“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(9:39.) There will be words for example for feelings that you will be asked to imaginatively change into objects and back again, to project into time as you think of it, and sense the differences in the feeling’s relationship to yourself. This can be compared in quite other terms to taking an object from one table and placing it in another room, and trying it out in various locations; but we will be working instead with feelings instead of vases, and psychological locations.

Now. Our use of the language will not be heavy-handed. Use of it however will allow you to more clearly perceived your own inner reality, your physical and psychic experience. You will no longer translate inner experience with the same automatic glibness into stereotyped verbal patterns of images, but will be far better able to experience it for itself.

The language will be a necessary aid in the physical statement that must of course finally be made, but the final statement then, or physical interpretation, will be far truer to your original experience.

Now you almost automatically translate a feeling into a definite rigid word and image. The two go hand in hand. For physical reasons of course you need that camouflage interpretation, but you also need to learn the difference between it and inner cognizance.

Use of the language, utilizing sound but not recognizable word symbols, will allow you to understand and express some of these. Doing so will enable you to express far more physically also. There are, to say the least, multitudinous levels of feelings that merge to form what you would call a given experience.

(10:11. Pause.) As I have said often, language is used as often to distort as it is to clearly communicate. There is a structure within the Sumari language, but it is not one based upon logic. Some of its effectiveness has to do with the synchronization of its rhythms with bodily rhythm. The sounds themselves activate portions of the brain not usually used in any conscious manner. It is a disciplined language in that spontaneity has a far greater order than any you recognize.

Shambalina garapharti (spelled), or the changing faces of the soul, smile and laugh at each other. Now all of that is in one phrase. By saying the words and opening your perception the meaning becomes clear in a way that cannot be stated in verbal terms, using your recognizable but rigid language pattern; so we will be dealing then with concepts as well as feelings, but seeking them through the use of a new method, and sometimes translating them back and forth for practice.

(10:35. Jane’s trance had been good, her pace mostly fast. She said she had felt Seth trying to get some “new concepts” across—trying very hard to make it clear to us. I said it was clear enough, but that I was so busy writing that eventually I lost all sense of the meaning of the words. Jane also had images, but Seth never vocalized what they meant. She knew they applied to cordellas and paintings.

(We talked it over. Jane had visualized a painting of houses and trees. She said Seth had considered that an artist could do, say, five paintings; each with different symbols but all with the same basic meaning. Resume in the same manner at 10:55.)

(Jane’s pace had slowed up. Now the phone began to ring in Jane’s workroom, across the hall. I could hear it even through two closed doors. Presumably Jane could too, but she appeared to be not bothered as she sat in trance.)

It builds up from feelings that are by their nature denied clear expression through the specific but therefore limiting alphabet systems. (Pause at 11:06.) It allows the perceiver to face experience much more closely, and once having done this to some extent he is free in other areas also. If you were an accomplished artist in many fields, you could translate a given feeling into a painting. A poem, a musical masterpiece, a sculpture, a novel, an opera, into a great piece of architecture. You would be able to perceive and feel the experience with greater dimension, for your expression would not be limited to translating it automatically, without choice, into any one specific area. Its dimensions would be greater to you then. So a cordella as opposed to an alphabet opens up greater varieties of experience and expression.