“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Now when you, with your love of images, look at a face, relax for a moment. Slightly let yourself fall out of focus, look away, and then back to the face of the subject. Tell yourself that you will see the features and the structures shift. You will see the face behind that face, the image of the person as it was in a past life.

(Smile.) You need not paint one neck with ten heads, but the one portrait can be made to suggest previous structures and characteristics that have merged to produce the present head. You can look through the face therefore, as an archaeologist would look through rock. Such a portrait will immediately be fascinating, particularly of course to the subject, who will intuitively and unconsciously recognize its components.

A too-rigid rendition can frighten the subject by imprisoning him within the moment, from which it seems he cannot escape. Obviously the technique can be as realistic as you like, however. It is that the lines, seeming so realistic, also symbolically suggest what the viewer himself cannot see in his own face, but knows is there. And so the landscape, not one but many landscapes in one, for while it is unique in a given moment, still it is a composite in your terms of the pasts that have formed it, and the futures that act upon it even now.

In the episode with the Craigs, (see the 447th session) he was freely roaming the fields of their experience, and did quite well. I commend him. Such episodes add to his confidence, and give him an inner subjective touch. Later this will grow so that he will be able to tell when he is hot or cold.

There is a subjective feel to such a state that he is beginning to recognize. It is like a strong beam, and he must learn how to use it, and how to change its direction. In this case he must learn to be in command of it. It is like a tool of perception. It turns on brightly and intensely, and has a boring quality. In many ways it is an aggressive tool that the consciousness uses to pierce through time and space as you know it.