“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

When man really intensified “rational” thought, and developed the electric light, he lengthened the time of waking consciousness to some extent. Those abilities were concentrated upon. The importance of symbols was minimized, and intuitive thought to some extent, went out of style.

(10:44.) Now we come to Dialogues (with much humor)—in a brilliant connection of material—for Dialogues presents an intuitive odyssey. It is a book telling of interior events. It is highly rational, but it is not the type of rationality that people are familiar with. The interior events are not “structured” by the use of drugs. Which could explain the events for many people. Under drugs anything can seem to happen.

In the past, again, poetry was an important method of communication, but the “rationally” tuned mind suspects it. There is often nothing to be checked in it against physical reality in a concrete manner, for the message is intuitional and internal. People like poetry as a rule in your society only when it is dealing with conventional subjects, or directly with nature, so that in a way, now, the intuitions are used “to a rational end.”

It is basically far more rational to enjoy the summer night present to your senses than to react instead to unpleasant events separated from you in probabilities. This is not Pollyanna behavior, but a healthy response that has been lost by many people.