“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(To begin this evening’s session Jane and I sat at the board as usual, with our fingers touching the pointer. But we did not ask any opening questions. Until otherwise noted all answers came through the board.

He was on his way to the holy lands. His shoes had been stolen as he slept. The buildings you saw were not pyramids but the ruins of monasteries in the distance.

In a sense any color or quality of that nature could be considered a mental enzyme. There is an exchange of sorts between the mental and the physical without which, for example, color would not exist. Now I use color as an example first because it is easier perhaps to understand how this could be a mental enzyme, than it is to understand the same thing about chlorophyll. Chlorophyll is green but more than color. (Pause.) Nevertheless there is an interaction here also which gives the chlorophyll its properties. (Pause.) This is one of the most difficult terms to explain. I hope to make it much clearer to you, but it involves part of a larger concept and as yet you do not have the necessary background.

The material in these cases apparently comes through quite distorted. Again this is beyond my control, in these cases you simply do not understand what I am trying to say. The more you push at a sore point the sorer the point becomes. My attitude in no way prevents prediction per se. At this point your attitude however does stand in the way. I hope to go into this also at a further time, because there are definite reasons for this that have nothing or little to do with you personally, but represent a more or less natural distortion of data along these lines. (Pause.)

This has also much to do believe it or not with feeling, which also is a mover. You must try not to categorize things in old ways, but when you open your mind you will see a similarity between chlorophyll as a mental enzyme or mover, and emotion which is never still. Emotion solidified is something else again and perhaps is a framework of other worlds. (Pause.) And really Jane, you’re giving your subconscious an awful lot of credit. Let’s see credit where credit is due.

Perhaps I may be able to make mental enzymes clearer afterwards since they have a basic part to play in the universe, at least as I know it so far. Let me say though in your own experience you are familiar with steam, water and ice. These are all manifestations of the same thing. So can a seemingly physical chlorophyll be also a part of a seemingly immaterial emotion or feeling, but in a different form; and of course directed into this form or caused to take various forms as response to certain laws, as of course ice will not exist of itself in the middle of your summertime. And if I am not to be compared to a symphony, Joseph, you must admit I do well with a figurative baton.

The mental enzymes within the enclosure are the elements that set off the action and—listen closely—are also the action itself. In other words the mental enzymes not only produce action in the material world but become the action. I will always call any materialization an action from here on in, since as you both know by now nothing is stationary. If you will read over the above three or four paragraphs you will come close to seeing where mental and physical become one.

You both know again what love and hate are, but as I told you before try to think in new ways. Love and hate for example are action. They are both action and they both imply action in physical bodies, and even as far as thoughts are concerned. In your plane action is the main word of importance.

These mental enzymes, to go back to them, are solidified feeling but not in the term again that you usually think of. I see I will have to try to give you a better definition of feeling or we will get into trouble.

The framework is only for convenience, as your walls are for your convenience as I mentioned earlier. The walls are not there as such, but you had better act as if they were or suffer a possible broken neck. I must still respect many like frameworks in my own plane, but my understanding of them renders them less opaque—and that is a poor word—all the time.

Good night, but do touch hands to the board.

(A drawing is solidified action. In the process of drawing I am solidifying emotion or feeling. There is distortion present, but still I put down something that my obvious senses can perceive. It is an attempt to get to the heart, the mind’s heart, of the matter.

(Each line is one thought, one recorded or frozen bit of action; representing or capable of representing many things. But a collection of lines, with the same or similar thoughts behind them, assembles itself into a recognizable whole.