“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] I’ve discovered that this is great fun — and much more challenging than I’d anticipated, as I try to reduce the shifting, brilliant dream elements to the motionless painted surfaces we’re so used to in waking reality. [...]

[...] I’ve found myself waking up early in the morning, stewing about her condition; usually I get up and eat breakfast alone, then call Jane by ten AM. [...]

[...] Jane alternated between rather quick changes in waking and sleeping in her chair. [...]

[...] You would usually do this in the dream state, but this is often accomplished just below the level of waking consciousness, and is blotted out by you as you go about your daily business.

[...] Those connections are worked out at all levels of reality, in the waking state through your communication devices and culture, and through the far more complicated arena of the culture of dreams. [...]

There is a constant translation of inner reality into objects in the waking state, and a constant translation of ideas into pseudoobjects in the dreaming state. [...]

[...] When your ordinary, conscious, waking mind is lulled in like your sleep state, you travel in other dimensions. [...]

[...] I think that upon awakening in the present, one is much more likely to call a dream “just a dream,” and not assign to it a reality and validity equal to one’s “real” experience in the waking state.

(Jane wanted material from Seth tonight on her “blues”—the mixed emotions and conflicts she feels at times when waking from her afternoon naps. [...]

[...] He is still overly concerned about waking you too often, but his body often is expressing its need for motion and change. [...]

[...] When your ordinary, conscious, waking mind is lulled in like your sleep state, you travel in other dimensions. [...]

[...] Now in the dream state you enjoy much greater freedom than you do in the waking state, and if you can catch a hold of this feeling you can use it. [...]

[...] In such a state you do not seem to experience yourself directly, and indeed in the midst of what you think of as the waking state you act in the most mechanical of fashions, following habit and being less aware of sensual stimuli.

[...] Now, from a waking state, you do not understand how your dream bodies can seem to fly through the air, defy space and even time, converse with strangers and so forth. [...]

(This is the first time Jane has had such an experience in the waking state, although she has seen many things in psychological time experiments. [...]

(See page 280 for a description of my first experience involving strong visual and bodily data while in the waking state. [...]

(To Ron) Now, if you would pay attention, you could wake up in a dream and understand me more clearly. [...]

[...] The exchange between Seth and Bill Gallagher developed because last week, one evening, Jane succeeded in waking both Bill and Peg between 3 and 4 AM.

(Pause.) Your impulses are your closest communication with your inner self, because in the waking state they are the spontaneous urgings toward action, rising from that deep inner knowledge of yourself that you have in dreams. [...]

[...] When I say this, you are bound to interpret my statement to mean that daily waking reality may become dreamy, or blurred or indistinct. [...]

[...] With a last look at the two of them, sitting together on the edge of so much, I wake up fully and alert, sitting up in bed.

If you would have some idea of what the probable universe is like, then examine your own dreams, looking for those events which do not have any strong resemblance to the physical events of waking existence. [...]