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1、Dreams,evolution,and valuefulfillmentVolume IBOOKS BY JANE ROBERTSHow to Develop Your ESP Power 1966The Seth Material 1970Seth Speaks: The Eternal Validity of the Soul 1972The Education of Oversoul Seven 1973The Nature of Personal Reality (A Seth Book) 1974Adventures in Consciousness: An Introductio

2、n to Aspect Psychology 1975Dialogues of the Soul and Mortal Self in Time 1975 Psychic Politics: An Aspect Psychology Book 1976 The Unknown Reality (A Seth Book, two volumes) 1977-1979The World View of Paul Cezanne: A PsychicInterpretation 1977 The After Death Journal of an American Philosopher:The W

3、orld View of William James 1978 The Further Education of Oversoul Seven 1979 Emirs Education in the Proper Use of Magical Powers 1979 The Nature of the Psyche: Its Human Expression (A SethBook) 1979The Individual and the Nature of Mass Events (A Seth Book) 1981The God of Jane: A Psychic Manifesto 19

4、81If We Live Again: Or, Public Magic and Private Love 1982Oversoul Seven and the Museum of Time 1984A SETH BOOKDreams,evolution,and valuefulfillmentVolume IJane RobertsIntroductory Essays and Notes byRobert F. ButtsPRENTICE HALL PRESS NEW YORKCopyright 1986 by Jane Roberts All rights reserved, inclu

5、ding the right of reproduction in whole or in part in any form.Published by Prentice Hall PressA Division of Simon & Schuster, Inc.Gulf + Western BuildingOne Gulf + Western PlazaNew York, NY 10023PRENTICE HALL PRESS is a trademark of Simon & Schuster, Inc.Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publicatio

6、n DataRoberts, Jane, 1929-1984 Dreams, evolution, and value fulfillment.Includes index.1. Spirit writings. 2. Reincarnation. I. Title. BF1301.R589 1986 133.93 86-507 ISBN 0-13-219452-XManufactured in the United States of America10 98765432This book is dedicated to my husband, Robert F. Butts, for hi

7、s love and devotion.ContentsQuotations from Seth9A Poem and Commentary by Jane Roberts11Introductory Essays by Robert F. Butts13Preface by Seth95Chapter 1 Before the Beginning119Chapter 2 In the Beginning137Chapter 3 Sleepwalkers. The World in Early Trance.The Awakening of the Species166Chapter 4 Th

8、e Ancient Dreamers192Chapter 5 The Garden of Eden. Man LosesHis Dream Body and Gains a Soul224Chapter 6 Genetic Heritage and ReincarnationalPredilections259Index286Quotations from Seth(A note by R.F.B.: The following quotations are from sessions Jane delivered for her trance personality, Seth, just

9、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 stra

10、y 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, 1979I fee

11、l sometimes as if I am expected to justify lifes 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 consciou

12、sness of simply one cellFrom Session 917, May 21, 1980, in Chapter 8 of DreamsIt 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 spontan

13、eous order.From Session 929, November 26, 1980A Poem and Commentaryby 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

14、, 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

15、 I wrote:Dawn is breaking.Why should I lie in bedworrying about my body or the world?Before time was recordeddawn has followed duskand all the creatures of the earthhave been couchedin the loving contextof their times.After writing the above poem I felt a sense of faithand realized that like many Id

16、 become afraid of faith itself. It was a fear hidden in my deepest aspects. . . .Introductory Essaysby Robert F. ButtsAugust 12, 1982. Originally Id planned to write the standard kind of introduction for Dreams, Evolution, and Value Fulfillment. However, as I became involved in describing the compli

17、cated, 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 questio

18、ns Id 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 fa

19、cts are, though, that Janes already impaired physical condition grew steadily worse while she was working on the book. Shortly after finishing it, she went into the hospital. Since weve always wanted to make sure that our psychic work is given within the context of our daily living, Ive undertaken t

20、o present in these essays intensely personal material relevant to the creation of Dreams. (The mechanics of Janes still-fascinating trance phenomenon have been described in some detail in the six previous Seth books shes producedwith my helpand theyll also be referred to, if briefly, in Dreams.)I wo

21、rked on the essays in succession, just as theyre 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 became1314Jane Robertsobviously impossible to write all of the material for any piece on the date given. Even by going bac

22、k over them, however, I couldnt 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 didnt alter any of my original copythat Id have refused to doand I kept intact t

23、hose first spontaneous descriptions of the events attendant to Janes physical difficulties, as well as our deep-seated, sometimes wrenching feelings connected to them. I did not look at Seth-Janes Dreams itself while writing the essays, in order to avoid having them overly influenced by work in the

24、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.Seth, then, has finished his work on Dreams. I wrote the original version of the notes for each book session a

25、s he delivered it through Jane, and also began collecting other notes and reference material that might be used. Since Ive completed the essays, all I have to do now is refine the session notes (and addenda) as I type the finished manuscript. Jane will help as much as she can. We expect to have the

