“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(This afternoon John Bradley, who was our witness for the 26th session, stopped in to ask if he could be a witness for the session tonight. He also wanted to borrow my studio for an hour to make up a chart for one of his medical displays. He thought he might miss the beginning of the session while working in the studio, but the informality of the idea seemed good. Jane agreed when I picked her up after work.

You insist upon a continuity and a seeming cause and effect because of the erected wall barrier that you yourselves have constructed. Concepts such as those I am referring to reach beyond your ideas of time and space.

When cognition is spontaneous or nearly so, then the idea can have freedom. You are bounded by your cause and effect theories. You believe in your ideas of time, and depend upon them to such a degree that it is impossible at this stage for you to conceive of a concept that has nothing to do with space or time.

Ideas and use of the inner senses can form a shaft of understanding through camouflage pattern, by which you will receive a dismally small burst of light; but even that is extremely important.

The fact remains that the inner senses are equipped to let you perceive inner reality. You can use them; and for Philip’s information the evidence of the inner senses is immediate, and vivid, and direct—much more vivid, Philip, than for example your camouflage experience of the color red. Everyone sees red differently. There is no absolute objective red but only gradations of the idea red.

The fourth inner sense is the conceptual sense. Now you think of a concept in terms of an idea, which you can only understand in intellectual terms. However, the fourth inner sense involves again direct cognition, only now of a concept in much more than you would call intellectual terms.

I will also go into this more deeply. You should be able to see now why a concept such as I refer to is difficult to achieve on your plane. You cannot focus upon it thoroughly. When the fourth inner sense is exercised, and I will outline exercises and all three of you would certainly benefit by following my suggestions, you will discover what an idea really is.

You will discover this by experiencing the idea directly, and you can best achieve some approximation of accomplishment by using psychological time. Your idea of experiencing a concept is doubtlessly to follow it through from beginning to end. Sweet tootsies, there is no beginning or end, and this idea of yours is the result of a complete and utter concentration upon camouflage time.

Nor does the evolution of either an idea or a species involve time. It merely involves time in your universe. You insist upon labeling as laws of absolutes what is actually your distorted and limited vision of concepts as they seem to appear to you. Using psychological time, sit in a quiet room; and I hope this is not impossible, when an idea comes to you, and I presume it will, do not play with it intellectually. You can dissect it to your heart’s content after the experience.

Reach out to the idea intuitively. Do not be afraid of or reject unfamiliar bodily sensations. With practice, and to a very limited degree, you will find that you can become the idea. You will be inside the idea, looking out, not looking in. This is thought.

(Break at 10:35. Jane was dissociated as usual. During break John wondered about the practicality of idea-concept application in the camouflage world. He was interested because he said he had been considering, lately, his own approach to certain problems in the business world. He is a drug salesman.

I certainly do not understand, and never have, your ideas of practicality. Your misconceptions along this line are serious, and are caused to a large degree by your complete inability to look ahead even in your own terms.

The so-called practical solution would find you out of the organization within two years. Is this practical? Your ideas of practicality are not mine. On the other hand there will be men who will have the same sympathies as your own, and with whom you will make contact within the company, if you avoid these so-called practical solutions.

You had best avoid such a course as you mentioned; for purely practical reasons it would be disastrous and the results would be felt in all areas of your life. I hesitate to say much more along these lines. I have said that others in sympathy with your ideas will come into influence, and they will influence your head of state.

To be practical even in your terms, and they are not my terms, involves the full use of your abilities. You would be handy with electrical apparatus, having dealt with these ideas in the past. You would find for example the operation of a ham radio station advantageous. You have abilities here not being used, and this could lead to an added lifetime interest of some intensity.