“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Let us begin with the normal waking consciousness that you know. [...]

[...] Men dreamed their own maps in the same fashion, one man dreaming perhaps a certain portion, and several dreamers contributing their versions, drawing in sand in the waking state, or upon cave walls. [...]

(Last evening had also been very warm, and Jane had slept poorly: She kept waking up with data about dream landscapes being “right there” before her, and wondered if she could travel among them “like crossing fences from one backyard to the next.” [...]

[...] Even most creative work is done at the recognized threshold of the normal waking consciousness. [...]

[...] And use many of your abilities to much greater advantage then for there is a much higher state of wakefulness that you do not realize—and yet you know it well. [...]

[...] I had the following ideas as I lay in that state between waking and sleeping. [...]

(Seth made his humorous remark because Willy Two, waking from his nap beside me on the couch, had climbed up in Jane’s lap while she was speaking in trance. [...]

[...] If you have no interest in such things no phenomena will occur strong enough to impress you in the waking state. [...]

(As stated, this worked well, and as I counted Jane felt herself rising or lifting toward waking consciousness; the effect here was much more pronounced than when I had suggested she enter a deeper state, as described earlier. [...]

(Oddly enough, I remember waking up chilly in the morning last week, but do not know whether this followed the dream. [...]

[...] You tune your consciousness while you sleep as one might tune a piano, so that in waking reality, it clearly perceives the proper notes and values that build up into physical experience. [...]

[...] “I’ll wake up confused,” she said. [...]

[...] What you now think of as the dream state was the waking one, for it was still the recognized form of purposeful activity, creativity, and power. [...]

[...] You are far more alert, far more aware than you are in your waking state. [...]

I am pulling an Oversoul Seven on you, but I am gong to give you an idea for a painting, in the next three days, waking or sleeping—I will not tell you which—but I want you to be playfully alert to it. [...]

[...] It is not aware of any break, for example, when you are waking. It does not know if you sleep or wake. [...]

[...] Ruburt brought up a point, I believe; he observed that the experience of talking occurred in both the waking and the dreaming states, but did not think that these represented primaries.

There is considerable experimentation on the body’s part when he sleeps, and it does try out positions that as yet he does not take when waking. [...]

[...] Now, in the dream state you do this, but you can do it in the waking state, and you can do it in times of reverie. [...]

([Florence:] “Then why did I keep waking up?”)