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Index:
- The Seth Material Quotes - Various
- From the Archives - Dreams, Art, and Probabilities
- Literature Extracts
A Raisin in the Sun. Langston Hughes
Ms Upright and her Unconscious, A Play in one Act (Bjo Ashwill)
- Art links - David Camp
- A Seth Workbook - Nancy Ashley - Impulses
What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up Like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore – And then run? Does it stink like rotten meat? Or crust and sugar over – like a syrupy sweet? Maybe it just sags like a heavy load. Or does it explode?
- Langston Hughes
When I am speaking to you , you are so close to perceiving the nature of reality, you are but a half breath away, and I am always waiting for the time when you will grasp hold of that inner recognition. And I suggest when you get this session that you read that sentence carefully.
Nancy Ashley on Impulses
Dreams are essential to the maintenance of space time and keeping the body and all other physical forms in place and functioning.....so why try to remember them.........Seth suggests a number of reason. Perhaps we have a physical difficulty .In our dreams we play out a number of scenarios finding a good resolution of the difficulty which is however dependent on the waking self's co-operation.
The next day we have an impulse to do something out of the ordinary.Perhaps eat a certain food, or stay home from work and rest or even see a certain film that would give us new information and new beliefs to remedy the condition. These probable events, waiting in the wings for materialization, need the egos conscious decision to actualize them. If we chose to obey the impulse the bodily condition may become more obvious and more drastic solution maybe dreamt up until one way or another the challenge is met and the lesson learnt.
'..If we are not used to tuning into our inner self ..... through dreams...then we may not recognize its messages such as impulses ...thus we set up an unnecessary barrier between the inner and the outer denying ourselves the natural wisdom of our greater self and making space time a lot more difficult than it need be......'
Create Your Own Dreams ( A Seth workbook), Nancy Ashley, p. 1.
You must go into your own dreams as an explorer into a strange land and come back with your own momentos, your own snapshots of inner reality.
Those of you who are daring and courageous and persistent and stubborn enough will persevere.You will not persevere by saying, "I cannot remember my dreams, it is impossible for me to do so"or "I do not want to remember my dreams , they are terrifying", or "I try to remember my dreams but it does nor work".
Ms. Upright And Her Unconscious: A One Act Play
Cast.
Dr. Eclectic-a psychiatrist in his late 40's or early fifties… He wears plaid bermuda shorts and a t-shirt that says "Guilt is a five letter word."
Ms. Upright-in her early 40's….She is having bad dreams and once again seeks out professional help.
Mr. Unconscious-a good looking man in a suit, business like and conservative in appearance. He's in his mid-30's. He is there to assist her. He is matter of fact and wishes to help, if she'd only let him.
The following characters are dressed as dream characters.
Rowboat lady
Man eating shark
Man in tuxedo
Nanny…
Little girl
Naked dancing men…
Secretary: (off stage) Your new patient, Ms. Upright, is here Doctor.
Doc: Ah. Send her in. (Door opens. She enters stage right. He goes to greet her, and leads her to the desk.)
So nice to meet you, my dear. Do come in and sit here. I'll want to take some history before we begin.
Ms Upright:(Nervous)Thank you…
Doc:Did you like your Daddy?
Ms Upright:Please, Doctor, I really don't–
Doc:Name your first invisible friend.
Ms Upright: All my friends were highly visible.
Doc:You had friends, then?
Ms upright: Doctor, look–let's just–
DOCTOR: When did you first masturbate?
Ms Upright:(Standing) Doctor. I've had enough.
Doc: AHA. Now we're getting somewhere–when you say you've had enough, do you mean–
Ms Upright: I've been through several different psychiatrist's and none of them have worked. Maybe I should just–
Doc: What? Give up? Certainly not. You have come to the right place. I've studied all the psychological theories. Of course, the hard part is figuring out which one fits. Be patient, Ms. Upright. We'll find the one for you. Obviously it isn't Freudian analysis… (Brightens)My dear - your unconscious has chosen the therapy…
Ms Upright: Don't talk to me about my unconscious, if you please. I've had quite enough nonsense from it.
