“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

It can change the individual’s present reaction to the past event, and alter the original implications and meanings that were once connected with such an event. Suggestion can shape future events because any action changes that which existed before it, and that which shall exist after it within your system.

Suggestion then can shape the future. Expectation enters in here particularly of course. Suggestion can shape dreams, and the dreams themselves then operate as action. A strong dream can be a more significant psychic action than any physical experience, and it can change the course of the personality completely.

These are impressions. The shape of a star. A connection with a particular event, with some unpleasant connotations.

Four, six (pause) a location with much space, and a steeple shape. An incident to remember, and a connection with F E B, as in February.

(The design on Bill Macdonnel’s handmade name cards can be “The shape of a star” as far as conventional symbols go. At least it can to me, as an artist; Bill is also an artist. Jane and I drew a blank on “a particular event, with some unpleasant connotations” at the moment.

(The “impression of a seesaw... as a children’s game,” is quite interesting to us, and we believe a good example of the way associative memory can work while also being accurate. At the time of the exhibition I participated in at Bill’s gallery last winter, he had not had the gallery open very long. Building was still going on; in the back room were sawhorses he had borrowed from a carpenter, plus many other tools, scraps of wood, etc. Note that the sawhorse shape and the support for a child’s seesaw would be practically the same. Jane is very attached to playground accoutrements; she has especially fond memories of children’s seesaws and swings. Indeed, playgrounds have an almost mystical significance for her and she uses them often in her paintings.

(“Four, six” did not ring a bell with us. Bill’s gallery, which takes up the entire ground floor of a downtown store location, is certainly “a location with much space.” We are not sure of the “steeple shape,” unless it may apply to some of the modern sculpture also on exhibit in the gallery last winter.