“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] If all illness has been adopted by a personality for a particular reason in this life, then it has been adopted so that the personality involved will understand the illness as a materialized symbol for a challenge or problem that the personality has set. [...]

[...] Leonard’s planting of the flowers has more than symbolic significance. [...]

[...] I said this seemed like a symbolic statement, the dream, that old beliefs meant she had no hope of extricating herself from a foregone conclusion. [...]

[...] The child’s mystical nature, while strong, was not strong enough to defy the church framework, to leave it or to rise above its provided symbolism. [...]

In the meantime, Jane’s making good progress in handling her personal challenges; now her work consists mainly of dissolving the set of protective, symbolic body beliefs that she placed about the use of her great energy.

[...] 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 … Your two brothers also chose the family situation. [...]

[...] Symbolically you saw the situation in your own fashion, but you knew that the Brenner’s property had been polluted. [...]

[...] I am not saying that I do not use analogies often, or that I am not forced at times into symbolic statements, but when I am I always say so, and even those statements are my best representations of facts too large for your definitions. [...]

[...] The apartment became a symbol. [...]

I suggest immediately that you make symbolic changes in Ruburt’s room, at once, and throughout your place as you desire. [...]

[...] This event made me physically aware of that area in a fresh way—especially the isolation, and what I take to be my symbolic interpretation of a simpler way of life. [...]

A banana with another significance, used as a symbol.

[...] And somebody else without a leg to stand on, and I hope that’s just symbolic.

[...] Ruburt, under such circumstances, cannot travel symbolically from his own atmosphere, though the contacts at our end may be clear. [...]

[...] In the drug experience mentioned before (in the last session), startling, enforced symbols and occurrences are suddenly thrust upon the conscious mind; and more, within a context in which time as it knows it has little meaning. [...]

He was also symbolic of Ruburt’s own harsh childhood, and to some extent then conquered simply through the natural passage of events.

(November 29, Sunday, 2:00 AM: While dropping off to sleep, I saw many calligraphic-type symbols of squares within squares, triangles, circles, etc., in white line on a dark ground. [...]

(More calligraphic symbols upon dropping off to sleep.)

[...] The slightest remark that you made that he did not agree with was the symbol for these inner deeper feelings. [...]

It served that purpose, and as mentioned elsewhere it served as a symbolic statement as he put himself behind you. [...]

[...] This seems to be a male—now we are speaking symbolically, in that he seems to be coming from the left, which means, I believe, he will not be coming from your family, or perhaps even from this area, but someone that you do not know now, who will bring you an onrush of feeling and an openness of emotion. [...]

And so I do, indeed, leave you with the question of the cat’s hair as a symbol of those aspects of physical reality that are unpredictable and also to make you consider the question that I just gave you. [...]

[...] It is not just symbolically accepted, and I am not speaking in symbolic terms. [...]

“In cases where the symptom itself is interior, as in ulcers, this is a sign that the personality is not yet willing to face the problem, and the symptom itself is shielded from physical sight—quite rightly, symbolically speaking. [...]

(“Numbers have an emotional equivalent, in that their symbols originally arose from the libido that always identifies itself with the number 1, and feels all other numbers originating out of itself. [...]

[...] You are also highly involved with symbols. [...]

You may signify this to yourself symbolically, so that the board or the automatic writing designates its origin as being Socrates¹⁰ or Plato. [...]

During certain stages in sleep states you short-circuit the neurological structures, and perceive experiences of a multidimensional nature that you then attempt to translate, as best you can, into stimuli that can be physically assimilated — hence you often convert these into symbolic images that can be understood, and to some extent reacted to, by your bodily structure.

[...] The campfire is highly symbolic, and it has different meanings for all of you who experience it. [...]

[...] The idea of moving is (underlined) an excellent one, because it symbolically reorganizes your life in new patterns, and releases “energy” that has been stuck in old arrangements. [...]

[...] Symbolically then, he stopped running, but he carried this out in physical terms also.