“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

In order for such information to rise to conscious levels, it must of necessity be translated into terms that the ego can handle, and the translation must to some extent distort the original experience. The whole physical organism of the body has been trained from infancy to react to certain patterns, these patterns based on physical root assumptions.

The nervous system itself must, you see, be so constituted, and the nervous system reacts definitely to visual block images. Such images are received through the skin as well as through the eyes. The whole system is highly complicated and organized, and organized to react to specific patterns that are formed from these basic root assumptions.

This is obviously necessary for physical survival. The organization however is, biologically speaking, artificial and learned. It is no less rigid for that reason, however. The organizational structure of perception can indeed be broken up, as recent LSD experiments certainly show. This can be highly dangerous, however.

Objects are indeed symbols to represent inner realities that could not otherwise be perceived by physical organisms. You manipulate these symbols.