“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] The symptoms are the result of the strain between the still-lingering beliefs from childhood, clashing with the unrealistic goals of being a kind of superself, for in the light of that kind of superself image so much is expected that almost any achievement is taken for granted. [...]

[...] It also tends to being about a bigger division between those two images of the self. [...]

To some extent Ruburt’s panic is also the result of trying to live up to an impossible image, while forgetting his own personal background, and by expecting himself to behave as if that background was unimportant. [...]

[...] They may not be pleasant, but they are expressions, often enough of valid-enough questions and fears that were overlooked or pooh-poohed as insignificant or foolish in the light of this superself image, who was expected to have no doubts, no fears, only flawless performance. [...]

The power must fill the image, and the image then fill the painting so that the very force of the figure seems hardly contained within it. It is the emotions beneath (smile) that give meaning to the image, and yet these emotions are held and contained and given direction and force by and through the image. [...]

[...] This can happen when the personality identified himself almost exclusively with the physical image.

[...] For that matter, this image is not a new one. [...]

[...] You may die at eighty and after death think of the youth and vitality that you had at twenty, and find then that your form changes to correspond with this inner image.

Most individuals after death choose a more mature image that usually corresponds to the peak physical abilities, regardless of the age when the physical peak was reached. [...]

[...] These symbols can be translated and perceived in many terms; as a series of notes for example, as a combination of senses, as a series of images. [...]

[...] Not only are your thoughts apparent through telepathic communications, for example, but without your conscious awareness they also form what you may call pseudo-images “beneath” the range of physical matter as you normally perceive it in some cases, or “above” this same range.

[...] Because of this, these individuals recognize more clearly the connection between creative images and given sense data. [...]

[...] Your thoughts and images and feelings therefore alter the given sense data in some other systems.

“1. Some of the (hypnagogic) images you see in your mind prior to sleeping, and those at other times, are alternates — that is, you could see those pictures physically if you opened your eyes, instead of the ordinary reality you ‘know’ is there. Inner vision evolves physical sight, lining up exterior data into the kinds of images that correlate.

[...] You might instead perceive the equivalent of jumbled sound or meaningless static (as Jane has done), or jigsaw images (as I have done). You might simply realize that some kind of activity was there, but without being able to pinpoint it.

[...] The information cannot be sifted or used effectively and is translated into dream images, as your consciousness returns toward your own home station. [...]

[...] You will instead pick up at best the ghost images, probabilities, and private data that are not officially recognized as part of the main reality’s official structure of events.

[...] On page 24 Seth stated that when Jane receives images, the psychological framework between Seth and Jane is operating; in these instances Seth is not giving Jane envelope data by way of concepts, directly and telepathically. Jane had some images this evening.

(After we had discussed this point, Jane added that it is possible she also had an image, very vague, of the note referred to earlier in the data. [...] But in giving the above data, Jane had the image of a rectangular form and block of matter with neat borders.

When he receives data in the form of images, the psychological framework is operating. [...]

[...] She had an image here, of small even words on a rectangular shape; but my questioning could not elicit whether she could distinguish, here, between type, script, etc., on this rectangular shape. [...]

[...] The impression is of a small image or drawing (shakes head, eyes closed) that might represent a foundation, house, federal building or church, or monument. [...]

[...] She could recall a few images she’d had while speaking, and said more would come to mind as we went over the data. [...]

[...] Jane said she’d had an image of a small object in a corner of an envelope, however.

(“The impression is of a small image or drawing that might represent a foundation, house, federal building or church, or monument.” [...]

[...] We gave you mental images and upon these images you learned to form the world that you knew. [...]

[...] For one thing we do not think of space as you do, and we form whatever particular images we want to surround us.

[...] You, however, form your own physical image at an unconscious level in more or less the same manner, but with some important differences. [...]

[...] We communicate instead through what I can only call thermal and electromagnetic images that are capable of supporting much more meaning in one “sequence.” [...]

[...] (Smile, eyes open.) Some beneficial projection is going on here also for a change, as Ruburt psychically projects outward the last of important inner disturbances onto the ghost images, which are then completely, altered into constructive and healthy images.

