“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] Then in alpha, easily and naturally, let images play into his mind of health and happiness. [...]

[...] I thought this might be a convenient way of diverting her thoughts, rather than depending on purely mental efforts; at times she might feel particularly like concentrating upon inner images, etc.)

[...] In the same manner that the physical image is built up of an individual, so is the dream image built up. [...]

[...] We have said that to some degree even atoms and molecules have consciousness, and this minute consciousness nevertheless forms its own dreams, even as on the other hand it forms its own physical image.

(October 8, 1964, Thursday, 11 AM: Fleeting images; couldn’t retain them.

(October 13, Tuesday, 11:15 AM: Fleeting, forgotten images. [...]

[...] At its best (underlined) impressionism achieved a certain focus unknown to Western art up to that time, in your terms, offering a breakthrough from cohesive objective form into the moving vitality that gives objects, say, their durability and shapes their images.

[...] You will no longer translate inner experience with the same automatic glibness into stereotyped verbal patterns of images, but will be far better able to experience it for itself.

Now you almost automatically translate a feeling into a definite rigid word and image. [...]

[...] There are many inner experiences, obviously, that cannot be expressed clearly or with any justice through even the combined use of words or images.

[...] It goes without saying that mankind is not alone in maintaining the physical universe, and in giving it continuity as he projects and constructs his own physical image; and as this image is the direct result of his own inner psychic climate, and as it reflects most faithfully his own inner joy and illness, and as this joy and illness shows itself physically in his image, so also do all living things construct their own images, and help to maintain the physical properties of your universe.

Any physical image brings up this problem. [...] You know of course that the consciousness is the first, the image is the second resulting phenomenon.

Not only does the physical matter that composes these images go back into the physical storehouse, to be reused time and time again, but also the physical matter is broken down once again to the state in which it was before its cooperation of parts that formed a particular physical body.

The physical body image that seems to die at a particular point, and seems to enter your physical universe at a particular point, does neither. [...]

[...] Exultation and comprehension, new ideas, sensations, novel groupings of images and words rushed through me so quickly there was no time to call out. [...]

Memory is the ghost image of “past” idea constructions.

[...] A species at any given time is the materialization of the inner images or ideas of its individual members, each of whom forms their own idea constructions.

[...] Only enough energy is used to keep the personal image construction in existence. [...]

Look at the image in your mind as it exists in the snapshot, and see it as being aware only of those other objects that surround it. [...] Try to put your consciousness into that image of yourself. [...] Now in your mind see that image walking out of the snapshot, onto the desk or table. [...] Imagine that miniature image navigating in the physical room, then going outside, and quite an expanded world view will result.

[...] If the photograph is strictly imaginary, then create an environment about the image of yourself.

[...] You may therefore form dream stories about your own out-of-body travel, while your physical image rests soundly in bed. [...]

Next, I ask myself how such a marvelously structured being can think of its image as inferior to anything, especially since we’re far from understanding it even on a “mere” physical basis, let alone from any sort of nonphysical standpoint. [...]

[...] Hence the appalling “monster woman” image that sprang to his mind.

Now earlier he would have been so terrified that the image would not have become conscious. [...]

Ruburt’s entire self-image is not wrong, therefore.

[...] The lovely young woman image will also help fill him out.

[...] When he walks now on the streets, he should keep the mental image just given in his mind, picturing the whole flexible and fleet image, and the inner self will take steps to see that the suitable adjustments are made. [...]

If possible he should make a strong effort to recall his previous sense of flexibility and not identify his personal image with the condition of his physical body during his difficulties.

These suggestions will enable him to see himself you see, in the healed image. [...]

The difficulty is in the construction of his images on a visual field, rather than in his perception of them. He should be able now to construct such images more faithfully, but habit and conditioning holds back, though the ability to construct images on a visual level has already improved.

[...] Ruburt constructs his own physical image, which is, I hope, obviously conscious. You construct your physical image of Ruburt. [...]

[...] If five people were in this room, then they would each construct, in their own personal perspective, their own image of Ruburt, which would be composed of definite, material, atoms and molecules. [...]

[...] I should hope that the apparitions would not occur; and if they did, they would represent your fear of what they once stood for, and would not be the threats that they were originally, but after-images, so to speak.

He saw his mother, but the image was a projected one. It was a feared image of himself, wrapped too tightly in the bedding, which represented the restraints of old beliefs. [...]

