“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

“Seth is using the English language (my native one) to discuss issues that often involve concepts most difficult to describe in the language itself — or, indeed, in any language.

“Obviously, Seth’s purpose is to explain what he can within the framework of that language, rather than to change the language itself — as would be necessary, for example, to escape its often prejudiced nature. [...]

[...] In the English language we often don’t have the right word, one meaning male and female equally, with which to represent the species. [...]

All languages have as their basis the language that was spoken in dreams. The need for language arose, however, as man became less a dreamer and more immersed in the specifics of space and time, for in the dream state his communications with his fellows and other species was instantaneous. Language arose to take the place of that inner communication, then. [...]

[...] It was indeed a dreamlike world, but a highly charming and vital one, in which dreaming imaginations played rambunctiously with all the probabilities entailed in this new venture: imagining the various forms of language and communication possible, spinning great dream tales of future civilizations replete with their own built-in histories—building, because they were now allied with time, mental edifices that automatically created pasts as well as futures.

Man dreamed his languages. [...]

(We discussed the Sumari “language” and what it could mean.)

[...] Is this language a truth? [...]

[...] Therefore, to some extent, we will crumble the words up, crumble the words up and distort them until it seems that in the language that we use you perceive certain familiar sounds. [...]

[...] The ability to use language is also genetically built-in, through the precise orientation, again, with the physical triggering of the parents’ native language. Children learn such languages mentally long before they are physically capable of speaking them; but again, in genetically inspired dreams, children—or rather, infants—practice language. Before such infants hear their parents speak, however, they are in telepathic communication, and even in the fetus genetic dreams involve the coding and interpretation of language. [...]

[...] Thought must come before language. Language is thought’s handmaiden.

In the first place, language as you know it is a slow affair: letter by letter strung out to make a word, and words to make a sentence, the result of a linear thought pattern. Language, as you know it, is partially and grammatically the end product of your physical time sequences. You can only focus upon so many things at one time, and your language structure is not given to the communication of intricate, simultaneous experience.

These letters are written in an original native language that has little to do with the acquired language that has been picked up in any given country. [...] In this homespun analogy, Mama and Papa send letters back — also in the native language — to their children. [...]

[...] We fully agree with Seth that changes and distortions are inevitable as the Seth material is moved from English into other languages; we just want those alterations kept to a minimum. It appears that language difficulties involving publishers and agents led to the whole mix-up to begin with. [...] And all concerned must wait at least another year before a full-length version of Seth Speaks will be published in the Dutch language.

[...] Such a book will always be expressed through those invisible national characteristics that are so intimately involved with language—and obviously, were that not so, no book could be understood by someone of a foreign language. [...]

1. Some of my letters were triggered on October 9 (this month), when Jane and I received our first copies of Seth Spreekt, the Dutch-language edition of Seth Speaks. We saw at once that the people at Ankh-Hermes, the publishing company in the Netherlands, had cut the book considerably. [...]

(4:17.) It is difficult to translate such (pause) biological and psychological material into the words of any language, even though these inbred psychological prerequisites form a kind of language of their own. It is a language that promotes growth, exuberance and fulfillment, and stimulates the entire organism of the body — signaling the proper responses that are required for health and growth.

[...] Words, however, can be very elusive tools, and vary from language to language, although intrinsically through the Seth material Jane conveys depths of meaning that continue to develop within whatever language others may cast it. This psychological growth, and the many challenges involved, set her work apart from the mental calculator’s numbers or the musician’s notes, which are ever the same: Those friendly columns of figures, for instance, add up to identical sums in any language. [...]

[...] The species could have survived quite well physically without philosophy, the arts, politics, religion, or even structured language. [...]

Even the animals, however, understand without words or language the importance of their sexual behavior. [...]

[...] The body’s knowledge did not need a complicated language. [...]

[...] New sentence: Even as sentences are composed of words, there is no end to the number of sentences that can be spoken — so “time” is composed of an endless variety of electronic languages that can “speak” a million worlds instead of words.

[...] Lynn thinks Karina is disoriented, although some of the doctors don’t. We speculated as to why Karina has never learned any language other than Russian. [...]

[...] At this point in her life, she has actually refused to concentrate upon languages, which would tend to tie her more tightly to the details of the world. [...]

In your terms that language speaks the flesh—and it speaks the flesh equally in all races of mankind. [...] Now dreams also provide you with another universal kind of language, one that unites all peoples to one extent or another, regardless of their physical circumstances or nationalities or alliances.

[...] The security, the integrity, and the brilliance of each individuality rises in these terms from that universal genetic language, and also from the inner subjective universal language of dreams. [...]

Dictation: The genetic system is an inner, biological, “universal” language.

[...] You use language like a fence and hide behind it. And if you will forgive me, we are giving you one quick boot and we will leave the sentence there so that you will not be able to use language as a hiding place any longer. [...] But if you want to know what we are doing with the Sumari language, my dear cousin of Richelieu, we are taking away your ball and that is why you all feel so uneasy. [...]

[...] Now who else do you know, except those two people (Jane and Rob), who would sit for one solid hour conversing in a language they do not understand? [...]

[...] Some infants will think in the language of a past life before the new language is learned. [...]

[...] You think before you learn language, as I mentioned earlier in this book, but you already have at your psychic fingertips past experiences from other lifetimes to guide you.

[...] When our conversation began to range over psychic phenomena, leadership, history, and language,¹ Jane went into trance; then Seth came through strongly. [...]

[...] Yet the sounds upon which those words ride are far more sophisticated than the language of which you are all so proud. [...]

[...] Seth discussed many of his basic concepts, the wedding of the intellect and the intuitions, his reality and our camouflage physical one, Seth Two, language, myth, and so forth. [...]

[...] It is an impressionistic language. [...]

[...] There are physical repercussions in your own bodies that occur if you would but listen to your bodies and feel them when the songs go on, for there is language beneath words. [...]

You dreamed you spoke languages before their physical invention, of course. It was the nature of your dreams, and your dreams’ creativity, that made you what you are, for otherwise you would have developed a mechanical-like language — had you developed one at all — that named designations, locations, and dealt with the most simple, objective reality: “I walked there. [...]

(Now, however, when I remarked that I like tonight’s material on dreaming and language, Jane replied: “I wish you hadn’t said that. [...]

[...] It must be in your language—your neurological language. There are languages that do not fit that pattern (intently). [...]

In the same fashion man is born with an inbuilt propensity for language, and for the communication of symbols through pictures and writing. [...] In a fashion (underlined), you could almost say that he used language before he consciously understood it (quietly). It is not just that he learned by doing, but that the doing did the teaching. [...] You might almost say—almost—that he used the language (pause) “despite himself.” [...]

[...] You need the connection yet, you see, the bridge of the language across which the meaning of the language can come. [...]

If you remember what I told you about the language, then you will see clearly.