“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Now the image analogy is in some respects distortive, but good enough for our present purposes. For as you think of the matter of your cells as only matter, then it is hard to follow our analogy. But when you realize that your own body cells are much more than physical, contain their own capsule comprehension, then you will see that they could, at least theoretically, operate in such a manner if you could throw your own consciousness into them, and perceive their seemingly alien experience.

Now. As I have told you, there is duration of a kind. What would correspond, in any case, to your idea of duration within the spacious present; it is a matter of intensities however. Now the entity is in itself composed of such intensities. Simply for the sake of analogy, imagine the image, a humanoid one, of an entity giant-sized, spread out anywhere in your physical universe. And if the image were projected against a midnight sky, within its apparent boundaries then you would see a multitude of planets and stars. Let these represent moment points. On one hand they are a part of the entity, as your cells are a portion of your body. On the other hand the entity’s consciousness can travel through these. They are doorways within his own psychological makeup, into experiences.

Time could be thought of as the tissues of the entity. These would be ever-changing. In our analogy, the projected image would seem to float, including ever-different stars and planets within its boundaries. Your own time structure would be very minute in this picture.

There is some slight analogy here in your associative processes, where you might think of a person as you have known him in different periods of time, and hold that idea in your present; but that does little to give you the concept’s complexity. This session, for that matter, will have to develop into others, for I have concentrated some material about which you will have many questions when you read it.

[...] For analogy’s sake, then, consider (underline analogy’s sake), the serial selves that we have sometimes discussed to make issues clearer. [...]

[...] In the analogy these future selves would dwell in other dimensions, and usually self one, or Jane, would be relatively unaware of their, existence or knowledge. [...]

[...] Following our analogy, Jane’s self 2 is in another position where contact is not possible at this time.

[...] Since I mentioned self 2, and again remember this is an analogy—self 2 has embarked upon a completely different adventure, in a different direction in another system.

[...] Since we are involved in this discussion I will give you a simple analogy, and please understand that it is an analogy, meant only to simplify the idea.

Behind 1 then imagine the infinite other 1’s, literally for the analogy’s sake one behind the other. [...]

[...] Now this analogy applies to identity. [...]

Following our analogy, you will be his guest and from his rooms look down into your own with some greater objectivity. This is possible, feasible, since you are all portions, in our analogy, of this same inner self who maintains all of the rooms. [...]

[...] On our rather bulky analogy the guests are all portions of the inner self, who is the unseen attendant who maintains the building.

[...] His name is P I E T R A. (Spelled out.) In psychological time or simply when you are still, close your eyes and imagine your physical universe as one room in our analogy, and his as another with a passageway between. [...]

[...] This is a very loose analogy, but he is hoping to shoot himself toward you like an arrow, hoping that those correspondences that he suspects will help draw him to you. [...]

[...] To help you imagine what I am speaking of, you might think of them as ghost images, or shadow images, though this is only for the sake of analogy — forms, for example, just beneath, that have not emerged completely into physical reality as you know it, but are nevertheless vivid enough to be constructed. [...]

[...] Now for an analogy, imagine if you can that behind the table is another just like it, but not quite as physical, and behind that one another, and another behind that — each one more difficult to perceive, fading into invisibility. [...]

(10:02 to 10:20.) There are also realities (pause), that are “relatively more valid” than your own; in comparison, strictly for an analogy, for example, your physical table would appear as shadowy in contrast, as [like] those very shadowy tables we imagine. [...]

Now: You are, using an analogy again, sent out by a superself who strongly desired existence in physical form. [...]

[...] In this homespun analogy, Mama and Papa send letters back — also in the native language — to their children. [...]

Give us a moment … Remember, in this analogy the various children represent your ancestors, yourself, and your own children. [...]

[...] Mama and Papa, in our analogy, represent the infinite potential within one basic unit (CU) of consciousness.

[...] For the sake of analogy only now, imagine your present self at the center of a circle of endless spirals. [...]

Now I am speaking simply, for I am speaking of a circle as you understand it in three-dimensional terms, but there are more depths and dimensions to a circle than you can imagine when you picture, say, a globe; and so of course in this analogy identity has other dimensions that do not appear.

Now this is identity as it is not generally known, and in this analogy lies the truth of the nature of identity. [...]

[...] They also changed as Seth continued discussing the analogies involved.

[...] The “nucleus”—now using a cell analogy—if these units were cells, which they are not, then it would be as if the nucleus were constantly changing position, flying off in all directions, dragging the rest of the cell along with it. Do you follow the analogy?

