Dreams, ''Evolution'' and Value Fulfillment, Vol. 2: A Seth Book

270 Pages·1997·8.92 MB·English

by  Jane Roberts

PRAISE FOR THE SETH BOOKS
'The Seth books present an alternate map of reality with a new diagram of
the psyche . . . useful to all explorers of consciousness."
— Deepak Chopra, M.D.
author of The Seven Spiritual Laws of
Success and Creating Affluence
"Seth was one of my first metaphysical teachers. He remains a constant
source of knowledge and inspiration in my life."
— Marianne Williamson
author of A Return to Love
"I would like to see the Seth books as required reading for anyone on
their spiritual pathway. The amazing in-depth information in the Seth
books is as relevant today as it was in the early '70s when Jane Roberts
first channeled this material."
— Louise Hay
author of You Can Heal Your Life
"As you read Seth's words, you will gain more than just new ideas. Seth's
energy comes through every page, energy that expands your
consciousness and changes your thoughts about the nature of reality."
— Sanaya Roman
author of Living with Joy
'The Seth books were of great benefit to me on my spiritual journey and
helped me to see another way of looking at the world."
— Gerald G. Jampolsky, M.D.
author of Love is Letting Go of Fear
'To my great surprise — and slight annoyance — I found that Seth
eloquently and lucidly articulated a view of reality that I had arrived at
only after great effort and an extensive study of both paranormal
phenomena and quantum physics. ..."
— Michael Talbot
author of The Holographic Universe and
Beyond the Quantum
BOOKS BY JANE ROBERTS
The Bundu. A short novel in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science
Fiction (March, 1958)
The Rebellers (1963)
How to Develop Your ESP Power (1966) (Also published as The
Coming of Seth)
The Seth Material (1970)
Seth Speaks: The Eternal Validity of the Soul (1972)*
The Education of Oversold 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 in two volumes (1977-1979)**
The World View of Paul Cezanne: A Psychic Interpretation (1977)
The Afterdeath Journal of an American Philosopher: The World View
of William James (1978)
The Further Education of Oversold 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 Gocl 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)
Dreams, 'Evolution," and Value Fulfillmen t A Seth Book in two
volumes (1986)**
Seth, Dreams, and Projection of Consciousness (1986)
The Magical Approach: Seth Speaks About the Art of Creative Living
(1995)
The Way Toward Health. A Seth Book (1997)
* New editions co-published by Amber-Allen / New World Library, 1994 and 1995.
** New editions published by Amber-Allen Publishing, 1995, 1996, and 1997.
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BOOK
DREAMS,
"EVOLUTION,"
and
VALUE
FULFILLMENT
VOLUME TWO
NOTES AND COVER ART BY ROBERT F. BUTTS
ALLEN
AMBER-ALLEN PUBLISHING
SAN RAFAEL, CALIFORNIA
This book is dedicated to my husband, Robert K Butts, for his love and devotion.
Copyright © 1986 by Jane Roberts
Copyright © 1997 by Robert F. Butts
Published by Amber-Allen Publishing, Inc.
Post Office Box 6657
San Rafael, CA 94903
Cover Art: Robert F. Butts
Cover Design: Beth Hansen
Editorial: Janet Mills
All rights reserved. This book may not be reproduced in whole or in
part without written permission from the publisher, except by a reviewer
who may quote brief passages in a review; nor may any part of this book
be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form
or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or
other, without written permission from the publisher.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Seth (Spirit)
Dreams, "evolution," and value fulfillment / [channeled by] Jane
Roberts : notes and cover art by Robert F. Butts,
p. cm. — (A Seth book)
Originally published: New York : Prentice Hall, 1988, cl986.
Includes index.
ISBN 1-878424-27-0 (v. 1 : alk. paper). — ISBN 1-878424-28-9 (v. 2 : alk.
paper)
1. Spirit writings. 2. Reincarnation — Miscellanea. I. Roberts, Jane,
1929-1984 II. Tide. III. Series: Seth (Spirit). Seth book.
[BF1301.S374 1997]
133.9'3 — dc21 97-11965
CIP
ISBN 1-878424-28-9
Printed in U.S.A. on acid-free paper
Distributed by Publishers Group West
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CONTENTS
