“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] I can perhaps give you an analogy. [...]

[...] This expansion occurs in infinite dimensions, as perhaps it could be said that an apple develops about its core; and that perhaps is not a good analogy.

You see, your idea of geometry, the circle, triangles and squares, are so based upon your own plane that the apple analogy containing the circle idea will be inadequate, since not enough dimensions are implied. [...]

[...] In Note 1 for Session 933, in Chapter 10 of Dreams, I speculated about nuclear energy being an earthly analog of the illimitable loving being of All That Is. [...] Those reaches of time are so great, so timeless, that I see them as another earthly analog of All That Is.

In Note 3 for this session I referred to what I think are a couple of earthly analogs of All That Is. To Jane and me, our species’ venturing into space is another such analog: Our physical [...]

[...] In what may seem to you to be an odd analogy I will compare your thoughts with viruses,¹ for they are alive, always present, responsive, and possess their own kind of mobility. [...]

([Arnold:] “Then my analogy is reasonable?”)

[...] It is a good analogy. [...]

Indeed, it is a good analogy and different animals, you see, have taken different paths of evolution. [...]

If you will forgive me for the analogy, imagine that your present self is like a suit of clothing that you have put on, and when you are looking for the nature of reality, imagine that you take this suit of clothing off in the same way that a child discards its clothing before playing in the water in the springtime. [...]

[...] We are using an analogy, and an analogy that is for simplicity’s sake only. [...]

Then, according to our analogy, you will find the subconscious areas; and these areas may be, briefly, differentiated in the following manner.

You can come close to understanding this reality if you will once more consider an analogy that we made much earlier. [...]

[...] In our analogy, the painting while framed within a given space, expanded. [...]

[...] He could theoretically move to a better vantage point in the twinkling of an eye, relatively speaking, but for now we must largely use analogies. Those analogies may lead you or Ruburt, or a few others, to a more advantageous vantage point, so that certain leaps become possible—but those leaps, you see, are not just leaps of intellect but of will and intuition alike, fused and focused.

(Pause.) Perhaps an analogy will help. [...]

[...] This psychological face of our analogy has certain formal, ceremonial features, so that you mentally and psychologically tend to perceive only those data that are available within the play’s formal structure. [...]

It may, indeed, if you like the analogy. [...]

([Arnold:] “The analogy that I get is an electromagnetic wave, a carrier wave and it is rectified and the on moments are the positive pulses and the unmoments are the negative pulses.”)

[...] Using that analogy, you flow in wavelike fashion into the physical particleized versions that you call corporal existences.

Give us a moment … I am putting this as simply as possible; but when your “original self” enters [part of] itself into three-dimensional life from an inner reality, the energy waves carrying it break — not simply into one particle, following our analogy, but into a number of conscious particles. [...]

I will make an analogy, though not perhaps an excellent one. [...]

Using the analogy of consciousness survival and its distortion into fear and hatred, I have given you but one example of the ways in which basic psychological structures are misinterpreted with unfortunate results.

Simply, as an analogy, and only (underlined) as an analogy, I am what you would refer to as a future Seth, as Seth in a quote “higher” stage of development. [...]

(4:19 p.m. Neither of us had particularly thought that my dream-paternal feelings represented an analogy with the way early man had expanded his own knowledge while in the dream state — but we saw the connection as soon as Seth mentioned it. [...]

1. Seth has some material analogous to this in the 582nd session in Chapter Twenty of Seth Speaks: “What you perceive of time is a portion of other events intruding into your own system, often interpreted as movement in space….” [...]

The personal present subconscious could be compared, using this analogy, with the topmost layer of soil dealing with the present seasons. [...] Directly beneath, still using our analogy, will be found the nutrients and seeds of those desires. [...]

In fact, the analogy of a plane with an emotional state is much more valid than that between a plane and a geographical state — particularly since emotional states take up no room.

(9:30.) Since I must use [an] objective vocabulary I am always seeking for analogies. [...]

[...] It was a good analogy—to let the unconscious mind be concerned with how she was going to be healed, and so forth. [...]

[...] I will try to think of a good analogy to make this point clearer later. [...]