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[...] It will also include in the opening chapter several occasions when I tried to reach Ruburt in the dream state, and the ways in which I was able to insert several ideas into his dreaming consciousness, and the ways in which the conscious mind utilized and distorted the information.

(After lunch—Jane ate very well—I told her about my vivid little dream of last night. [...] I wasn’t sure of my interpretation of the dream, except that it must involve a reappraisal on my part of Fred’s role in society. [...]

(Long pause.) In your dream, the tree represents the tree of life, or nature, growing on its own, repairing itself as it goes along. [...]

[...] When Ruburt learned about the projected operations, he leapt to the conclusion that this was the meaning of the dream. [...] Part of the subconscious fantasy in the dream was valid, representing a watered-down version of the actual communication — for example, Miss Cunningham’s dark apparel.

[...] There in front of me was the lobby I had seen in my July dream — complete with the glassed-in gift area. [...]

[...] As I stood there, suddenly I “heard” Seth tell me, mentally, that my dream had forseen her condition which would lead to her death.

[...] Immediately he began to discuss Miss Cunningham, and my dream.

[...] Seth referred to the painting I’m working on of my dream of last August 16, — [...] Seth and Jane have both analyzed this excellent dream.² Today I’d shown Jane how far I’ve progressed with a charcoal drawing based upon the dream, with a little preliminary color added to some parts of it.

End of session, with one point: These changes in Ruburt’s body are as magical as any precognitive dream in that regard. [...]

(The theme of the dream had interested me pictorially from the beginning, I told her, but I’d almost lacked the nerve to try a rendition of it in paint. [...]

[...] The realization is like one that comes at one time or another to many people in the dream state, when suddenly they “awaken” while still in the dream, realizing first of all that they are dreaming, and secondarily that they are themselves creating the experienced drama.

[...] In a way, the world is like a multidimensional, exotic plant growing in space and time, each thought, dream, imaginative encounter, hope or fear, growing naturally into its own bloom — a plant of incredible variety, never for a moment the same, in which each smallest root, leaf, stem, or flower has a part to play and is connected with the whole.

Dreams are such connectives, for you see that this preliminary material is very much to the point as far as our dream universe is concerned, and is itself a connective to that discussion. This will be the basis for our next session, for you will see how dreams also serve as the other face, so that man himself stands at a threshold that is also a barrier, or stands at a barrier that is also a threshold.

The dream universe and your own are both actualities, and both separate systems that are interconnected.

It goes without saying however that the characteristics of any system or unit that I have given here must apply to the dream universe, and to your own universe. [...]

[...] We didn’t discuss the dreams or the crying experience, or even read a session after breakfast. Nor have I read her notes on the dreams. “I’d decided I’d deal directly with the world again in the first dream,” she said. [...]

[...] By 3:30 Jane had had a series of three or four dreams—very pleasant in the main, containing “a prognosis, as though I’d made a good decision. [...]

Of course, the experience represents an important point of progress, as do the dream intentions. [...]

(In Chapter 5 of Dreams, in Volume 1, see Note 2 for the 899th session, of February 6, 1980. [...]

[...] “I feel like having a short session tonight,” she said, “but it won’t be for Dreams. [...]

10:10 P.M. “He slips it in on me, that’s what he does,” Jane remarked, when I kidded her about saying the session couldn’t be for Dreams. [...]

Following the accident at TMI, and aside from the great fears “generated” by it, a host of problems began accumulating for the nuclear power industry—involving everything from poor plant design (as Seth commented in the 914th session for Chapter 7 of Dreams), to enormous cost overruns and the fear of default on bond issues, shoddy construction and quality control, human and mechanical error, the disposal of radioactive waste, conflicts with antinuclear and environmental groups, arguments over evacuation plans at various nuclear-plant sites, a greatly expanded list of steps (numbering in the thousands) that the NRC is compiling for utilities to take in order to increase the safety of their plants, and even governmental concern over the possible manipulation and falsification of plant safety records. [...]

In the reincarnational terms, however, the merry-go-round events might be experienced directly in some existences, or appear in a dream in another existence, or turn up simply as an image in another, or happen in an event involving real horses instead of merry-go-round horses. [...]

[...] The last sentence echoes what I wrote in one of the essays for Dreams.)

[...] The dream and Ruburt’s work with beliefs are bringing about these changes. [...]

[...] The results of the dream that I told you would occur, have, in the awakening, so to speak, of the left side of the body relatively—that is, that side was more reluctant before.

