“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.

(Here Seth refers to the last session, and the confusing envelope data in which Seth told us, in error, that certain data pertaining to a medical building was correct. At the time Jane and I suspected telepathy from me. See page 39.)

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.

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.

Size, you see, means relatively little to me. A note that was quickly written I may interpret as a small piece of paper, you see, though the paper itself may be large. I think in intensities, and curb my tendency in order to focus more specifically.

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.

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?

(Jane stared at me, her eyes wide and very dark.

This is the sort of thing with which I deal. There is a constant transformation of data from one set of terms to another. (Pause.) The word short, or rather the impression of briefness. Now I must decide in which way this briefness shall be interpreted. Something brief in time, or brief in space, which could lead me for example to the impression of a small building. Do you see?