“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

If this information becomes available in the dream state you may then say, “I am frightened of dreams. My bad dreams so often come true.” So you try to inhibit memory of your dreams. [...]

[...] If you dwell on ideas of danger or potential disaster, if you think of the world mainly in terms of your physical survival and consider all those circumstances that may work against it, then you may find yourself suddenly aware of precognitive dreams that foretell incidents of accidents, earthquakes, robberies or murders.

(With many pauses:) Dictation … The unknown reality, probable man, dreams, the spin of electrons, the blueprints for reality — all of these are intimately related.

[...] The dream state would be seen as an inexhaustible fountain of information. [...]

I am aware that some of this sounds “retrogressive,” for I am even suggesting a situation in which politicians or statesmen would learn to “dream wisely” — and become aware of the psyche, the mass psyche, of their people, and tune into the “private oracle.”

[...] The dream-art scientist, the true mental physicist, the complete physician — such designations represent the kinds of training that could allow you to understand the unknown, and therefore the known reality, and so become aware of the blueprints that exist behind the physical universe. [...]

You sleep and dream and waken daily, and know that you are you. So in your physical life you die and begin a new life, with little memory of the one that has gone before, as you find it so difficult to recall your dreams. Through exercises you can consciously remember some dreams. [...]

(The data at the beginning of the session re unexpected word concerning a book reminded Jane of an amusing dream she had last night, and which she has written down per usual: She dreamed that her science-fiction novel, The Rebellers, was being made into a movie.

In out-of-body experiences from the dream state however, there is a lowering rather than a heightening of body temperature, even though dream elements are involved.

[...] Dreams themselves activate physical temperature however, and all bodily processes. [...]

[...] The recent dream experiments are highly superficial in this regard. [...]

[...] Seth talked about many things, but his remarks here, as I’ve put them together, mainly concerned a subject he’d first discussed with members of class just a week ago [on October 1]¹ — the “city” they could start building in their individual and collective dream states:)

(In that class session Seth had much more to say about the dream city. [...]

[...] There, I hope, you will work at developing skills, in terms of the dream-art scientist (for instance; see Session 700 in Volume 1 of ‘Unknown’ Reality), and learn other professions than the ones you now know.”

In Ruburt’s dream last night, he was dancing. [...] The dream in Framework 2 is as much a definite plan for a normally walking body as any Oversoul Seven that did result in the book. The original Seven did come from a dream, from a drama occurring in Framework 2—but there were no negative beliefs to block it, no habits of erecting impediments. Other dreams of Ruburt’s health did not materialize because their creativity was blocked by an insistence upon following, in that regard, the most limiting of Framework 1’s premises.

[...] I have given you important hints in that direction, and I will also see that Ruburt has help in the dream state.

[...] Again, I will see that you do have help in Framework 2, and in the dream state.

(Sue read her dream of the York Beach couple and the changes in them from the first dream.)

(During break Sue explained to Jane, giving more details of her dream.)

Now, in our friends dream of probable reality what you have, though none of you will admit it for some time particularly this one (to Molly), is practical experience with probable reality as it exists with people that you know. [...]

(To Molly.) I was telling you that it will take awhile to admit that what we are saying in class is a fact that applies to your life, and that it will take you awhile to become acquainted with your own probable reality for you have a very strong existence in a particular probable reality, and you are aware of it to some extent in some of your dreams but you often forget these. [...]

[...] Valid information gained in the dream state was memorized in the morning. One Speaker heard another’s lesson in the dream state. On the other hand, pertinent physical data was also communicated one to another in the dream state, and both states were utilized to a high degree. [...]

[...] These can take place in either the waking or dream state, and they serve to open up the reservoirs of knowledge and make past training available.

[...] Both of you are being trained by other Speakers who are themselves between lives, this occurring in your dream states. [...]

[...] Much of her training, as Jane, took place in the dream state. [...]

[...] You are doing very well, as you know, in your dream work. [...] It is too expensive to try to follow someone else’s way, and that is the message of the dream. [...]

[...] I suggest that you use this as a basis for psy-time and also keep it in mind in your dream states. [...]

[...] And in the dream state and in psy-time the answers will be given to you. [...]

(During break Gert explained that in a dream she had taken a hammer to her father.)

Now, form number one will spring out of an ordinary dream state. In spontaneous projections you may become conscious in form number one, legitimately project, return to the ordinary dream state, and project again several times. You can expect therefore that these projections will be difficult to interpret, though you may find the experience intact in the middle of the record of any given dream.

[...] If you treat it as a reality however, then you must deal with it as such, until you realize its origin, or return to the ordinary dream state.

