“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

You have made a good beginning. Ruburt has noticed several occasions when he projected negatively in your direction. In other words, instances where he misinterpreted your meaning, or anticipated a negative reaction.

(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.

We will initially be using the language so that we can finally cease using it, in other words. These will be the beginnings of somewhat more profound methods of working through the inner senses.

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.

(10:05.) You will also become far more aware of the actual processes of perception. There are many inner experiences, obviously, that cannot be expressed clearly or with any justice through even the combined use of words or images.

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.

Alphabets can hardly hope to give you more than, if you will forgive me (humorously) lip services to these. Each symbol in an alphabet stands for therefore unutterable symbols beneath it. Now the human voice, as singers know, can be used to express far more qualities of feeling than the normal unadorned speaking voice. Sound itself, even without recognizable words, carries meaning. Oddly enough, sometimes the given meaning of a word does battle with the psychic and physical meaning of the sounds that compose it.

The word shambalina (spelled by Seth at my request) connotes the changing faces that the inner self adopts through its various experiences. Now this is a word that hints of relationships for which you have no word. (Pause.)

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.

(Long pause at 10:24.) Cordellas are invisible symbols that surface. As they surface they show the universe in a new light by the very nature of their relationships. In a very limited fashion alphabets do the same thing, for once you have accepted certain basic verbal symbols they impose their discipline even upon your thoughts, obviously since you think in words so often.

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?

(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.

Through this session and the last I have tried to show you through some examples the different ways in which the word cordella can be used, and by inference the ways in which the use of this method will enrich your understanding and perception. Your closer relationship will have its effects upon our sessions also, for your energies are at peace (louder:)—and now I bid you a fond good evening, cordella and all.