“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

All realities are the result of idea construction. Thinking is automatic. It is a process with which you are gifted. You can think of things that are distant, things that you have never seen. You can imagine events with which you have had no personal experience. You are used to dealing with concepts, so that your thinking is not restricted, for example, to the mental naming of an object—but you also inquire as to its origin, its meaning, its class. Your thinking itself is its own kind of invisible language, for you think before you learn language.

At that time you acquire the language of your people, and you learn to use mental concepts in a rather specialized way, and to further designate objects more specifically. Language therefore is bound to color your native thinking processes, so that it becomes almost impossible to wonder how you thought before you learned language.

In the same way, beneath your conscious use of language there lies a vast inner communication, a mental system upon whose basis language must rest. There you deal with ideas and concepts in a far different context, if you prefer, one that deals with similarities, complementary relationships, unities. This is the most complex of systems, in which each detail has meaning—not only because of its unique individual nature, but because of the greater meaning that any one detail has in the larger mental structure of the universe.

(10:05.) Those processes, however, contain the basic mental structures from which ideas and concepts as you understand them come, and they are also responsible for the inner mental and psychological processes, individually and worldwide, that form private and mass physical reality.

Your usual perception is of course blocked by time, and by your conscious understanding at any given point in your lives. The processes at this other level are so lightning fast, so inclusive, that they would not seem to carry any recognizable concepts, simply because the vast amount of information could not be followed or slowed for your attention.

The mental processes at this deeper level, however, are different of course than your conscious ones, and in dreams, again, there are hints of a deeper kind of knowing, and a deeper kind of unity. When dreams appear bizarre it is only because, awake, you cannot follow the intricate creative unity that unites them. I am giving you this material for a reason, and I hope to carry it further, because I want both now to begin to have a feeling for the reality that exists behind your experience with concepts or ideas. And the information itself will help you intuitively apprehend some of the material just given.