“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

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 separate incarnated personalities however are still separate identities. This is no contradiction at all. The personality structures of which I am speaking are far more advanced than this example. They are aware of many existences within many systems. They organize the basic ground reality into many patterns, and then operate and manipulate within them.

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.

Basic reality is not a chaos. It is a raw material. All diversity implies a whole, and if you theorize a whole then you must also imply diversity. These personality structures are like you a portion of basic reality, or All That Is. They are simply able to use and express and act within a larger framework of it.

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.

In some personalities they will lead to what you call a mystic experience. They will carry the personality into new realms of perception. They will momentarily break up usual patterned organizations of perception. You will see with new inner eyes. To some extent you will view some aspects of reality apart from the usual physical structures that you impose upon it as a whole. There is therefore a freedom for the inner self.

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.

(“In what way?”)

(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.

(Newspapers of course come up. We do not know what symbolic meaning Seth may have had in mind.