“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(During this session, Jane spoke with much emphasis. I have underlined a few words and phrases she seemed to pay special attention to. Seth began this session in a very positive manner, as though he would be all business this time, and kept at it hammer and tongs.)

You do not even perceive camouflage reality with your outer senses with any dependability. Telepathy, which belongs to the inner senses, is used constantly. Without it your languages would be meaningless. The inner senses, Philip, experience direct data instantaneously.

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.

(Break at 10:00. Jane was dissociated as usual. During break I attempted to explain to John something about my sensations, my feeling of sound as Seth calls it, when the tree fell, etc. I asked John to look over this portion of the notes, but he said that he felt it would only be confusing without more background knowledge.

This is an elegant little discussion, and I enjoy listening in. I would suggest whenever it is possible that Philip read the material from the beginning.

And you miss the point often, in that such trickery of the outside ego benefits the outside ego, and brings knowledge to it that it would not have otherwise.

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.

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.

Many in the group to which you refer are not being consciously or unconsciously false to themselves. They simply know no better. In your dealings with these people you would immediately find yourself in difficulty. The hypocrisy simply would not go deep enough.

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.

Also in the long run your salesman’s ability, which was partially developed in another life, would play you false under the circumstances which you contemplate. Drugs are definitely your field, but I tell you again that two men in particular, within the company, will be out of favor, and if you join their league you will also be out within two years.

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.

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.

(I was assured by “Seth” that it would be more advantageous in the long run, to remain as I am and not to give in to the flowery, complimentary type which I describe as a phony.

(During this session, while Seth was advising me he suggested that it would give me a great deal of satisfaction to pursue a hobby in electronics, a ham radio was his choice. He said I had innate ability in this field.