“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] His ego image, or in this case Jane’s ego image, is that of, among other things, a black-haired young woman, and that of a woman writer who smokes.

Disturbing the image in two ways at once is indeed difficult and I would suggest, as I believe you suggested Joseph, that the smoking problem be tackled. Let us not try to change our image overnight in too many ways at once. [...]

[...] The images will come more clearly within the near future. More data could be received by you, and will be as you allow further data to emerge from the images; that is, feelings that emanate, say, from the images of the people. [...]

[...] The rushing-out feeling through the head represented the initial flow of the inner self from the physical image.

[...] Familiarity with such experiences, again, will quickly teach Ruburt to use the right touch, to learn how to control this acceleration and rush of the self, going either inward or outward; that is, leaving the physical image and returning to it; as with your airplanes, I believe, landing is important, without a crash.

[...] We are no longer tricking the ego, which it would ultimately and sometimes almost disastrously resent, but taking it into the confidence of the whole self, so that it will allow departure from the physical image, as a mother can finally be convinced that it is safe for a son or daughter to go out alone.

[...] When you hear a word you may be aware of a corresponding image in your mind. With these people, however, sounds automatically and instantly built up an amazingly vivid image that was not three-dimensional by any means, being internalized, but was far more vivid than your usual mental images indeed.

[...] Sounds automatically produced brilliant images, in other words. For this reason there was an easy distinction between what was called inner sight and outer sight, and it was quite natural for them to close their eyes when seated in conversation in order to communicate more clearly, enjoying the ever-changing and immediate inner images that accompanied any verbal interchange.

(9:29.) This is difficult to explain, but they could mentally pitch a thought along certain frequencies — a highly distinguished art — and then translate the thought at a given destination in any of a number of ways, into form or color, for example, or even into a certain type of image. [...]

An observer could automatically translate the sounds before he bothered with the visual image, if he wanted to. [...]

[...] The same child might see the image of a merry-go-round on the television screen, or be told about another youngster’s visit to a playground, and a subsequent ride on a merry-go-round.

[...] There will be some involvement, of course, as the child watches the images of the merry-go-round horses on the television station, while the story about another child’s visit to the playground will not take nearly as much of his interest.

In the reincarnational terms, however, the merry-go-round events might be experienced directly in some existences, or appear in a dream in another existence, or turn up simply as an image in another, or happen in an event involving real horses instead of merry-go-round horses. [...]

It is rather difficult for those who have not been in your system to understand that you give time and images a reality of their own, as if they existed apart from you. Form does not necessarily presuppose the existence of images. [...]

In nontime images need not have the seeming permanence of your own. [...] Images may change their form, according to the intensities behind them. [...]

[...] They know the origin of images.

[...] Jane said she had an image of the correct size and proportion of the object, and that Seth was trying to get this data across to her. She had no image of a drawing, or herself.

[...] This time she followed up to some degree because she also had an image, of someone standing on high, looking down from some kind of rocky perch. She believes this image was distorted to some degree.

[...] Jane had an image here, of a rectangular card of the kind that used to be sent out by an art gallery where she worked up until a year of so ago. This image card was the same size and proportion, she said, as the rectangular paper the envelope object is drawn on; she believes Seth gave her this data to reinforce that idea.

[...] (Smile.) Ruburt’s window image, had the experience continued, would have effectively done this for him. [...]

[...] To some extent, I am like a particularly vivid, persistent, recurring dream image, visiting the mass psyche, only with a reality that is not confined to dreams — a dream image that attains a psychological fullness that can seem to make ordinary consciousness a weak apparition by contrast, psychologically speaking.

You may say if you wish that I am a dream image lacking even an image — but if so, then each individual whose life is changed by my words must question: “What is a dream?” In the same way that my personality exists without physical manifestation, so does your own. [...]

It is not easy to explain the workings of the inner psyche, or the activity behind dreams, for such experience exists beyond the framework of verbalization or images, and deals basically with the nature and behavior of psychological and psychic energy.

[...] In the same way you give birth to dream images of your own — hardly aware that you have done so, unconscious of the fact that you have provided impetus for a kind of psychological reality that quite escapes your notice. [...]

[...] Here Jane had an image—that of her face, small, as she stood on some rocks and near water. She was not sure in the image, that she was near an ocean, particularly. [...]

[...] The back, I believe, and something relating to images on the front. [...] We think this data stems partly from the image Jane had of herself earlier, and that two ideas are mixed up here. [...]

A miscellany of united objects or images, of small patterns like dots but larger than small dots. [...]

[...] The back, I believe, and something relating to images on the front. [...]

[...] Watch, for I’ll change Jane’s image and replace it with another,’ Seth said. And Jane’s image did begin to change. [...] The shoulders of the mirror image hunched over, and grew more narrow. [...]

[...] I also saw a shadow suffuse the mirror image. [...]

