“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

If there is a class session, a long one, and if Ruburt feels tired, then the following session of my own may be a briefer one. But all in all the regularity should be maintained, and the suggestion I have given will allow both schedule and freedom from schedule.

In a very literal manner then you are the knowledge that you have. The interchange is constant. Now. Initially and basically perception is not dependent upon your senses. Any perception is first of all a psychic one that is then translated in ways meaningful to the physical organism. To other organisms in different realities perception would therefore be translated in an entirely different manner.

Now to some (underlined) degree, this also applies to the information that I give you in our sessions. It must come through the available channels of the physical human mechanism in order that it be at all meaningful. As I mentioned some sessions ago, on the one hand you can say that the method involves distortion, but without the distortions there would be no meaningful knowledge for you to understand.

These are not to be thought of as colored pictures however, for neither do they use that kind of imagery, and yet a high degree of preciseness is communicated. In your terms there would be, in quotes, “words” for all kinds of subtle emotional states for which you have no words.

Now. There are indeed a body of symbols that are more or less basic within all kinds of perception—bridgeworks from one form of perception to another, since beneath all perceiving systems there is consciousness. Certain symbols therefore will have meaning. I do not see any particular purpose in giving these to you now, but at some time I will do so. (Long pause.)

They are the root assumptions from which all communications spring. (Long pause.) The trouble is, again, that in trying to give them to you certain alterations are necessary. Knowing them at this point will not help your development. I wanted to mention them in our record however for later reference.

Now. Emotion, a particular emotion as you know it, is the result of information and deductions already made of which you are aware. Because all of this information is not available to the brain, it sees the emotion as a sudden thing, appearing within the brainscape’s reach, often unexplainable and therefore to some extent threatening.

Any current emotion contains within itself memory patterns, interconnections and interpretations, that are far more dazzling in their meaning and content than any, for example, highly precise mathematical data. Particularly are memories enclosed within, gathered together from in quotes “previous” experience, all cunningly collected with utmost attention and high selectivity.