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▼ SS Part One: Chapter 5: Session 523, April 13, 1970 2/24 (8%) speech convey unselfconsciously transmitted words
– Seth Speaks: The Eternal Validity of the Soul
– © 2012 Laurel Davies-Butts
– Part One
– Chapter 5: How Thoughts Form Matter — Coordination Points
– Session 523, April 13, 1970, 9:13 P.M. Monday

[... 4 paragraphs ...]

The same question of course applies when you read a newspaper, and when you speak to another person. Your actual words convey information, feelings, or thoughts. Obviously the thoughts or the feelings, and the words, are not the same thing. The letters upon the page are symbols, and you have agreed upon various meanings connected with them. You take it for granted without even thinking of it that the symbols — the letters — are not the reality — the information or thoughts — which they attempt to convey.

[... 14 paragraphs ...]

(Long pause at 11:01.) You have heard the expression before, I am sure, that the environment expresses a particular individual’s personality. I am telling you that this is a literal and not symbolic truth. The letters upon the page have the reality only of ink and paper. The information they convey is invisible. As an object, this book itself is only paper and ink. It is a carrier of information.

[... 3 paragraphs ...]

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