“It was also obvious that the mirror image sat several inches lower down than Jane herself sat. [...]

[...] Toward the end, though, I was shocked to see such a difference between my mirror image and myself. [...]

[...] However you might automatically attempt to project images within it. The images would not take, so to speak, but would appear and disappear with great rapidity. [...]

[...] She had an image of spirals, for instance, all interlocked without being regular, that concerned the material on paintings and time, but she couldn’t get it clearly nor even describe it adequately. There were images within this concept that were something like an accordion, Jane said, having to do with time opening and closing, etc.

[...] Such images will be hallucinatory, but it may take a while for you to distinguish their real nature. [...]

[...] The fluidity or the spacious present pervades the dream state as it pervades a painting, but the images are projected into the spacious present by the dreamer, according to his own understanding and experience.

For simplicity’s sake, I say that I gave him the image, but actually I gave him the impression, which he translated into an image, so that he could deal with it in a more familiar way.

As he is learning it is, however, often up to him to interpret the images that I send him. [...]

Often I give him an internal image, or experience, of a whole concept, but unless it could be vocalized it would have no meaning except to him.

[...] And then he is tempted to interpret it literally, as he would an ordinary visual image.

Centuries ago, in your terms, words and images had a closer relationship — now somewhat tarnished — and this older relationship appears in the dream fabric. [...] The great descriptive nature of names, for instance, can give you an indication of the unity of image and word as they appear in your dreams. [...]

[...] Later, in waking life, you may discover that a friend of yours, a Mr. Taylor (spelled), has a party, or dies, or gets married, whatever the case may be; yet you might never connect the dream with the later event because you did not understand the way that words and images can be united in your dreams.

[...] You bring it into clear focus in almost the same way that you adjust your television picture, only in this case not only sound and images are synchronized, but phenomena of far greater complexity. [...]

[...] Now, when you try to adjust your dreaming set in the same way that you would the waking one, you end up with static and blurred images. [...]

[...] The negative image, dashed then, gave forth the symbolized image that he had been using in his mind. [...]

[...] He tried to be “civilized,” to counteract the Indian image, and he repressed his feelings. [...]

[...] In his own way however Ruburt began a shaman’s journey for himself, letting the psyche’s images become alive, and the inner workings of the mind made more obvious.

[...] The ape could not have appeared however until after the blond man forcibly threw out that negative image. [...]

Now your own physical image is the materialization of your idea of yourself within the properties of matter. Without the idea of yourself, your physical image would not be; yet often it is all you are aware of. The initial power and energy of that idea of yourself keeps your image alive. [...]

[...] You have cast your idea of god, therefore, in your own image.

(As we talked, Jane recalled an image she’d had during the delivery. [...]

[...] He literally was made flesh to dwell among you, for he forms your flesh in that he is responsible for the energy that gives vitality and validity to your private multidimensional self, which in turn forms your image in accordance with your own ideas.

(9:35.) The symbols or images may change as you do so, so that you perceive little similarity between, say, the initial image and the next one. [...] Often a few moments’ reflection afterward will allow you to see why the one image merged into the other. A single image may suddenly open up into an entire mental landscape, but you will know none of this if you do not acknowledge the first clues that are just beneath present awareness, and almost transparent if you are only willing to look.

[...] Often, for example, seemingly unrelated symbols or images may rise into your mind. [...]

[...] She had had many images, also, which she couldn’t verbalize now. [...]

[...] Have him add simple, brief images of himself moving easily about. There is no need to prolong the images.

While Mark creates his own image, you seem to see his image, but you do not see it. [...]

(At Seth’s suggestion, I again quizzed Bill on his sighting of Seth’s image; Bill verified the notes I had already taken and have included in this record. Once again he emphasized the great rise of the cranium of the image.

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

(As soon as break arrived, Bill announced that he had seen an image in the doorway of the bath; it was this that had drawn his attention as Jane dictated. [...]

[...] When she reads with the left eye open also, she can still read, but gets a “ghost image” of whatever is in front of her—my paintings on the wall at the foot of her bed, say—on the typewritten page as a miniature image. Or she may see two images off her left knee if she isn’t reading, though one of the images is a good deal fainter. [...]

[...] You form your image and the physical matter of your environment, and these, being action, are perceived as reality in other systems. [...]

[...] These combining together form your physical image, in your terms. [...]

[...] There is an implied statement of purpose then, in which you both work together toward the complete restoration of his image. [...]

[...] He should also begin again to suggest that his own subconscious will help him in the dream state, for the images he encounters there can be most beneficial.

[...] Initially no images are involved. If you remember the dreams, you remember them with images however. [...]

[...] In some of them you spread your own root assumptions outward, creating dream images based upon these assumptions. [...]

[...] On one level dreams deal with objects and dream images. [...]

There is a strong connection between what I have been saying and the way in which you translate inner reality into symbolic form, either in the waking life, as objects, or in the dreaming state as dream images. [...]