“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.

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.

They are composites, built up by the cells, and held in a suspended memory. They color much of your subjective life. Now, my dear friend Joseph, it is partially because of this that some paintings, you see, generate strong emotional response, and outlast the artist.

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.

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.

I will now close. My best wishes to you both.