“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Here you find stories of black magicians; and, once more, age enters in so that the legends of the wise old man or woman rise into folklore. Death is viewed in terms of value judgments of good and evil and black and white — the annihilation of consciousness being perceived as black, and its resurrection as white.

In this value system the black races are feared, as, basically, the aged are feared. The blacks are considered the primitives. To them are assigned creative musical abilities, for example, but for a long time these were “underground” activities: They gave birth to acceptable musical productions but were not admitted themselves into the concert halls of the respectable nation.

The blacks were to be oppressed then on the one hand, and yet treated indulgently as children on the other. There was always a great fear that the blacks as a race would escape their bounds — given an inch they would take a yard — simply because the whites so greatly feared the nature of the inner self, and recognized the power that they tried so desperately to strangle within themselves.

Applied to old age, the color black denotes a returning to those unconscious forces. Now all of this so far is from the standpoint of American and Western belief. It is simply the reality in which many of my readers are involved. In other “underground” systems of belief, however, black is seen as a symbol of great knowledge, power and strength. When this is carried to an extreme you wind up with devil cults, in which the poorly understood powers of creativity and exuberance rush out in distorted form; the undersides of consciousness are then glorified at the expense of the other, white, “conscious and objective” values.

The black thing simply raged. You must understand however that the black thing also served its purpose, for Ruburt was finally able to recognize moods that corresponded to it. You both came close to this recognition during your vacation when you discussed a black ball or atmosphere that you threw back and forth, a pall.

Those familiar with a helper very rarely ever experience their equivalent black thing again, though the black thing can appear many times before the personality changes its ways, and grows.

It is indeed the opposite version of his black thing.

That was his black thing, formed by him.

Now: Using this analogy of the white hole and the black hole: To make this clearer, the white hole is within the black hole. [...]

Electromagnetic properties are drawn into the black hole, and accelerated beyond imagination. The acceleration and the activities within the black hole draw unbelievable proportions (I checked this word with Seth) of additional energy from other systems.

[...] In the meantime, the characteristics of the black hole itself are changed by this activity. A black hole is a white hole turned inside out, in other words. [...]

Some of my readers may be familiar with “black” and “white holes” in space, that your scientists have recently discovered.

[...] The book is printed in black on a dim yellow—as Seth calls it—cardboard stock. All the copy on it, except for Nate Goldsmith’s name beneath the caricature of him, is in this dim yellow against the black background.

[...] There can be a connection with the black color of the suit of spades in a deck of playing cards, and the black of the object.

[...] A black or dark color against a light background. [...] The object is however printed in black, against a light background. [...]

[...] A black or dark color against a light background. [...]

[...] The color black.” Seth adds a bit of data during the questioning, and verifies my first thought here, that this data refers to our having a telephone—black—installed because of Jane’s teaching job. Also, Jane insisted on a black phone.

[...] And the color orange and black, and an automobile perhaps.” [...] The taxi she used was orange and black.

(8th Question: What does that call and the color black refer to? [...] She insisted on a black wall phone, in the face of the company’s efforts to sell her more expensive colored phones, etc. [...]

[...] The object is printed in black on green paper which contains a faint pattern. [...]

[...] With the Black Thing, those of you who remember the Seth Material and the Black Thing, which was representative of my fears at that time and that I had created them and reacted to them. [...]

According to what we got, both the Black Thing and the helper only exist when you have the kind of personality or the kind of abilities or something that draw a lot of energy where you got it to use. [...]

[...] You can call it the Black Thing. [...]

[...] Blacks and whites.” [...] When Jane opened the double sealed envelopes, she found the pepper had settled in a loose line at the bottom of the inside envelope; thus it formed a fine patterned edge, which also consisted of black and lighter colored grains even though the pepper is called black, in actuality less than half of it seemed to be black, literally.

(The 82nd envelope experiment had as object common black pepper, poured into the inner of the two regular sealed envelopes we use. [...]

[...] Blacks and whites.

(The “object" was, as stated, common black pepper. [...]

It is the conscious mind as it is trained in your society that deals with black and white thinking, apropos of one of your questions. The connection between black and white thinking and creativity is legitimate, but it exists the other way around: as a rule the artist or creative person is (underlined) creative to the extent that he or she escapes black and white thinking, for the creative person deals with syntheses, original versions of reality and the consideration of different groups of probabilities—groups that appear otherwise very unlikely together from the standpoint of black and white thinking. [...]

(At 9:00 she told me she thought Seth would discuss my questions #5 and 6, about black-and-white thinking, and touch upon “that article” about micro metal-bending, or psychokinetic metal bending. [...]

(Pause.) In your creativity you both largely avoid black and white thinking, and automatically leap out of that framework. [...]

(“A film connection, black and white.” [...] It comes up again, as does the black and white data. [...]

[...] The pigment color is quite dark, but not black. [...]

A film connection, black and white. [...]

[...] Black and white again rather than color. [...]

[...] (Intently:) A black man who accepts the same system is indeed in difficulty. If he happens to be a poor black man he is in double jeopardy.

Now if you happen to be black or brown, poor, and believe in this system, you will at least feel secure within it. If you are instead white and wealthy and hold such beliefs, you will think yourself quite inferior indeed, and do everything in your power to show how picturesque, and liberal and open-minded, and black or brown you can be, while still being white, fairly well-off, and perhaps secretly addicted to your Christianity.

[...] They may say that since an individual chose his or her problems in this life — deciding for instance to be born black, or poor, or both — that karma is being worked out; therefore such issues should not be adjusted through a change of law or custom. [...]