Doc: Aha.Anger. Perfect. Pretend one of these pillows is your unconscious and hit it.
MS Upright: Doctor, I have no desire to hit a pillow.
Doc: (Drops to knees) No wait, see–That's the whole point. You are not hitting a pillow. You are expressing your anger in a constructive way. It's fun, really. Look.
(He hits a few.)
Does this big blue pillow remind you of anyone?
Ms Upright: (Humoring him) No. You see, my unconscious and I haven't been formally introduced.
Doc: Aha. Aha. that is the problem. Eureka. You two are supposed to be working together on these things.
Ms Upright: Tell that to her. I'm doing my best. All this therapy. And still I can't sleep for all those strange dreams. Senseless, perverted–
Doc: AHA AHA AHA I'm all ears. Dream therapy. Tell me at once and I'll write them down.
Ms Upright: Ugh. No way. (Gets up to go.)
Doc: AHA. Resistance.
Ms Upright: (Stamps foot)
I'm not resisting. Doctor. It's just that for weeks now, I haven't been able to sleep because of all those dreams. Shadows talking to me in jive–screams–such a sense of loneliness. I–it's–I just want it to stop. I'm being tormented like I'm some kind of murderer when I've taken such pains not to be–well, I mean-I've never wanted to murder anybody. It's just not fair.
Doc:Aha. Hypnotism. Just the thing. Those dreams are messages from your unconscious mind. It is imperative to decipher them.
Ms Upright: (Peevish)
If she's got something to say, why doesn't she just say it-in plain English.
Doc: My no. The unconscious doesn't work that way at all. They speak symboleeze.
Ms Upright: Well, I the conscious, speaks Plain English.
[The rest can be read at http://tinyurl.com/2evvd ]
I think we dream so we don't have to be apart so long. If we're in each other's dreams, we can play together all night. ~ Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes
From the Archives: Dreams Art & Probabilities
From: "David Camp"
Subject: Dream art and probabilities
A question keeps occuring to me as I do my art. Although I am an active dreamer, remembering up to six dreams a night, I have not yet experienced another plane or reality in a fully conscious state. I do believe that nothing exists but states of consciousness.
So what is the other-planer reality or existence of art objects that are created in some form on the physical? Do they merely exist as whispy figments of imagination, or are they in some cases portrayals of things remembered from somewhere else, or by imagining them, do we give some of these scenes and objects a very real exisitence on some other plane, a reality that could be experienced as solidly as the physical if our vibrations were porperly attuned? Just wondering if anyone more able than me to experience other planes has had experience "there"with their art. David
From: "Ramzes Berezecki"
Subject: dreams art and probabilities
When I was doing some oils, I remember visiting a room just stacked with my probable paintings. Actually there was a multi-D depth to it so that there was an unlimited amount of it for me if I wanted it.
I normally did abstracts standing for some emotional like and non three dimentional realities so 'entering' these in a dream state three dimentionally would seem to me like going backwards. But I am sure that anything mentally conceived while-in-physical has its own any dimentional desired discrete reality that can be experienced at will while out of body.
One of the things that I find so fascinating are the totally submersive characteristics of some of my dream experiences. What I mean by that is that it's like stepping into an alternate believes frameworks where my reasoning faculties appear quite operational. But if anyone presented me during such dream with this physical life reality it would appear to me imaginary like probable. It appears to me that these are normally adopted for me for 'training' purposes at my request so that afterwards I can mentally shift back and forth having a better grasp of my believes framework. And besides it's fun anyhow :-)
For example a couple of days ago I was dreaming that I
was an alien hybrid human. It meshed with my past
there unquestionably. They even had a whole agend for
human-alien contacts, like "in the year 2013 there's
gonna be introduced on Earth an Ankh like device for practical
telekines applications". So waking up from it was a
real funky feeling bip-bip
:-) Ram
Dreams say what they mean, but they don't say it in daytime language.
