“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Now: you know generally how associations work in your own mind, seemingly bringing memories or images to you out of context—that is, not following the usual patterns of time or cause and effect.

Associations are highly personal, bringing together in thought and in dreams highly individualistic constructs in which actual events and fantasized ones come together. In Framework 2 those freer associative patterns are everywhere potent. The associative processes of the world, with their literally infinite capacities for creative constructs, are there available. Your world is first of all a mental one. The organization of Framework 2 is then highly associative.

If you try to get a feeling for the vast sweep apparent in your own private associative processes, you might perhaps gain a slight glimpse of the interworkings that occur when those associations mix and merge with the associations of other individuals. The potential for the creation of events is so staggering in number and yet out of those highly personal charged associations spring the specific concrete events of experience.

The connections among such associations cannot be followed from the standpoint of intellectual logic, for those associations are first of all emotional. Some are more charged than others. Because of culture and religion, an apple may remind many people of the Garden of Eden, or sin. The apple can be used as a general symbol in that way. In deeper terms, however, an apple might be associated with a cellar, a kitchen, a still life, a death, a birth, or with a million other items or events, according to a given individual’s own chain of associations.

All of that is known in Framework 2. There, personal and world associations form their own kinds of patterns. There, your thoughts are as actual as physical events, for the physical events could not occur without that inner activity. You have conscious intents. These act as your directional signals. They automatically pull to you what you need from Framework 2, drawing out all of the associations that you need in order to have certain events occur.

Let me give you something perhaps more specific. Your remark about doing the dishes, and Ruburt’s subsequent use of the stool, led to the breaking up of associations earlier connected with dishes. It allowed earlier pleasant associations to rise to the surface instead. That made possible some further physical relaxation, more pleasant thoughts, and gave him some breathing space.

If you have faith you will not question the means, or the process. The questions of course add to further tension, and inhibit your mental creativity about the condition. I want you to become enthusiastic about my red star exercise. I feel that I must explain to you from A to Z my reasons for initiating it. I must tell you that it can help in a new organization mentally, break down some negative associations, and so forth.