[...] Now on occasion when you are projecting from a dream point, you will meet such subconscious images. Your ordinary standards of reality mean absolutely nothing when you leave the physical system, therefore you will encounter, simultaneously perhaps, images that are subconsciously formed; quite valid images that belong in another dimension; constructions created by others within another system; and for any control at all, you must learn how to distinguish one from the other.

[...] Any image that you see in any case must be accepted. [...] Physically speaking it does no good to call such images hallucinations, for they are no more hallucinations than the chair in which my friend Ruburt now sits.

[...] You will have control, you see, over your own subconscious images if you recognize them as your own constructions.

[...] If, for example, during projection travel you encounter a disturbing image, you must first will it to disappear. [...]

[...] There are ways and methods by which you daily send forth your image out into the universe. [...] You create the selves, who in turn create the images that you know. [...]

[...] They remembered that they formed physicial reality from the vitality of their own thoughts and fellings and images. [...]

[...] You should understand by now how the physical image is constructed. [...] The inner self attempts to construct a physical image in line with its own self-image. [...]

[...] Each molecule has its own self-image, without which it could not exist as a physical construction. The subconscious has its own self- image, the ego has its own self-image. [...]

It should be remembered here that all physical images of other individuals are basically telepathic images, formed subconsciously by the perceiver.

[...] Had conditions been better it is possible that they would have sensed you more directly, or even formed a telepathic image of you, as you formed one of them.

The image had no specific personal meaning for him at all. [...]

[...] He focused it differently, and so saw an image of which he would normally not be aware.

You do transform ideas into image patterns, but they do not have durability or continuity on your plane. [...] These images are as independent of your conscious control as the inner workings of your own physical body are beyond your conscious control.

These images continue to work out problems that you have set for them, in the same manner that you work out problems as your present personality in one incarnation after another. These dream images also have their own free will, within limits. [...]

[...] The experience during psychological time, involving your own image by a body of water, was a most valid clairvoyant experience, in that you have not as yet visited this particular spot, and it was a glimpse into what you prefer to call the future.

[...] There is no barrier of space to be overcome, there is merely a transformation, first of all of psychic energy, and then because you are on your plane bound to many camouflage concepts, there will be a secondary reconstruction of physical image.

[...] Since each individual creates subconsciously the physical matter of his own image, then it follows that the condition of this image is his own responsibility.

[...] For various reasons that have been discussed there is no need, in the dream universe, for the permanence of image, or the apparent permanence of image that occurs in the physical universe.

[...] For each of you, including Ruburt, create and project your own image of him, and each of you perceive with your physical senses only that image of him which you have individually created.

[...] However when there is a distortion, as when an ulcer is created, then we begin what can indeed be a vicious circle, for the idea and the reality of the ulcer is then accepted as part of the self-image. [...]

They are not one-dimensional images therefore, nor for that matter are they static. [...] In dreams as a rule you only perceive them as images. [...]

[...] These generic images are composed of highly complicated electromagnetic complexes. [...]

[...] Your whole physical system contains these generic patterns and images. [...]

[...] It forms its own  pseudophysical apparatus, even as it originally forms the physical image itself. [...]

You are intuitively aware that you form your image, and that you are independent of it. [...]

[...] In a manner of speaking, three-dimensional objects are formed in somewhat the same way that the images you see on your television screen are formed, but with a large difference. [...]

(9:27.) The intensity determines both the strength and the permanency of the physical image into which the thought or emotion will be materialized. [...]

[...] When I think emotionally of someone else, I do the same thing, except that a portion of my consciousness is within the image, and can communicate.

(Usually, Jane said, she “forgets” as soon as the session is over, whether or not she had images while holding it; unless I ask specifically. Jane said that when she has images they seem so natural to her during the session that she doesn’t think of mentioning them later—they are on the way out as soon as the session is over.

(Jane also had images while giving some of this material, usually where it is indicated she used gestures; but she found this very difficult to put into words.

(Sometimes, she said, the same images will return to her when she rereads a particular session; she then recognizes them.

[...] They form images with which the dreamers can relate, images that can be used as bridges and then as gateways into kinds of consciousness more separated from your own.

[...] For example, conventional images of the Christian God and the saints may be utilized by the Speakers, with all of this highly vivid. [...]

[...] It is true that in the dream state and in some other levels of existence close to your own, there is strong individual play in the creation of images, and a magnificent use of symbolism, but all of this takes place, again, in an “objective” definite environment, an environment whose characteristics make such phenomena possible — a field of activity, then, with its own rules. [...]