“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(I did not describe the vision further at this time, although by now Jane had read my written version of it. As the board spelled out the answer, Jane began to hear it within, a bit in advance.)

No. (Jane dictates:) You weren’t alive at that time.

(“Will you fill us in on what mental enzymes are? They’ ve been mentioned several times before.”)

Something along the line of mental genes. (Jane dictates:) As mental genes are behind the physical genes so to speak, so mental enzymes are behind the physical stuff that you can examine on your plane. Chlorophyll is such a mental enzyme, and there are more which I shall describe to you at another time.

At later times with your present rate of development, the distortions themselves will be held to a minimum. And now Joseph you will see, I am sure, in which direction I am leading you. The more personal and the more direct the bearing of a question upon your daily life, the greater the distortion is likely to be. What more can you expect?

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.)

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.

Intellectual truth alone will not make you free, though it is certainly a necessary preliminary. If this were the case your walls would fall away, since intellectually you understand their rather dubious nature. Since feeling is so often the cohesive with which mind builds, it is feeling itself which must be changed if you would find freedom from your particular plane of existence at your particular time. That is, to some extent a change in feeling will allow you to see variants. Since feeling is a cohesive, to change it completely would hardly be of any advantage since your world of present existence would fall apart.

I will at a later date try to discuss the question of time. Any of these discussions are of necessity of a simple and uncomplicated nature. If I speak in analogies and images it is because I must relate with the world that is familiar to you.

You on your plane for example do not even have conscious memory of your own dream fragments. For that matter you can hardly remember one idea from one week to another on a conscious deliberate basis. It is simply impossible for the ego as you know it to maintain conscious dominance at this time. (Pause.)

I suggest that this session come to a conclusion. I hesitate to give you an excess of data on Monday when our next session is on a Wednesday. You need time to digest the material, and this material is difficult on the digestion. In any case you bear with me very well, and I can say the same for myself.