“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] In the meantime I want to tie together Dreams and the last Seth-Jane book, The Individual and the Nature of Mass Events. [...] At the same time I’ll be taking Jane’s dictation for Dreams. Along with my painting and dream recording, both of which I do in the mornings, all of these activities come together in just the kind of busy, creative life I greatly enjoy. [...]

[...] Since a lot of that kind of information was presented in Mass Events, Jane and I don’t intend for much of it in Dreams. [...] All of them are related to our work with the Seth material and Mass Events, however, and will, I’m sure, be reflected in Dreams. [...]

[...] In Mass Events Seth spent considerable time discussing the deeper and very similar meanings behind both of those belief systems—or cults, as he called them—and Jane and I hope he continues to do so in Dreams. Now it even seems to us that in Mass Events Seth began preparing us for Dreams long before Jane and he ever mentioned that work by name.

[...] I keep thinking of something simpler, like Dreams and Evolution: A Seth Book. [...] Or how about Dreams, Evolution, and Creativity …?”

The secondary personalities find fulfillment mainly in the dream world, but the dream world is as actual and as real, as effective and efficient as your own. [...]

[...] Thoughts, dreams, purposes and intents, plans and wishes are constantly speeding outward from the core of self unimpeded. [...]

[...] We have spoken of the dream world, and of its having a psychic reality, without space or time as you know it, and an evolution and value fulfillment quite independent of the meager attention that you give it.

[...] Every psychic action, and a psychic action is any psychic happening such as a dream, or thought, that may have no existence in terms of space and time, every psychic action then contains within it the potentialities of value fulfillment, transference, and even energy transformation.

[...] Now in dreams and in the dream framework you have the feeling of experiencing many hours, or even days. These days or hours that you seem to experience in dreams are not recorded by the physical body, and are outside of your physical time camouflage. If in a dream for example you experience within the framework two days, physically you do not age for these two days.

[...] For one thing, psychological time is so much a part of inner reality that even though your inner self is still connected to the physical body, you are in the dream framework free of some very important physical effects. Now as your dreams seem to involve you in duration that is independent of your clock time, and I have much more to say here, so can you achieve the actual experience of duration as far as your inner visions are concerned.

You can never force them to exist for a specified period of clock time, nor for that matter can you do that to a dream. Though this may sound impossible at this stage, nevertheless you can control such data when in a waking state better than you can control a dream. [...]

Physical time, or that is clock time, was invented by man’s ego to protect the ego itself, because of the mistaken conception of dual existence—that is, because man felt that a predictable conscious self did the thinking and the moving, and an unpredictable almost automatic self did the breathing and dreaming. [...]

(I told Jane that I’d had a half-remembered dream of my own last night, involving my going back to work for Stu Komer of the old Artistic plant. [...] I said I wouldn’t mind Seth commenting on the dream. [...]

(Jane described her own vivid dream of last night, which I can only approximate here. [...] I thought the dream very positive, and showed that Jane was shedding old beliefs and starting anew with new ones. [...]

[...] The meaning of the dream is as follows: In the beginning you and he are about to lecture or address small children, which means that you were both invoking the spontaneous, creative portions of yourselves, which in the truest sense are childlike. [...]

[...] Proper suggestions should indeed be given before bed, along with the request for further therapeutic dreams and dreams that will give insight.

(“Do you want to say something about Jane’s dream?”)

For several reasons I would prefer to discuss the dream at our next session. [...]

[...] The constructive suggestions before bed are particularly important, and the request for therapeutic dreams, as these automatically relieve the morning symptoms, and further dissipate the lingering mother identification.

(4:45 p.m. I forgot to tell Jane about a dream I had last night. Not very elaborate: I’d dreamed that I’d been visiting some friends, a married couple, I believe, and that they had a number of cats of their own in the place. [...]

[...] I worked on Dreams this morning, and mailed our letters to Maude Cardwell on my way to the hospital this noon. [...]

(In my dream I’d written that he had a heart attack, but this appears to be off the mark, although pinpointing the correct area of his trouble. At times I’ve even wondered if I recorded the dream accurately, since in it I didn’t see him having a heart attack, only rubbing his chest area with Margaret helping him, and myself there as only a witness. Margaret thinks the dream remarkable, and is going to check details time-wise.)

(4:38.) Your dream, Joseph, as you supposed, represented a state of mind and of confusion. [...] Ruburt could have had the same kind of dream, for example.

(My dream Seth referred to took place yesterday morning, and was so vivid I lay awake for an hour after having it. [...]

[...] “Do you want to say something about his dream of this afternoon?” Jane’s copy of her dream is attached.)

Now many beliefs that are unfortunate, in your terms, are worked out through creativity at other levels, so that dreams, intuitions, and mental processes work together with bodily expression toward a resolution. [...]

The eyeglass dream portion: the old black frames of the glasses represented old beliefs. [...]

