Seth.[Spirit] - Dreams, Evolution, and Value Fulfillment : a Seth book (Vols. 1 and 2 combined)

How to Develop Your ESP Power 1966 The Seth Material 1970
Seth Speaks: The Eternal Validity of the Soul 1972
The Education of Oversoul Seven 1973
The Nature of Personal Reality (A Seth Book) 1974
Adventures in Consciousness: An Introduction to Aspect Psychology 1975
Dialogues of the Soul and Mortal Self in Time 1975
Psychic Politics: An Aspect Psychology Book 1976
The "Unknown" Reality (A Seth Book, two volumes) 1977-1979
The World View of Paul Cezanne: A Psychic Interpretation 1977
The After Death Journal of an American Philosopher: The World View of William James 1978
The Further Education of Oversoul Seven 1979
Emir's Education in the Proper Use of Magical Powers 1979
The Nature of the Psyche: Its Human Expression (A Seth Book) 1979
The Individual and the Nature of Mass Events (A Seth Book) 1981
The God of Jane: A Psychic Manifesto 1981
If We Live Again: Or, Public Magic and Private Love 1982
Oversoul Seven and the Museum of Time 1984

Copyright 1986 by Jane Roberts All rights reserved, including the right of reproduction in whole or in part in any form.

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Roberts, Jane, 1929-1984 Dreams, "evolution," and value fulfillment.
Includes index.
1. Spirit writings. 2. Reincarnation. I. Title.
BF1301.R589 1986 133.9'3 86-507 ISBN 0-13-219452-X

Manufactured in the United States of America 10 98765432

This book is dedicated to my husband, Robert F. Butts, for his love and devotion.

Preface by Seth

(A note by R.F.B.: The following quotations are from sessions Jane delivered for her trance personality, Seth, just before and during the time she worked with him on Dreams, "Evolution," and Value Fulfillment. One is from a private session, two are from "nonbook" regular sessions, and one is from Dreams itself.)

"Science has unfortunately bound up the minds of its own even most original thinkers, for they dare not stray from certain scientific principles. All energy contains consciousness (underlined). That one sentence is basically scientific heresy, and in many circles it is religious heresy as well. A recognition of that simple statement would indeed change your world."

From a private session, July 12, 1979

"I feel sometimes as if I am expected to justify life's conditions, when of course they do not need any such justification."

From Session 896, January 16, 1980

"... basically, consciousness has nothing to do with size. If that were the case, it would take more than a world-sized globe to contain the consciousness of simply one cell"

From Session 917, May 21, 1980, in Chapter 8 of Dreams

"It is a gift, a boon, an exquisite pleasure, to become physically alive on your functioning planet, couched securely within your dusk and dawn, your existence supported by the seasons and by an overall operation of spontaneous order."

From Session 929, November 26, 1980

by Jane Roberts

(Jane experienced many painful physical and psychological delays while producing Dreams. Finally, she had only six sessions to go for the book when she came through with this material for herself)

"On Friday, October 23, 1981, I received the following message from Seth: 'Attend to what is directly before you. You have no responsibility to save the world or find the solutions to all problemsbut to attend to your particular personal corner of the universe. As each person does that, the world saves itself.'

"The same day I wrote:

Dawn is breaking.
Why should I lie in bed
worrying about my body or the world?
Before time was recorded
dawn has followed dusk
and all the creatures of the earth
have been couched
in the loving context
of their times.

"After writing the above poem I felt a sense of faithand realized that like many I'd become afraid of faith itself. It was a fear hidden in my deepest aspects...."

by Robert F. Butts

August 12, 1982. Originally I'd planned to write the standard kind of introduction for Dreams, "Evolution," and Value Fulfillment. However, as I became involved in describing the complicated, emotionally charged series of events surrounding the hospitalization earlier this year of my wife, Jane Roberts, the material automatically began organizing itself into a series of dated essays. I was more than happy to follow this intuition from my creative self, for it answered many questions I'd started to consciously worry about.

We could have presented Dreams as is, or at least have avoided mentioning certain less-than-advantageous circumstances surrounding its production by Jane and by Seth, the "energy personality essence" she speaks for while in a trance or dissociated state. The facts are, though, that Jane's already impaired physical condition grew steadily worse while she was working on the book. Shortly after finishing it, she went into the hospital. Since we've always wanted to make sure that our "psychic work" is given within the context of our daily living, I've undertaken to present in these essays intensely personal material relevant to the creation of Dreams. (The mechanics of Jane's still-fascinating trance phenomenon have been described in some detail in the six previous Seth books she's producedwith my helpand they'll also be referred to, if briefly, in Dreams.)

I worked on the essays in succession, just as they're given here, although I found myself adding to the earlier ones as I moved into the later ones. In terms of length alone, it soon became obviously impossible to write all of the material for any piece on the date given. Even by going back over them, however, I couldn't discuss everything I wanted to: The essays could have easily grown into a book of their own. This weaving things together to make them "fit" is only natural for one of my temperament, but I didn't alter any of my original copythat I'd have refused to doand I kept intact those first spontaneous descriptions of the events attendant to Jane's physical difficulties, as well as our deep-seated, sometimes wrenching feelings connected to them. I did not look at Seth-Jane's Dreams itself while writing the essays, in order to avoid having them overly influenced by work in the book. Instead, we want all of this preliminary material to show how we live dailyregardless of how well we may or may not dowith a generalized knowledge of, and belief in, the Seth material.