(Jane made it a point to mention that in regard to the switch in polarities of the units: “This isn’t only with the north and south switching, but opposites anywhere on the rim of the circle [that was used as an analogy], with east and west reversed, for instance.”)

[...] I would disregard the analogies if you did not need them. [...]

[...] I hadn’t expected him to use our bank accounts as analogies, but saw at once what he was up to. [...]

Now we will call the ordinary savings account the usual rewards of Framework 1, for an analogy, of course. [...]

You share Framework 1 activity with others, for that world largely surrounds you, but remember, I am speaking in analogies to make certain points, for every person’s life has its Framework-2 orientations. [...]

[...] Seth’s analogy with the bank accounts and Frameworks l and 2 is an excellent one, of course, and in theory at least I agree with it completely.

(Long pause.) Let us try another analogy: You are an artist in the throes of inspiration. [...] No brushstroke is ever really wiped out, however, in this mysterious canvas of our analogy, but remains, further altering all the relationships at its particular level.

[...] Since this is our analogy, we can stretch it as far as we like — far further than any artist could stretch his canvas (leaning forward humorously). Therefore, there is no need to limit ourselves. [...]

Now the psyche in our analogy is both the painting and the artist, for the artist finds that all of the elements within the painting are portions of himself. [...]

[...] Anything that I say following this analogy will seem comparatively simple, for by now it must appear at least that you have little hope of discovering your own greater dimensions.

You may think of your soul or entity — though only briefly and for the sake of this analogy — as some conscious and living, divinely inspired computer who programs its own existences and lifetimes. [...]

[...] There is at least an evocative analogy there.

[...] I send out much more than you do in a letter, for a portion of my consciousness is now within the entranced woman as I dictate, but the analogy is close enough.

(Jane then used the analogy of a library, without implying that she was getting the data “from a library somewhere.”)

[...] It is very difficult to make analogies here, but I am foolhardy enough to try it. [...]

[...] So in those terms, and following that analogy, the psyche makes the same kind of adjustments and life-changes. [...]

[...] The self is not … (pause, eyes closed) … give us a moment; I am searching for a good analogy … the self is not like a clay figure coming from a potter’s oven, so that you can say: “Ah, here is a self, and nothing can be added to it.” [...]

[...] Here in this analogy, the entire earthly personality could be compared to the world. [...]

[...] The analogy was a simple one. [...] In the analogy he does not start with your perfect brushes however, but with limbs not straight. [...]

This is the end of our analogy. [...]

[...] “I knew we weren’t going to get a break until we finished that goddamn analogy,” Jane laughed after she’d come out of a good trance. [...]

(1. It not only incorporates Seth’s “island” analogy, but Jane’s and his information in the last [725th] session on strands of consciousness.

[...] But in the terms of our analogy, some island spirits are gamblers. [...]

[...] You could compare these units, simply for an analogy, to the invisible breath of consciousness. This analogy will not carry us far, but it will be enough initially to get the idea across. [...]

[...] (Gestures.) The “nucleus,” in quotes—now using a cell analogy—if these units were cells, which they are not, then it would be as if the nucleus were constantly changing position, flying off in all directions, dragging the rest of the cell along with it. Do you follow the analogy?

[...] I would disregard the analogies if you did not need them. [...]

[...] When I told Jane that Seth had an excellent analogy there, she said, “That’s how I knew we were going to have a session—I began to get material on that analogy.” [...]

For our analogy, now, think of the various ledges or levels of the mountain as different time periods. [...]

[...] Returning to our analogy, however: You are like one violet, born in one spring on one ledge, and we will call the ledge, here, 1940. [...]

[...] If I speak in analogies and images, it is because I must relate with the world that is familiar to you.” [...]

4. In the 683rd session for Volume 1, see the flower, bulb, and time analogies given after 10:37.

I make these analogies because they are pertinent, yet I am aware that they can make you feel small or fear for your identity. [...] In a book we must use words, but such analogies can, if you let them, conjure up within your imagination some feeling of your intimate relationship with all other reality. [...]

(9:39.) In this regard now, and for the sake of our analogy only, think of the life of the self as one message leaping across the nerve cells of a multidimensional structure — again, as real as your body — and consider it also as a greater “moment of reflection” on the part of such a many-sided personality.

[...] If you were looking at your daily normal self from the other viewpoint, you see, using an analogy here, you might find that physically waking self as strange as you now find the sleeping self. The analogy will not hold however, simply because this sleeping self of yours is far more knowledgeable than the waking self of which you are so proud.

[...] You can also learn to rise above your present stream of consciousness and perceive others that run, for analogy’s sake, parallel. [...]