“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] As they have rather often recently, the phenomena had persisted in varying forms through her sleeping and waking states. [...]

[...] In what you would call the physical waking state, these individuals slept, yet they behaved with great natural physical grace. [...]

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

In more specific terms, I’m organizing this rather short exploration of Jane’s death around these items; a loose chronology surrounding her writing of Seth, Dreams … in 1966-67, and our unsuccessful attempts to sell the book; my acceptance of the survival of the personality after physical death; a waking experience involving my sensing Jane very soon after she had died; a metaphor I created for her death; a dream in which I not only contacted her but gave myself relevant information; another metaphor for Jane’s death; my speculations about communication among entities, whether they’re physical or nonphysical; a letter that could be from the discarnate Jane — one that was sent to me by its recipient, a caring correspondent whom I’ll call Valerie Wood; a note I wrote to Sue Watkins about the death of her mother; some quotations from a published letter of mine; Jane’s notes concerning the relationship we had; and, finally, the poem in which she refers to her nonphysical journeys to come.

I think that I’ve had a number of waking and dreaming experiences in which Jane and I have communicated with each other since her physical death thirteen months ago. [...]

[...] During half-waking periods I was conscious of my lower jaw continually dropping, so that I sat with my mouth gaping open in a most uncharacteristic manner. [...]

(She spends a good deal of her waking time on the couch watching TV, or sleeping away part of the day.

(Then, evidently in a good state between waking and sleeping I had a most vivid sighting. [...]

In some ways you see, your dream world is actually much closer to the direct experience of reality than is your waking world, where the operation of the inner senses is shielded so from your own awareness. [...]

[...] Seth then said he would wake Bill up, or get him interested, and he proceeded to do this by launching into the discussion on Bill’s mother.

Now, this same sort of emotional system operates in the sleeping state as well as in the waking state, though there are differences in that the personality will allow greater leeway in the dream state. [...]

[...] The waking state, as I have often said, is as much a trance state as any other. [...]

[...] You can take what you want, so to speak, from dream reality, as basically you take what you want from waking life. [...]

[...] the waking state, as I have said often, is as much a trance state as any other state. [...]

[...] Therefore any given personal association may originate from a dream event as well as from a past waking event.

Those who have extremely strong hidden self-conscious selves have the need for greater use of individuality, and these people therefore create what could be called another plane in waking hours, through the use of art forms.

that eddy, wrinkle and wake

[...] Wake me up next time.”

You should begin it as a child wakes up in the morning. [...]

With training some direction can be given, so that the information can be effectively used by the normal waking personality. [...]

[...] Though this may sound impossible at this stage, nevertheless you can control such data when in a waking state better than you can control a dream. [...]