“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

The third inner sense, as I have told you, will enable you to some extent to free yourselves from the constructions of past, present and future, and will permit in theory instant cognition. As far as practice is concerned you will never achieve such instant cognition, but you will be able to set aside now and then the boundaries of time, and you will be able at least to glimmer the reality and the concepts of which I speak.

I am afraid I am a poor sort of host, and not much given to the niceties, or at least your niceties, being somewhat out of practice. Nevertheless, a good evening to Philip, and I recognize his presence.

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.

Mankind thought that killing worked. It was the most practical solution, or so it seemed, to many problems. You know now that killing is not practical, since it is being brought home to you in a very practical manner that in the long run he who kills will not survive.

There are many ramifications here. The wrong way, and I do not mean even wrong in the sense of sinful, the wrong way is never the practical way, Philip. The practical way is the only way.

The so-called practical solution to your problems, Philip, is hardly practical and for many reasons. In the first place, having little respect for yourself for following such a course, you would not even be able to put on the act which you contemplate. Your sense of falseness would immediately be picked up by your superiors.

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.

By following the seemingly impractical, seemingly idealistic, foolish course, you will discover that it is the only practical course, and the only one which will even give you the material prizes that you would desire.

Two men in particular would distrust you instantly if you changed course. Winning these two would take much of your energies and in the end, my dear misguided Philip, would get you absolutely nowhere because they will lose their influence. This is practical.

One man you have known in a previous life. There was a debt involved which was paid off. There is no need now for you to humiliate yourself to seek his favor, as you have paid off in full your debt to him. There is also a man’s wife who would intuitively know what you were up to. Such practicality doesn’t seem very practical to me.

Practicality is what works, if you will forgive the colloquialism. I will not attempt to tell you what to do. Make your own decision. But a man operates to capacity, and operates in a most practical manner within your own camouflage system when he is himself.

The manipulation of camouflage material depends to a large degree upon the outside ego’s confidence, and the outside ego’s confidence is only strong when it follows the inner ego’s pattern. You can for a while fake the sort of disbelieving belief required, but your ability to sell is based upon your own confidence as an integrated and principled personality. Practically you would find your ability minimized, and do you speak to me about practicality?

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.

You are in no danger however as long as you pursue your present course, but you are in peril as soon as you change it. You will find that these loose predictions will come to pass. You understand that free will always operates, this being a foregone conclusion. I also am practical in my way. And speaking of practicality, you would find it most beneficial even in dealing with your precious camouflage patterns if you would develop the use of your inner senses.

Such resulting knowledge would be practical. I am not only speaking in terms of your limited sense of what is practical, but what is truly practical for your personality is the full use of your abilities, and not stunting them through studied hypocrisies.

Material matters may seem extremely practical to you. However there is nothing less practical than inner torment, and much inner torment is caused by a false sense of what is practical. Inner torment will cause you to lose whatever material gains you have achieved, and this is not practical.

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.