Beyond that, however, genetic messages are coded in such a way that there is a constant give-and-take between those messages and the present experien… - Jane Roberts

Civilizations, both past and present represent projections of inner selfhood, and mirror the state of the mass psyche at any given time.

Some of my ideas certainly came from my mother's father. She and he had a family argument and didn't see each other for twenty years, though we all lived in the same town. Mother wouldn't let my grandfather in the house. She let me visit him though. He was part Indian and part French, a tiny dark-haired man with an Indian hoked-nose; tight-lipped and stubborn. But he talked to me about the spirits of the fire and the wind, and took me for long walks in a nearby woods, while he told me Indian legends.

One of the main purposes of dreaming, therefore, is to increase man’s pleasure, which means to increase the quality of living itself.