“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] Your friend Bill Gallagher’s operation represented a triumph on his part, for he regained his health in one important area—an achievement of worth. But it also represented a failure of a kind, a stopping-point at a certain level of development.

[...] Generally speaking, and only generally, it represents the consciousness familiar to many in your society—most likely, the majority.

(10:16.) Now: In almost all instances, demons in dreams represent the dreamer’s belief in evil, instantly materialized. [...]

[...] A trip in the physical world merely represents the decision to walk or to choose a particular kind of vehicle — a car will not carry you across the ocean, so you take a ship or a plane. [...]

[...] The demons simply represent a state of your own mind that is seemingly out there, objectified. [...]

[...] Here, simple daydreaming represents a slight shift of awareness out of directly given sense data.

[...] You may feel that it has a certain position in your inner vision, or in your head, or you may find that you have your own symbol to represent it. [...]

[...] It will represent reality as perceived from a different state of consciousness.

The “you” that you presently conceive yourself to be represents the emergence into physical experience of but one probable state of your being, who then directs corporeal life and “frames” and defines all sense data. [...]

They represent your experience on other than physical levels. [...]

[...] You can understand in fact the way in which sense images are organized much more clearly by studying instances where sense images exist without an actual object representing them in the physical universe. [...]

[...] They represent in the main deep intents, wishes and purposes. [...]

Ruburt’s nightmare experience (of March 8) is a beautiful example of the kind of explosive emotional content that many people carry, fairly hidden, representing certain taboos, translated of course in individualistic manners. [...]

The dream representing his grandfather symbolically allowed him to go back to the past in this life, to a time of severe shock—his grandfather’s death—which occurred when he was beginning to substitute scientific belief for religious belief, wondering if his grandfather’s consciousness then fell back into a mindless state of being, into chaos, as science would certainly seem to suggest. [...]

More is always involved, however, for those viruses that you consider communicable do indeed in one way or another represent communications on a biological level. [...]

[...] The viruses, however, also represent tensions that the person involved is getting rid of. [...]

(9:27.) Seth Two does represent what I will become, to some extent, and in your terms, yet when I become what he is he will be something different. [...]

[...] That point actually represents a warp in dimensions, a place between systems that has far more to do with energy and psychological reality than it has to do with space, for space is meaningless.

Angels have been represented in just this fashion.

[...] The idealized earth version is not meant to mean a perfect self in flesh at all; instead, it represents a psychic reality in which your own abilities fulfill themselves in relationship with your earthly environment to the fullest extent possible, within the time and place you have already chosen.

[...] In greater terms, therefore, those people decided to be at that particular time and place, so that the photograph is the result of multitudinous decisions, and represents a focus of experience, rising from myriad probabilities. The picture of the world represents in a greater dimensional fashion the same kind of focus. [...]

These represent the varied probable characteristics from which you have chosen to activate your particular main interest. [...]

The cigarette was your own construction, representing your inner realization that the cigarette-smoking Ruburt was there but not present. [...]

[...] The writing represents strong portions of Frank’s personality that are intently concerned with the expression of subjective feelings—feelings that appear nebulous at times because they cannot be expressed—so it seems to him—in a direct fashion.

[...] The social world of ideas and beliefs represent ways of looking at nature and spirituality.

[...] As I show below, putting this Volume 2 together has represented a process of discovery for me — just as I hope studying it will for the reader.

[...] Such an endeavor essentially involves the pursuit of an ideal, and represents our attempts to give physical and mental shape to the great inner, creative commotion of the universe that each person intuitively feels. [...]

Certainly Seth is saying that Jane’s books (and his) represent her acknowledgment of and search for an ideal. [...]

[...] I’d say that attaining such a state represents quite an achievement. [...]

[...] Such a seeming intrusion as an apparition into the physical field represents something that must be dealt with, to you; and when the unfamiliar takes physical shape it becomes much more alarming, to most people, than even a strange idea, which after all does not seem so real in a physical way.

[...] Nevertheless, telepathy represents but one sphere of influence.

[...] 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.

The impediment, beginning in this life, 1507, represented a time when he did not speak out, and he should have, for a man’s life was at stake. [...]

[...] Karma is merely in the physical plane, the result of personal development, and represents the maturing realization that we are all psychically and physically part of All There Is, and that when we wound, it is not another that we wound but ourselves.

The incident, and I will mention it but consciously it will mean nothing, the incident represented the individual’s final success after many failures to bring forth circumstances that would then allow, or seem to cause, the peculiar set of symptoms that he felt necessary in order to repay old debts.

[...] Now, the hand also represents freedom. The incident represents two opposites. [...]

[...] Five, representing the five fingers and the ways in which the hand itself, with the five fingers, can operate in physical reality. [...]

Good and evil then simply represented the birth of choices, initially in terms of survival, where earlier instinct alone had provided all that was needed. [...]

[...] Satan represents — in the terms of the story — the part of All That Is, or God, who stepped outside of Himself, so to speak, and became earthbound with His creatures, offering them the free will and choice that “previously” had not been available.

[...] If Ruburt’s symptoms represent the seemingly negative aspects of his life, then your dissatisfactions about work represent the same in your private experience. [...]