“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Returning to our last discussion, I want to make it clear that these generic images, activated during certain levels of consciousness, are then interwound into dream drama.

They are not pure, as they appear within the dream, therefore. They will be charged with emotional energy according to the individual’s own experience, but they will form the base from which such a dream at that particular level is formed. (Long pause.) Take for example the generic image of a bull. It will in this case be seen as the dream’s basic form, but it will be used in the dream drama according to the makeup of the dreamer.

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.

Actually, through the generic system each cell possesses capsule comprehension, (pause) that is a certain kind of visualizing, and an emotional charge. Before cellular specialization occurred each cell could combine with another indiscriminately. What are now your five senses were once sense mechanisms or possibilities, existing through the entire surface of any individual cell.

These generic images are not, however, simple.

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.

Inhabitants of other systems have their own generic image patterns. Even within your own system these generic images vary. The predominating image for an individual is that of his own species, but the ancestral patterns are strongly supportive. You are not only male or female as you know, but both, with one temporarily predominating. Almost (underlined) without exception, there are male and female lives either in your past or future. Dreams at the deepest level will not respond necessarily then to your present sex identity.

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.

This incidentally is the least acceptable survival pattern. The ego may be strong enough to insist upon its old prerogatives of control, yet too inflexible to adjust to the new conditions. It may accept the challenge of great change on the other hand, and allow a reorganization of psychological processes, in which case identity is not only saved but renewed. The ego is then in command after some struggle of generic frameworks, in a way not possible to it earlier.

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.