“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

The symbolic journey of the spirit, and the finding finally of the self always involves the journey of the self through fear, and its emergence. To the extent that this journey is faced, the greater the perils, but the greater the rewards.

But this lesson, learned, is a valuable achievement. He understood it, it would seem, of a sudden, but this was only a crystallization of knowledge. The habit of fear would have finally been reflected here in our sessions. I have to a large degree kept my eye upon him, but you see the lesson had to be learned by him.

You can be grateful also. The winter of the spirit must be journeyed through, and it must not only be conquered but the benefits used. Yet without it maturity cannot arrive. The immobility showed itself physically in faithful replica to the inner immobilization caused by fear. You could see, in other words, the exact extent of the distortion in quite physical terms.

Only some of the data in projections is thus translated. Now, it is possible but difficult to catch your own consciousness in the act of its own natural perception, before impressions become crystallized in physical terms. Even the survival personality must translate perception into terms it can understand.

None of us are ever equipped, for general purposes, to perceive reality in all of its forms. The pyramid gestalts can do this, and we help the pyramid gestalts perform this feat. But as a rule we must pick and choose. There is too much for any consciousness to digest except those so highly developed that even I know little of them.

A matter of importance approximately next Wednesday. I am trying to tell him about the college position, but for the moment I am unable to. (Pause.)

(“I have no questions, but you can talk a little more if you want to.”)

A low room, where lower portions of trees show a yard, (pause) fairly deep, but more narrow at the sides. A porch-type thing that is up somewhat as on stilts.