“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] He feared he was being taken care of as his mother was; and that you must resent it symbolically, as he resented it, taking care of her, and therefore the bed difficulty.

[...] The need to escape is now latent only; but windows symbolize the way to escape, and closed places frighten him. [...]

I gave you symbolic porridge one night, right? [...]

[...] And you cannot use symbols or concepts. [...]

[...] The divider may only be a symbol but it is a necessary one. It is the symbol for a discipline on his part that will enable him to override the vicissitudes of mood, and temporary inclinations.

[...] That is, an animal head either symbolized on the item, or in the shape of it. [...]

[...] During an ESP class, Seth called them her “beloved paraphernalia,” or symbols, then continued:

“They are more than symbols, however. [...]

[...] And that is the meaning behind the books and the symbols.”

Those were the result of the neurological changeover, and they are your particular symbol that this is occurring. Others will have symbols of their own.

[...] I’ll simply add that in religious terms alone Christ can be seen as androgynous, in that he’s obviously a symbol of the unification of opposites — whether of the conscious and the unconscious, the feminine and the masculine, this reality and others, the mystical and the “practical,” and so forth. [...]

[...] Words involve us necessarily with symbols, and symbols are merely terms for what you do not understand. [...]

Nor is the dream itself a chaotic action, but a complicated and unique action by which symbols are chosen with such precise and careful attention that they have meaning to all levels of the inner self, and various levels of the subconscious. [...]

[...] This is tied in of course with your experience in general regarding the members of the medical profession, and here symbolically you strip the doctor of his assumed authority, and see him more like a hired man—a plumber or mechanic, perhaps, but devoid of any deep philosophical bent. [...]

[...] Again, this is far from symbolic. [...]

There are energy blockages then, and discrepancies with Ruburt’s literal yet symbolic mind. [...]

[...] A tree is a living symbol to you Joseph, but I certainly do not insist that the tree be left uncovered though personally I see no reason why any other changes have to be made in the kitchen, except for the addition of the refrigerator. [...]

[...] I am not speaking symbolically here. [...]

[...] The colors were more brilliant than any physical ones, and so in a fashion you ended up trying a too-literal translation—too literal because a real translation would require colors and even symbols that you do not have on a physical basis. [...]

[...] They will take the symbols as reality. [...]

The early Hebrew god became a symbol of man’s unleashed ego. [...]

[...] From her own viewpoint Jane has already produced for Psychic Politics some very perceptive material on our move to the hill house: “So we made our own special place in more ordinary terms, by symbolizing that particular house and corner, marking it ours, stamping it with the imprint of living symbols which we transposed upon it. [...]

[...] I am not using symbols in such statements, and hidden within them are important homey clues. [...]

When you realize that this is a symbol only then you begin to see more and come closer to an understanding, not further away from an understanding. [...]

[...] The changing self forever dies in this manner, and yet only this symbolic death insures psychic survival. [...]

The ego, as a rule, is frightfully leery of such action, since to it an out-of-body experience always symbolizes physical death. [...]

[...] Seth’s additional data here conjures up the thought that the neighbor’s black cat also serves as the classic symbol of bad or poor luck; the connection here being the failing health of my father, and the failing health in a more drastic way of Mr. Meeker, the father-in-law of my brother Loren. [...]

[...] In the dream various symbols may be used. [...] When such dreams are remembered, however, individual symbols, such as crossing a river safely, or an ocean, or bridging a gap or an abyss, are often involved.

To some extent then, physical structures are symbols of psychological structures; and psychological structures are adopted by consciousness and will be projected in many fields, differing in appearance and outward structure, but always following faithfully the inner psychological structure.

(It will be recalled that in the 68th session, page 221, in relation to Bill’s projected trip, Seth had stated that he saw Bill meeting an older man “with prickly hair,” and that he saw a rowboat with a symbol on it. [...]

[...] The purpose of the whole sequence was reassuring, and in overall nature had to do with the personality’s inner reaction to the season of an approaching winter and the ever symbolic death that it suggests.

On one level then Ruburt was psychically anticipating winter with its symbolism, and he involved you in his concern. [...]

[...] AIDS is a kind of biological protest, as if symbolically the homosexuals are saying: “You may as well kill us. [...]