“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Last Thursday a letter from Prentice-Hall, suggesting that the Dream Manuscript be converted, sort of, into a book dealing with The Seth Material. [...] I was sort of appalled at the lost work in the Dream manuscript but realized Rob has been right along; and the editor was right. [...]

[...] You may become aware of it [or of one of your probable selves] while in the dream state occasionally. I have told you that dream images have a definite reality. [...]

“You may dream of holding an apple, for example, and awaken to find it gone. [...] The I of your dreams can be legitimately compared to the self that experiences probable events. [...]

[...] The probable actions were definitely experienced, however, and such experience makes up the existence of the ‘probable selves’ just as dream actions make up the experience of the dreaming self. [...]

[...] In dreams, often portions of probable events are experienced in a semiconscious manner. [...]

Now let us look at the dream, and also at today’s activities. The dream told him that he had agreed to deaden himself to a certain extent, and that he did not think deadening yourself would be painful. [...]

(Last night Jane had a dream she didn’t like. [...]

The dream initiated your pendulum work on inspiration, for to Ruburt to deaden yourself is to deaden inspiration, which to him is the quickness of life. [...]

“Humanity dreams the same dream at once, and you have your mass world. [...] The dreamer dreams, and the dreamer within the dream dreams. But the dreams are not meaningless, and the actions within them are significant. [...]

[...] The facts should be clear to any person who has ever experienced a valid precognitive dream, clairvoyant event, or telepathic communication.

[...] I think that revelational knowledge comes first in the form of intuitions, dreams, hunches, or experiences such as mine, and that the intellect then uses the information provided. [...]

[...] (Quietly:) Your attitudes toward sleep, dreams, or any alterations of consciousness are all colored to some extent then by beliefs concerning good and evil in your Western society. [...]

This kind of thinking by itself brings about an overall attitude in which rest is frowned upon, and dreams are considered suspect. [...]

[...] In that context, dreams or daydreams are not viewed as constructive or productive.

[...] The work done in dreams, the multitudinous experience encountered there, will be invisible to them. [...]

As far as our dream experiments are concerned, I believe that you will discover definite correlations of a rather important nature that exist between the incidence of precognitive dreams, and data having to do with temperature and weather.

The weather readings from your television station will also be handy in relation to the projected dream experiments.

[...] I do not believe that it is possible for you to carry your dream experiments far enough to discover certain other factors that do exist between various layers of the subconscious, and falling temperature rates in the physical organism. [...]

It would be necessary to take your temperature many times during the evening, and to correlate the findings with the various levels of the subconscious as they displayed themselves through their characteristic activities within the dream series. [...]

[...] Ruburt’s own old suggestion—be critical in your dreams of your dreams. When you know you are dreaming you can indeed project. [...]

[...] You may find it of benefit also to imagine a flying dream, or form a dream consciously in which you feel me waiting for you to let go the cares of the day, and ready to help you leave your body.

[...] This often occurs with the help of the dream state.

[...] The supraself under certain conditions is made known to you, sometimes in dreams. [...]

[...] Its abilities can be used—they are to some extent in projections, from either the waking or dream state.

(For while approaching the end of the exercise routine I am quite aware that I will be in an extremely relaxed mood, and that as I lay resting I can count on drifting into a state where dreams reveal themselves. [...] My point is that I am usually aware that such passages are transpiring as I lay quietly; I am not asleep yet some of the material seems to be dreams. [...]

(The other morning in a burst of inspiration Jane wrote out a full outline, including chapter breakdown, of the book she intends to write after she finishes the first book on the Seth Material, and the book on dreams that she now has well under way.

I am still waiting for the day when you become aware of your own dreams while you are awake, and conscious at the same time, fully, of your physical environment, and able to operate normally at the same time in the physical universe.

(Many sessions ago, I believe within the first 50, Seth told us we should one day be aware of our dreams while fully conscious. [...]

In dreaming, such a dissociated state as Ruburt reached is of course the rule, only here the ability is used to form the dream images. But these dream images work for the entity as a whole and serve as a means for the various personalities to communicate. [...]

There are various types of dreams and dream fragments. [...]

[...] They are usually not messages as most dreams are from past personalities to the present personality, though they may be messages from the primary personality to itself, as notice of fear or panic that may exist directly beneath the strata of the primary personality.

(“Can you tell us something about the dream Jane had, in which she seemed to be receiving instructions on psychic phenomena?”

