“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

I cannot explain everything at once, and so obviously many questions would remain unanswered until we can get to them. For the original thought, as an identity, to actually be transmitted to a sender, you would have to face the inevitable result: If the identical thought were actually transmitted from A to B, then A would have it no longer. Since A obviously may still have the original thought, then B has not the identical thought; not an exact duplicate, but instead a similar but still unidentical thought.

Now. The nature of the thought that is received by our sender B is determined by many factors. We shall merely consider a few of these. These include, to begin with, the original intensity of the thought as A possesses it, A’s ability to duplicate the thought as far as possible, the relative stability of the electrical thought unit as it is formed by A, the familiarity or unfamiliarity of the range of frequencies that compose the new thought to any intended receiver.

If you will consider the projection of a thought, that is intangible, so that it affects another individual, and hence both directly and indirectly affects the action of physical matter, then you may consider the possibility of other such projections. We have here a rather delicate point. I have said that there are no duplicates. Yet you may say, are not some thoughts duplicates? The variations may indeed be slight, but the variations are always present. A thought transmitted knowingly or unknowingly by “A” is not precisely the same thought when it reaches receiver “B”.

[...] Nevertheless it must be clearly understood that thoughts and emotions are actualities in themselves, that directly work upon the physical mechanism. Any thought or emotion is bound to directly affect the physical body. Because thoughts and emotions, as electrical actualities, are independent from their subjective point of origin, a given thought or emotion, initiated by an individual, may be rejected by him and cast out. If the thought or emotion is similar to those usually accepted, then this will take time, for new electrical patterns must be set up. But an idea, thought or emotion so rejected still has independent actuality, and may be attracted to the emotional climate of another.

You are familiar with such a limited portion of the actuality of your own thoughts. These thoughts are things, so to speak, as real as a chair; but you are acquainted only with their purely subjective reality. [...] If you could fully understand or comprehend directly the reality of a thought in its full actuality, you would be amazed at the power behind it.

Each thought or emotion exists then as electric action within the mind. [...] Thoughts and emotions then, being independent however, are not bounded by or held within the physical body. The physical barriers of skin, for example, the physical limitations of that structure, do not exist and are not recognized by thoughts or emotions. [...]

Thought cannot be seen or touched. Thought is action. A thought within your field must vanish, be terminated, disappear, before it can be replaced by another. The identical thought will not return. A very similar thought may return, but the two thoughts will not be identical, although you may perceive them as identical. [...]

A note now concerning thought, as it is a form of action with which all men are familiar. Here you can see that your ego accepts thoughts as a part of its identity. Thought’s actions are accepted by the ego, yet the ego seems to stand apart from them; and because of ego’s nature it fears to plunge into the action of a thought. [...]

[...] If one thought were held forever, no other thoughts would follow, no action would follow, and no identity. In your own intimate psychological experience, in the intimate psychological experience of every individual within your race, you will find recognition of the thought.

The thought, as an electrical reality, is not subject to the physical laws that bind the physical body. The durability of the thought as an electrical act is determined by its initial electric charge. This electric charge can propel the thought, as an electrical action, through the apparent dimensions of your physical time in such a manner that it can exist simultaneously within your past and your present. Because a thought, as electric action, may exist both within your past and your present, this is not to say that it becomes two electric actions, one existing in the past and one existing in the future. Rather the one electric action or thought is simultaneously projected, through a peculiarity of its axis, so that it appears within your field, not in two places at once, but in two times at once.

[...] Thoughts, human thought, has an electric reality; a human thought exists as an independent electrical action, and as such it continues to exist within the electrical system long after it has left its point of origin. [...]

Now again: regardless of current scientific thought, there are at least three different kinds of electric force which your scientists have not yet discovered, and one of these has much to do with the intensity of thoughts as they are formed in the intangible mind, and translated to the physical brain and then into action, as the case may be.

[...] In the same manner do thoughts and emotions have the electric reality of which I have spoken. Therefore, within the electric system, dreams, thoughts and emotions exist as actualities, and in what you may call a tangible form, though not in the form of matter as you are familiar with it.

[...] A man’s thoughts, then, are far more reaching than he knows. [...] Thoughts then appear in many guises within many systems, and once created cannot be withdrawn, and once set into motion cannot be stopped. [...]

[...] The particular brain is the physical mechanism that translates the thoughts of the mind. [...] Thoughts are initially psychoelectric patterns in pure form, productions of the inner self that must be translated in order to be used by the physical self.

Nor does the receiver receive the thought in the same condition. The thought, the original thought, is retained by A. A, however, forms a thought as nearly identical as his possibilities allow it to be. This he transmits to B. But B can’t receive the thought in its present condition, for the act of receiving a thought also changes it. He forms a thought as nearly identical as possible, and interprets it.

[...] Now in our last session I told you that our imaginary sender “A” does not transmit a given thought. [...] Action, the very action of transmission, alters the nature, the electrical reality of the thought itself. [...]

[...] Action is as valid whether the act is conscious and voluntary, or whether it occurs within a dream or within a thought. [...]

