“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

You may feel free to ask me about your plans, and I will give you what help I can. The emotional basis of your relationship is beginning to take its proper balance and direction. Now: Do you have any questions on the material just given?

Using the art form, the artist in a strange way broke through line, destroyed what would seem to be the literal continuity of the objective shape. At the same time a few lines were used to hint at a variety of unseen, apparently unstructured objects, so that in that regard the line became in the hands of a master a strong symbol, hinting at other realities that lay within the seemingly distorted portrayal of objects.

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.

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.

They throw their particular light upon the reality that you perceive, as for example you name objects. Alphabets are nevertheless tools that shape and direct perception. They are groups of relationships that are then transposed upon (in quotes) “reality.” To this extent they shape your conceptions of the world that you know.

Their discipline and rigidity is considerable. Once you think of a “tree” (in quotes) as a tree, it takes great effort before you can see it freshly ever again, as a living individual entity. Cordellas do not have the same rigidity. Far greater, immensely greater fluidity operates. Inner invisible relationships are allowed to rise, the acknowledged recognized reality viewed through the lenses of these emerging relationships. Then the cordella changes its nature, becomes another new emerging group of relationships, another lens in other words. Do you follow the connections?

(“Not too well, because I was busy writing. I think I understand what you mean. I have it all down all right.”

(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.