“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

The dream has several aspects. First the defined steps going upward represented fairly (underlined) ordinary steps that had to be taken, that others had taken before you. They were clearly defined as such. Even then Ruburt wondered about them. They became less defined as you went higher.

He was afraid he would be turned upside down, and in the dream he was before he attained the top. This represents his tendency to look back over the way he has come.

The man represented the reason for the symptoms—the dark side, which you both decide to avoid. You leave him in the woods, and then begin the ascent.

On another level the man represents various distractions of a negative kind; a refusal to be held back by any more commerce with him.

[...] The cats did not represent your physical cats (Mitzi and Billy Two), but old comfortable beliefs about the nature of the spontaneous self connected with ideas he picked up from his mother, in which cats represented the worst aspects of human behavior and impulses: they fawned upon you, yet were evil, and could turn against you in a moment.

[...] It was a feared image of himself, wrapped too tightly in the bedding, which represented the restraints of old beliefs. [...]

[...] The doctor represents newer beliefs, and the spontaneous nature of the self, which can act so much more effectively with those new beliefs.

[...] The earlier portions of the dream did, however, represent fears that Ruburt was, say, dying of suffocation—not physical suffocation, but from being bound too tightly.

Ruburt’s dreams will be part of this evening’s discussion, as they apply directly to him and as they represent the beautiful, even exquisite imagery of the dreaming self in general. The art dream (of June 3), as I call it, has its opening scene in an art gallery, which represents a conventionalized view of art. [...]

[...] The dream gave him three scenes representing various areas of his life in terms of time—the institution of the gallery and his early ideas, the office representing the world, and his hiding place, which was a kind of storage barn. [...]

The second scene takes place in a large office building that represents the world and its usual pursuits. [...]

[...] That woman represents Ruburt’s decision to be done with the symptoms, to stand up, to walk.

4. Suppose further that the next card below represents the same two-dimensional being a moment earlier. And the next one up represents the same being a moment later. Thus each card is, in fact, a moment of the life of the being and the progressive change represents growth. [...]

3. Suppose now that one card in the stack represents a living, intelligent, two-dimensional being at some moment in time. [...]

The promise in the dream made by you, that the events (of Jane’s great flexibility)were indeed happening, represented your inner knowledge that he would make it now, and his own realization of the fact, as well as the body’s acknowledgment. [...] The rooms represented exploration, new areas of creativity in which he is even now involved.

There is always a reason, and so each parent will represent to each child an unspeakable symbol, and often the two parents will represent glaring contrasts and different probabilities, so that the child can compare and contrast divergent realities.

His parents represented two extremes. His mother represented will untempered by spontaneity or relaxation, quite frankly a will for power over others. [...]

Ruburt’s father represented the other extreme, with no firm purpose, seemingly driven willy-nilly, and accomplishing nothing. [...]

[...] The fluid represented several things, it represented seminal fluid in terms of creativity and energy. It also represented the water or fountainhead of spiritual creativity so that both ages merged and you felt that this had been drawn out from you in order to keep you contented within this artificial framework. [...]

First of all the landscape and the surroundings were, indeed, symbolic but they represented to you several things. They represented culture and civilization, both as it has existed in the past, and as you see it in the future. [...]

[...] You are deliberating that this represents one stage of your feelings. Now you should have a series of dreams representing other aspects of the entire situation. [...]

Now the past images also represented not only the past in the historical context of civilization, but the past as it applies to your own personal subconscious. [...] The structures also represented neat pyramids of thought that were bright, shiny, smooth and prefabricated in a way. [...]

[...] The ape emotionally represented the instincts in true light, as dependable, supportive, and as the basis for earthly existence. [...] At the same time the ape male and female represents the sexual quality of the earth, male and female being simply other versions of each other. [...]

[...] These represented the power of the body not being used, the animal instincts denied. [...] The male figure however represented the fact that he believes that strong muscular motion is a male characteristic, and not one that he feels belongs to mentally oriented males. [...]

