“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

As you become more accustomed to the experience, the waking self will recall more and more and not become frightened. When you panicked this time, from the waking condition, the experience ended. If the waking self had not been taken along in this particular manner, the journey could have continued.

(Since Seth makes further reference to this incident, I’ll describe it briefly, though waking projections will not generally be discussed in this book which is devoted to dreams and related material. I was so reassured by Fox’s experiences that I instantly tried to project from a waking state. [...]

[...] Ruburt’s waking projection upon first reading the Fox book was also legitimate, as he should know.

[...] In many such cases, however, the knowledge is not available to the waking self.

You contact them in a state which is not waking or dreaming. [...] Now there is, what I can describe as a mean of consciousness, that is a constant between the waking and sleep states. [...]

Now you are used, to some extent, to studying your dreams for precognitive information and checking dream events against future events, but you are not used to checking your reactions in the waking state today against the information that you learn tomorrow. [...]

([Sue:] “Is that their dream state I am contacting or their waking state?”)

Again: when you are in a state that is not the usual waking one, when you have forsaken this daily self, you are, nevertheless, conscious and alert. You merely block out the memory from the waking ego. [...]

Throughout the ages, some have recognized the fact that there is self-consciousness and purpose in certain dream and sleep states, and have maintained, even in waking life, the sense of continuity of this inner self. [...]

[...] The Speakers were not confined in their activities, therefore, to waking consciousness. In all periods of your time they went about their duties both in the waking and sleep state. [...] Some Speakers confine their abilities to the dream state; and, waking, are largely unconscious of their own abilities or experience.

Even within that context, however, there are surprises and enchantments waiting, if you simply learn to expand your awareness, exploring not only the dream state, but your waking reality in more adventuresome ways. [...] Many of you have allowed your normal waking consciousness to become blurred — inactive, relatively speaking, so that you are only half aware of the life that you have. [...]

(10:07.) Your own waking consciousness deals specifically with certain kinds of distinctions. [...]

In your sleep you may have greeted friends who are strangers to your waking self. [...] For when you are asleep, you cannot find the street upon which you live your waking hours, and when you are asleep you do not know you waking self. [...]

[...] You also walk in the waking state, and you can actually walk, and also appear to walk, in the trance state. [...]

The nature of reality can only be approached by an investigation of reality as it is directly experienced in all levels of awareness: reality as it appears under dream conditions, under other conditions of dissociation, and as it appears in the waking condition.

[...] You have been taught not to mix, say, waking and dreaming conditions, not to daydream. [...]

Suggest that instead of falling asleep, you will come into another kind of wakefulness. [...]

[...] And into what kind of waking life would you rise in the morning?

There is no need to divorce the waking and dreaming states in the particular fashion that currently operates — for they are complementary states, not opposite ones. [...]

A particularly vivid dream is every bit as real to the inner self as a vivid psychological experience that occurs within the waking state. [...]

[...] Consider however a situation in which the personality needs to express dependency, but feels that such an expression is not possible within his waking experience. [...]

[...] Their own dimensions, in their way, are every bit as valid as those of waking life. [...]

[...] Theoretically the human personality can, or could, be conscious of dreams even while he was in a waking state. [...]

[...] It often seems that sleep is almost a small death, and psychologists have compared dreaming with controlled insanity.⁵ You have so divorced your waking and dreaming experience that it seems you have separate “lives,” and that there is little connection between your waking and dreaming hours. [...]

[...] In the waking state the conscious mind must focus rather exclusively upon that one particular point of concentration that you call reality, simply so that it can direct your activities properly in temporal life. [...]

[...] In some ways, your dream world gives you a closer experience with basic inner reality than does your waking world, where the Inner Senses are so shielded from your awareness.”

(Slowly at 11:43:) While your consciousness is so engaged, your body consciousness performs many functions that are impossible for it during your waking hours. [...] Sleeping is not a by-product of waking life.

[...] A certain kind of free conscious behavior is possible when you are not physically oriented as you are in the waking state, and that activity is necessary even for physical survival.

(With many pauses:) Give us a moment … Such a performance actually means that physical reality clicks off and on.¹¹ In your terms, it exists only in your waking hours. [...]

[...] This is accomplished through what you might call a changing of frequencies or vibrations … In some ways, your dream world gives you a closer experience with basic inner reality than does your waking world, where the inner senses are so shielded from your awareness.”

These various stages of consciousness and fluctuations of psychic activity can also be examined through direct experience from the waking state. [...]

I have told you that dreams are a continuing process, whether or not the ego wakes or sleeps, and whether or not it has, or retains, any knowledge of the dreaming. So also the astral self journeys often, whether the ego wakes or sleeps.

[...] In waking hours the communications system is more or less closed on the ego’s side, but in sleep the barriers are lifted and knowledge from the inner self has a freer flow.

[...] It also occurs however in the waking state, although the ego is not aware of such projection as a rule. [...]

[...] In waking life, however, you have both been literally hypnotized by the idea that such a recovery is one of the hardest things in the world to achieve (intently). In the waking state Ruburt believes that he cannot walk properly. [...]

[...] Sometimes waking consciousness will vaguely be aware of the motions, and because they are expected to bring discomfort, they do.

[...] There will now be a synthesis of dream and waking activity, and a greater physical release, but he must also work through his beliefs on Rich Bed and the material begun today. [...]

(I stood on a narrow ledge at night, on a cliff side, with several men I knew well in the dream but not in waking life. [...]

[...] However for the further development of consciousness and of identity, the so-called waking I can be of great benefit.

[...] As Ruburt discovered, you can try too hard to take waking consciousness into the dream state, so that you simply cannot sleep as easily. [...]

If you want to record any given experience in its clearest form, then you should train yourself to wake up immediately afterward. [...]

In waking reality you obviously share a mass world experience as well as a physical world environment.

[...] You share, then, a mass dream experience as you share a mass waking world. [...]

[...] Some dream events are more real to the child than some waking events are — not because the child does not understand the nature of experience, but because he or she is still so close to the emotional basis behind events. [...]

[...] They alternated between the waking and dream states (long pause), and while asleep they did not age as quickly. [...] There was a much greater communication in the dream state, so that some lessons were taught during dreams, while others were taught in the waking condition.

[...] there will be “a birth” of seemingly new concepts, simply because his old mental barriers kept him from making certain important connections, and an increasing system of communication between waking and dreaming states.

[...] Apparently, in my case at that time, the “intrusive” unconscious material had to be propelled through to my consciousness during my waking state, since I never regained memory of the initial dream in which the information was originally given.

Time and time again, the inner centers of our being come to our aid through subjective promptings — either in waking, dream or trance states. [...]

Before Seth began a discussion of dreams, and as a preliminary, he explained the natural mobility of human consciousness and outlined the main features of the “interior universe” that could be glimpsed in both waking and dream states and which underlie physical reality. [...]