“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

There are some things that I do not believe you clearly understand. To me, a thought is an action. It is as valid a reality. There is no basic difference between telepathy and clairvoyance, as you term them. The emotional feelings connected with an item are as real to me as the item itself. It is these emotional charges that are interpreted, and finally translated into physical terms.

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.

I did not then distinguish as to whether or not, in this particular case, what you thought was true. It was true enough on certain levels. Your emotional answer however did prevent me from searching further for the answer.

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

Now. You form your dreams on many levels, as you know. In some of them you spread your own root assumptions outward, creating dream images based upon these assumptions. I must use these assumptions in interpreting our data during experiments. If you give me for example a card that was sent with love, then the love is far more real to me than the card. I follow these emotional charges most minutely, using great discrimination in order to let myself be led to the specific object.

I must translate the basic data so that it will fit your root assumptions. Sometimes Ruburt’s associative abilities help, and I try to guide them for our purposes. The emotional charge connected with an item may lead me into both your past and present, but I must then distinguish for you between what has happened and what will happen, although for me no such difference exists.

The initial impressions are simple, quite elementary, and always correct. It is in the interpretation and refinement that the only difficulties ever arise. The stronger the emotional charge connected with the item, however, the stronger the impressions received, and the more correct the data as a rule.

Your impression of the building the other evening contained the strongest emotional charge instantly available, that seemed to offer the needed information.

Geometric figures represent the most simple and basic root assumptions. When I have perceived the emotional charges connected with any given experimental object, then my first step in interpretation involves such abstract forms.

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.

To me, an emotion will automatically be translated into color in many instances. Here you see—but try this: do you see a connection between the color red and the word quick?

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.