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(Long pause.) Ruburt had a dream with excellent connotations, in which he looked through a beautiful old house of lovely carved wood and spacious rooms, and decided to move into the house, even though it was in an area that had previously nearly been condemned — signifying that he was indeed rising from beliefs that he condemned into a larger, spacious area of expression.

(“Last night?” Jane hadn’t told me about the dream.

(Note: Just as Jane had had this dream, I’d read an article in the Star-Gazette to the effect that a few blocks near downtown Elmira, including the apartment house we’d lived in at 458 W. Water Street, had been designated a Historical Preservation Area by New York State. [...]

[...] You have set aside, however, the conventional idea of a family, as symbolized by your (car) dream of the other evening. [...]

(As we prepared for the session I mentioned that I wouldn’t mind if Seth commented on a particularly vivid dream I’d had last night. I’d written a detailed account of it upon arising, as I do with all dreams I recall, and Jane had read it as we ate breakfast. [...]

[...] Seth did discuss my dream of last night, explaining in some detail how I’d busily constructed a second dream self so that I could carry on a dialogue expressing creative impatience with myself: I was eager to embark upon new ventures in painting and writing, even while I was recording Mass Events for Jane and Seth, and preparing for publication.)

[I] am writing down two dream experiences, each with some nightmare elements, though not too intense. [...]

[...] Then again I went into a nightmarish quality dream, with no story line. [...]

([Sue:] “Then the dream was valid?”)

It was indeed to lift you, as it did you, in your dreams from the ordinary world that you know. [...]

[...] I explained my answers to the scratching through the pendulum—that I was “itching” to get back to work on Dreams after several interruptions. [...]

[...] She couldn’t. I wanted to quote from it for a note in Dreams.

[...] She’d also had a dream last night in which she’d been trying on new clothes. [...]

([Sue:] “I haven’t been remembering my dreams.”)

You sit here and tell me you cannot remember your dreams; then why do you not want to remember? [...]

[...] Two in particular in the dream state and one involving him. [...]

[...] Some periods of dream activity do indeed supersede those of some waking states. [...]

[...] The ego feels threatened by the extended “leave of absence” it must take, becomes wary of sleep, and sets up barriers against the dream state. [...]

[...] The symbolism in dreams would appear with greater clarity, not, for example, be lost through the many hours you now give to sleep.

The arm crookedness developed shortly after he turned down the summer position, though by stages, and is related to the fact that the dream book, a possible means of support, is not ready to be sent out. Work on the dream book will help relieve the arm symptoms. [...]

The dream book should be concentrated upon, and the other ideas he has in mind worked up. [...]

[...] These can be dissipated if Ruburt reminds himself before sleeping of his intent to work on the dream book tomorrow and Friday morning.

[...] (Long pause.) The concentration upon the dream book, along with other writing ideas and the classes, will insure the rapid recovery. [...]

(See my probability dream, as I called it, involving Dick on the night of Sunday, October 26, 1975. In the dream I didn’t see Teresa, as I remember it. [...] Nor, in the dream, do I recall learning Teresa was going to give birth, even though I didn’t see her in it. [...]

[...] Much of your experience in the heroic dimensions occurs in the dream state, and is then somewhat distorted. [...]

[...] I will also enlarge the frontiers of your dreams. [...]

There is a delicate connection here with the dream universe that is somewhat difficult to explain. The dream universe, however, pervades many other fields. [...] It appears, and is a reality, to all aspects or portions of the self, and often it is only within the dream universe that the personality can change focus easily or efficiently enough so that he can perceive the variety of roles that he himself has played.

[...] Your own behavior and action within the dream universe definitely affects the physical universe. [...] In the same manner do the activities of the physical universe alter the dream system. [...]

[...] Even the dream field is self-generating. [...]

I mentioned the chemical relationship between your universe and the dream universe. [...]

1. I suggest that in connection with this note the reader review the 891st session for December 26, 1979, in Chapter 3 for Volume 1 of Dreams, where Seth referred to the American hostage affair as “a materialized mass dream.”

Here in Dreams Seth uses the uncertainty principle as an analogy (and an excellent one), meaning that as the positions and motions of elementary particles, say, cannot be simultaneously measured precisely, so our genetic qualities and their motions can not always be specifically determined. In Dreams he’s already said (in Session 909) that the human species has an “amazing interplay between genetic preciseness and genetic freedom,” and (in Session 910) that “your genetic structure reacts to each thought that you have, to the state of your emotions, to your psychological climate.” [...]

[...] Now dreams also provide you with another universal kind of language, one that unites all peoples to one extent or another, regardless of their physical circumstances or nationalities or alliances.

[...] The security, the integrity, and the brilliance of each individuality rises in these terms from that universal genetic language, and also from the inner subjective universal language of dreams. [...]

