The Oversoul Seven Trilogy by Jane Roberts

Author:Jane Roberts [Roberts, Jane]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Jane Roberts
ISBN: 9781934408278
Publisher: Amber-Allen Publishing
Published: 2011-03-15T07:00:00+00:00

Chapter Ten

Jeffery’s Notes and Questions Without Answers

I haven’t had time to write here, because I’ve been so busy with “The Further Education of Oversoul Seven,” and except for my academic work, my life now almost seems organized about the book. In my sleep sometimes part of a chapter will suddenly awaken me, so I’ve taken to keeping a notebook by the bedside. Otherwise the “writing” takes me about three hours a night. I sit down; the words and sense of exhilaration come, some part of me gets carried away by what is being written, and all sense of time vanishes.

Of course, I’ve told no one what I’m doing. The fact is that I don’t know what odd venture this is that I’ve embarked upon. I’m certainly not writing “Education” in usual terms. I have no idea what is going to happen next to the characters. For that matter, I have no idea where the words themselves are coming from. The concepts involved are hardly to be taken seriously, but as fantasy I suppose they’re acceptable enough. In any case, this certainly involves me in the oddest behavior, and so I’ve decided to study everything that happens as closely as possible.

My sanity does not seem threatened as I first suspected. Nothing else in my life has altered (so far, Jeffy-boy, I remind myself). Well, to be more honest, nothing in my exterior situation has changed. I do have the impression that my dreams are different than they used to be, more numerous perhaps, and colorful. I haven’t remembered any dreams, however, though as mentioned I have awakened with portions of this manuscript suddenly just here, as if freshly minted.

I try to look at the script objectively and then work backward, trying to figure out what kind of person would ordinarily write this kind of book; and I’m as far from being that kind of person as anyone I know. Or is the unconscious that playful and creative? That is, could the manuscript be the result of my own unconscious productivity? I can’t really accept such a thesis, since I’m not at all convinced that the unconscious operates in such a manner. I’ve always thought of it as containing the suppressed, primitive, unsavory aspects of the self that, quite rightly, we’ve been conditioned to repress. The conditioning process: Everything must return to that basis. And somewhere, in that framework, there must be an answer to my current experience. Yet—nothing in my own background seems to present an adequate explanation.

I am trying a small experiment. A few days before the manuscript “began,” I’d started taking vitamin C. Surely I see no connections. Nevertheless, today I began accelerating the dose of vitamin C to ascertain if there is any resulting alteration in my production of the book. Perhaps in a way that we don’t understand, some vitamins cause an overstimulation of certain hormones that further trigger the creative abilities. I don’t for the moment believe this, but I refuse to discount such a theory either.

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