“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

The same question of course applies when you read a newspaper, and when you speak to another person. Your actual words convey information, feelings, or thoughts. Obviously the thoughts or the feelings, and the words, are not the same thing. The letters upon the page are symbols, and you have agreed upon various meanings connected with them. You take it for granted without even thinking of it that the symbols — the letters — are not the reality — the information or thoughts — which they attempt to convey.

(Long pause at 11:01.) You have heard the expression before, I am sure, that the environment expresses a particular individual’s personality. I am telling you that this is a literal and not symbolic truth. The letters upon the page have the reality only of ink and paper. The information they convey is invisible. As an object, this book itself is only paper and ink. It is a carrier of information.

There were various escalated systems, some conveying people on foot, some conveying goods. [...]

[...] Now these people moved mass with sound, and, as I told you earlier, actually conveyed matter through a high mastery of sound. [...]

The body’s feeling, the sound of the words, convey(s) the message. So independently of any language there are sounds that in themselves convey such messages, that act upon the physical system. [...]

Such feeling-tone “words” (in quotes), with pantomime or the expressive body, can therefore come closer often than structured language to convey various levels of emotion, to explain levels of subjective feeling that are often distorted in recognizable words.

[...] (Pause, then quietly:) We have been trying to form some kind of a neurological bridge in order to convey some particularly pertinent material for our book. [...]

[...] You were deeply involved in overall healing processes of your own, in which certain comprehensions on your part were conveyed to the various organs of your body, so that your body came into a far better overall relationship. [...]

[...] You can suggest that you will speak with distant friends, or convey important messages that you cannot convey verbally, perhaps. [...]

The dream accentuated Ruburt’s determination to achieve normal motion, and his insistence in the dream that he depend upon his own mobility, rather than, say, a vehicle or conveyance. [...]

[...] It not only contains and conveys information, but it also reacts to information from the physical and cultural worlds.

[...] You have your telephones, radios, televisions, your earth satellites—all networks that process and convey data. [...]

[...] I wanted to convey to you the fact that the personality is composed of indestructible elements and that these elements are never destroyed. [...]

[...] It can convey the unique individuality of many different ceremonies, held by different nationalities through the centuries. [...]

[...] Jane really likes it, since it conveys very well the feeling of her little story “for readers of all ages.”

[...] Any material proof of this sort is extremely difficult, since oftentimes you pick up a generalized picture of coming events, so to speak, and the words that you use are so literal that they cannot convey the whole picture sufficiently enough so that validity can be proven, in your terms. [...]

[...] It conveyed quite necessary information about man and the universe. [...]

Tonight’s session isn’t book dictation, but the large portions of it I’m presenting convey useful insights into our social behavior and social health—and as I show in Note 1, those states can include our interactions with animals.

[...] The hilarity of all this is hard to convey, but the objective realization of what was taking place, and of how hard it would be to explain to a neophyte, finally got to John Bradley. [...]

[...] Words, however, can be very elusive tools, and vary from language to language, although intrinsically through the Seth material Jane conveys depths of meaning that continue to develop within whatever language others may cast it. [...]

[...] The word cordella, now for example, was used instead of alphabet to break your ordinary conceptions of alphabet while conveying an idea of symbols closely allied, and upon which alphabets are based.

[...] Sound did not convey pleasure. [...] It became, to you, a method of conveying unpleasant information, and therefore to be shut off whenever possible. [...]

(9:52.) The race brought forth the events, then, that would best convey in physical terms this deeper nonphysical knowledge of the indestructibility of the soul. [...]

[...] As he tried to comprehend it, he also felt that certain attitudes of yours toward the marketplace would spill over and threaten the unimpeded clear channel that he felt has been formed to convey his writing to the public realm. [...]

[...] At the same time it seems that Jane is trying to convey several sounds or ideas at once, with but one set of vocal chords.