“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

The electromagnetic reality within the human organism has considerable mass, but the entire physical weight amounts to 3 to 6 ounces at the very most. Again, the mass is composed of electrical intensities. I have told you that all experience is basically psychological, and that it is held in coded form within the cells. One electrical pulsation can represent an emotional experience. The importance of the experience to the individual will be responsible for the intensity with which it is recorded.

The ego chooses channels of reception with great discrimination; and, again, it censors anything which it feels is a threat to its own dominance. In sleep however many dreams are of a telepathic nature, with strong clairvoyant overtones. It is the ego’s persistent discrimination in choosing the stimuli to which it will react that in a large measure determines the nature of physical time as it appears to the personality. The ego, because of its function and basic characteristics, cannot make swift decisions as can the intuitive self. Therefore it perceives events in a peculiar manner, almost in slow motion, so that the whole effect is of a series of separate events, one happening before or after the other.

The affair the other evening worked out well. It was spontaneous, the atmosphere was friendly, and the Gallaghers’ attitude is an excellent one. There will be other and better such communications between the four of you.

When Ruburt learns a few lessons, he will be able to tell when his impressions are correct. Most of the wrong ones are not necessarily errors, but he has not made the proper connections, or gone far enough, but stopped short in processes of association. For the basic valid impressions are not picked up by the ego; and, again, must be properly transformed into data that can be understood. And this often emerges as associative material, that must then be deciphered. He is in training, so to speak.

Five objects in particular, and one of them is a gift, or was a gift to him. A cluster of events he considers too many. The number 12. He is very cautious this evening.

He thinks of someone whom he considers in the same light as a daughter. His wife may be allergic to dogs or hair. I think of a dog with wet hair, a shaggy one. (Pause.)

An arch shape. Designs that go in one direction, diagonals. The number 4, or four numbers. (Long pause at 10:19.) White. An F and a W, and a table and chairs.

(If impressions can attach themselves to the test object itself, they can attach themselves to any other object; so once again it appears that the problem for Jane is one of discrimination. She was disappointed at the results of this evening’s test especially when comparing it with the good results of last Friday’s spontaneous affair with the Gallaghers. See pages 316-321.

I will no longer ask you if you have a test. You will simply at your leisure hand me a test when you have one for me, at any time in the session. You may, in other words, interrupt. Do not tell Ruburt the results of the test immediately.