“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Then he realized that his body was sleeping. He wanted to “awaken” and record the experience, so he had the radio blare until [it] waked him. There is more, involving the doctor and the monkey. The monkey was not free, but on a leash —the psyche’s interpretation, in other terms, of material involving the class discussion about inoculations. The monkey was not free because it had been inoculated with diseased tissue, yet the doctor hoped to keep the disease in control, or leashed, through measured inoculations. Ruburt saw a real doctor and a real monkey because he wanted to bring home the point that living animals were then involved who were then diseased, and that real men conducted the experiments.

In other terms, to your way of thinking, diseases represent animal afflictions, and the monkey represented that connection. No doctor stood in the parking lot with a monkey on a leash, yet in other terms the event was literal, for your doctors feel that they must control the animal in you to heal, and that without their leash the animals would run wild. The monkey was used, also because it is “humanistic,” or has what you think of as incipient human characteristics.

[...] You do not use your intellect to lead you to freedom but often as a leash. [...]

You are learning to adjust the leash and now and then with great caution you allow yourself to wander a fingertip away without it. [...]

That is an example of using the intellect as a leash if I ever heard one. [...]

Real scissors / won’t cut / that kind of leash. /
So I’m making / imaginary ones / which snip /
the dream leash / into a thousand silver / pieces— /
that melt before my / dream-real eyes.

Someone magically / took my leash off / and I was so scared /
I pretended it was / still there even / tighter than before.

[...] / I keep tugging /
at the leash that isn’t there / but seems so real.

[...] They were swarming about, all seemingly linked to one master leash. [...]

He realizes—and will more so—he realizes that the inner self need not be so heavily guarded, that his identity will not escape from him like a dog who leaves the leash.

(Pause.) Now, you see that I am a friendly chap (smile), indeed an old dog with a long leash. [...]

[...] All of you, you see, with two exceptions—these two (Sue and Daniel)—youhave been so caught in organizational realities and daily practicalities that you have leashed your intellects. [...]

[...] In childhood, before you so leashed your imaginations, however, you each had your own dreams—dreams that awakened you to other portions of your own identities. [...]

[...] You cannot put a leash on them and walk them around the block, yet trees form a protective barrier about, say, a home or a neighborhood. [...]

[...] He realizes that the inner self need not be so heavily guarded, that his identity will not escape from him like a dog who leaves the leash. … Now, you see that I am a friendly chap, indeed, like an old dog with a long leash—”

These rigid ideas can indeed act as leashes, so that you are forced to circle like a tied puppy dog about a very small radius. [...]