“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

This capsule comprehension I call capsule comprehension, since innate comprehension of itself and its workings is part of what you may think of as the fiber or makeup of all energy, regardless of any given particular form that it might take, or regardless of the camouflage it might form of itself.

Within it will be found the capsule comprehension of which we have spoken earlier. This is an attribute of energy itself in its pure form, and even when it is, so to speak, broken down or individualized, the capsule comprehension is in no way either lessened or simplified.

The comprehension is condensed, but the term capsule is merely one that I have chosen. All units of individual consciousness contain this capsule comprehension, and it represents the most minute unit of consciousness about which a mental enclosure, or self, can be constructed. There is no smaller unit, and cannot be, than this.

This point is extremely important. All consciousnesses, therefore, either of a complicated psychic gestalt such as a man or animal, or of simpler gestalts such as an individual cell or molecule, nevertheless operate in and form about themselves mental or psychic enclosures, within which is naturally contained the capsule comprehension which is an attribute of all energy.

It is the adult’s version of childhood knowledge, the human version of the animal’s knowledge, the conscious version of “unconscious” comprehension. [...]

[...] It is a way of living that automatically enhances all of your abilities and accelerates your comprehensions. [...]

[...] It opens your options, enlarges your vista of comprehension, so that the difficulties themselves are simply no longer as important—and vanish from your experience in, again, a more natural manner (all intently). [...]

[...] In a manner of speaking Ruburt’s physical condition represents the bruises, the wounds inflicted upon any individual in his or her long journey (long pause) toward a greater comprehension of life’s experience. [...]

(To me:)Your world view, for example, involves your knowledge and comprehension of government and politics as you perceive them, through reading or television. [...]

[...] You understand many issues intellectually, but have not gained their emotional comprehension. [...]

[...] Its problems are the results of your own inner ones, and meant to lead you toward inner comprehensions. [...]

Last week’s session should be read often by both of you, so that you make certain leaps toward emotional comprehensions that you need.

[...] Direct knowledge is comprehension. [...] When you are reading a book, you are experiencing indirect knowledge that may or may not lead to comprehension. Comprehension itself exists whether or not you have the words — or even the thoughts — to express it. [...] Your ordinary thoughts may falter, or slip and slide around your inner comprehension without ever really coming close to expressing it.

[...] They also served to point up the differences between knowledge and comprehension, and emphasize the importance of desire and of the emotions.

[...] He did not contact Cézanne per se, but Cézanne’s comprehension of painting as an art.

[...] Ruburt should ask for another reincarnational dream, and it will help both of you if you consider your situation from a larger context – for that context will throw illumination upon those areas where your comprehension is less than it might be (with quiet amusement).

Your joint comprehension of this can bring about changes in Ruburt’s condition that now, to you, would seem to be miracles. [...]

[...] New comprehensions are available at any time, new breakthroughs in any area, for those realities contain the sources of your world’s action.

[...] Selves are formed also by effective ranges of comprehension, which may be expanded. They cannot be contracted, for action cannot wipe out comprehension of itself. [...]

[...] Any self, therefore, is never the same self, but action contains within itself its own comprehension.

[...] I wanted to make it clear that the self at any moment, while being no one thing, being indeed a series of simultaneous happenings, so to speak, is however far from meaningless, containing within it full inner comprehension of its various portions.

[...] We have spoken in the past of capsule comprehension. [...]

In the past I spoke of the innate capsule comprehension, which exists within all cells. [...] Whole comprehensions can thus exist within physical structure while taking up no physical space. [...]

(For some material on cellular comprehension, see the 29th session, among others. [...]

(See sessions 86 and 87 for material on mental enclosures, and Session 87 also for material on capsule comprehension.

Energy as it comes through your plane is individualized; and indeed, irregardless of any other theories, all energy contains some consciousness, in simple or more complicated gestalt fashion, as I have mentioned that atoms and molecules so possess a limited consciousness, and a generalized subconsciousness which contains within it a capsule comprehension of the universe as a whole.

I have mentioned, for example, what you may think of as infinite building blocks or pyramids of comprehension, and these could not operate within your physical universe, as the basic gestalt freedom is severely limited. [...]

[...] This is seen in the innate comprehension existing in the fetus. [...]