26、book ready for our editors, Tarn Mossman and Lynne Lumsden, by the end of the year.Jane appreciates that the dates Im always giving merely furnish a convenient framework for our material, but shes hardly enamored of such precise methodology; she understands that its my way of doing things, realizes

27、its very useful, and goes on from there. I use a similar system in presenting all of the published Seth material. It has the great attribute of allowing for quick reference timewise (if not always by subject matter) to any of the more than 1,500 regular, private or deleted, and ESP class sessions Ja

28、ne has given over the past 19 yearsuntil July 1982, that is, when I began work on these passages.Moreover, the choice of presenting the material in essay form proved to have one virtue that was more valuable than all the others combined: It allowed us to delve into the events I describe, and our dee

29、p-seated, sometimes wrenching feelings connected to them, a little bit at a time. Those situations might have been too devastating for us otherwise, too emotionallyDreams, Evolution, and Value Fulfillment15threatening, too charged for us to present them with at least the minimum amount of objectivit

30、y required by the written word. Many of the events and feelings evoked such deep implications of trial and challenge for Jane and me that we were often left with strong feelings of unreality: This cant be happening to us. At our ages (52 and 62, Jane and I, respectively), why have we created lives w

31、ith such nightmarish connotations? Why do I have to leave my dear wife alone in the hospital each night, so that I feel like crying for her when I go to bed by myself in the hill house? Why cant we be left alone to live lives of peace and creativity? And how many millions and millions of times throu

32、gh the ages have other human beings on this planet felt the same wayand will yet? Why are our lives ending like this, when we feel that simply getting through each day is an accomplishment?That basic impetus toward survival came to take precedence over everything else. Indeed, for several weeks foll

33、owing the initiation of the challenges I relate in the essays, supposedly creative activities like writing books and painting pictures often faded into insignificance by comparison. And for me, Janes condition came to stand for everything we dont know in our particular joint, chosen, probable earthl

34、y reality.Yet, Jane and I were being creative with it allthe whole time and moving several stages closer to understanding All That Is in the process. If we were often badly frightened, we also felt surges of grim elation (when we allowed them to surface) that we were survivors. Wed chosen the entire

35、 experience, which is still continuing, of course. You make your own reality, Seth has told us innumerable times. We agreeand that is where Jane and I diverge most sharply from the conventional establishment belief that events happen to people, instead of being created by them.The essay form gave us

36、 chances for at least a minimal study of the various forms our creative learning experiences have taken to date. We quickly agreed that wed been setting up the illness syndrome for years, yet the deep emotional shocks accompanying its physical developments seemed to come at us like attacking dark bi

37、rds zooming in from another probable reality. We learned. We adjusted in ways that a few weeks previously would have seemed unbelievable to usand, ironically, as must often happen in such situations, once wed moved into our new16Jane Robertsjoint reality, it appeared that those particular challenges

38、 had always been incipient for us.The essays contain many insights into the meanings the whole experience with illness has had for us, and will continue to have for many years. Our lives have been irrevocably changedby choiceand not for the worse, either. Jane and I used our wills to intensify our f

39、ocuses in certain areas. And Im sure that as the reader works his or her way through the essays, it will become quite apparent that I wrote them just as much for Jane and me as I did for othersall in our ceaseless attempts to better understand, to grasp a bit more firmly, those mental and physical a

40、dventures that were trying to delve into this time around.ESSAY 1Thursday, April 1, 1982Let my soul find shelter elsewhere.That evocative, prophetic line is from a Sumari song that Jane sang to herself a few days before she went into an Elmira, New York, hospital on February 26, 1982. Sumari is a la

41、nguage she can speak or sing while in trance, and which she can translate into English if and when she wants to. She recorded her brief song in a sad, low-pitched, quavering voice that was like none Id heard her use before. Its indescribable depth of feeling was remarkably prescient in light of the

42、events in our lives that precededand then followedthe hospital experience that affected us so much.Indeed, I didnt learn that Jane had made the tape until five weeks later, after shed returned to our hill house from the hospital: I found it on March 30, amid others in her writing room. She hadnt lab

43、eled it, and I began to play it out of curiosity. The songs mournful tones swam heavily in the room. It reminded me at once of a dirge or an elegy, and I felt chills as I began to intuitively understand just how meaningful it was, even without any translation at all.Let my soul find shelter elsewher

44、e, Jane said, by way of a quick translation when I played the tape for her a few minutes later. It was midafternoon on a cold day. She sat bundled up inDreams, Evolution, and Value Fulfillment17her chair in the living room, her head down as she listened. I asked her for more on the songs interpretat

45、ion, but she just repeated that line. She roused herself enough to stubbornly maintain that shed give me more later. I knew at once that the tapes contents were so revealing of her feelings about her illness, so disturbing and frightening, that she couldnt bring herself to explore those deep emotion