Quotation from Jane Roberts
Quotations from Seth in ESP Class
Poems by Jane Roberts,
with Commentary by Robert F. Butts 301
Introduction by Robert F. Butts ... 305
Chapter 7* Genetics and Reincarnation. Gifts and
"Liabilities." The Vast Sweep of the Genetic
and Reincarnational Scales. The Gifted and
the Handicapped 309
Chapter 8 When Yon Are Who You Are. The Worlds
of Imagination and Reason, and the
Implied Universe 351
Chapter 9 Master Events and Reality Overlays 372
Chapter 10 The Pleasure Principle. Group Dreams and
Value Fulfillment 459
Chapter 11 The Magical Approach, and the
Relationships Between "Conservation"
and Spontaneous Developments 475
Chapter 12 Life Clouds 508
Index 551
^Chapters 1-6 (pages 1-288) are in Volume 1 of Dreams, "Evolution" and
Value Fulfillment.
QUOTATION FROM
JANE ROBERTS
"I kept looking for a logic that would explain life. It never
occurred to me that instead love is the vital synthesis/'
—DECEMBER 1981
QUOTATIONS FROM SETH
IN ESP CLASS
(A note by R.F.B.: Jane had formally ended her ESP classes by March
1975, when we moved from our downtown apartments in Elmira, New
York, to the hill house at the edge of the city. These quotations are from
sessions she gave at the house through Seth, her trance personality, for
visiting groups of farmer students.)
". . . you are a part of nature, and that is your saving
grace—that no matter how you try to leave that framework you
exist within it, so that you communicate with earth at other lev-
els, even if you refuse to be aware of that communication. You
help the earth survive, no matter how you might at times deny
that heritage."
—FEBRUARY 11, 1977
"Each breath you take is a breath of quality. All you have to
do is realize that each breath you take ultimately reaches to the
ends of the universe and helps uphold your world."
—DECEMBER 12, 1978
"Now, the creative abilities do not just help you write books,
paint pictures, play the piano, compose. The creative abilities are
largely responsible for keeping you alive. Your cells are creative.
You are alive because you wanted to create. Every act you per-
form is creative. Your creative self, your spontaneous, creative
self—that self that speaks through your impulses—keeps you
alive."
—SEPTEMBER 29, 1979
POEMS BY JANE ROBERTS
WITH COMMENTARY BY
ROBERT F. BUTTS
(Jane hadn't shown me any of these poems as she wrote them over a period of
some four and a half years. She didn't keep them from me deliberately. In one
way they're like casual jottings that she left half finished and unseen in her
journals, until I found them when I began searching for fresh material for the
frontmatter of this Volume 2 of Dreams. In another way they contain deep and
private insights, ranging from her free, marveling childhood yearning and
intuitive knowing up to her present physically impaired condition—her
arthritic-like "symptoms," as we call them—and beyond to the final state of her
work after her death. I found each poem to be a revelation, stirring sad and
questioning wells of emotion. I can't help but mourn as I write this piece; I tell
myself that had I seen the poems as Jane produced them I might have learned a
little more about her each time; I might have been able to help her more than I
had over the years. At the same time, it's as though she's just finished the poems,
so fresh and consistent do they seem to me. And as I reread them I understand
once again that my wife is still teaching me about her courage, and about the
ineffable, unending mystery of the universe that each one of us is creating
moment by moment, separately and all together.
I offer each one of these poems with a brief commentary. The spelling and
punctuation are always Jane's own. The third poem is the only one she formally
titled.
In this deceptively simple but moving poem about her magical childhood
responses to the world she lived in, Jane foreshadows from that viewpoint the
innate knowledge she was to express a quarter of a century later in the Seth
material When she actually wrote the poem, she'd had her physical symptoms for
some nine years; for her own creative and challenging reasons she had allowed
them to gain a deep hold upon her, and I think that she drew her inspiration for
this poem from that context.)
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