“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(I intend to copy a page or two of the session to insert in my notebook containing suggestions of notes for Dreams, Seth’s latest book. [...] I also thought we should somehow keep the session in mind, and not let it get lost in the files as the years pass — one of the reasons I want to use part of it in Dreams. [...]

[...] I describe both of these events in my dream notebook.

(9:31.) Give us a moment … As you lay there you were aware of the fact just beneath consciousness — usual consciousness — that you had not brought in the paper before your nap, as is your habit, and almost at a dream level you idly wondered what stories it might contain. [...]

[...] One of them said he’d had “a dream” about having brothers. [...]

[...] Sometimes your greatest moments of understanding come to you in the dream state. [...]

[...] What you do not realize is that when you are dreaming, you are writing the script for your physical life—you are solving simple problems, but lifetime problems you are trying out—probable actions. [...]

(During the break Brad mentioned a teaching position “so good that I don’t dare dream of actually getting it. [...]

The point is: You should dream! [...]

[...] Now whether or not you realize it, each of you intrudes into other systems of reality in your dream states without the full participation of your normally conscious self. In subjective experience you leave behind physical existence and act, at times, with strong purpose and creative validity within dreams that you forget the instant you awaken.

When you think of the purpose of your existence, you think in terms of daily waking life, but you also work at your purpose in these other dream dimensions, and you are then in communication with other portions of your own entity, at work at endeavors quite as valid as those you are about in waking life.

(10:17.) When I contact your reality, therefore, it is as if I were entering one of your dreams. [...]

[...] When you are dreaming, you are experiencing direct knowledge about yourself or about the world. [...] You may comprehend the meaning of a dream without understanding it at all in verbal terms. [...]

Dreams deal with associations and with emotional validities that often do not seem to make sense in the usual world. [...]

Because you tie your experience so directly to time, you rarely allow yourselves any experiences, except in dreams, that seem to defy it. [...]

[...] But you are not sufficiently impressed with the reality of your existence within the dream state. [...] You still do not realize the potential that you have and that you use in the dream state, and that you do not use ordinarily in your waking life. [...]

I have spoken to our Lady of Florence over there on several occasions, in the dream state, since she will not hear me any other way. [...]

[...] In this book, Dreams, “Evolution,” and Value Fulfillment, for example, Seth portrays us as a vibrant, well-intended species—a physically attuned kind of consciousness beautifully tailored by our own cosmic ingredients to live lives of productivity, of spiritual and physical enjoyments, with each individual life in charge of its own fate and adding to the potentials of all other life as well.

[...] So again, how did that experience fit into Seth’s Dreams, “Evolution,” and Value Fulfillment?

And amid all of this frenetic activity our painting and writing—those activities we’d always regarded as the creative hearts of our lives, the very reasons we’d chosen to live on earth this time around—had receded into a far distance, so that they’d become like dimly remembered dreams, or perhaps actions practiced in probable lives by “more fortunate” versions of ourselves.

([Tam:] “He is a dream of a reality? A mutual dream?”)

Now: In your dreams the other personality can communicate and without the psychological bridge framework, but only in dream reality. [...]

You can also develop along the same line in the dream state if you give yourself the suggestion that when you are dreaming you will see color truly and remember the colors that you have seen. [...]

[...] You can also suggest dreams in which you will hear the sort of music, with which you were acquainted. [...]

Now I want you all to pay particular attention to your dreams again for some time. You should meet other Sumari in the dream state, and if you are on your toes you can discover some of the work that you do while you are sleeping and the Sumari that you meet. [...]

[...] There should also be communications in one way or another in the dream state. [...]

Now all of you to some extent in your dream work keep records, and as such you are dealing with language as you know it, and you are interpreting your experience in terms of a mundane language that is as much a deception as it is a reflection of your feelings and experiences, for you cannot find words within your language to express your own feelings and experiences. [...]

([Mary Ellen:] “Not all the people that you meet in the dream state are Sumari, right? [...]

(Tuesday night, June 22,1965, I had another clairvoyant dream which came to pass the next morning on my way to work. I believe it is a case of suggestion, given by a dream, then influencing my behavior, unwittingly, the next day. I hoped aloud that Seth would discuss it tonight, but as in my dream mentioned in the 160th session, he did not. I record all dreams I recall, as does my wife.

[...] It obviously becomes part of the personality-psychological structure, the physical structure, the electrical and chemical structure, invading to some extent even the dream universe.

[...] I described to her a vivid dream I had recently had involving my father, in the hopes that Seth would discuss it. I had not written it down, but plan to start my dream notebook before long.

The inner dream communications are important practically, biologically and symbolically. [...] The dreams restate on other levels his conscious decision to be flexible.

