“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

You will note that he has had his own psychic experiences, and has been able to draw knowledge from them and from his own intuitions. He has followed through by using the intellect, but the intuitional data, as always, provides the direct experience upon which the intellect can then work.

So-called apparitions, again, are not unusual. They are more or less constant. Many of these apparitions exist in their own system whether or not you perceive them. Some apparitions are constructed by the perceiver and are basically caused by a telepathic communication. But all apparitions are not of this nature. All apparitions however, to appear as or within the physical system, must be constructed by the perceiver in the same manner that all physical objects are constructed.

This does not mean that apparitions are only the result of such construction on the part of the perceiver. The perceiver constructs the pseudomaterial apparition as he constructs the physical image of his contemporaries, but in, or rather and in line with telepathic data that is received by or from the consciousness whose material image is being constructed.

This would be a secondary construction. If however the dying brother made an out-of-body journey before or after death, for a last visit, then the receiver would still have to construct the apparition himself in order to perceive it. But in this case we would have a primary construction.

You have noticed in our own work that oftentimes information will be perceived by Ruburt in terms of visual images. I do not give Ruburt the information in this manner. The images are formed from my ideas. Usually they are formed by his ideas. I try to direct his image making, but in both instances the same process of image making is involved. You can understand in fact the way in which sense images are organized much more clearly by studying instances where sense images exist without an actual object representing them in the physical universe. This shows that sense impressions are independent, you see, of objects.

I do not speak symbolically, but quite literally.

Had she concentrated upon constructive elements, upon positive and not negative qualities, not only would the tumor itself be nonexistent, but she would have constructed a positive element in its stead. A spiritual growth, for example.

Now, our object. Small. He fingers it in his pocket. Something like a medal, but not round. Resembling a short squat cross in shape, but more filled in, in the center, and this portion scalloped in some manner, and inscribed. Of dark color. The object is fairly old. A metal color, somewhat of a mixture resembling gray greens, with a silverish colored tinge. A date on it. Connected with the object also an 1874 date, referring to the beginning of a tradition or establishment.

Another impression separate from the rest. Stedgewick, or Sedgewick. Something Dr. Instream has been reading. A connection with a volume, that is bound in a leather-appearing material, but softer. Brown-red in color. The edges of the pages are not white. Perhaps cream colored, and originally tinged with gold.