[...] Black skin or brown skin becomes the criteria of spiritual perfection, and poverty a badge of honor to be worn not only proudly, but often to be used as an aggressive tool. [...]

[...] Often white is considered pure, and black impure, white good and black evil.

[...] If you belong to a minority or if you are black, then you may be caught in a conflict of beliefs.

[...] Printing or black ink, I do not know.” The black ink connection is interesting to me. As I worked with the materials on the newspapers, I wondered whether it was such a good idea, fearing that perhaps the acrylic glue I was using might dissolve the black printing ink enough to cause it to dirty the white burlap I was handling. [...] I do not know if Seth referred to this, or merely black ink being connected with newspapers.

[...] Also the color black. [...]

[...] Printing or black ink, I do not know. [...]

(There was no black car connected with her during the stay in Asheville, Lorraine said. But she owned a black car in 1960, while living in Elmira, several years before we met her. This is the only black car she has had, or been closely associated with. [...]

[...] (Pause.) There is a piece of carpet or rug, and a small black book. [...]

[...] Black. [...]

[...] But there is a connection with a car, perhaps a black one. [...]

[...] Yet, disappearing through one of the physicists’ black holes,⁴ for example, though structure and form would seem to be annihilated and time drastically altered, there would be an emergence at the other end, where the whole “package of a universe,” having been closed in the black hole, would be reopened.

(Yet, it has been proposed that some light radiation might escape from the “event horizon” just above, or surrounding, the black hole, and that eventually this radiation may be detected with more advanced satellite equipment. Seth hasn’t commented one way or the other on such theoretical attributes of black holes.)

[...] In their own way, and using an analogy, now, in certain respects at least the CU’s operate as minute but extremely potent black holes and white holes, as they are presently understood by your physicists. [...]

4. A typical black hole, according to predictions made by Einstein in his theory of gravity, is thought to be the collapsed remnants of a giant star that’s used up all of its nuclear energy. [...]

“Jane added that when we close our eyes we’re aware of a certain ‘area of blackness,’ one we’re used to. [...] Jane said it was as though her eyes had actually moved further apart to create this expanded field of awareness, of infinite black. [...]

[...] Neither event had made as much of an impression on her as tonight’s experience, for she hadn’t sensed the odd, infinite black within the expanded area of the skull. [...]

11. According to modern cosmology, a black hole consists of the remains of a very massive star (one much larger than our own sun, for example) that’s suffered complete gravitational collapse after the death of its nuclear fires. [...] (Yet, in Volume 1, see the comments in Note 4 for Session 688, on the possibility of light radiation from the “event horizon” of the black hole.) So far just two black holes have been tentatively located, although many of them are believed to exist.

In closing: See the 593rd session in the Appendix of Seth Speaks for Seth’s material on black holes, white holes, and coordination points: “A black hole is a white hole turned inside out … The holes, therefore, or coordination points [points of double reality, or where realities merge], are actually great accelerators that reenergize energy itself.” In the 688th session for Volume 1, Seth presents an analogy in which his basic units of consciousness, or CU’s, operate as minute but very powerful black holes and white holes.

[...] Nothing can be drawn through the dead hole, though, as things can be drawn through the black hole, because of [the dead hole’s] literally impenetrable mass. Now as with atoms alone, and all other such structures, these also exist as sound.¹⁰ Black holes and white holes do also.¹¹ The sounds are actually characteristics that act as cohesivies, characteristics automatically given off. [...]

Since the matter surrounding a black hole would also be drawn into it, some astrophysicists have suggested that this might emerge into another universe through its opposite — a white hole — where it would be seen as an extremely brilliant quasar, or quasi-stellar radio source. [...]

(I mentioned black and white thinking in the notes, and Seth has also used that phrase several times recently. [...] I meant, of course, that all of us indulge in such black and white thinking at times, on some subjects, and I added that I periodically have to catch myself when I overreact to certain events. The question is why the personality would choose to use black and white thinking to begin with, when the results are so often deleterious to the whole personality, if we can just dissolve such approaches.... [...]

[...] This does not mean, again, that black and white thinking is not involved. [...]

[...] As I applied scouring powder I was surprised to see the black ink on the palm turn what might be termed a red with violet undertones. This effect at once reminded me of reading that the quality of a black ink can be judged by its behavior when diluted: If a red color develops it means the ink is of inferior quality. [...]

[...] It is a print of my right hand, made with black stamping ink on paper. [...]

[...] The lines in the palm, indicated by black lines, are in actuality in white on the original print, so that the effect is the interesting one of a hand in reverse, or perhaps a map or plan printed in reverse. [...]

[...] Thus we have a progression here from black to violet to red to yellow.

[...] I then saw a short, dark-haired man wearing black horn-rimmed glasses. [...]

[...] The room was quite dark, very nearly pitch black. [...]

(The symbol as I saw it appeared to be suspended in the air several feet away from me, and although the room was dark I can only say I seemed to see it in black line. [...]

[...] Perhaps black.” A black cat is connected to my mother in perhaps more than a casual way. My mother’s next-door neighbor acquired a black kitten a few months ago; the animal has made quite an impression on my parents, who enjoy watching its antics in their own yard as well as the neighbors’.

(3rd Question: “What’s that about a black cat?” “A distant connection. [...] the black cat on page 328. Seth’s additional data here conjures up the thought that the neighbor’s black cat also serves as the classic symbol of bad or poor luck; the connection here being the failing health of my father, and the failing health in a more drastic way of Mr. Meeker, the father-in-law of my brother Loren. [...]

[...] Perhaps black.

(“What’s that about a black cat?”)