“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Apartment 4 then represents old beliefs, both literal and symbolic at once then. [...]

I am not speaking merely in financial terms either, though since Ruburt is dealing directly with the world through his creative work, then money and reputation have become a symbol of success, that is basically creative. [...]

[...] The fasting is symbolic, as is the emphasis upon enemas and elimination, for these are meant to flush the impurities from your system. [...]

You are as empty, symbolically, open and vacant, as a newborn child, ready now only to partake of God’s pure foods, determined to avoid technology’s poisonous effects. [...]

[...] There seem to be four men playing chess, symbolically speaking. [...]

[...] I did indeed use the symbol of the chessboard because I knew that you had been involved with one. [...]

The writing became a symbol for the expression of thoughts that could not be verbalized in childhood. [...]

[...] The party (at Gladston’s) was an important symbol, and he used it to good advantage, and so did you by your attitude.

[...] We are building up a foundation here, in which words are important, and for which incidentally subconscious shorthand symbols would be of little use.

[...] Also let me add initials, or symbols.

(“Also let me add initials, or symbols.” [...]

There is always a reason, and so each parent will represent to each child an unspeakable symbol, and often the two parents will represent glaring contrasts and different probabilities, so that the child can compare and contrast divergent realities.

Encouraging Ruburt’s physical spontaneity now, you symbolically encourage your own inner spontaneity, and both of you recognize that. [...]

[...] In Florida he saw his father as the epitome of unreason and uncontrolled spontaneity, which had actually become a hodgepodge of unrelated emotional acts, and he felt you then deserting him symbolically.

It goes without saying that all of this was fueled by past symbols and associations that then emerged. [...]

Symbolically, however, the crucifixion idea itself embodied deep dilemmas and meanings of the human psyche, and so the Crucifixion per se became a far greater reality than the actual physical events that occurred at the time.

[...] He tried to tell them however that he was not dead, and they chose to take him symbolically. [...]

[...] There are, therefore, channels that exist between all these streams of consciousness, all these symbolic rivers of psychological and psychic experience, and there are journeys that can be made from my dimension as well as yours.

Now initially Ruburt and Joseph and I were a part of the same entity, or overall identity, and so symbolically speaking, there are psychic currents that unite us. [...]

[...] It is much easier to pretend that all such experiences are symbolic and not literal, to evolve complicated psychological theories, for example, to explain flying dreams.

[...] Now you may hallucinate the same sort of thing after death, use it for a symbol, and undergo a spiritual battle of sorts that would, of course, not be necessary had you more understanding. [...]

(9:46.) Your Christ figure represents, symbolically, your idea of God and his relationships. [...]

[...] These three figures worked out a drama, highly symbolic, propelled by concentrated energy of great force.

[...] Often, for example, seemingly unrelated symbols or images may rise into your mind. [...]

(9:35.) The symbols or images may change as you do so, so that you perceive little similarity between, say, the initial image and the next one. [...]

You think of the conscious mind, as you know it, as the only kind of consciousness with a deliberate intent, awareness of itself as itself, and with a capacity for logic and the appreciation of symbolism. [...]

To some extent the perspective one, two, three material is related to Frameworks 1 and 2, for the symbols of your mind grow in their own fashion, changing shape and form, but following the emotional content rather faithfully. [...]

[...] Dream objects and physical objects alike are symbols by which we perceive — and distort — an inner reality that we do not seem able to experience directly. [...]

(Pause.) This does not mean that dreams can be deciphered by the use of any given [general] symbols. [...]

The inner dream communications are important practically, biologically and symbolically. [...]

[...] In other “underground” systems of belief, however, black is seen as a symbol of great knowledge, power and strength. [...]

[...] In some of these philosophies the daylight is seen as pallid, for example, in comparison with the true brilliance of knowledge that illuminates the dream state, and black is the symbol then of secret knowledge that cannot be found with normal consciousness, or be scrutinized in the light of day.

Your personalities, in a symbol now, form the two sides, the two banks, of the stream through which the material flows. [...]

[...] Part of your artistic impetus does come from this inhibited emotion, but fresh impetus is received when the emotion is allowed to go outward toward Ruburt; and through Ruburt, acting as a symbol to you, to the world at large.