“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 that regard, each detail adds to the significance of the universe, and adds greater or different meaning to each other detail. These basic thought-processes, then, are too vast to be consciously apprehended, for they deal with meanings and relationships that reach before and after your life spans.

(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.

At those basic levels direct knowing is involved, knowing itself in all of its infinite patterns, and that process alone involves unimaginable motion.

(10:25.) Nevertheless, that process is the foundation from which your mental life arises. Whenever you think anything—which is always—you are in touch with that foundation.

I have told you that your body knows how to grow, and surely that much should be obvious. The body knows which cells to activate and so forth, and how. In the same fashion your mind knows what thoughts are best for it to think, for it knows the great capacity of the individual human mental processes, and it “works” for mental and psychic fulfillment even as the body “works” for physical fulfillment.

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.