46、s at that time. I also knew that my wife feared the effect of the message upon mefor what could the phrase shed already given me mean, except that her soul had at least considered the possibility of leaving her physical body, perhaps to find shelter in a nonphysical realm? I accepted her reactions,

47、and could only wait in some frustration as I began work on other parts of this essay.As the days passed Jane kept putting me off about doing the translation, until finally I grew resentful and despairing at her refusal to cooperate. I decided to write around that one great line as best I could. For

48、by then I knew that she had no intention of producing an English version: Some childlike and naive, yet deeply stubborn portion of her psyche, some perverse area, as Seth, her trance personality, jokingly characterized it long ago, had simply taken over and decided not to do any more on that subject

49、. For its own reasons it didnt want to, and that was it. Id seen Jane operate in that fashion before, and I knew shed have her way.Lest I give an inaccurate picture of my wife, however, let me add that she combines instances of that seeming intransigence with a profound intuitive innocence before na

50、ture (and thus All That Is), and with a great literal acceptance of natures manifestations and of her own being and creations within that framework. Although shes not entirely in agreement with me on this point, I think that essentially Jane is a mysticnot an easy thing to be in our extroverted, mat

51、erialistic society, for it represents a way of life thats little understood these days. Its a role shes chosen for many reasons. Mysticism is still overwhelmingly regarded as a profoundly religious expression, and one thats hardly practical, but in my opinion neither of those situations applies to J

52、ane. Her mystical way is reinforced by a strongly secretive characteristic thats usually belied by her seemingly outgoing character and behavior. It took me a long time to realize this. I also had to learn that her literal cast of mind grows di-18Jane Robertsrectly out of her mysticism, and that bec

53、ause it does, she can be quite impulsive. Theres nothing halfway about Jane. Shes intensely loyal. Shes a very perceptive person with many abilities, a fine intelligence, and an excellent critical sense. Whatever reservations she showsher conscious inhibition of impulses, for exampleare learned devi

54、ces that are literally protective in nature. Ive certainly found her particular combination of attributes to be unique, and I dont think shed be able to express the Seth material as she does without them. Throughout these essays I hope to add many insights into her character. For now, though, I pres

55、ent what I have to work with from the saddest, most mournful Sumari song shes ever created and sung. The tape goes into our files, although Id love to know what she said on the rest of it. . . .In the meantime, two days after I discovered the tape, I asked Jane, Do you want to have a session tonight

56、?At first she didnt know. The question followed the little talk wed had after supper. My back hurt somewhat. Id finally decided that the ache wasnt because Id been lifting her physically all 82 pounds of herbut because of the medical bills wed received today. (That had been my somewhat amused specul

57、ation to begin writh.) Weve gotten a Hurrya small blizzardof bills from doctors during the last few days.Jane has been home from the hospital since last Sunday, March 28. She spent 31 days there, being treated for a severely underactive thyroid gland (hypothyroidism), protruding eyes and double visi

58、on, an almost total hearing loss, a slight anemia, and budding bedsores, or decubitus ulcers. Several of the ulcers had been incipient for a number of months, although neither of us had realized what those circles of reddening flesh meant as they slowly blossomed on the pressure points of her buttoc

59、ks, coccyx, and right shoulder blade. Decubitus ulcers: one of the first terms wed added to our rapidly growing medical vocabularyand one of the more stubborn afflictions for a human being to get rid of once theyve become established. Even now not all of Janes decubiti have fully healed, although se

60、veral of them have closed up nicely.I should note, by the way, that her bedsores werent infected when she went into the hospital, but were less than a week later. How come? Its staph, several of the nurses told us. A signDreams, Evolution, and Value Fulfillment19warning of infection was put on the d

61、oor of 3B9, Janes room, and stayed there until she went home. If the infection in that ulcer on your coccyx reaches the bone, it means at least a six-week stay in the hospital, exclaimed Janes principal doctor, Rita Mandali (not her real name). Twice-daily treatments with hydrogen peroxide and a sul

62、fadiazine cream were started. And I began to read up on how many kinds of staphylococcus bacteria alone there are, and indeed how common infections are in hospitals, since by their very nature those institutions are far from being the cleanest in town. . . .Janes hearing is much improved after treat

63、ment with decongestants and a pair of minor operations in which tiny drainage tubes were inserted through her eardrumsthe procedure is called sureryto relieve internal blockage. Janes thyroid gland, Dr. Mandali finally told her, has simply ceased functioning, so the doctor has begun a program of cau

64、tiously rejuvenating my wifes endocrine system, and thus all of her bodily processes, with a synthetic thyroid hormone in pill form (a low 50 micrograms to start). Jane is to take these pills for the rest of her life. At least thats the current prognosis. Her double vision is not as severe and is supposed to keep improving as the hormone takes effect. Dr. Mandali has prescribed drops to keep Janes eyes lubricated, and a liquid salicylate medication (as a substitute