[...] The last significant ghost images are being met head-on, symbolically, and conquered; this being given reinforcement in the physical universe because of the very physical work involved.

Particularly when the voices or communications give orders to be obeyed, they represent powerful, otherwise repressed, images and desires, strong enough to form about themselves their own personifications. [...]

The Christ image is often used because it so perfectly represents the combination of the grandiose self, as per the all-knowing son of God, and the martyred victim who is crucified precisely because of his lofty position.

[...] He may—or of course she may—on other occasions receive messages from the devil, or demons, which on their part represent the person’s feelings about the physical self that seems to be so evil and contradictory in contrast to the idealistic image. [...]

In your terms of time, man has always projected unassimilated psychological elements of his own personality outward, but in much earlier times he did this using a multitudinous variety of images, personifications, gods, goddesses, demons and devils, good spirits and bad. [...]

[...] She had internal images or visions of the circles and vortexes as Seth spoke, but she could not now put these into words. [...]

In terms again of the image set up earlier, there are various reference points where overlapping areas of the various circles penetrate each other; and as has been mentioned earlier, Ruburt’s personality presently is in such a psychological location.

Now mathematicians will not like this, but in your (underlined) terms within the multidimensional circle image, we form a triangle. [...]

The circle image that I gave you is meant to represent the basic meaning of each individual’s entity. [...]

[...] The same applies to the karate body image, its significance escaping both of you largely, where Ruburt was seeing himself with a body image combining power, agility, and weight.

[...] The karate image will now help him gain, and helps him correlate his ideas of creativity with a different kind of image than he has had before.

The karate image for him is a good one, far more evocative, intuitive, and powerful than his idea say of doing exercises, for it combines, for him, intuitive understanding with physical strength and agility.

[...] You are manipulating in physical terms, but it should occur to you that you do not need the physical images. These are only methods to educate you to the importance of thought for you can perform the same without the images. [...]

[...] As long as you believe you are physical creatures then you will deal with physical images. When you realize that the physical creature is a hallucination then you will not need the images. [...]

You still do not believe in the reality of thought, and so you use your images in this state of Alpha I consciousness, but in some stages beneath you will find you can dispense with it. [...]

[...] You can see then that even this astral image is always in motion and never static, and its condition alters the physical self even as the physical self acts upon the astral image.

[...] It is that part which in physical life is intertwined with the physical image.

When the physical self sleeps the astral image may indeed wander. [...]

[...] You are forming your own physical image with all its strengths and weaknesses whether or not you are aware of it.

[...] All physical matter exists first as an idea or mental image. The idea of mental image has its own reality, and is charged with energy, and this energy can never be withdrawn. [...]

Again, these images are as real as any physical matter is. [...] If it will help you, think in terms of a memory image. [...]

The images seen during the seance were quite as real as anything else in the room. [...]

[...] For instead of the gun, which to Ruburt signifies destruction, purposeful destruction, you have the distortion of the eagle shape on the gun label, into a woman and child image, signifying of course creativity in this case.

[...] Thoughts are often translated into dream images by a simple transformation. There is little difference indeed, basically, between physical images and dream images, and apparitions, and very little difference between these and thoughts and emotions.

[...] I have explained how dream images are constructed. [...]

[...] Jane also picked up leaf images in connection with a porch on the first floor.

[...] He correctly picked up the leaf images; however it was not the first floor. [...]

[...] These inner patterns, native to the psyche of any species, turned into concepts, mental images — intuitive projections that were all meant to give conscious direction. [...] The god images would change as consciousness did. [...]

[...] His consciousness — his psyche — is projecting greater images of his own probable fulfillment, and these are seen in his changing concepts of God.

[...] Some may attempt to gain revenge in this way, finding satisfaction in gaining control over another, finally, but the victim in such a case is only the hallucinated image of the victor.

[...] The individual involved is indeed a ghost image of the personality.

Believing in a physical hell can cause quite unnecessary psychological torment, with hallucinatory images. [...]

A few moments earlier he vaguely caught an image, as his mind, picking up inner information, translated it: he was being led to a physician’s office in the image. [...]