[...] Now, as I told you, you have experiences in the dream state and in the waking state of which you are not even physically aware. Now, you also often develop abilities in the dreaming and sleep state and perform work and creative activities of which you are not aware. Now, if you really learn to keep track of your dreams and record them over a period of time, you may get a clue as to what these activities are. There are other ways of obtaining clues in psychological time, for example, but if I were you, I would be much more curious about what I do in my dreams for you can utilize these abilities in the waking state. [...]

“Linden and his wife were close to their present physical ages in the dream, a year or so younger than I am, at 54, but Stella looked to be a few years younger than she should have been [she died at 81]. I know I created my dream image of her to make our communication understandable to me — yet I felt that she was alive, in our terms and in hers. My mother was obviously in control of her faculties, even though she appeared to be a little distraught … The fact that she looked past me speaks of some sort of barrier, or distance, between us even in the dream state. [...]

(Pause, eyes wide, staring at me.) Now for your dream. [...] Ruburt’s (written) comments about the dream are also pertinent, showing your own caution. [...]

5. This “margin of safety” between my mother and me is beautifully illustrated in my dream of two nights ago. And as if to further reassure my conscious mind, I saw my mother with people who were still “living”; this has been the case in other recent dream experiences I’ve had with her. [...]

(3. “It would be nice if Seth would say something about the dream I had the night before last, in which I think I contacted my [deceased] mother for the second time.” [...]

[...] As the many hours of our calls quickly accumulated, Laurel and I came to understand through dreams that we had shared reincarnational relationships. [...] She helped me proofread Seth, Dreams, and Projection of Consciousness for Stillpoint Publishing. [...] She’s worked as a researcher of Jane’s material for The Magical Approach — the book she has “most dreamed of working on.” [...]

[...] I painted portraits of her as I met her in my dreams. [...]

[...] After she came out of trance Jane told me that she had picked up from Seth that he liked the way my painting of “the dog” — Gus, from my dream of August 16 — [...] In the meantime I’m going back to work on my impressionistic tree painting and the one of the dream man and boy in blue.)

(I’m busy figuring out various chronologies to use as background and reference material in my notes for Seth’s next book, Dreams, “Evolution,” and Value Fulfillment. [...]

[...] I will return later to the purposes of man’s conscious mind in nature, and part of that discussion will fall in our book (Dreams).

In a like manner for example, the act of dreaming itself changes both the dreamer and the dream. [...]

[...] She knew she was not dreaming, and was possibly in a drowsy state again. [...]

[...] In many cases it is the I who dreams, bringing valuable information to the personal subconscious, information that may be then used for the benefit of the outer ego itself.

[...] It is much more familiar with the subconscious and with the dream universe, and with the inner self, than it is with the outside ego, however.

The suggestion that he have heating dreams will work now, for work can indeed be done in the dream state that would otherwise take physical time.

[...] You have been afraid of dreaming of physical success, for fear you would not succeed, but the dreams are what makes Ruburt’s improvements possible.

[...] Dream about where you would go. Open your minds to such dreams, for when you do you do not close your imaginations. [...]

(First is my dream of the night before, which I described to Jane in case she had a session and Seth wanted to comment. I dreamed in color that Jane and I had moved back to Sayre, Pennsylvania — my home town — to Mrs. Potter’s old apartment at 317 S. Elmer Avenue. [...]

(No interruptions this morning, Monday, January 9. I worked on taxes for an hour, Dreams the rest of the time. [...]

[...] I’d idly speculated with Jane about whether the reacquaintance with the Potters — Lois is Mrs. Potter’s adopted daughter — had any connection with my dream about our moving back to the apartment we’d had in the Potter house in Sayre.)

(It wasn’t until I was ready to leave 330 that I realized I hadn’t asked Seth to comment on my dream of the night before — involving our returning to the Potter apartment-house in Sayre. [...]

[...] In the beginning, then, there was a dream world, in which consciousness formed a dream of physical reality, and gradually became awake within that world.

In the Preface for Dreams I mentioned Jane’s idea for a second book of poetry. [...]

Earlier today Jane and I had talked about Seth’s resuming work on Dreams. [...]

[...] In your terms the magnetic fields themselves fluctuated—but all of the species were there at the beginning, though in the same fashion, for as the dream world broke through into physical reality there was all of the tumultuous excitement and confusion with which a mass creative event is achieved. [...]

[...] First of all you had the inner self, the creative dreaming self—composed, again, of units of consciousness, awareized energy that forms your identity, and that formed the identities of the earliest earth inhabitants. These inner selves formed their own dream bodies about them, as previously explained, but the dream bodies did not have to have physical reactions. [...]

So far in our discussion, then, we have an inner self, dwelling primarily in a mental or psychic dimension, dreaming itself into physical form, and finally forming a body consciousness. [...]

[...] The inner self still related to dream reality, while the body’s orientation and the body consciousness attained, as was intended, a great sense of physical adventure, curiosity, speculation, wonder—and so once again the inner self put a portion of its consciousness in a different parcel, so to speak. [...]