event.

[...] By this I mean energy that appears simultaneously both to you and probable selves in other realities; psychic connections having to do with a uniting, sympathetic, emotional reaction and a connection that shows up very strongly in the dream state.

[...] In dreams you may have glimpses of probable roads that you might have taken. [...]

(10:30.) So can a child then in a dream receive such communications from a probable future self, of such a nature that its life is completely changed. [...]

[...] In my greater viewpoint I see your lives—many of them, and the emergence of overall patterns of achievement and challenge, and I hope that you will progress to your own visions of such realities—at least in dreams, for they will sustain you.

[...] “How about his dream last night? [...]

(Jane has written an account of her dream. [...]

Ruburt did an excellent job with that, and the dream also shows that so-called unconscious material will come to the surface of the mind when it is requested. [...]

There must be a vast amount of pertinent dream information ready for the tapping, however, and maybe with Seth’s help Jane and I can eventually learn more about the undoubtedly therapeutic roles our joint and individual dreams have played as we contended with the challenges posed by her physical difficulties. Many questions arise: Even granting our personal reservations about influences being exerted within our current lives through past, future, as well as other present existences, what about exchanges on dream levels concerning Jane’s symptoms between or among any of our reincarnational selves, our counterpart selves, or various combinations of the two? [...] To what extent does Jane’s physical infirmity mushroom into other probable realities through the dream state? [...]

I’ve hardly mentioned our dreams. As related to Jane’s physical symptoms, they have remained largely unconscious phenomena: We knew all along that we were often having “symptom dreams,” but didn’t recall them consistently enough to be able to do much conscious work with them. [...] Obviously, we made our choices in that respect long ago: As far as the deeply charged subject of Jane’s illness was concerned, we decided to keep most of our dream work on intuitive and unconscious levels. [...]

[...] While at work in my own writing room I occasionally hear her talking to herself as she sits at her card table in the living room, just down the hall: I’ve learned that on such occasions, she’s asleep and often dreaming aloud, solving the psychological equations continually arising among the levels of her psyche as she pursues her chosen learning processes. [...] While I spend all of this time working on these essays for Dreams, I’m always afraid I’m leaving her alone too much. [...]

But that simple statement also means that our dream work relative to Jane’s challenges has often been powerfully abetted by Seth in many of the 347 completely private and 159 partially private sessions he’s given us since November 1965. [...]

[...] And you dreamed a great dream and the dream had to do with an instrument called the piano, and you wondered how you could bring this instrument about and how it could be made and how it would work. [...]

[...] Now these selves know how to heal, and in the dream state they will indeed do so if you allow them to. You carry many of your misconceptions into certain areas of your dream reality and even there you close many doors. [...]

[...] They had a dream. [...]

[...] For as you were created, so you create and those thoughts of yours that you consider meaningless and that escape from you, and those dreams of yours that you consider meaningless and that escape from you, these are also given vitality and existence for you cannot help but create even as you have created. [...]

[...] Waking, she said she’d dreamed that she was home in the shower, on her hands and knees part of the time, with the water cascading upon her head. [...] We hoped the dream was another therapeutic episode along the way. [...]

[...] The small but vivid “dream” is an example of a mental spontaneous exercise that in its fashion is every bit as effective as a physical exercise—and such spontaneous normal motion points the way toward the body’s further physical activity. [...]

[...] When I got up for supper she said she’d dozed briefly and had another, briefer dream episode like the one she’d had earlier. [...]

[...] (See Volume 1 of “Unknown” Reality.) In the realities in which you saw him in the dream state, he was a wanderer—lonely, from your viewpoint, not his. The dreams represented your symbolic understanding that he was “a loner” in the probability in which you knew him—and in that guise you saw your father.

[...] Some of the dreams did involve other probabilities, however, in which members of your family died at different times than in your world, as with the dream involving Loren (my younger brother).

[...] These included promised material on my “probability dreams” involving family members; Jane’s hang-ups about finishing the two Seven novels she has started; and whether her teeth might have anything to do with her eye condition.

(Tonight Seth came through with excellent material on my probability dream question, and on reincarnation. [...]

[...] He related a dream in which he went to turn the TV set off, but it stayed on no matter how many times he clicked it off and on. [...]

[...] I believe you know this and now I will interpret your dream for it has to do with religion. [...]

[...] In the dream you could not turn it off, and you put up a shield. [...]

[...] This also has something to do, as you see, with the dream. [...]

[...] I knew I wasn’t dreaming. I even remembered reading at various times that when projecting one knows the difference between that state and a dreaming one. [...]

[...] As I lay dozing I gave myself suggestions that I would recall my dreams in the morning and write them down. [...]

[...] On a different occasion I had a rather small out-of-body that trailed behind it, for almost two weeks, a series of incomplete projections or dream experiences containing distorted elements of such phenomena. [...]

[...] They are recalled when there is some reason to do so, some merit or obvious achievement involved, as in societies where it is considered highly advantageous to use dreams and projections.