“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(Jane began speaking in trance while sitting down; she was smoking; her eyes began to open soon; her pace was rather fast and her voice quite loud, comparatively—the loudest it has been in some time.)

Now I have been speaking about psychological structures that are far more complicated than those with which you are familiar. We can tie these two subjects together very nicely, dear friends. For in a very dim manner, the psychedelic experience can give you some glimmerings as to the nature of these more advanced psychological structures.

As I have mentioned many times, at present you focus your attentions and consciousness within the physical system. This alone can be compared to what Leary calls imprinting. Existence within any system will necessitate some imprinting. The imprinting simply involves an adjustment whereby consciousness is attuned to a particular station, so to speak.

The consciousness so attuned however is only a small portion of the individual’s total consciousness. In your system it is now fashionable to refer to this as the ego. The psychological structures are indeed so imprinted. However they are also aware and conscious of huge portions of themselves that are not so imprinted. They are aware of themselves simultaneously as individuals imprinted so as to react within several systems.

You are as a rule aware of one system only and not generally conscious of yourself as anything but a creature of that system. I refer here to humanity at this time. These psychological structures through value fulfillment, ever enlarge their abilities to form new realities and to act within them. It should not be forgotten that these environmental systems are directly created by those who dwell within them, and this includes your own.

This does not mean that the word indeed would have no meaning. Psychological frameworks and psychic gestalts form the basis for individual reality regardless of system. All of these do imply a whole, but the very term whole would again be meaningless if the whole, through self-conscious individual parts, were not conscious of itself.

Of itself such an experience will not give you psychological mobility through other portions that compose your own becoming psychological structure. I say here “of itself" because certain personalities will be advanced enough to use such an experience as a springboard into precisely these discoveries. (Long pause.)

It is precisely because the ego is excluded from the psychedelic experience with drugs that difficulties are encountered afterward. Given the opportunity the ego can and does merge with other portions of the self, and yet loosely maintains a psychological framework within which the experience can be translated in your terms.

A trained and flexible ego will be able to momentarily relinquish its dominancy during the experience itself. We will have more to say here in connection with these advanced psychological structures, and what is called the psychedelic experience. At our next session, I will begin also to answer Ruburt’s questions concerning such an experience without drugs. You have many hints, and I will give you further instruction.

Give us a moment. A string of numbers. Either four numbers, the number four many times, or four separate indications on the item or object.

A note, somehow connected with a dissatisfaction. An inordinate amount of time taken. Too many of something to hold. JB, or Ruburt; that is, Jane Butts here.

(“A string of numbers. Either four numbers, the number four many times, or four separate indications on the item or object.” The only connection we see with the object here is that a number on it is repeated—1 cent is shown twice. See page 203. There is a string of symbols across the bottom of the object, but mainly of letters, rather than numbers.

(“A note, somehow connected with a dissatisfaction. An inordinate amount of time taken. Too many of something to hold. JB, or Ruburt; that is, Jane Butts here.” We don’t know. Without Seth’s help we cannot see connections. As stated, Jane was present when the envelope object was shown to the Wilburs on their visit here; perhaps Seth was getting at the fact that Jane didn’t actually see the object that evening.

(2nd Question: In what way? “This could be a result of the newspaper connection. Something opened up, symbolically, I believe.” Possibly Leonard’s name arose here because of the earlier newspaper data which calls the Gallaghers to mind. Leonard does have a newspaper connection with Jane and me, in that he obtains the New York Times at work, then gives it to us each day after he finishes reading it. He also gives us the Sunday edition, and various news magazines on a regular basis, so in this sense he has a strong “news" connection with us. His name may have arisen in this data however through distortion, since it would appear the Gallaghers have a more direct newspaper connection with the object, through me.