“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

These are not sharp images, but he already begins to build up ideas of shape and form. It goes without saying that the eyelids are also thus equipped. He can see through closed eyelids in other words. He is aware of light and shadow, of shape and form, though he must learn to distinguish those portions of the available field of reality that you accept as objects, from the available field that you do not accept as objects.

He sees more than you do, or more than his mother does, because he does not yet realize that you only accept certain patterns and reject others. By the time he is born he has already learned to accept his parents’ idea of what reality is. In a large sense he begins to train himself to focus only upon what you would call physical reality, though he still partially perceives other fields that you do not accept.

He is only recognized and his wants satisfied when he focuses in one particular reality. He learns quickly then to discard the others, for they do not meet his physical ends.

For sometime he literally perceives many levels of reality at once, and part of what seems to be disorientation is simply the result of early confusion with so much data. According to the situation and the individual, the fetus may still be receiving messages from those he has known in the past. This adds to the confusion, and it is a matter of physical survival that he largely ignores these messages while he learns to focus in physical reality.

Otis’s personality attains developments by its nature in great spurts and starts; intuitions; and then he must learn to handle them. At times they overburden him. It was like him to leap from one life into another, with a change of sex.

You recognized the entity that he will become, and so did your father, unconsciously, when he took the picture. He also contacted you once through the (Ouija) board. You recognized his intuitive quality. He gobbles great insights, and they bring him sorrow until he learns what they mean. So the sorrow and the knowledge were both there.