The woman, not seen that clearly, nevertheless represented the female version possible. The difference in hair coloring represented the fact that these are, so far, idealizations—yet he did identify with them. [...]

The ape on one level represented the animal instincts feared by Ruburt’s mother and grandfather as well, so Ruburt learned to look upon them askance. [...]

[...] Simply to stretch your imagination: When you look at your photograph, imagine that you are a representative of a species, caught there in just that particular pose, and that the frame of the photograph represents, now, “a cage of time.” [...] That specimen, that individual, that you, represents not only yourself but one aspect of your species. [...]

As you are looking at one photograph in your personal history, that represents your emergence in this particular reality — or the reality that was accepted as official at the time it was taken — so you are looking at a picture of a representative of your species, caught in a particular moment of probability. [...]

(“A photograph of a given person represents one experienced probable identity, focused in a recognized time sequence. [...]

(“In the same way, a ‘picture’ of the species represents only one version of the species, ‘snapped’ in a particular time sequence, valid because of the invisible realities not focused upon, but upon which reality rides.”

Your changes in the house represent other breakthroughs, and a certain centering that is important and beneficial to both of you. The curtains, the old ones, represented now areas of belief and attitudes held by others which Ruburt disagreed with, but to which he acquiesced out of concern for other people’s opinions. [...]

The phone represented distractions. [...]

Some mountain climbers, when asked why they climb a certain peak, respond “because the mountain is there to be climbed,” so the natural approach, the magical approach, is to be used because it exists—and because it represents an open doorway into a world of reality that is always present, always at the base of all of your cultures and experience. Theoretically at least, the magical approach should be used because it represents the most harmonious method of life (underlined). [...]

[...] In a manner of speaking Ruburt’s physical condition represents the bruises, the wounds inflicted upon any individual in his or her long journey (long pause) toward a greater comprehension of life’s experience. In religious terms you begin to glimpse a promised land—a “land” of psyche and reality that represents unimpeded nature (again all intently. [...]

(9:10.) In those annals there is legend after legend, tale after tale, history after history describing civilizations that have come and gone, kings risen and fallen, and those stories have always represented cultures (spelled) of the psyche, and described various approaches used by man’s psyche as it explored its intersection with earthly experience. [...]

[...] I didn’t expect anything different tonight, but I have a feeling that whether you can take advantage of it or not, it represents a kind of turning point....” [...]

In other terms, to your way of thinking, diseases represent animal afflictions, and the monkey represented that connection. [...]

[...] It represented the larger dimensions of the event of the class, and those events that composed it did take place at a different level of actuality.

[...] But these simply represented the greater, usually unperceived, dimensions of any class event (or of any perceived event).

[...] This represented the switching off and on of his consciousness as it perceived usually restricted perceptions, then lost them.

The beginning of our sessions represented one such point. The initiation of our other personality represented a second point. [...]

[...] They represent a necessary stage through which you must pass. [...]

[...] They will also represent culminating experiences, in that you have been progressing in other levels of reality in the dream state, for some time.

[...] They are ready to come close once more, and these represent the times of your greatest psychic and creative endeavors, of highest accomplishment regardless of time, when both of your abilities reinforce the other’s.

[...] As you know, your dwelling has always represented a temple to Ruburt, and the relationship between you. Therefore the alteration for the better represents his realization of a more beneficial relationship, and gives him a hand in it—represents his willingness to make necessary inner alterations also.

[...] (Jane, her eyes wide and very dark, leaned forward in amusement.) This does indeed represent an improvement.

[...] His somewhat induced invitation represented a new use of freedom. [...]

The classes (ESP) will be of immediate benefit, and will represent a strong bridge toward an effective and satisfactory meeting of psychic and physical dimensions. [...]

The Christ figure represents the exaggerated, idealized version of the inner self that the individual feels incapable of living up to. [...] He may—or of course she may—on other occasions receive messages from the devil, or demons, which on their part represent the person’s feelings about the physical self that seems to be so evil and contradictory in contrast to the idealistic image. [...]