[...] Bill said that at first he thought he might have, but then discounted it upon second thought because the impression he had received had been so fleeting and faint; he could not be sure of anything.

(I had thought Seth would stay, to say something about why results had not been good, but Jane said the session was over. [...]

(I thought she might be unhappy about a letter she received last Monday from the Macmillan Co. [...] The fact that Macmillan stated they thought another publisher would take on The Fence, had not, I thought, particularly cheered Jane, at least at the moment.

[...] Time devoted to what appears aimless thought and speculation will also bear its fruits.

I would have thought that any advice to Ruburt would have involved suggestions curtailing his robust and ever curious intuitional abilities, but he is holding them down with too heavy a hand. [...]

(I thought the copper insufficient in quantity, but we unrolled it upon the table, and lit the incense. [...] I thought the trappings might bring forth some rather pungent comments from Seth, but kept my own counsel. [...]

This mental enclosure can be thought of as somewhat of a manufacturing plant, from which all material manifestations must come. [...]

I will now bring the session to a close regretfully, and despite the incense and copper so thoughtfully presented. [...]

Thoughts have shape in terms of intensity mass, though you cannot see their shape; your outer senses do not perceive it. [...]

But thoughts have shapes, as do dreams. [...]

[...] Each and every thought and dream and experience that any human being has had exists as an individual, distinct electrical impulse of particular, unduplicated intensity. [...]

[...] I was prepared to end the session at once if I thought intuitively that it was necessary. [...]

The relief he felt after deciding that he had safely tricked himself, he thought in the morning, was due to the fact that the future death was not his mother’s or his own, but one involving a relative at least somewhat distant. [...]

[...] She did not look well, I thought, yet appeared to be holding her own. [...]

(Thinking the session now over, I then brought up the thought that I suspected a distortion in Seth’s interpretation of the first dream, where he stated that before being born I saw my brother Loren as a woman. I thought I recalled Seth stating many sessions ago that Loren had been three times a man, but never a woman, and had a woman’s life ahead of him.

[...] I could tell however that she was somewhat tired, and when she began delivery I thought her voice had a peculiar, flat, expressionless quality that could be the result of fatigue. [...]

[...] I realize that it is frowned upon to speak in terms of a limited intellect, which cannot understand a whole reality because of a built-in deficiency; nevertheless while it is true that the intellect by itself cannot grasp or comprehend inner reality, this should not be thought of as a deficiency inherent in intellect.

[...] Her first thought was one of acquiescence. Her second thought was one of panic, in that she wouldn’t know the passage of time as usual, etc.

[...] One of them was so long I thought she had fallen asleep. [...]

[...] She remembered the pauses, but had thought they were “nothing.”

[...] The thought had come to me clearly.

(Jane returned at 7:05 PM, and confirmed my thought. [...]

It may be thought that such perception patterns or identities may be limited, but this is hardly the case. [...]

This primary energy gestalt may be thought of as straddling all realities, or existing in the infinite realities of which we have spoken. [...]

This of course being the Holy Ghost, or rather that which he thought of in such terms. [...]

It may be thought of in an analogy, as a shadow, in that you create it or project it, but without conscious knowledge. [...]

[...] It did not even, except superficially, represent a dangerous lapse or relapse on your part, into those truly dangerous and quite disastrous negative battles of thoughts, which eventually in any individual can and often do lead the integrated self into annihilation.

Note: The attitude was partially justified, but the portion that was not justified was a symptom of a new appearance of negative thought on your part. [...]

[...] Since we had missed three sessions, I thought we could continue a little longer.

The experience of emotions and thoughts and other psychological realities that do not take up space physically within your universe, all represent portions of, small portions of, what I will for now term initial experience. Psychological reality, emotional reality, and the reality of thought also become valid to human personality through their existence as various intensities. [...]

[...] But the dream universe and the dream experience, like thoughts and emotions, are independent of you in existence. [...]

(I thought the two impressions could be examples of inner expansion and contraction. [...]

[...] When she resumes she merely carries on with the thought at hand as though there had been no interruption.)

[...] While speaking aloud, she had the parallel thought that Seth felt this material wouldn’t make him very popular in some quarters, among people who might desire to use this material for their own purposes.

(Also while on this walk, Jane had the thought that death approaches a personality when the personality becomes less and less able to focus his energies fully on this plane, when he can no longer control his physical image as well as in the past. She thought Seth might discuss this subject this evening.

Thoughts and dreams do indeed possess a validity and reality of which the subconscious has always been aware, and there is in some sense a responsibility here involved.

[...] In the morning I thought strongly of Venetian blinds, that I would like some on the kitchen windows. [...]

[...] Yesterday I thought I had more understanding why Sonja wanted the painting, and so decided to sell it. [...]

[...] And in other ways to lesser degrees, through abstract thought, through art of any kind, the physical human being, having been formed by consciousness, in his own way then working through and with matter, constructs other fields or planes of attraction, which according to their abilities expand.

It amuses me, as a last thought, that your word “pit”, in sound, is like a core, and suggesting depth for considering inwardness as the pit. [...]