“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Now. These generic images are composed of highly complicated electromagnetic complexes. They have nothing to do with physical vision. They are built up through cellular memory, and are to some extent activated replicas of previous forms.

They are not one-dimensional images therefore, nor for that matter are they static. They are vital, full of their own energy reality, living composites. In dreams as a rule you only perceive them as images. They possess a psychic identity however that is biological to some extent as far as you are concerned. In other words, at this time various biological changes must occur in order for you to tune in upon them directly.

They are aware of your egotistical self, but very dimly. You are their environment, so to speak, and they are aware of your health and vitality as it affects them and their own well being. Some are stronger than others. Some are intrusive. Your whole physical system contains these generic patterns and images. They are held together and unified by the higher organizations of the self.

This is done automatically. The data is not radioed back (gesture, eyes closed) to the physical body, so to speak, for interpretation. Consciousness can adapt physical methods of procedure even when separated from the body. It forms its own  pseudophysical apparatus, even as it originally forms the physical image itself. The consciousness is aware of seeing and observing more or less in physical terms, and so it is.

(Jane had some images and these will be mentioned in place. This is a case where Jane had seen one of the two items making up the envelope objects very recently—the beer can cap, on Friday, October 7, three days ago. She had never seen my penned note bearing the date and identifying the brand of beer, Draft Beer. See pages 86-88 for tracings of the two envelope objects, and the beer can. I might add that Jane saw the beer can cap only in a casual way. There were quite a few lying about our living room Friday evening. Our candle was not lit until late that evening. When I picked up a cap to blacken in the flame I thought this would focus Jane’s conscious attention on this particular one, but she told me at break tonight that she hadn’t noticed my heating the cap, or else had forgotten it.

(“Placed fairly high on the item. Perhaps to the right, and small.” Jane said this was a reference to the position of the cap-ring against my note, while the two items were sealed between the two Bristol stiffeners and in the double envelopes. She had an image of their position while giving this data. It will be remembered that by this time Jane held the envelope in her lap; earlier she had held it against her forehead as she often does. To the right is a rough indication of the position she refers to, and which she was able to verify to some extent as she opened the envelopes at break. Remember the note was actually folded over the cap, like a sandwich; evidently the pressure of the two Bristol stiffeners and the two envelopes held the cap in the same position relative to the note.

(Jane said at break that she had had an image of the initials RFB, and she wished mightily now that she had said so. As it is she gives several excellent pieces of data on the note, and the initials would have made her achievement even better. Jane said she didn’t speak the initials aloud because she thought they might refer to my father, and that this was a distortion. She knew she had already mentioned me, as “yourself”. My initials are the same as my father’s; but although I am a Junior, I seldom use it after my name.When I do I abbreviate it as Jr.

(3rd Question: Who is the other man mentioned besides myself? “We will try on this in a moment.” See the interpretation of the “two men” data at the top of page 96. As stated, Jane had an image of my initials on the note used as test object; but since my father’s initials are the same she feared she would distort the data by voicing the initials. Yet she knew that I was also connected with the envelope data.

(5th Question: Do you want to go back to that other man now? “We are having difficulty. Ruburt thinks of your father, but is afraid of distorting the information.” At break Jane said she again had the image of the RFB initials, and was more confused than ever. Later, she said, she realized the initials were meant to be taken literally, but instead she tried to interpret them; hence getting the idea of my father into the picture.