This portion of the dream represents his realization that his eyes are clearing. [...]

You may have dreams urging you to move in such and such a direction, or pointing out areas in which corrections should be made. Often such dreams bring about behavior changes whether or not you remember them in the morning. You may request dreams in which proper direction is given, and you will receive them. If you ask on the one hand, however, and do not believe in the therapeutic nature of dreams on the other, you will short-circuit any such activity. [...] Instead you are saying, “I will have a dream to help me, and yet I do not believe I can have such a dream.”

[...] Dream periods provide that service, of course, so that in dreams the two egos can meet and merge to some extent, comparing notes like strangers who perhaps meet on a train at night, and are amazed to discover, after some conversation, that they are indeed close relatives, each embarked upon the same journey though seemingly they travelled alone.

(10:14.) In those terms the undifferentiated area is actually filled with motion as psychological transitions and translations are made, until in dreams the two egos often merge into each other — so that sometimes you waken briefly with a sense of elation, or a feeling that in dreams you have met an old and valued friend.

[...] It is the you you identify with, so it is as aware of your dreams, for example, as you are, and it is quite conscious of the fact that its existence rests upon knowledge that it does not itself possess.

[...] A second experience convinced me of the high validity of dream existence, for in it a dream was split open while I watched.

A Blundering Trance
Two Fugitives from the Dream World

[...] In the next moment, a fascinating series of events occurred that were to culminate in the third dream-state experience mentioned earlier in this book. [...]

The next thing I knew, I was dreaming that two men stood by the bed, talking to me. [...]

(This leaflet had a good emotional connection to Jane, since a very few days before we went to the bureau she had a dream concerning an atomic attack, radiation, contamination, etc.; in the dream she saw a building and a floor plan that were very much similar to the actual layout of the local bureau. The data contained in the leaflet closely paralleled the dream; therefore Jane was quite pleased to discover stacks of these leaflets at the motor vehicle bureau. [...]

[...] As stated, the envelope object had good emotional connections for both of us, with the added connection of the dream material mentioned on page 260. The dream material was not specifically mentioned by Seth, however. [...]

[...] In the dream state often portions of these probable events are experienced in a semiconscious manner. [...]

When this does happen it usually occurs as a bleed-through from the subconscious from the dream state, for the subconscious is somewhat acquainted with probabilities, and to some degree experiences these in a problem-solving manner. [...]

[...] This rather unusual situation came about because after lunch today she wrote excellent analyses of two dreams I’d had recently. [...] Then Jane proceeded to come through with much evocative material on dreams—our second reason for excerpting the session for Mass Events. Some of the more generalized dream material is presented below; some of the more individualized portions [which, in fact, came at the start of the session] are given in Note 2.

[...] 9/63, after having a vivid dream about it the night before. She made notes on the dream.

But dreams travel wondrous wires.

These dreams make little impression upon the waking consciousness unless you train it and take it with you as far as it can go. It is then able to translate the dream reality at least in part. [...]

[...] The closest example in your experience of this mobility is the dream situation.

I mention such possibilities because such situations have not been dreamed of, and they should be taken into consideration. [...]

[...] Earlier in the afternoon I’d described my very vivid dream of last night, and asked that Seth comment on it if he came through: I’d found myself in a large studio, painting like mad on large canvases. [...] At least some of the portraits reminded me of Rembrandt’s work, in the dream. [...]

(In the second part of the dream, I was confronting the youngish director of a funeral parlor—this after I’d made my exciting breakthrough into complete mastery and control, yet freedom, as an artist. [...]

[...] I told Jane the dream had awakened strong urges in me to start painting in just that manner—and I knew that I could carry on just that way. [...]

[...] (The crying.) His arms also showed additional freedom—and in many instances portions of his body moved with the same kind of ease that you experienced in your dream of last evening, as you painted the large portraits—

Now you are used, to some extent, to studying your dreams for precognitive information and checking dream events against future events, but you are not used to checking your reactions in the waking state today against the information that you learn tomorrow. [...]

[...] Now each of you in your own way, particularly in the dream state, are intimately acquainted with this invisible portion of yourselves. [...]

([Sue:] “Are you giving Jane and Rob information about the personality characteristics of the probable selves of my dream?”)

([Sue:] “Is that their dream state I am contacting or their waking state?”)

(Note also that Jane had this experience during what she first thought was a dream on October 15,1965. See the 199th session and the notes on her two dreams. Seth at the time told us the first “dream” was not a dream.)

A dream for example again does not have the solidity of a chair, but a dream does have reality in physical terms. [...]

([Tam:] “Do you mean the cape I had on in my dream?”

(Note: earlier that week, I had a dream in which I had crawled through the air, wearing a light, felt-like beige cloth over my shoulders. [...]

(Note: Later that week, I had a similar dream, but the cloth was folded underneath my thighs, bearing me along in a sitting position about six feet above the ground. [...]