“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(Strictly speaking, these episodes could be called seances, since they were given by Jane herself rather than Seth. The math material meant little to Roger, and we have no way, as yet, of checking out the California data. I wondered why the method used was chosen by Jane, and what was involved emotionally and intellectually. We didn’t think subconscious fabrication was the answer, or that a total lack of control on Jane’s part was involved. These would be extremes. We didn’t insist that Seth discuss this material this evening, instead merely saying we had much to learn here.

The excerpts that were chosen were divided almost evenly: some appealing to the intellect, some to the intuitions, although to some extent of course each excerpt appealed to both. That is what we want. (Emphasis. )

Any perception of any kind instantly alters the electromagnetic and neurological systems of the perceiver. In your terms, physically, that is what perception is—an alteration of neurological structure. The perceiving mechanisms themselves change and are changed by that which they perceive, and I am speaking now of your physical system, and the physical nature of any perception.

To a large extent you are what you perceive, and not symbolically. I forgot your fingers—

There are simple stories that can be told, symbolically true enough, but they do not begin to explain the reality, and so I do not use them. The question of my availability, again, is a pertinent one only when you think of personality in terms of one individual, who cannot be in two places at once in your time.

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.)

Now I tell you that while the perceiver is changed by what he perceives, he also changes that which is perceived. Perceiver and perception, in a basic manner, are one and the same. Here we come close to the meaning of value fulfillment and moment points.