“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Now, the ego, the dominant ego, does indeed affect the inner identity, and changes it even as it affects and changes the dominant ego. For we are dealing here after all with an interdependent gestalt. The interworkings of the whole gestalt have never been completely understood.

It should be remembered here that two personalities were allergic to nylon and two were not. Obviously two personalities made such changes in the physical organism that the allergy was brought on. The organism was physically changed and affected. Even though one personality took over for an hour, still for that hour the physical organism itself was a different one.

The number 23 in connection with this. Perhaps the person, a man, died at 23, or 23 years ago, but the number 23 is somehow connected. Also connected with the man is the initial J, though I do not know if this is the man’s initial. Perhaps the month of February also here, and cold damp weather. Or a damp climate, perhaps in another country. Maybe England, but someplace cold and foggy.

A connection with Sep, as in September, or the number designated by that month. A picture of a woman. A connection with an antidote. A red and yellow circular object connected here.

(“Quick. Something quick.” Jane associated the word quick here with the fact that Mrs. Berry is the first Negro on the local school board; quick meaning first. In the last paragraph of the object-article Mrs. Berry also talks about being the first Negro to work in child welfare in Elmira.

(“Connections with a J and a G, and feet or socks.” Jane can quality for the J, being a friend of the author of the object. Peggy Gallagher can match the G. Another possibility here is the very large calligraphic G on the back of the object, in the center.

(“A red and yellow circular object connected here.” This data was given after the antidote data listed at the top of this page. Jane and I saw no connections.

(“Only what I have said. picture in terms of a photograph connection.” Seth answered thus to my first question. I sought elaboration on the picture of a woman data interpreted on page 138. Here Seth connects the picture with photograph. This eliminates the drawings of two women on back of the envelope object, and we think refers to the photo of Mrs. Berry already described.

(“Fairly small. Dark colors and white. Perhaps writing on the back.” This came through in answer to my second question, concerning the shape of the object. The data can fit either the envelope object itself, or the picture of the dead priest referred to above under “cross shape,” etc. I am inclined to think it refers to the latter. The envelope object was folded three times so that it measured about 4 3/4” x 3”. Even with this the photo of the priest measures 3 3/4” x 2 1/2”, or still smaller. Neither the object or the priest’s picture have writing on the back, but both contain printed type. The problem of semantics here, involving printing, writing and lettering, has arisen before.

(“A distant connection—distant, now, with the year 1947, with the photograph of the woman.” Not knowing much about Mrs. Berry, we could make no connection here.

I affect reality, physical reality, because men’s minds are changed according to their ideas, and we shall change these ideas for the better. The ideas, working through men, will affect physical reality for the better. I am here more often than you think. Never, however, in a prying manner.

Now, I am quite willing to continue our session, and so is Ruburt. The hour grows late however, and you had better make a decision on this before I become too involved here.

You change because of any experience. You have, then, changed because of this one. You have become more than you were. I am speaking here to you both. I am not taking you over, so to speak. You are accepting as a part of your whole experience more and more of the reality of what I am. This in no way minimizes me, you see. I make much of my knowledge available to you, but it is still my knowledge, you see. The sharing of it however enlarges my own experience. Now then, I will let you rest. You may take a break or end the session as you prefer.