[...] Capsule comprehension exists even in the smallest particle of energy, and even within the smallest particle of energy there exists all possibilities of development and creation.

[...] Although this type of existence seems cold to you, it is a clear and crystal-like existence in which things are known that are beyond your comprehension... [...]

[...] and the comprehension that exists within each cell, the knowledge that each cell has, the desire for organization was given by us. [...]

[...] There is even an acceleration of thought and inspiration, much like that experienced in the adolescent years, that suddenly brings a new understanding to the aged individual, and provides an impetus that should help the person to achieve greater comprehension — a comprehension that should quell all fears of death.

[...] It is because every atom and molecule contains within it condensed comprehension, inner, direct, codified comprehension, of the inner universe as a whole, that these atoms and molecules are capable of such varied combinations and variations.

You cannot perceive either the consciousness or comprehension, condensed and latent, in the sperm, and then in the fetus, before the human body’s complete construction; nor can you see or perceive the comprehension or the consciousness that is still there, when so-called death occurs.

[...] This capacity, being a part of the generalized consciousness, or what you would call the subconsciousness, therefore performs its function without egotistical awareness or comprehension.

I have said that this condensed comprehension is readily available when it is needed. [...]

[...] Certainly our comprehensions have deepened as a result—yet in the face of that great promise, what was I doing barely able to leave my chair? [...]

[...] Then even our most unfortunate escapades, our most sorrowful ventures, are not dead-ended, but serve as doorways into a deeper comprehension and a more meaningful relationship with the universe of which we are such a vital part.

[...] (Pause at 9:32.) The children participate in their own dimensions of natural divinity to a large-enough extent that they feel themselves automatically supported within the presence of an ever-acting comprehensive trust and love. [...]

[...] Everyone has at least some nebulous memories of the earlier state of comprehension, however. [...]

[...] The synthesis is yours, and yet the self must be plunged into chaos even to find order, to find itself and to find a comprehension and understanding that will bring original insight and knowledge into your plane. And this original insight, original comprehension, are the requirements of an entity.

When the two are in balance and when there is communication between them, then the inner ego can directly communicate with the outer ego, bring to it the necessary enlightenments, and give it, that is give the outer ego the benefit of its own, the inner ego’s own, condensed comprehension and direct participation in the existence of the universe as a whole.

[...] Yet an ego, an outer ego, cannot choose to be an entity in any case until its comprehension attains a certain degree. [...]

[...] But from this passionate oath of involvement will be wrung the final intense isolation and comprehension from which your best work will come. [...]

[...] These whole comprehensions are then packaged even in the dream state, and translated into usual sense terms.

[...] The information itself, however, had nothing to do with words, but with an overall comprehension of the nature of painting, a direct knowing. [...]

[...] All of this will help Ruburt toward a nonverbal comprehension that will, on another level, reorganize some of his beliefs.

[...] It can be an extension or enlargement of the self, a widening of its boundaries and of conscious comprehension. [...]

[...] In Session 684 (in Volume 1) he said at 10:07: “Your body’s condition at any time is not so much the result of its own comprehension of its ‘past history’ as it is of its own comprehension of future probabilities. [...]

[...] For that matter, cellular comprehension and reaction are too fast for you to follow. [...]

[...] Cellular comprehension is not tuned into by the normally conscious self, which is equally unaware of its own free-wheeling nature at “higher” levels. [...]

A note: Just as he periodically reminds us of his material-to-come on physical aging and out-of-body states (see Note 4, above), Seth mentions that there are more inner senses he’ll tell us about someday — then adds that many of them are so far removed from reality as we understand it that our comprehension will be intellectual at best; in such cases we won’t be able to identify with them emotionally. [...]

You are each at the point of new comprehensions and understanding.

[...] However, the normal experience-patterns of your temporal being prevent any comprehensive view of all of those lives in creature terms.

[...] The whole self is changed by all of its comprehensions.

[...] Your deepest dreams involve nonmaterial comprehensions, however. [...]

— comprehension, period. [...] The remarkable organization of the body in terms of its learning abilities, and adaptability, will never be understood unless the cells’ precognitive comprehension is taken into consideration.¹

[...] The inner impetus toward development, however, came from the innate comprehension of future probabilities. [...]