“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

In other words, the emotional charges allow me to hunt for the item that you want me to identify. I do not begin with the item and reach outward. I identify first of all with the emotional realities, for these are the only basic realities to me. Then I form these into my interpretations of the item itself.

Now. If a particular question is asked, we attempt to answer it. The answer of course will be picked up in the same manner, through emotional force. The other evening, you answered your own question in your mind, and we picked up that location. To call this telepathy tells you nothing however, for all such information is the result of emotional force.

In all these experiments I receive the emotional and psychic impressions first, and then attempt to name your object.

Within your system however, color, to man, is more important than shape, though this is not true with all species in your system. Color is closer to emotional experience than shape. It is also, believe it or not, closer to sound. The connections between color and emotion are too obvious to discuss here.

The physical body as an object is, among other things, a symbolic representation of your own emotional reality. (Long pause.) Your dreams and your waking experiences both closely mirror your psychic condition. Symbols may be individualistic to some small extent, but physical bodies are your main symbols. While they are all amazingly different, the basic symbol within your system is universally accepted as a reality.

The world as you know it is mankind’s creation, and his abilities and limitations are all in evidence there. Within the dream state all mankind knows the outcome of any given dilemma. No predestination is involved. The problems have already been worked out on a mental or psychic level, but not yet physically materialized.