“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Now give me a moment. (Pause at 9:26.)

Information quite literally must be sifted through the layers of the medium’s personality. (Pause.) The nervous system reacts to the information even as it translates it. Nothing is neutral. Nothing can be neutral in those terms. The information is received and translated, as it must be, into mechanisms which the nervous system can handle and interpret and translate in physical terms. The information then, like any perception, becomes a part of the nervous system’s structure. It cannot be otherwise.

It is literally impossible for you, and it is a logistic contradiction to imagine, with your physical structures, that any perception can be received unless the perceiver’s own inner situation is altered. I am trying to make it as clear as possible that information automatically blends with, is intermingled with, and enmeshed with, the entire (pause), physically-valid (hyphen) structure of the personality.

Now. (Pause.) Any perception immediately blends, then, with the entire system of the individual. Any perception is action, and it changes that upon which it acts, and in so doing it is itself changed (underlined.) This applies to any perception.

Now with this background, give me a moment. (Pause.) I simply want you to see where we start from.

(Pause.) Some individuals always see the worst side of things, and interpret any given perception in the most pessimistic light. In a low mood any individual is much more likely to react to pessimistic suggestions, and to interpret data in the same manner. Now this applies to any data, whether it be physical in the usual sense of the word, telepathic, clairvoyant or otherwise.

Now in any ordinary clairvoyant event, in a low mood, Ruburt or any individual may, according to time and circumstance, overemphasize or misinterpret information, overstating say, pessimistic elements. (Pause.) Personalities strongly (underlined) given to the need for self-punishment will consistently misinterpret such information, or any information.

Now. (Pause.) Information does not exist as I have told you independently of consciousness. There is not therefore any particular event, say an automobile accident, that exists independently of the consciousnesses of those involved in it, for a given perceiver to perceive.

In your terms therefore I can be in many places at once, and conscious of so being. It does not mean that I am less in one place than another. (Pause.) Now in some way that you are not ready, or should I say able, to understand as yet, I help Ruburt to perceive clairvoyant information more clearly, in that I help to direct the kinds of alterations that occur within his neurological structure.

I do this for him in many instances. (Pause.) What I perceive(smile) is still dependent upon my own identity. It cannot be otherwise for any consciousness. In your terms I help keep to a minimum distortions which might otherwise occur as Ruburt’s own mood or circumstances might otherwise misinterpret.

Now the California data was fairly correct, and in one session I gave you a possible description of what it represented. (Pause. See the 435th and 436th sessions.)

In other words, larger mathematically intuitive, pure-theory ideas were presented as well as circumstances would permit. (Pause.) Theories and ideas are far more important than details, for the detail comes from the theory and not the other way around.

Ruburt worked rather hard, and did learn to achieve a more intense focus. (Long pause.) I fail to see, however, that the most precise mathematical data will enhance the spiritual, psychic, creative condition of mankind (smile), unless it deals with issues that throw light upon the nature of existence, in basic terms.

(See the notes re the article, on page 231.) It insures its own success, and contains its own vitality. Now, I have endowed it with this. (Pause.) The other books you see already exist, and wait only to be given physical form. (Pause.) Your own masterpieces exist, and only wait for you to find them and give them physical form.