“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Now. Some females will identify in the dream with the bull. In dreams many females will have what you would call male reactions. Some males in dreams will have what you would call female reactions. The bull could come also to represent a person the dreamer considers bullheaded. A bullfighting dream might be formed. The variations are endless. Some generic images will have strong personal significance because of past life experiences. The generic image does not only color the dream state, however. These images are the first basis from which thought evolved. This would almost amount to a cellular thinking process, but it is actually a gestalt of relatedness in which cellular comprehension was, and is, passed throughout the physical organism.

These still exist, but latent. Your knee can see, every portion of the body responds to light. The specialized development of animal life led to and brought about specialization of function. The brain’s necessary focus required more specific, less diffused and more concentrated methods of perception.

The other, older perceptive mechanisms still linger on however. The ego does not and cannot make use of them. Indeed the ego is almost entirely formed by the physical senses method of perception. Other layers of the self biologically respond to the older, more generalized but less limited perceptive mechanisms.

The organism, physically speaking, can hardly exist without them.

These generic images have been captured and built upon. These images also color physical perception. We are speaking now entirely of your own system. The basic assumptions of which I spoke are thought processes of a subconscious variety, based upon these generic images.

These generic images are coded, as I have said. They are electromagnetic realities and part of your identity. As such they will still be yours when physical existence is finished. They are your memory banks in a most profound sense.

In time, you see, the (smile) various ego memories will become part of these. As such, incidentally, they can also be activated. (Long pause.) The ego is not snuffed out, however. Now in some cases it continues to operate, though in a slightly different fashion, at its own levels, closely connected to but apart from, physical existence. I am speaking now of survival situations.

It can then build upon these, willingly submerge part of itself, and emerge with a more vigorous identity. In other words it can accept larger portions of action, and adapt itself in ways not possible when it was connected with the physical organism.

The generic images are like lifelines. (Long pause) They seem to lead into your past, but these lifelines are spirals, and only the limitations of physical perception lead you to think of them in that manner.