“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] You know that dreaming has definite chemical bases, that chemicals built up during periods of waking existence are released through dreams. [...]

[...] When this knowledge becomes part of the usual waking consciousness, that is when you realize what you have done, then you have taken a gigantic step forward.

[...] You project also while you are in the waking state, but you do not realize this. [...]

[...] You can also learn more about yourselves by watching your conscious life and the Sumari that you may meet while you are waking. [...]

([Janice:] “Why can’t I remember when I wake up?”)

Now I bid you all a fond good evening, and I hope you meet many Sumari in your sleep and hopefully in the waking state and I hope that you read this session well, for when you see the words written down you will also hear what is between the words and hidden within the vowels and syllables. [...]

[...] For what would seem to you to be eons, according to your time scale, men were in the dreaming state far more than they were in the waking one. [...]

“Now: It is easy to live—so easy that although you live, rest, create, respond, feel, touch, see, sleep, and wake, you do not really have to try to do any of those things. [...]

[...] This not only happens in the waking state, but you also become more open in the dreaming state to telepathic communications from others of a negative pattern. [...]

[...] Your negative dreams, therefore, reinforce the waking pattern. [...]

Those of you who are negative, therefore, will find this reflected not only in your waking life but in your dreams. [...]

[...] This dream involved the large playground she visited often in waking life, across the street from her school in Saratoga Springs, NY. There were many kinds of games to be indulged in at the playground in waking life. [...]

[...] The whole of chapter five, from which the object comes, concerns the close relationship between dreaming and waking life. [...]

[...] It is one Jane made to help her see clearly certain points involving the whole self, and waking and dreaming states. There was much handwritten copy beneath it. [...]

Your waking consciousness only participates in projections as a rule when you are in a period of high vitality, and exceptional health.

On occasion the waking consciousness does participate during other usually very depressed periods. [...]

There is a strong connection between what I have been saying and the way in which you translate inner reality into symbolic form, either in the waking life, as objects, or in the dreaming state as dream images. [...]

[...] (Long pause.) Your dreams and your waking experiences both closely mirror your psychic condition. [...]

[...] It’s as though I could wake up at 2 A.M. and say, ‘Oh my god, here it is….’”

[...] According to the impact of this session, your own comprehensions and perceptions will bring other clues, either in the waking or the dream state. [...]

[...] February 9, and of my waking experience the next evening.¹ Both events had involved intense perceptions of color and/or light, and I’d told Jane that anything Seth cared to say about them would be most welcome. [...]

[...] Next, I painted a small oil of the lights emitted by the two table lamps in my waking experience. [...]

1. I’ll report only the portions of the dream that relate to my perceptions of light and color, but will describe in full my waking experience of the next evening. [...]

[...] I couldn’t pick out our place from where we stood, couldn’t find it, but realized I had to get up or wake up, and did. [...]

[...] They will allow you to take the waking consciousness along with you. As your abilities develop and as you become more accustomed to the experience, the waking consciousness will recall more and more, and not become frightened. [...]

[...] In most such instances however the knowledge is then not available to the waking self at all.

[...] The mobility of consciousness will automatically allow you greater freedom in using your inner perceptions in waking life also. [...]

[...] As you know, you can become critically alert, but when you do so, you realize that you are not in your normal waking condition.

During this time, I was experimenting with waking projections also. [...]

As I mentioned in The Seth Material, my waking projections and the spontaneous ones in the Seth trance yielded enough evidence to convince us that I was legitimately out of my body and perceiving another location — and not just out of my mind. [...]

[...] You know that dreaming has a definite chemical basis, that chemicals built up during period of waking experience are released through dreams. [...]

[...] When Jane finished with certain challenges, Seth remarked, “… there will be a ‘birth’ of seemingly new concepts, simply because his [Jane’s] old mental barriers kept him from making certain important connections, and an increasing system of communication between waking and dreaming states.”

(Perhaps the latter happening is already underway: Jane’s recall of, participation in, and benefits from such an exchange between her waking and dreaming selves has increased considerably in recent weeks. [...]

[...] One of the main reasons why this is possible within the dream state, rather than in the waking state, is that survival necessities have usually been satisfied.

[...] In the waking state you are usually not aware of your dreaming existence. [...]

The plants awakened before the animals—and there are reasons for these varying degrees of “wakefulness” that have nothing to do basically with the differentiations of specieshood as defined by science from the outside, but have to do with the inner affiliations of consciousness, and with species or families of consciousness. [...]

These actually continue, whether Ruburt wakes or sleeps. [...]

[...] It took place in December, as I lay in bed suspended in that pleasant interlude between waking and sleeping; I’ve had other visions while in this state, incidentally.

[...] I achieved a state close to waking only, in spite of my momentary panic. [...]

(The last vision of mine that Seth discussed took place on August 30,1965, during waking hours, and was mentioned in the 183rd session of that evening.

Such encounters also occur during waking hours, but the ego is not aware of them. [...]

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.

Now the suggestion to carry your waking consciousness into the sleep state is of particular value in conscious projections, if you will use it. [...]

[...] It is highly important however for any such work that you begin to train yourself to take your waking consciousness with you in sleep. [...]

[...] He familiarizes himself with the symbolism of his own dreams, and sees how these do or do not correlate with the exterior symbols that appear in the waking life that he shares with others. [...]

[...] The closest she’s come to this situation is in giving a session for him in the dream state, as she does in waking life.