Particularly when the voices or communications give orders to be obeyed, they represent powerful, otherwise repressed, images and desires, strong enough to form about themselves their own personifications. [...]

Such (pause) “communications” with the gods or demons, St. Pauls or Hitlers, represent in such instances dramatized, exaggerated personifications of the portion of the personality that is at the head of the chain of command at the moment.

[...] They have always represented, again, portions of mankind’s own psychological reality that to some extent he had not assimilated—but in a schizophrenic kind of expression, projected instead outward from himself. [...]

The colors of which you are aware represent a very small portion of light’s entire spectrum, just physically speaking, but the spectrum you recognize represents only one inconceivably small portion of other fuller spectrums—spectrums that exist outside of physical laws.

[...] The connection was beneath, however, and also represented your feeling that even those people tortured to death did live again. [...] The lights also represented pure knowing.

[...] The inner senses represent your true powers of perception. They represent, say, your native nonphysical perceptive “equipment.” [...]

In that dream your worries were initially reflected—worries that your friend Floyd has also encountered on his own about virility and age,⁴ so you saw the two of you in a five-and-ten-cent store, simply representing the world of commerce, where items are sold: Did you still have a value in that world? [...]

Such religious dramas focus, direct, and, hopefully, clarify aspects of inner reality that need to be physically represented. [...]

What I have said, of course, applies as much to Buddha as it does to Christ: Both accepted the inner projections and then tried to physically represent these. [...]

[...] The earlier beliefs represented a far better representation of inner reality, in which man, observing nature, let nature speak and reveal its secrets.

(9:45.) The Hebrew god, however, represented a projection of a far different kind. [...]

The Foster house represents many things, and though it is not on a hill it represents your feelings of secrecy and privacy. [...]

[...] It represents a kind of challenge you have not thus far accepted. [...] Foster Street represents an elegant secretive past, and you would both try to hide within it. [...]

The Ambrose affair represents your ideas about money and the upper classes. [...] To some extent the conflicting ideas represent some of your own—hence your being in the middle.

[...] Development homes also represent, to you both, now, undisciplined, unthinking, sloppy behavior. [...]

(Pause at 9:48.) The images that you see in this circumstance represent the thoughts and feelings experienced just before you closed your eyes, or those that were paramount in your mind somewhat previously. [...] Because the images may seem to have no direct connection logically to these thoughts and feelings, you do not recognize them either as your own, nor are you able to tie them up with what they represent.

[...] These do not represent the experience, they contain the experience. These represent your personal symbol bank as far as your present life is concerned.

[...] Often, however, they represent the characteristics shown by consciousness when it is somewhat turned away from physical stimuli. [...]

[...] In between may be a grouping of opposing symbols, representing your hope — a spring flower, a table loaded with food, a new suit of clothes, any sign of abundance that would have meaning to you. [...]

History, as you think of it, represents but one thin line of probabilities, in which you are presently immersed. It does not represent the entire lifetime of your species or the catalogue of physical activities, or begin to tell the story of physical creatures, their civilizations, wars, joys, technologies, or triumphs. [...] Evolution, as you think of it and as it is categorized by your scientists, represents but one probable line of evolution, the one in which, again, you are presently immersed.

History, as you know it, represents but one single light upon which you focus. [...]

[...] As Joseph represents the fullest potentiality of your entity the image of the man represents a possible, though I hope not probable, pitfall image of your present personality, though not of your overall entity.

[...] The drawing represents a synthesis of the knowledge that you learned during that personality. [...] Another drawing of a woman and a baby also represents you as a young mother with a child.

[...] The type of fragment your friend saw was something like this latter personality image, but so disconnected from your friend, and so absent-mindedly was it sent upon its travels, that its information was probably passed directly to the entity which your friend represents.

[...] Her intuition represents glimpses by her present person of her whole entity. [...]