[...] Pete didn’t call, and I didn’t do a damned thing except get up, clean up, get the paper and feed the cats, eat breakfast and go to work marking up Chapter 4 of Dreams, which I finished typing a couple of days ago. [...]

(Not long after the session was over I told Jane I meant to ask Seth to comment on the vivid dream I’d had last night about the Gallaghers and an unkempt young man who was living with them. [...]

(Jane said that maybe Seth would return later and talk about the dream, but this didn’t happen. [...]

[...] Had upsetting dream last night. [...] Since last night’s dream involved, I think, a warning of a woman’s death, then the affair seems to tie in. [...]

[...] In dream I think the death must have already happened. [...] Somewhat unsettling dream.)

[...] You will discover, Joseph, that your ability to receive so-called telepathic data is showing itself in psychological time experiments and dreams, as well as in spontaneous flashes during regular consciousness.

[...] Closer attention should be paid to your dreams, the suggestion given by you that you will recall them.

[...] On Wednesday night she’d had a dream involving our Instream-Oswego experience, and a copy of that is attached under February 5. And she had a pair of positive healing dreams that afternoon during her customary nap. These dreams were quite good.

(Putting off Dreams, it seemed to me, was a necessity at the moment because I now believed that the long interlude in her dictation was, again, a clear sign of resistance to the project on Jane’s part. The idea is an attempt to at least call a halt to something that she has resisted from the start, or so it seems in retrospect—and I mean the start of the sessions, not just Dreams. [...]

[...] It’s my personal opinion, at least of the moment, that it will be quite a while before Dreams is either finished or printed. [...] In this interim I may do some work on Dreams myself, or start something of my own.

[...] Dreams, for some time. [...]

[...] Two two-hour periods a week for particular dream activity and out-of-body practice. [...]

[...] He must continue to trust himself, and his dream activity and those periods of relaxation.

[...] At nap time I’d had a very vivid dream in which I was driving a new blue pickup truck down a hill. [...] As it happened I woke up with a start, feeling at first what I thought was a spasm in my chest, but quickly realized it was a part of my dream reaction. [...] Strangely, the spasm episode in the dream involved the color effects I knew I’d get when I glazed the painting: I was vividly aware of the texture of the underpainting as the green color was altered into flesh color by the overlay of warm flesh colors in oil.

Your dream also was a picture of your fears. [...]

([Gert] “Is that what I’ve been getting in my dreams, at the end of a dream?”)

But remember, all of you, that your reality is structured not in logical terms as you think of logic, but that your most chaotic dream, our redhead over here (Sheila), the most important symbolic episode and experiences that you have that seem so unstructured to you, and you do not understand them; that these have their own inner structure that is intuitive and you understand that structure very well whether or not you consciously admit that recognition. [...]

([Sue:] “This just refers to some dreams I’ve had, this circle ceremony. [...]

[...] And I hope you all keep tabs so that you are aware of your dream activities. [...]

(A one-minute pause at 10:05.) Bridge beliefs may become available to you in the dream state. [...] A reconciliation will be felt within the self following such a conscious understanding, though the dream itself may not be consciously remembered. In the dream various symbols may be used. [...] When such dreams are remembered, however, individual symbols, such as crossing a river safely, or an ocean, or bridging a gap or an abyss, are often involved.

[...] This also happens frequently in the dream state, when you allow your natural creativity so much freedom. Often there are dreams in which “you” are two separate people, either strangers or familiar, each asking questions of the other.

[...] I should note here, first, a question I’d asked her yesterday, concerning a line of Seth’s that I’d typed up yesterday in Session 889 for Dreams. [...]

[...] I could see even using his answer as a footnote for that session in Dreams, though the dates wouldn’t fit. [...]

[...] He did go into your thing about matter, didn’t he?” She added that the poem Seth had referred to is the one I used to conclude the introductory essays for Dreams. [...]

[...] How can we become more keenly aware of the facts and implications of our dreams, for example, and the very great influences they exert in our lives? Often our dreams are doorways to other realities. [...]

[...] Because of certain dreams I believe that even portions of my own entity (Seth calls me Joseph) are joining in. [...]

[...] I’d worked on taxes for an hour this morning, and Dreams. [...]

(I also reminded Jane that we’d like a word from Seth on our negative-type dreams of the night before last, and which I’d described in yesterday’s session.)

Both of your “negative” dreams express left-over doubts and fears, and the old concept that the poorest rather than the best outcome of any event will happen. [...]