Pretend that you have seven dreams at once and you the dreamer know that you are dreaming. Within each dream 100 earthly years may pass —but to you the dreamer no time has passed, and there is no time to pass, for you are free of the dimension in which time exists. The time you seem to spend within the dream, within each life, is only an illusion, and to the inner self no moment has passed, and to the inner self there is no time. [...]

Seth also appears frequently in the dreams of my students, giving them instructions that work — either involving methods of using their abilities or of achieving certain goals. Almost all of my students have frequent “class dreams,” also, in which Seth addresses them as a group and initiates dream experiments. [...] I have awakened many times, when such dream sessions were taking place, hearing Seth’s words still lingering in my mind.

It’s not unusual that students should dream of Seth, of course, or that they should dream of me. But certainly Seth has achieved independent status in their eyes and has become a vehicle of instruction even in the dream state. [...]

The next chapter will deal with the eternal validity of dreams as gateways into these other realities, and as open areas through which the “inner self” glimpses the many facets of its experience and communicates with other levels of its reality.

The next chapter will deal further with this subject, as I relate the various ways that I have entered the dreams of others, both as an instructor and as a guide.

Yet if you examine your beliefs more carefully you will find one of many possible beliefs, such as, “I’m afraid to remember my dreams,” or, “My dreams are always unpleasant,” or, “I’m afraid to know what I dream about,” or, “I want to remember my dreams but — they may tell me more than I want to know!”

You may be trying to remember your dreams — another example. [...] You may say, “Consciously I want to remember my dreams, but my suggestions do not work. [...]

Much of the needed development takes place in the dream state. I wanted to mention that particular dream of yours, Joseph, in which you saw yourself at your back window. [...]

[...] When you carry the waking I into the dream state, this is one approach to this different consciousness. [...]

[...] In periods of exuberance, when you are working well, and your health is extraordinarily good, when you are able to remember and manipulate your dreams, then such periods are signs of the emergence of this new consciousness.

[...] The symptoms are these: Poor memory, or none, of his dreams; no poetry; a consistent lower-than-usual level of exuberance. [...]

[...] Our agreement was that in the meantime she was to start checking the sessions and my notes for Dreams; then I was to type the final manuscript. [...] Instead she napped or drifted—even as she does now—while intermittently reading and rereading our material for Dreams without ever doing anything with it.

[...] During other longer periods, say, those resources may direct themselves toward healing or dreaming—or possibly both.

After some hesitation following my question about having a session this evening, Jane decided she wanted to contribute introductory material for Dreams. This was to be a new experience for us: Because of the arthritis she was having trouble even holding a pen, so she intended to dictate her material as though she were writing it herself in longhand. [...]

In Dreams, “Evolution,” and Value Fulfillment Seth outlines the great cosmic and private energies that in our terms once brought into existence the reality of the universe and the birth of those private, cohesive realities in which our own individual daily lives are couched.

And again, dreams are themselves never completed, but continue on whether or not your perception of them continues. For dreams also are gestalts. [...]

[...] Such knowledge indeed is communicated to the various levels of the self through dreams, as you should know.

[...] Jane has also had clairvoyant dreams involving Miss Callahan.

(The first session in the Preface for Volume 1 of Dreams is a private one that Jane delivered on September 13, 1979. [...]

Last night, as I began typing Monday’s 915th session, I asked Jane why Seth hadn’t just called his “invisible particles” CU’s, or units of consciousness, as he’d done earlier in Dreams,² and as he’d always done in his other books. [...]

1. I also kept track of Jane’s progress as she wrote the Introduction for Mass Events. She finished that excellent piece of work seven months ago—a few days before she delivered the first formal session for the Preface to Dreams, the 881st, on September 25, 1979. [...]

2. Here are the sessions and notes for Volume 1 of Dreams, in which Seth and I discussed or referred to his EE (or electromagnetic energy) units, and his CU’s (or units of consciousness).

[...] I told Jane I hoped Seth would discuss a dream she’d had last night. [...] Seth did analyze the dream at the end of the session, so that material is deleted from the dictation on his book.

Now: If you want something on the dream, I suggest we end dictation for this evening. [...]

(Seth then delivered two excellent pages explaining Jane’s dream. [...]

[...] In the midst of your dreaming you are awake. In the midst of your dreaming you are what we are. [...]

[...]  eons ago we helped create as you are now continuing in what you might call dreams our fantasies now do create. [...]

[...] I worked on Dreams but an hour this morning, and once again, told her that I was concerned about lost working time on the book. [...]

(I told Jane I’d had another one of those long, involved, being-pursued dreams last night, this time involving my brother, Linden, who is 13 months younger than I am. [...]