“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

In the dream state, languages and images are wedded in a way that seems alien only because you have forgotten their great alliance. [...] So when you dream, images and language merge often, so that each becomes an expression of the other and each fulfills the other. [...]

[...] In sleep you use images and languages in their pure form.

[...] You imagine that language and images are two different things, so you try to “put them together.” [...]

[...] Form is the result of concentrated energy, the pattern for it caused by vividly directed emotional or psychic idea images. [...] The desire will carry the imprint of your personality and image, even though you remain unaware of the image or its appearance in the other location.

Though this thought-image usually is not seen by others, it is quite possible that in the future scientific instruments may perceive it. As it is, such an image may be perceived by those who have developed use of the inner senses. [...]

[...] To help you imagine what I am speaking of, you might think of them as ghost images, or shadow images, though this is only for the sake of analogy — forms, for example, just beneath, that have not emerged completely into physical reality as you know it, but are nevertheless vivid enough to be constructed. [...]

Each individual actually sends such replica images of himself out frequently, though the degree of the materialization may differ, some forms, for example, being more or less shadowy than others. However, these forms are not mere projections — “flat” images. [...]

Mental images therefore are extremely powerful, combining inner sound and its effects with a clear mental picture which will seek physical form. Your imagination adds motivating and propelling power to such images, and so you will find that many of your beliefs are entertained by you in an inner visual manner. [...]

[...] These are all connected with the physical image that you know. [...]

[...] As such they are incipient images, collectors of energy. [...]

One such image may represent one particular belief or it may stand for several. [...]

It goes without saying that dream images certainly have form to the dreamer, even as physical objects have form. [...] The images that appear in dreams exist as forms in another dimension. [...]

Dream images, not astral projections, operate within certain electrical limits, limits that form the boundaries of the dream universe. Dream images are nevertheless almost fibrous projections, almost a thinned-out composition, more plastic basically than physical matter, but composed of a number of the same properties. [...]

[...] There are indeed connections between what is called ectoplasm and the composition of dream images. [...]

Dream images are indeed, in density, between the tangible nature of physical objects and the intangible reality that is entirely independent of physical matter. [...]

[...] In the same way that the physical image is built up, so is the dream image. [...]

Many of these actions performed by dream images are muscular ones, physical manipulations. [...] These dream images are not one-dimensional cardboard figures by any means. [...]

You perceive but a small portion of these images which you have yourselves created. You cannot bring them back into the limited perspectives of your present physical field and are left with but glimpses and flimsy glimmerings of images that are as actual, vivid and more mobile than normal physical ones.

[...] Atoms and molecules have consciousness, and this minute consciousness forms its own dreams even as, on the other hand, it forms its own physical image. [...]

[...] You may see streets or boulevards instead of muscles and bones, but go along with the image or images that appear. [...]

If the image of a landscape appears instead, then ask for a series of such images, that will again somehow point the way toward recovery, or toward the resolution of the problem. [...]

[...] Instant images may come to mind at once, but if success is not achieved immediately, have the patient try again, for in almost all cases some inner pictures will be perceived.

Simply make a straightforward request, asking that some picture or image be presented in your inner mind, that will serve as representative of those portions of your own inner reality.

(Pause at 9:35, one of many.) The language of love did not initially (underlined) involve images, either. Images in the mind, as they are understood, emerged in their present form only when man had, again, lost a portion of his love and identification, and forgotten how to identify with an image from its insides, and so began to view it from outside.

Now he began to draw and sketch, and to learn how to build images in the mind that were connected to real exterior objects in the presently accepted manner. [...] Instead of using whole images he used partial ones, fragments of circles or lines, to represent natural objects.

[...] You have so connected words and images that language seems to consist of a sound that suggests an image. [...]

[...] At that stage no words or even images were needed. [...]

(Long pause at 8:00.) In a manner of speaking, the Sinful Self created the superhuman self-image that demanded so much, and it encased Ruburt’s body as if in concrete. Well, that image cracked and crumbled in the hospital experience, leaving Ruburt with his more native, far more realistic image of himself. [...]

[...] The body finally became so desperate to free itself of that rigid Sinful-Self superhuman image that it took itself into the hospital for a month—even if it did almost die in order to get itself in there. But it got rid of that image....” [...]

[...] The super-perfect, impractical self-image simply fell away: it could not survive such a situation. [...]

(We were very encouraged by two points especially that Seth had mentioned this evening: that Jane’s thyroid had repaired itself before—which event now could free her from dependence upon medication—and that the Sinful Self’s superhuman image had “cracked and crumbled in the hospital experience.” [...]

[...] Initially, however, before the birth of images and words — as you understand them (underlined) — the world existed in different terms from those you know. Images as you consider them had not taken the form that you recognize. [...]

[...] This would be considered an hallucinatory image. [...] Inner vision can confound you, because in your mind you often see images quite clearly that you would dismiss if your eyes were open. [...]

[...] The first language, the initial language, did not involve images or words, but dealt with a free flow of directly cognitive material.

Visual data as you perceive them amount to visual language; the images perceived are like visual words. [...]

[...] The images represented a culmination of many years experience of a negative trend. If you had accepted them you would end up as an exact replica, as you transferred into the images. If you had, then what creativity and constructiveness were still in you would have softened the faces of the images, really to an amazing degree. [...]

[...] Nevertheless, occasionally a personality will astound itself by such an image production as the one you met in the park. Usually this particular type of image production vanishes by the time the personality reaches adulthood. [...]

(“If Jane and I had subconsciously accepted the images we projected at York Beach, [they were older] would we have been able to return to our present home, where we are known?”

(Jane dictates:) However, you had no way of knowing what had happened, and your abilities at that time would not give any permanence to the image. [...]

