“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

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.

(The next day, November 25, Bill Macdonnel called. I told him the Ryerson story. Bill knows Ryerson, and sees him rather often. Bill, Ryerson, and I are artists, of course. Jane also knows Ryerson, much better than I do. Ryerson lives within a couple of blocks of us.... I did think it a Framework 2 operation when Bill called us the day after Carroll told us the Ryerson news, but Jane didn’t credit the events like I did, for whatever reasons on her part.

Ruburt discarded that instance, you see. I want to make the point, however, again and again, that physical events spring from mental events.

As you begin to make mental plans for a freer future, the same kind of events happen. Events that before seemed impossible first of all seem perhaps possible, or you can see that they can indeed be carried out right now to some extent, in perhaps a limited fashion. Your mental world becomes freer. That freedom induces physical improvements. You must be free in your imagination. You must learn to reinforce each other’s faith in Ruburt’s constant improvements, as you have encouraged each other’s faith in your own and each other’s creative abilities.

(10:28.) This session is highly important. You make mental plans for your creative work. You are both highly reluctant to change your mental habits, much less your physical ones. You have no idea of the creative potential you are missing. The idea of a night in a motel, easily accessible on the ground floor, even with dinner in your room, is a beginning, out of all proportion to any events involved. That particular event or fantasy, nipped in the bud, is simply an example of the way that you nip such possibilities even in your imagination.

(A note: I don’t really understand why any sort of Framework 2 connection should arise involving us and Spain, however—the question arose as I typed the rest of the session after writing the notes on page 110-111. Strange, it seems, on the surface at least, that events involving us and Spain should arise, seemingly without our conscious participation or awareness at all. Neither of us is very interested in Spain, per se, or events connected with it. We haven’t seen Ryerson in years, and see Bill M. seldom. So what brings all this about? Why is Framework 2 offering us these events?)