“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(As Seth suggested we do yesterday, we tried free association today. [...] It set off a chain of associations for her, and she pursued them while saying she was half embarrassed to mention them. [...]

You have started the free association in a good and rousing fashion, so that Ruburt becomes consciously aware of some of his own attitudes that he has more or less become blind to. [...]

[...] When I got back I told her I’d try free association with her, or a session. She said she didn’t know if she was up to any free-association efforts — “though I do intend to try it, as Seth says.” [...]

[...] If you gained your sense of personal continuity through associative processes primarily, rather than as a result of the familiarity of self moving through time, then you would experience physical reality in an entirely different fashion. Objects from past and present could be perceived at once, their presence justified through associative connections. [...] If your perceptive mechanisms were primarily set up as a result of intuitive association rather than time sequence, then you would perceive all of these chairs at one time; or seeing one, you would be aware of the others. [...]

[...] The past itself is being continually recreated by every individual, as attitudes and associations change. [...]

[...] Once more, the only reality that can be assigned to the past is that granted to the symbols and associations and memory images that exist electromagnetically both within the physical brain and within the mind.

[...] A change of attitude, a new association, any of innumerable other actions, will automatically set up new electromagnetic connections, and break others. [...]

(Now Ruburt’s personal association with this last impression is of your brother Loren and his wife. [...]

[...] Again, see Seth’s comments on page 274, concerning his use of Jane’s associations. [...] Seth and Jane here seem to permit the use of such association in a much freer manner than in the past.

Sometimes, incidentally, when we work toward a specific image, we must work using associations of Ruburt’s that I try to direct to the proper direction. [...]

[...] In this respect see page 274, where Seth mentions Jane’s associations.

[...] Again the use of free association… “This was to lead us to the word note.” [...]

It is this basic feeling about the book and Saratoga that suddenly activated past associations and brought on some identification with his mother. [...] It shocked him to know that people of the past were reading the book in his present, and seemed to draw him closer to those original associations that caused him to leave Saratoga.

[...] This simply brings up associations, of course, with the nursery school, serving as another connection with his mother’s symptoms.

[...] Second of all, there was quite separately an association because of the size of the card given as test object. In the second case the association was Ruburt’s, for on his own he picked up a file-card image, but he translated this into the image of a box in which such file cards are often kept.

[...] She completely cut off her own associations; this ability to discriminate, Seth has told us, is very important, and will grow steadily on Jane’s part.

Now while this association was his own, it was caused by the image retention carrying over from the first test. [...]

[...] In this case he did very well in closing off his own associations.

(At least when I’ve been there in 330, Jane’s appetite has gone downhill, and she’s slacked off on free-association material and the sessions. [...]

[...] That idea of safety and reassurance counters the fear, and opens the passageways again for free association.

[...] I ended up asking Jane if she wanted to try free association after we’d talked a while, but got no definite answer.

[...] Before I could try anything like free association, however, Jane said she had more to give.

[...] Artists Equity Association is dealt with in the book’s forward also.

[...] Probably another general reference to the object, in that the object’s author, Caroline Keck, was associated with both the Brooklyn Museum and the Arnot Art Gallery. [...]

(The framework data may be associative, coming from the earlier framework references having to do, we think, with paintings and frames.

[...] We believe it refers to the book by Louis Pomerantz; the author himself; Paula Gerard, the illustrator; and the Artists Equity Association, discussed in the book’s forward.

[...] I discovered them running through my mind as I faced the easel, with no idea of what association might have triggered them. [...]

Now this man by association reminds Ruburt of Dirksen because the temperamental similarities are fairly evocative. [...]

[...] In his case at this time symptoms on the left side of the body have reference to early associations.

[...] It involves other people, not business associates.

An association connected with the number four. [...]

You will see when and how Ruburt’s personal associations help us, and when and how they do not help us. [...] This is difficult simply because the data is legitimate to important layers of the personality, and you can see extrasensory perceptions as they merge with other associations.

[...] But she hadn’t particularly associated this with the reasons Seth ascribed to a need for mobility. [...]

[...] This is a good example of the way personal associations can work. [...]

[...] You will be able to see how extrasensory perceptions merge with personal associations, and watch the mind as it actually learns to perceive the difference.

(Jane said that as she began giving the data, the association she made with Seth’s data, “white, snow white,” led her to consider the particular photo of my parents’ house taken after a deep snowfall. She said that at this stage of her development it is very difficult for her to tell when such personal associations enter in, unless Seth himself notes it by saying “Ruburt here thinks of a photograph,” etc. [...]

[...] There are three men in particular with whom you will be associated... [...]

(Jane finished her comments by noting that there isn’t much she can do at the moment about being sidetracked by such personal associations, except to keep it in mind. [...]

[...] The snow I used merely because the white was so blinding, and this led Ruburt to his own associations, concerning your parents’ house, and a particular photograph which was taken in the wintertime. [...]

[...] Besides the associates and friends that you know in your daily waking life, you also have a quite legitimate relationship with people that you do not know as you go about your daily concerns. [...]

Now some of you are ready to meet these other associates. [...]

([Gert:] “In the dream state, these strangers or associates, would we put on them a face that we would be able to relate to, say, a member of our family?”)

[...] Therefore the kind of communication that is carried on by myself and my associates is extremely important in any discussion of our environment.

[...] Similar feelings will soon follow, and with them memories of other such unpleasant episodes strung together through association. [...]

[...] This time the associated memories are pleasant, and the body changes accordingly.

Remember, these mental associations are living things. [...]

[...] Thoughts thrive on association. [...]

[...] Many individuals however, relying upon the physical therapy alone, set up negative associations. [...] Without the knowledge that you have, then any sensations in the area of those nerves could then through association activate the original fear, which would in turn aggravate the condition.

[...] Certain pains through association can (underlined) send an individual backward to the original fear or situation that first caused it.

[...] The associations, personal associations on Ruburt’s part, when they are directly connected to test objects in our envelope tests, represent to some degree a step forward on his part.

[...] The personal associations on his part that do not apply to the test object, do represent the fact that his own abilities have not fully developed.

[...] But upon many occasions his personal associations now are connected with the object; so he does not fight me, but we work together.

[...] Thus Jane’s personal associations are now often connected with the test object, and she is working with Seth and not against him.

[...] I mean that in my mind the symptoms were associated with my work as if they cast aspersions on it—quite apart from worrying about what they did to me. [...]