And how about reaching a future life through the dream state, perhaps abetted by hypnosis or self-suggestion before sleep? Our own results have been ambiguous at best, in contrast with the “ordinary” precognitive dreams Jane and I have had, which we can document through our written records. Future-life dream recall may be thoroughly disguised so as to not alarm the guardian, conscious present self. I’ve often speculated that clues to oncoming lives must exist within the hundreds of dreams I’ve recorded.

[...] We were becoming so harried by her worsening physical symptoms when that material started to come through that she gave up working on Dreams and concentrated on those private sessions instead. [...] Jane didn’t return to work on Dreams until July 1981, when the two blocks of sinful-self material had run their courses. By then, she’d held only one session for Dreams in the last 13 months.

[...] Some of our experiences have come in dream states. [...]

I also know that in a couple of chapters for Dreams itself Seth referred to the genetic factors involving reincarnation. [...]

Few overt hints of this appear in Rob’s notes for Dreams. For one thing, the process of withdrawal was slow at the start. For another, when Seth was more than three-quarters of the way through Dreams he began devoting a series of private sessions to an in-depth discussion of “the magical approach”—material that was calculated to help me personally, and others like me, change our approach to experience and thus experience itself. [...]

Indeed, Seth’s material on the magical approach was so fascinating that by the time he finished Dreams I’d already put together large portions of it in a separate book, even if much of it was personal. [...] Ironically, then, in the midst of my own half-conscious withdrawal I’d been giving birth to not only Seth’s Dreams, but several other intriguing long-range concepts. [...]

All of that work—and more—accounts for the long delay in the completion of Dreams, “Evolution,” and Value Fulfillment. Actually, with the exception of one session held in November 1980, I let my work on the book go for over 13 months, from early June 1980 to mid-July 1981.

We might have inserted some of this introductory material into that large gap in Dreams, since very important portions of it were acquired during that time, but we didn’t want to interrupt the sessions for the book with different subject matter. [...]

[...] Now at my request Seth gave over a few paragraphs to what I think is a very perceptive interpretation of a dream I had had last night. I’d told Jane this morning that I knew the dream was quite significant in connection with the work we’re doing with the Seth material, but that I was unable to adequately decipher it. [...]

[...] So much more evidence is available to you: the order of nature; the creative drama of your dreams, that project your consciousness into other times and places; the very precision with which you spontaneously grow, without knowing how, from a fetus into an adult; the existence of heroic themes and quests and ideals that pervade the life of even the worst scoundrel — these all give evidence of the greater context in which you have your being.

[...] Upon awakening, she told me that she remembered receiving hints about the new possible book in two dreams during the previous week. She’d written the dreams down, as usual, while wondering about their significance without being able to explain them: “But this material doesn’t go into Adventures,” she noted after one of the dreams, since she’d thought of that possibility first.

The level and period of your energy can be seen from a study of your dreams. Clairvoyant dreams and dreams of intuitive natures will occur in high level periods. [...]

[...] Success with his dream work depends precisely upon this excess energy still available at day’s end. [...]

There is one small point I wanted to mention this evening, merely for future reference: We have hardly begun any thorough study of the dream universe, and have dealt with it mainly in connection with other discussions. We will however discuss it in detail, and we will use dreams from your own notebooks as examples in this study.

(Jane’s notebook now contains over 300 dreams, and mine somewhat less. The above information may explain why Seth did not discuss my recent clairvoyant dream, which I mentioned in the 160th session.)

The dreams that you are accumulating therefore will be of great benefit to us, and I have not discussed them in our regular sessions because I prefer to use them as the basis for another body of material.

[...] He needed the rest from it, and had he gritted his teeth and plunged back into it, he could have fallen into old frameworks—but following his inclinations, as I told him, he avoided that, and when he begins it again it will be with the relaxed attitudes that his dreams and his newer understanding are teaching him.

The dreams are providing him with excellent personal inner experience, telling him of his progress. [...]

[...] Dreams have this kind of distance. Again, as a simple analogy, in a dream you may travel down a road. [...]

We have been speaking of the electric reality and actuality of thoughts and emotions, and of dreams, and of all such experiences which appear to be purely psychological in origin, and take up no space in your physical universe.

[...] Now indeed this electrical field in which thoughts and emotions and dreams have an independent actuality, this field contains depths and dimensions of a sort most difficult to explain.

(“What did you think of my dream experience involving the back windows of the studio? Did this involve a projection?” See my dream notebook for August 20,1966.)

[...] She likened the experience to manipulated dream images; none of them had bothered her.

[...] All of those dreams, grouped during your illness, were projections, and the result of suggestion. [...]