“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] She used the cat symbol as the symbol for her own mother-in-law. [...]

Now symbolically any attack upon Ruburt becomes an attack by the parent, against which the child in Ruburt dares not retaliate. [...]

[...] Beside the rather ordinary humiliation, there was the deep bewilderment, you see, for this was the first time, symbolically, that the parent could pursue physically. [...]

[...] He watched and waited to see if you would bring in his rackets when I suggested it—to him a symbol that you would tolerate frivolity in terms of such a game.

[...] On some ways the two apartments, he felt, were an honest symbol of your relationship. [...]

[...] You cannot exactly say that each object is a symbol of a belief that specifically, and yet any alterations that you willfully make in your behavior with the objects of your intimate environment represent alterations of beliefs. [...] In mundane terms each piece of furniture is a symbol—you have conscious feelings about it. [...]

I have mentioned this before, but your environment is a symbol of your inner life and beliefs; one appears physical to you while the inner life does not. [...]

Now first of all, you are dealing with symbolism and secondly, you have been using your clairvoyant abilities as, of course, you hope to do. Tell yourself that in the dream state this evening you will understand what the symbolism is. [...]

[...] And I hope you learn to follow the changes in your own symbolisms that occur in these various stages. [...]

[...] And the absence of our friends is a practical absence and yet it is also a symbolic absence. Symbolic indeed of an absence in the past and a journey of which you are all aware. [...]

[...] Now that is an important symbol, and were our friend here writing it down in the book I would say underline, for our book is full of such directions as underline, put that in quotes, and semi-colon. [...]

[...] Myths and symbols are often closer to reality than what are called hard facts, since so-called hard facts are often distortions of the outer senses. [...]

[...] Myths and symbols often are closer to reality, again, than so-called hard facts.

[...] But so-called hard facts, that may seem opposed to symbols and myths, are not necessarily untrue, since they may be necessary distortions without which the inner self could not survive in the material universe.

To the intelligent, even the symbolism of the Crucifixion is abhorrent. [...]

His appearance then reminded you of his appearance in hay fever season, and reinforced your own symptoms until they became a symbol of virility, since they were your father’s, and also a symbol of how a man could cry. [...]

[...] As negative suggestions play their part, so do positive suggestions, and both in terms of symbols.

These positive symbols can be used quite deliberately. [...]

[...] The ink has a symbolic association for you personally, a healing one you see, and its presence, according to my recommendation, has the effect of a mood tonic.

[...] Now these psychological connections are valid and not merely symbolically so. [...]

[...] In the dream state, the portions of the larger structure sometimes communicate, in highly codified symbols. [...]

[...] Christ, as you understand him historically to be, spoke in parables and symbols. Men often took him literally, but his message was that the spirit of God was within each person—in terms of the symbolism, each person being a child of the father who dwelled in heaven. [...]

Early man related to his insides, then, symbolically in a way that is now quite outside of your comprehension. [...]

If you understand that people can die of broken hearts, however, in symbolic terms, then practically you may be able to use that knowledge. [...]

[...] These can best be symbolically stated, and would always represent states of mind or feeling. [...]

The physical setup is symbolically important, for it represents your intent. [...]

[...] Something opened up symbolically, I believe.

[...] There is a string of symbols across the bottom of the object, but mainly of letters, rather than numbers.

[...] Something opened up, symbolically, I believe.” [...]

[...] We do not know what symbolic meaning Seth may have had in mind.

[...] In your case a move would have such drastic connotations, and be so symbolic, that its beneficial nature is assured. Your not moving symbolically represents your not doing many things—your not facing many issues.

[...] You have used your dwelling place as a symbol then, which is why it becomes important. [...]

Both of you then have considered your dwelling place a symbol of not going ahead, of lack of initiative. [...]

[...] There is also a symbolism here with the parting of the waters, a silence and abeyance, a hush. [...]

[...] In other terms and on another level Ruburt felt that symbolically at least he was between birth and death, that egotistically speaking the way of darkness had been parted; and in these terms the mountain to the left represented death, from which he had come, and birth, for he emerged through birth from death; and the mountain to the right represented the death that in your terms has not yet come.

Symbolically the both of you were to follow me into this house, for its rooms contain various realities. [...]

You turned the house symbolically into a normal-sized house so that you could enter it, but you did not do so. [...]

[...] More speculation: many of the symbols of the various railroads are designed in a flag shape, and Loren has made drawings of some of these symbols for publication, I believe, in Model Railroader.

[...] Not in any nebulous symbolic manner, but in very literal terms.

(“Only in a very general, symbolical way.”

[...] More than this however, both of your parents still feel that a car is a symbol of social status, and you grew up with this. [...]

[...] The last significant ghost images are being met head-on, symbolically, and conquered; this being given reinforcement in the physical universe because of the very physical work involved.

[...] I have told you the very practical and symbolic meaning behind the painting and alteration of your physical environment. [...]

[...] The test object is simply a drawing in black ink of the same symbol used in the first envelope test, of August 18,1965, in the 179th session. See that session for an explanation of the personal meaning this symbol has for us. [...]

(As usual I handed Jane the standard sealed double envelope containing my drawing of the symbol shown on page 95. [...]

[...] This is a symbolic exercise... but there is truth in the symbolism.

[...] I indicate breaks in my notes by the usual symbol: ...)

[...] Like Ruburt, only more so, you have avoided religious symbolism, strictly avoided it, and for many years you did not see beneath the obvious hypocrisy and distortions inherent in religious organizations. The hypocrisy of the organizations blinded you to the inner truth of the symbols.

The symbols have great meaning to the inner self. [...]

[...] Symbolically you have both solved many problems in the past few years. [...]

To a large extent you are what you perceive, and not symbolically. [...]

There are simple stories that can be told, symbolically true enough, but they do not begin to explain the reality, and so I do not use them. [...]