“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(The equation she tried to give doesn’t make sense to her; she now looked at Roger’s questions again briefly. What she got when giving the equation was not really a vision, she said; it didn’t look like Roger’s writing; she seemed to get the data in words and feelings, numbers radiating or pulsating within at the appropriate times in the data.

Here the equation (voice pitched higher) seeks to turn inside out, but the functions and values of the integers return it to stability. The functions at times are completely reversed, but the overall integrity of the equation stands. Nature without its clothes on, ha, ha, ha. (Voice drops to normal). Or the alchemists out- did themselves.

All of this is premature, for the equation itself bears little basic reality to truth. It has a highly artificial relation to it, and it hides another equation, secret since the time of Egypt, having do with the basic nature of zero, and the opening and wedging powers of the unleashed integer, over zero to the 9th degree gradations downward, do you see?

The formula or equation found and forgotten several times.

Now—there are also emotional equations—and you are involved in an emotional equation. [...] There is a change that you have set for yourself and you have set up your own equation—and those in the class who are in both groups have their own equations—and in solving the emotional equations, you end up with spiritual clues. [...] The qualities of the equation have highly subjective meanings, and they need not be the same meanings to each of you who are involved with them. [...]

Such ideas, practically speaking anyhow, deny you the use of creative energy and vitality you think you had then, that you think you do not have now—the unbridled free energy and exuberance you have equated with youth. By equating it with youth in your mind you deny it to yourself in your present, and therefore deny yourself energy that is (underlined three times) available to be used.

You like to deal with classifications, so that you equate one apple with one other apple, one cat with another cat, one person with another person. The greater varieties of subjective experience, however, allow for no such easy equations.

[...] And to some extent one self or identity cannot be equated with any other.

[...] In basic terms, however, you cannot equate one self with another self—or for that matter one life with another life, for the subjective realities of people involve dimensions that do not show physically.

Your attitudes before—and after—our last session, about Ruburt’s condition, can be equated however with precisely such uncreative and cowed frames of mind. [...]

This has to with the 2nd equation. [...]

[...] The mastery of the equation is not determined by predictability, but by the realization that unpredictability often occurs at a constant ratio. [...]

(“I don’t know if that means leaping back to the first equation or not,” Jane said. [...]

[...] (Pause.) Now turn the equation around and you will see that it is pure.

[...] For later reference now add this: along these lines a number can be more than itself, and be duplicated invisibly as an equation, changing the nature of the equation and of the results, while never showing itself. A number can also parade as another number, over-weighing an equation. [...]

[...] These also alter the nature of an equation, for which often no reason can be found.

[...] As long as power is equated with violence, then you will feel it necessary to regulate normal aggression in your behavior; and considering power as violent, you will be afraid to act to some extent. You will then consider goodness and powerlessness to be somewhat synonymous, and equate power with evil. [...]

[...] And here aggression was equated with violence.

[...] Yet many people have physical symptoms or suffer unpleasant situations because they are afraid to utilize their own power of action, and equate power with aggression — meaning violence. [...]

If you equate power with youth then you will isolate the elderly, transferring upon them your own rejected powerlessness, and they will seem to be a threat to your well-being. [...]

[...] I want each of you personally to equate your reality with you sense data.

[...] The unconscious is no longer equated with darkness, or with unknown frightening elements. [...]

(Very actively delivered:) In your current beliefs, again, consciousness is equated in very limited terms with your conception of intellectual behavior: you consider this to be a peak of mental achievement, growing from the “undifferentiated” perceptions of childhood, and returning ignominiously to them again in old age. [...]

[...] If sex is equated with evil, the other group will of course be considered evil.

[...] A problem in a painting or in a book might be solved through an hour’s lovemaking, for often what might seem to be a problem of technique is, as you are beginning to understand, an emotional equation instead. [...]

[...] He equated, again, the writer or poet as highly gifted but emotionally not stable, so that he thought he had to set himself against his own nature in order to produce.

[...] He felt he needed financial freedom in order to work, but in those terms work was equated with the Protestant work ethics, where spontaneity was frowned upon. [...]

So Ruburt’s dream made possible a conscious emotional realization of fear — but more, it provided for that fear’s release, or gave the solution to a deep emotional equation. [...]

[...] Intellectually he had that solution, but it did not become part of the emotional equation until the dream put the two together. [...]

[...] It was the fear of death — not chosen, of course — the fear that if he did not deliver, work hard, and pay his mother back for a life magically given, grudgingly given, then in a magical equation she, the mother, could take it back. [...]

[...] It is part of the equation, as important as a plus sign rather than a minus sign, and as important to your results.

Those who try the exercises with wrong purposes will not succeed, for they will not have the proper equation, and it is the one part that cannot be given to them. [...]

[...] Other questions before the last page, however, might be, does Ruburt equate being out of condition with modesty, or humility? Does he equate flamboyancy with showing off in a negative fashion, showing that being physically retiring could be construed as a virtue. [...]

I equate this with three events: a movie I saw on TV the night before last where Sean Connery sees through the god of his people after reading The Wizard of Oz; a Raggedy Ann doll Rob found in the yard and brought in that reminded me of my old Suzie; and a part of a review I read yesterday on a book about death. [...]

[...] In scholarly circles, and many that are not scholarly at all, the intellect is equated only with the critical faculties, so that the more diagnostic you are the more intellectual you are considered.

Now: You equate the color white with brilliant consciousness, good, and youth, and the color black with the unconscious, old age and death.

[...] As a species, presently at least in the Western world, you equate sex and love. [...]

(Pause at 10:02.) Since love and sex are equated, obvious conflicts arise. [...]

[...] Indeed, though he dislikes the word, he is finishing the first portion of his apprenticeship, in which he became acquainted with a different kind of reality, and had to learn how to equate it with the “normal one.”

[...] You equate violence with evil. Now, when I speak to you, I do not equate violence with evil anymore than I equate a summer storm which is violent with evil. [...]

[...] Instead it settled for platitudes that equated cleanliness (pause) with virtue — hence, of course, your deodorant advertisements, and many other aspects of the marketplace (amused).

[...] (Long pause.) When can the search for the good have catastrophic results, and how can the idealism of science be equated with the near-disaster at Three Mile Island, and with the potential disasters that in your terms exist in the storage of nuclear wastes, or in the production of nuclear bombs?

[...] Another person might express the same dilemma through the body itself, so that “getting ahead” was equated with physical mobility — so that it seemed that physical mobility, while so desired, was still highly dangerous.