We will go more deeply into a discussion of the ways and means by which both dream images and other materializations are constructed. For there are various balances, or rather various delicate imbalances, which must be maintained; and there are differences also in the makeup of dream images, which are usually seen only by the dreamer, and some other more physical materializations which may be created by the semi-waking self, and under certain circumstances seen by others.

[...] Therefore the characteristic ways used by any given personality, in connection with his or her physical image, will also be used in the construction of dream images.

The dream images are indeed extensions, not only of the psychic or inner self, but a definite extension of the electromagnetic and chemical properties that operate through the physical self. It is indeed as if extensions of nerve endings reached out in self-expansion, making new connections, and this is indeed what occurs in the creation of dream images.

[...] This method of utilizing energy is also used in the creation of dream images. The form of the images is not an illusion. [...]

(10:35.) In the most protected areas of sleep you are dealing with experience that is pure feeling or knowing, and disconnected from both words or images. [...] Here a great creative synthesis and a great creative diversification takes place, in which any given dream image has meaning to various layers of the self — on one level representing a truth you have lived and on other levels representing this truth as it is more specifically applied to various areas of experience or problems. There will be a metamorphosis, therefore, of one symbol turning into many, and the conscious mind may only perceive a chaos of various dream images, because the inner organization and unity is partially hidden in the other areas of consciousness through which the reasoning mind cannot follow.

[...] If you probe into these realms you will be forced to perceive them with the root assumptions of your own system, translating feelings of warmth and comfort, for example, into images of warm shelters or buildings, or feelings of fear into images of demons.

[...] The images within the dream are also highly coded, and are signals for underlying events that are basically not decipherable.

Divorced from physical focus, you are in a better position to hear the Speakers, to translate their instructions, to practice with the creation of images, and to be guided in the methods of maintaining the health of the physical body. [...]

[...] When this occurs and he sees himself for example running, to some extent this makes the mental image of a nonrunning self less vivid. [...] And the will, now, can be used to initiate a series of actions that will be spontaneous; and the motions now, the physical motions, in turn set up mental images of spontaneity that become self-generating. [...]

[...] Doing so will prove him wrong, and break up still another annoying mental image. [...] These are simply practical but important sideline exercises that will help break down specific detrimental images that he has. [...]

[...] The mental feelings have caused mental images that in turn hamper physical motion. [...]

This jumping off the radiator the other day, in one stroke disintegrated one such detrimental image that had impeded physical motion. [...]

Since these selves exist simultaneously, it is then possible for consciousness to enter, or really form, such an image, undergo experiences within the characteristic pattern of reality, and then project to another image. In all cases consciousness forms the image. [...]

[...] You may look back upon it and think it a dead image of yourself, you see. Some individuals in their first astral form see their physical bodies as dead images of themselves and become frightened.

Consciousness as manifested individually simply adopts various images, though some of these are not physical in your terms. [...]

[...] The time element is important when you project from the physical image. [...]

She thinks you are composed entirely of the image that you show to her. Therefore, any change in that image frightens her. If she knew that you were more than that image, she would not cling to that image so strongly.

The image is tied up with certain emotions usually connected with the institution of marriage, and with being a respectable breadwinner and a father. You have not completely introduced your inner image, but only hinted at it, so that to her it is secondary and unreal, when she is faced by actual events in which you behave as the inner image, she is bewildered, confused, and imagines that you are demented.

[...] Philip’s most personal inner image, the primary inner image, is of a single, free, independent male.

[...] This is not to say that he is not a family man, but that the image of a family man has been transposed by him, as well as by others.

As soon as Bill told us he had seen an image, Jane and I both looked into the doorway, of course. But we could see nothing; for that matter, Bill said, the image had vanished during break. [...]

[...] As you know them, body chemicals are physical, but they are the propellants of this thought-energy, containing all the codified data necessary for translating any thought or image into physical actuality. They cause the body to reproduce the inner image. [...]

[...] The intensity of a thought or image largely determines the immediacy of its physical materialization. [...] There is nothing about your own physical image that you have not made.

[...] As he sits in his chair, he is constantly creating his own physical image, using his own psychic energy, and using particular atoms and molecules for the construction of his body. [...]

[...] There, Ruburt was inside the image that he had projected. His main consciousness was merged with mine in the session format; while in the waking experience his consciousness was in the normal image, which sensed the projected one. In the first experience then Ruburt projected an image outward and his consciousness entered it, then he had a session by the same mechanics we always use. [...] He became confused, tried to take notes himself as the listening image, and realized those notes would not exist physically either.

[...] Following this in a period of usual activity (the same evening), he sensed his own image speaking for me and sitting across the couch from him in our (Seth’s) accustomed position. [...]

[...] Those affairs involved the delivery of a session from the projected image to the physical one. [...]

[...] With the exception of an image of a photo of her schoolday friend, Marie Tubbs, Jane said she did not know if she had any images or not.

[...] That is, other writing, either in a note or beneath these images which I believe are on the object.

(“What kind of images?”)

I believe the object has images on it of people.

Since we can’t concentrate fully on two things at once, you may focus your attention on the screen again or on any imaginary image—this will banish the annoying worries. Or you may pretend that the worries themselves have images and then “see” these vanishing away.

You may, instead, just lie quietly and concentrate on a dark screen until images or lights appear on it. [...]

[...] There is, most simply, within a dream the creation of images. These images then also act. [...]

Many of these actions performed by dream images are muscular ones, physical manipulations. [...] These dream images are not one-dimensional, cardboard figures by any means. [...]

You perceive, however, but a very small portion of these images which you have yourselves created. You simply cannot bring them back into the limited perspectives of your own present field, and are left with but glimpses and flimsy glimmerings of images which are actually as actual, vivid, and more mobile than those in the physical field.

Nor is the dream universe a shadow image of your own. [...]