[...] The ordinary dream elements will not be as frequent, nor will they intrude as much into the experience itself.

[...] You think then, “This was no projection, simply a dream.”

You, in your dreams, have many, many purposes. The main point of the dream, however, was that a portion of you was reminding you of abilities that you had. [...]

[...] After a discussion of that, Valerie described a dream in which a face appeared, then Seth came through.)

[...] Now, often in your dreams you are able to perceive such other situations, but you often wind them into dream paraphernalia of your own, in which case upon awakening you have little clear memory.

[...] The personality itself seems to be having a nightmare, or a series of recurring dreams, during which it returns to the physical environment. [...]

You wrote recently that to some extent or another your daily reality was being changed by your dream recall—an excellent point. [...]

[...] I suggested you do the library together again for that reason—and your dream contest is good for that reason.

I have personally mentioned often the bed reorientation, which would help both of your dream activities, and add to your general well-being also. [...]

In dreams and reverie you may recall past existences. (To me:) You will not reincarnate again in physical terms, but those who will can also have dreams in which they catch a glimpse of their own future life.

[...] You can however have dreams in which you can catch a glimpse into your own next existence, which will not be in your known physical plane.

Both you and Ruburt, in your dream states, have already to some degree become acquainted with what your work will be. [...]

[...] They can also be observed briefly by those still within the physical plane in the dream state if they are far enough progressed. [...]

Ruburt has not worked on the dream book since Fell’s letter. [...] Work on the dream book should now be added daily however, and the suggestions read before the work is begun each day.

Had he been working on the dream book also there would have been some noticeable improvement by now, because of the financial conditions there also. [...]

If he works on his dream book daily now, for at least two hours, this plus the benefit from his classes should give noticeable improvement. [...]

[...] It can be applied also when he is working on his dream book.

[...] We will almost immediately embark upon a more concentrated study of the personality as it operates within its dream reality.

We will also discuss a matter which will be of extreme interest in the area of therapy, for we will be concerned with health and its relation to the dream universe. [...]

In future sessions, in the immediate future, we will deal with the dream universe in relation to many new aspects which we have not considered in the past.

You will then discover that this dream situation can be used for your own advantage. [...]

(I asked Seth for his interpretation of my dream on Sunday morning, June 25, in which I was highly upset to see my father careening backward in a truck, down Pinnacle Road. A copy of Seth’s comments is attached to the dream.)

[...] Instead, you discover the car does not crash—and not only that, but your father is much more vigorous at the end of the dream than he was in the beginning. [...] Your father was used as the main character, of course, because he is referred to in your notes, because you planned photographs of him in the beginning, and because in the dream he represented the disapproving portions of your own personality.

The dream was meant to do two things: point out the fears that were still present, and to show you that though present, they were groundless. [...]

[...] It knows no limits (all intently). In those terms, the atoms dreamed the cells into physical being—and from that new threshold of physical activity cellular consciousness dreamed of the myriad organizations that could emerge from this indescribable venture.

[...] In deeper terms, however, that purpose is also known now, and to one extent or another the entire universe dreams of it, as once cellular consciousness dreamed of the organs that it might “form.”

We will for now, however, confine ourselves to a discussion of consciousness in the beginning of the world, stressing that the first basis of physical life was largely subjective, and that the state of dreaming not only helped shape the consciousness of your species, but also in those terms served to provide a steady source of information to man about his physical environment, and served as an inner web of communication among all species. [...]

[...] She’s been picking up from Seth on Dreams quite often. [...]

(After a discussion of probabilities, Ned related his dream of killing the fish.)

[...] First of all, the fish was a part of himself that he materialized within the dream state. [...]

The dream served several purposes. [...]

[...] However, the dream taught him that the violence within himself was not big and threatening and did not need to be feared. [...]

So even if I was focused elsewhere and my consciousness turned inward, a spotlight was thrown upon our world from that other viewpoint, almost as if a character in one of our dreams suddenly came awake, walked out of the dream, and dared comment on our waking world. Perhaps this isn’t a good analogy — Seth is far from a dream character, and in fact I hardly ever dream of him at all — but he is a personality whose platform of reality isn’t the same as ours, a personality who writes books through me, but from his standpoint, not mine.

[...] That our dreams come alive at midday; that our feelings and beliefs turn into the reality we experience; that, in deeper terms, we are the events in which we participate, and that murder for the sake of an ideal is still murder. [...]

[...] So though he hasn’t begun it as of this writing, two days later, surely he will start dictating Dreams, “Evolution,” and Value Fulfillment any day now. [...]