“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.

It is like your stereophonic reality from many levels. You are operating on mono, you see, as a rule. There is no doubt that this sort of experience is new to the ego, which is used to interpreting sense data in highly rigid and specialized terms.

With our methods the ego is taken into confidence, you see. (Long pause.) Insanity, as it is labeled, is sometimes merely the result of a strange situation, in which certain individuals use the ordinarily dormant portions of the brain as well as, or sometimes largely in place of, the recognized portions. The perception of reality is therefore largely alien to society.

It is possible (underlined) that the psychedelic experience for these individuals would involve consciousness expansion directed toward (underlined) usual physical reality, and bring about a more unified personality structure from society’s standpoint. Insanity as a term means nothing. All mental life is characterized by divergent perceptions of any given set of sense data that is recognized as Reality, with a capital R.

Those who perceive this set of data in such a way that agreement is reached are called sane. But none of you perceives the same reality. Those whose ideas and perceptions of reality are completely out of line with the general agreement are called insane. The terms only show that reality as you know it is the result of private perceptions. Reality is built up as a result of these private perceptions.

The emotional impact behind them determines their strength. They are passed on telepathically. You recall however that individuals receive in certain electromagnetic patterns, or pattern ranges, far better than they do in others. Some individuals therefore will simply not telepathically receive the dominating reality assumptions, but will be tuned to different ranges, highly unsatisfactory to them. It becomes quickly apparent that their view of reality is entirely different from their neighbors’.

Now. On other terms psychedelic experience, with or without drugs of course, enlarges the range of electromagnetic realities that you perceive.

This does not mean that it ignores its earlier functions. In true expansion of consciousness then, you become more and more aware, more conscious, underlined, of inner realities that were previously never realized on a conscious level. Since the ego is presently your main vehicle of consciousness, it will not be obliterated. It will indeed be resurrected. It simply changes not only its form, but its inner core, accepting as a part of itself realities which it previously ignored out of fear, ignorance and insecurity.

It becomes more and more a portion of the supraconsciousness. Its new function is to help direct the overall personality so that inner abilities and illuminations can also reach physical reality.

(“What material is the object made of?”)

(“A great variety, or overall picture.” Too vague. Jane says it is possible this data refers to her first day on the job at the JCC, when she learned something of the variety of programs sponsored, and more of what her own duties as a teacher would be, etc.

(Thus also she has no idea of what size calendar page might be involved.

(4th Question: What material is the object made of? “Paper, but with a fabric feel.” The object is of paper. See page 216. It is a smooth paper however, and we don’t know where the fabric idea came from.