“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

They are not multidimensional symbols. [...] The blockage occurs because the symbols used to portray reality are themselves limited by the reality that you know. [...]

[...] (One minute pause.) They would represent other dimensional realities inherent in the number itself, and since numbers are only symbols they would therefore represent other dimensional realities inherent in the unit for which the number stood.

I am trying to tell you that numbers are only symbols for your kind of reality.

[...] On another level, because the ape was in the library, compassionate and understanding, Ruburt was seeing symbolically the force of his own physical nature, quite at home with itself, and at home in the psychic library of the mind.

[...] You are also quite correct, in that the ape also acted as an animal medicine man-woman (as in Personal Reality), symbolically acting out a part that once very well could have been performed in fact. [...]

[...] The negative image, dashed then, gave forth the symbolized image that he had been using in his mind. [...]

[...] Here indeed he saw a symbolic representation of Ruburt—not one that could be physically materialized with his bone structure as a woman, but a figure of idealistic physical proportions that also possessed great mental faculties to match.

[...] We had discussed with Bill the additional information Seth gave in the last session concerning the boat with a symbol on it, supposedly visible to Bill from this particular seaside room in Provincetown, but Bill is not able to recall the craft in question. [...]

(“What was the symbol on it?”)

The symbol was a half arc with one crossed line diagonally, almost like an inverted cent sign—c - e - n - t. It was not large. [...]

(Bill said that he still could not recall the rowboat with the symbol on it at the Provincetown dock, although he readily agreed that he could have seen it and forgotten it. [...]

(I picked the symbol above because Seth had dealt with a version of this in the 68th, 75th, 83rd and 84th sessions, in connection with Bill Macdonnel’s trip to Provincetown, MA, last summer. Seth insisted that Bill had seen a symbol similar to this on a rowboat at Provincetown, although Bill did not recall it. [...] Note that I added my own initials to the symbol above. [...]

[...] Seth did not mention a symbol at all, yet used the words handwritten and printed. To me printed means mechanically produced; to Jane printed means hand lettering, as were my initials beneath the symbol.

[...] An hour or so before this evening’s session, without telling Jane beforehand, I made a black ink drawing of the symbol below on a small sheet of paper. [...]

[...] Another person, Bill Macdonnel, is involved with the symbol. [...]

[...] Symbolically speaking, the two together represent the whole self with its diverse abilities, desires, and characteristics.

[...] Here is another reason for the strong psychic charge behind these symbols and the godlike quality that they can transmit and project.

Now there are deep correlations between these symbols and the struggle in which mankind is involved. [...]

(10:15.) If you are to be born as a male, then the mother serves as a stimulus to activate the symbol of the anima in you, so that the pattern of your own female lives becomes a portion of your next existence. [...]

[...] If the unconscious is no longer feared, then the races that symbolized it are no longer to be feared either.

[...] The fear of self-annihilation, symbolically thought of as death, can then no longer apply as it did before.

[...] Myths, symbols and rationalizations all become necessary to explain the seeming divergences, the seeming contradictions between realities that appear to be so different.

[...] And in the natural back-and-forth leeway of the system, exterior dilemmas or problems are worked out in the dream situation, and interior difficulty may also be solved symbolically through physical experience.

[...] Some cultures provide symbols, or symbolic steps within the system itself, that allow for a steady “progression,” in which a young person’s curiosity and accelerated adolescent rebellion is subtly directed from within the society itself. [...]

[...] For centuries Christianity served to preserve old frameworks while still allowing for transforming elements and symbolic activities that allowed individuals to assert some independence and originality by moving from one religious symbol, say, to another—still, however, within that larger framework. [...]

Many people go through several such transformations, using symbolic transformations then that still serve to focus wonder and curiosity while keeping them well within the accepted picture. [...]

[...] The most (in quotes) “objective” montella is a symbol of course. The more true to life the montella is the less apt you are to realize its symbolic qualities on a conscious level.

[...] A bridge is a valid reality, regardless of its architecture or the type of symbols that may be written upon it, or its color, or the material from which it is made.

[...] A recognizable verbal pattern must of course result, but use of the language itself will break up these personal associative processes that cling to recognized language symbols.

[...] The word cordella, now for example, was used instead of alphabet to break your ordinary conceptions of alphabet while conveying an idea of symbols closely allied, and upon which alphabets are based.

[...] This year is nothing but a symbol and yet it is important to you and use it. [...]

[...] You want to leave your present position and you are afraid to leave your present position; and so you have symbolized the dilemma through the condition in your foot. [...]

