“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Once these physical pathways are opened, the way becomes easier. The pineal, pituitary, and thalamus are important here. The salt mentioned earlier has a connection with the thyroid. The physical brains alone, the unused portions, have it within their ability, for example, to hear color, to smell sound; in other words, these portions contain among other things functions, unused mainly, that would allow you to perceive physical reality in various other fashions. These undifferentiated areas existed first before the specialized sense apparatus was uniformly adopted.

In other words, portions of the inner self have joined the strictly egotistical functions. The ego in such cases is so attuned that it becomes almost something else. We are coming here toward a definition of illumination in psychic terms. The ego is not, underlined, banished. It joins with portions of the inner self previously unconscious, and illuminates the whole personality. It is no longer primarily physically oriented. Therefore it is no longer an ego in the terms usually meant.

A note and a sender who is not feeling well. This is vague. A mid-thirty connection here, or three five perhaps.

(“I am reaching for a word that sounds like grow, or Gomez.” Jane said that here she thought of Gomez Addams, a character in the Addams Family TV program—and that the similarity lay in the initials G A, for both Gomez Addams and Gladys Austin.

(“A mid-thirty connection here, or three five perhaps.” See page 216. Mrs. [Nancy] Methinitus, whose name appears on the object, is in her thirties, and quite possibly 35 years old. Gladys Austin is about 45 according to Jane.

(“An arrangement that has similarity to a calendar page. A small calendar page.” Subconscious memory evidently plays a part here. Jane said the memo page used as object is much like ones she saw when she worked for an art gallery a few years ago. It was a book arrangement, with a calendar on one side and the memo pages opposite. She thought at first that the object might also come from such an arrangement; upon close examination, however, we can only tell that the object came from a pad that was bound at the top of the page; the edge there is slightly roughened, as though torn loose.

(“A bill.” Jane believes this data is connected with the three-dollar data to come below. A bill here refers to art supplies Jane picked up on the way to work at the JCC one day, and charged to the JCC. Gladys Austin, whose name is on the object, makes out the checks to pay bills.

(“Several occurrences with a star.” Vague. Jane speculated about the Star of David being connected here with her place of employment, the Jewish Community Center.

(“Something with depth and dimension suggested—that is, the object. The feeling now, about the object, of something transparent, or that opens up without actually opening up.” As stated, the object was folded once upon insertion into the double envelopes. See page 216, and the indication of the horizontal fold used. The object also bore earlier crease marks from a vertical fold. The folding here could give rise to the transparent, depth and dimension, and opening-up data, etc.

(“I do not know. The future connection it would seem—January or February perhaps.” It is possible that a number four connection also applies here, for Jane is on Christmas-New Year’s vacation from her job, until Wednesday January 4. This data would be legitimate, in that the envelope object refers to the teaching job at the JCC.

(3rd Question: How about several occurrences with a star? “Toward a starred event.” We are not sure. Jane’s idea here is that starred event could refer to her liking the job after a good deal of trouble finding one that proved suitable.

(The head and silhouette mentioned here reminded Jane that one of the projects she and Nancy planned for the nursery school class involved the students making silhouette drawings of their heads, as Christmas gifts for their respective parents. The plan was for Jane and Nancy to do the actual tracing of profile, with the students filling them in, etc.