“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] In waking life you have the family that you recognize, or group of friends, or profession, or what have you. [...]

It is then further processed into individual significances, drives, or intents, which convert it into the required codes that will then determine the nature of actualized waking events. [...]

[...] Those other background stimuli are now quite difficult for you to identify, but they are always there in the [hinterland] of your waking consciousness, like dream chatter way beneath your usual associations.

Since this book was not devoted exclusively to projections, I did not include those embarked upon from waking or trance states, though some of these provided excellent “evidence.” [...]

[...] In daily waking life the shakiness still represents leftover uncertainty, and it is more noticeable whenever any strong interruptions occur.

(Jane called back to me that she was alright during a break, and this & my waking up served to end the session. [...]

[...] If there are chemical imbalances they are often corrected quite automatically in the dream state, as you act out situations calling up the production of hormones, say, that would be summoned in a like waking situation. [...]

[...] Such sustained “objectified dreaming” necessitates a change, chemically, from the normal state of waking consciousness. [...]

(9:05.) Initially, then, the world was a dream, and what you think of as waking consciousness was the dreaming consciousness. [...]

(9:30.) Now (underlined): When he dreamed—when he dreamed (underlined)—man actually returned to a state prior to waking, from which his physical life itself had emerged—only now he was a new creature, a new kind of consciousness, and so were all of the other species. [...]

[...] In waking play the child will then try out those roles, and quickly see that they do not fit physical conditions.

[...] Waking or dreaming, children “pretend.” [...]

In the dreaming state the characteristics of the reasoning mind become altered, and from a waking viewpoint it might seem distorted in its activity. [...]

[...] The reasoning mind attempts to catch what it can as it reassembles its abilities toward waking, but the net of its reasoning simply cannot hold that assemblage of information. [...]

(We think her relaxation follows naturally enough in the wake of her prolonged, intense psychic activity. [...]

[...] Seth commented in Chapter Twenty of Seth Speaks: “The Speakers, more than most, are highly active through all aspects of existence, whether physical or nonphysical, waking or sleeping, between lives or at other levels of reality….”

A few weeks after the dream, on May 12, 1970, Sue had another therapeutic experience that straddled dreaming and waking reality. [...]

[...] This is the result of the lowering of egotistical guards, for the ego sets up controls that act as resistances to various inner channels [during the waking state]. [...]

In dreams, you give freedom to actions that cannot adequately be expressed within the confines of normal waking reality. [...]

[...] If I may indulge in a fantasy, theoretically you could imagine a massive experiment in dream therapy, where wars were fought by sleeping, and not waking, nations.

“There is a condition of consciousness that is more awake than any you have ever known—a condition in which you are aware of your own waking and dreaming selves simultaneously. [...]

[...] In the meantime be aware of the waking and sleeping and remember that (very loudly) the energy that sweeps through this form sweeps also through your own. [...]

[...] “Give me a cigarette—maybe that’ll wake me up,” she said. [...]

[...] It can also be done in the so-called waking state.

They open infrequently in the waking state. [...]

In dreams you can recognize yourself even though the usual space and time references may be quite different than the ones with which you are familiar in the waking state. [...]

[...] A dream act is actualized by a waking you, as a waking you is actualized by a dreaming self.

[...] I wake up.

[...] I see Carl next to me, and I relax, fall asleep and wake up in my physical bed.

[...] When you carry the waking I into the dream state, this is one approach to this different consciousness. There is also an opening up that can occur in the waking condition. [...]

[...] In the same way however you will both find the inner ego inserting itself into periods of waking consciousness, and there may or may not be a momentary disorientation.

(9:34.) 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. [...]

It seems you need certain practical instructions that involve direct experience, immediate feedback, and Ruburt has been receiving some of that in the dream state, and also to some extent in his waking reality, as he begins to trust the feelings of support and relaxation. [...]