[...] Vera’s attitude is different and, therefore she will not take one organ or position of the body and so strongly use it as a symbol. [...]

(9:30.) The symbolism of the gods, the idea of the gods on Olympus, for example, the crossing-over point at the River Styx — that kind of phenomenon was originated by the Speakers. The symbolisms and frameworks of religion, therefore, had to exist not only in the physical world but also in the unconscious one. [...]

[...] They know instinctively how to use symbolism. [...]

[...] It is true that in the dream state and in some other levels of existence close to your own, there is strong individual play in the creation of images, and a magnificent use of symbolism, but all of this takes place, again, in an “objective” definite environment, an environment whose characteristics make such phenomena possible — a field of activity, then, with its own rules. [...]

[...] Obviously the names are not the objects, but symbols for them. Even these symbols, however, divide you as the perceiver from the rest of the world, which becomes objectified. [...]

[...] The language of the psyche, however, has at its command many more symbols that can be combined in many more ways, say, than mere letters of an alphabet.

[...] It demands a peculiar and distinctive mixture of various kinds of consciousness, and the transformation of “nonphysical perception” into symbols and codes that will be sensually understood, though not directly experienced as in waking experience.

You used up an unwarranted amount of energy at your mother’s. Symbolically you did not like to put on the storm windows, feeling that perhaps it would be the last time that you did so, and that you were sealing up the house. The symbolism in your mind was connected with your visit. [...]

[...] The garage was also a symbol, the place where a vehicle is kept; and your family’s car being used no longer, being a symbol of your father’s body, that he will soon discard.

This was merely your own subconscious symbolism, but you were unaware of it and therefore of its effect upon you, and so I mention it.

[...] It reacts literally, say, in that regard, to symbols. The symbols are the realm in which interpretations are made, but the body must always react moment by moment at that level of activity, irregardless of a vast knowledge of probabilities. [...]

Ideas of course are highly important, for they are a part of your interpretation of the world, of personal events, and they are a part of the symbolizing process. [...]

[...] This noon, for example, after going downtown, leaving your painting, you found that Ruburt wanted a few more windows done, and the innocent window became a symbol, combining the idea of chores with your fear: if anything happened to you, who would do the chores for Ruburt? [...]

[...] In this case you may perceive them symbolically through symbols you will recognize, seeing jumbled thoughts for example as weeds, which you can then simply discard.

You can request that the thought content of your mind be translated into an intense image, symbolically representing individual thoughts and the overall mental landscape, then take out what you do not like and replace it with more positive images. [...]

[...] Or you may hear the words and thoughts being expressed, or you may see the earlier mentioned “landscape” in which the thoughts symbolically form into a picture.

[...] Spontaneously, you will find your own symbol for this state.

[...] Now colors may be significant, particularly to you, and so the colors used in the imaginary painting may be symbolic. [...]

[...] Again in your case you may find a road symbol. [...]

Another symbol you may find may be a jar or container. [...]

Now these symbols I believe will crop up specifically for you on various occasions. [...]

[...] It is then symbolically thrown away, you see. [...]

A good relationship between you frees repressed emotion on both of your parts, which then pours over into your work and illuminates all of your interior and exterior landscapes both symbolically and literally.

When you travel into such realms you usually do so from the dream state, still carrying your private symbols with you. [...] You may journey through such a reality, perceiving it opaquely, layering it over with your own perceived symbols, and taking those for the “real” environment. [...]

In the dream state and in certain other levels of reality, ideas and their symbols are immediately experienced. [...]

[...] Symbolism is used. [...]

To begin with, your own symbols rise from deep levels of the psyche, and in certain terms you are a part of any reality that you experience — but you may have difficulty in the interpretation of events.

It means that the word is nothing, and that it is merely a symbol for that which you can neither see nor feel nor touch. It is merely a symbol for that small particle of yourselves which you permit your consciousness to perceive. It is a symbol to express that portion of an unseeable self, that is brought most obviously into operation for purposes of manipulation of the physical image within a camouflage field.

[...] The electric universe, of which you know so little, is a reality, and yet it is also a symbol of another reality. [...]

[...] The symbols that you work with will grow in depth and validity, for they will be symbols that will be recalled to some degree by all men. [...]

[...] The intuitive symbols can be better recognized. [...]

[...] It is that the lines, seeming so realistic, also symbolically suggest what the viewer himself cannot see in his own face, but knows is there. [...]

[...] The symbolic destruction is the real destruction. The symbolic creation is the real creation. [...]

[...] Now symbolism may be used here. [...]

[...] The symbolism will help activate those forces that are necessary in any replacement of ideas. [...]