“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

You reacted cautiously. It was like the beginning of a dance. When Ruburt got a real touch of inhibited feeling he automatically translated it to the leg, and only by a strong exertion of will managed to get the feeling behind the words out at all. Nor did you freely encourage him to do so.

Other physical manipulations may also be involved, as Ruburt suspected this afternoon. The word cordella, now for example, was used instead of alphabet to break your ordinary conceptions of alphabet while conveying an idea of symbols closely allied, and upon which alphabets are based.

There are, then, cordellas beneath the sensations of hearing, smelling, touching, seeing. If I told you that the skin had its own alphabet without what I have already explained, it would not have been nearly as clear. The word cordella, used in the same fashion, frees you from limiting conceptions of what an alphabet is.

Then, and only then, can you project this understanding or insight onto the word alphabet, and sense how the skin does have its own alphabet. The word alphabet itself becomes changed for you. Do you follow me?

Now. Do you remember the word given for painting?

(“Wait—can you help me with that spelling? No. I’ve got it,” I said, writing it out. Phonetically I spelled it out in my notes as den-i-ad. As it turned out, I wasn’t quite correct after all. Reading these notes over, Jane told me I had spelled the word incorrectly, that it should be dyniad. This is the way she wrote it out herself. She saw the y, she said.

The word dyniah connotes an apparent boundary that serves to define that which lies within by acting upon it. dyniah, the word itself without the “d” ending, you see, while never appearing within the montella, defines its activity, reinforces its identity, and is as much a part of it as the hidden cordella that gives it form. (Pause.) From the outside the dyniah seems to bring the montella to an end. (Long pause.) Give us a moment here.

Think in terms of impressionism and its values, then switch to the idea of a Sumari language and see the connection, and the purposes that can be served. The language is fluid. All of the words need not be defined, though key ones will be. It will be used as a method of expanding your concepts, not of teaching you to translate experience into just another but different stereotyped form that happens to be more exclusive.

Now do you see how the word used in that manner tells you something different?