~ Gail Godwin
http://tinyurl.com/26dsa http://tinyurl.com/2uj8x
...Be more conscious when you are awake as well as when you are sleep, but realise that your activity continues in the dream state, that it is not nonsense, that you are missing important clues. Only if you truly desire to remember will you remember. No one can hand you those memories in a package in the morning
From the Archives cont: Dreams-art and Probabilities
From:"David Camp"
Subject: Re: dreams art and probabilities
Ram,
It is possible that while I am dreaming I am as
conscious as I am while attuned to the physical, but
while attunded to the physical, what I remember of my
dreams seems whispy and surreal. But I do learn things
while dreaming. In one dream a few months ago I was on
the top floor of a
building, symbolizing a higher plane, and before
taking an elevator back down to the physical I
realized I'd stuck some pencils in my pocket. I'm not
sure whether they were for writing or drawing or both,
but I knew I'd picked up something for creating
things while in the physical. David
From: "Ramzes Berezecki"
Subject: dreams art and probabilities
David :-)
> Ram,
> It is possible that while I am dreaming I am as conscious as I am while
> attuned to the physical, but while attunded to the physical, what I remember
> of my dreams seems whispy and surreal.
I wondered about the memory thing more then once. It is like light in the sense that it can be more like a particle or like a wave. I can remember lots all at once or it is like a gradual shift along a stream of self identity. And then the believes can be like that too with dreams acting like a magnifying lens pulling some into prominence and receeding others. In that sense believes are like times or memories in the spacious present.
I create my own memory :-)
> But I do learn things while dreaming. In one dream a
> few months ago I was on the top floor of a
> building, symbolizing a higher plane, and before
> taking an elevator back down to the physical I realized
> I'd stuck some pencils in my pocket. I'm
> not sure whether they were for writing or drawing or
> both, but I knew I'd picked up something for creating
> things while in the physical.
> David
Tangible dream goodies, eh? :-) I gab some such sometimes too. Still to make any instantly manifest
upon wakeup. hey ho hey ho dreaming again I go
:-) Ram
David Camp"
Subject: Re: dreams art and probabilities
Ram,
Now that I think about, memories of my childhood and
of physical plane things I've only seen once are every
bit as whispy as memories of things I've seen in
dreams, so if dream things are different it is more a
matter of the looser mechanics in operation there. My
perception of the physical is still pretty rigid. I've
yet to figure out how to make my "physical"dream
surreal in the same way that my "non-physical"dreams
are surreal. David
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PhaseShift
Now , i want you to travel through the dream state . No one can journey through your subjective reality but you. It is unconquered unknown territory . It is new and unique reality and if you do not explore it and learn from it , none else will. It is like a garden gone unrecognised.
It is like a treasure none knows about but yourself.
In so doing you can apply the knowledge to help yourselves and others but the unique experience of consciousness is your own and there you will reap some of your most beneficial rewards.
I wish you all a fond good evening , and those of you who are ready may have some interesting experiences in the dream state and I will be there to help anyone out of the body who is brave enough to go.'
Seth Audio Collection.Casstte 5 section 2 excerpt A
Alienscape
http://tinyurl.com/2qnbt
Dantesworld
http://tinyurl.com/32r8j
You will only persevere by telling yourself . "I can remember my dreams and I shall, it is possible fo me to remember my dreams and I will,I want to understand inner reality and I shall persevere"
So whenever you tell yourself that you cannot remember , you are working against yourself. No one makes your thoughts but yourself. No one is responsible for them but yourself, so you can change the nature of your thoughts, the nature of your expectations and you can enter the dream state consciously.
P.S. Just another misunderstood night time guest?
One critic describes "The Nightmare (The Incubus)" as "[a]n unforgettable image of a woman in the throes of a violently erotic dream," and notes how it "shows how far ahead of his time Fuseli was in exploring the murky areas of the psyche where sex and fear meet."
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