“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.

This process continues beneath conscious and even subconscious awareness. It is not dependent upon the ego, but predates it. These are the first and the last images. The individual cells are the first animals possessing innate awareness of their environment with rudimentary sense mechanisms, to your way of thinking.

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.

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.