“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] Those people are not used to understanding their own symbolism, so symbols are used—again in poor taste, it seems to both of you. [...]

[...] Were these symbols?”)

[...] You were using the war connection however as a symbol for battle between the sexes.

[...] In such a way the child actively participates in the consciousness of nature—and I am not speaking of an imaginative or symbolic participation alone, but of an awareness of the multiplicity within itself and of other creatures. [...]

(“A square object, with something like a symbol on it, some markings.” [...] It was multi-dimensional rather than flat, and she could tell there were symbols or markings on it. [...]

[...] A square object, with something like a symbol on it, some markings. [...]

[...] Just to the right and above of the circular postmark is a geometrical triangular symbol. This small symbol is topped by a very small square, with a dot in it. [...]

[...] The wavy lines of the cancellation are close together, and in the abstract could symbolize anything such as trees, etc. [...]

[...] The bells on donkeys belonging to the Zealots had upon them the symbol of an eye (Jane, as Seth, pointed to one of her eyes). [...]

[...] It was he who told me about the symbol of the eye. [...]

Verbal symbols have no meaning for us. [...]

[...] Often the existence of probabilities and their acceptance does provide a kind of exterior crisis situation that individually and en masse is a symbol of independence and inner crisis. The crisis is met in the exterior situation, and as the people deal with that situation they symbolically deal with their own inner crises. [...]

[...] The thing was actually a rather clumsy lower-dimensional animal, a provoked dumb dog of other dimensions who then attacked him, symbolically enough, by biting. [...]

“Although the dreamer creates his dreams for his own purposes, selecting only those symbols which have meaning to him, he projects them outward in a value fulfillment and psychic expansion. [...]

“First of all,” Seth said, “the physical universe itself is a conglomeration of diverse individualistic symbols, none of which means precisely the same thing to any two individuals, and in which even so-called basic qualities like color and placement in space cannot be relied upon. [...]

[...] Certain symbols are constructed into realities in the dream system, then, in much the same manner that ideas are constructed into matter in the physical system.

The service station and entire setup was chosen because it represented excellent symbolism, and unconsciously referred you back to the time when your father made his batteries, and owned that business.

The service station is significant on many levels, being used here as a particularly American symbol of the mechanical age, and also one that refers to a pursuit that is utilitarian and also provides service (as Jane said this morning): You deal directly with the public. [...]

(In the 68th session Seth mentioned a rowboat with a symbol. [...] His acquaintance wore a cap with an anchor symbol on it, although we do not regard this as being what Seth referred to.

[...] I see a rowboat with a symbol of some sort on it. [...]

Ideas of good and evil, gods and devils, salvation and damnation, are merely symbols of deeper religious values; cosmic values if you will, that cannot be translated into physical terms.

He will lead man behind the symbolism upon which religion has relied for so many centuries. [...]

[...] I had to work harder than usual taking notes because I was out of practice; I also discovered I’d temporarily forgotten some of the symbols I use in my own version of Speedwriting.

[...] They will always love pageantry, for example, symbolism and excitement, so that their public political events will stress such facts far more, say, than your own. [...]

[...] To me it sounded obviously symbolic of his fear of death and his battle against surrendering to it. [...]

[...] The symbolism in dreams would appear with greater clarity, not, for example, be lost through the many hours you now give to sleep.

Beneath this a definite, though distorted, landscape of the psyche can be glimpsed in symbols. These [symbols] are consciousness’s attempt to portray cellular memory. [...]

[...] While these were perfectly “real” to her physically, she also knew that they were symbolic interpretations of inner realities. [...]

[...] This wasn’t a symbolic or artistic sensation — this was sudden known fact!

The painting of the apartment is beneficial, in its symbolic representation, and for what it means to you both on other levels. [...]

Symbolically now, you transformed the subconscious feelings into the sparkling temperas. [...]

[...] You were aware of your parents in Framework 2 (in my dream of Oct 19, 1977) with the hall as your symbol. [...]

To you the hall was a neutral-enough meeting place, but not one of intimacy, and to some extent at least it symbolized the relationship—at least as far as you were concerned—in that while you were a child of your parents you felt to some degree a stranger, and the hall lacked intimacy. [...]

[...] Literally, the whole inner personality is able to focus upon any given problem, completely free of distractions, using the subconscious language of symbols. [...] For as we have explained, each symbol has various meanings to all layers of the self.

[...] The subconscious will then break the physical data given to it down into its psychic components, translate it into symbols; and the inner self, at the request of the subconscious, will then focus all of the energies at its command to deliver the most acceptable solution, taking the entire needs of the whole self into consideration.

Often when you read a book you silently mouth the words, as if to reinforce their symbolic content with a more emotional immediacy. [...]