“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] This was quite necessary, for you were in danger of thinking of conventional people as symbols only—not as individuals with their own problems and concerns.

And, he was not speaking symbolically. [...]

When the ego is using its abilities in an unfortunate manner the inner self sets up warning systems, sometimes even bringing the physical organism to a physical or symbolic halt to prevent the ego from doing further damage through misdirection.

But remember, all of you, that your reality is structured not in logical terms as you think of logic, but that your most chaotic dream, our redhead over here (Sheila), the most important symbolic episode and experiences that you have that seem so unstructured to you, and you do not understand them; that these have their own inner structure that is intuitive and you understand that structure very well whether or not you consciously admit that recognition. [...]

He is still dependent upon it symbolically, however, generally speaking. [...]

[...] Jane said this data goes with the earlier underground and spade data, and is a symbolic reference to the death of Nate Goldsmith. [...]

[...] (The facial difference was now quite marked; Jane looked older.) The symbol to help you identify a sphere with lines like rays. [...]

(10:00.) It also formed a platform for the ways in which you misunderstand each other, and therefore has served as a symbolic road of contention. [...]

[...] I’d explained that I thought the personality was a symbol to him, of what I couldn’t be sure quickly. [...]

[...] They are much more concerned with symbols. [...]

[...] The events that you recognize as happening now are simply specific and objective, but the most minute element in any given moment’s experience is also symbolic of other events and other times. [...]

[...] As I have mentioned however, all dream symbols have meanings to all portions of the personality.

My personality may indeed at times show that I am somewhat of an impatient man, who boxes his pupils’ ears, symbolically of course, but I have never made any pretense to be other than I am.

You stop, each of you, and think “Actually, how safe is this universe in which we dwell?” The money, or the need of it, in your particular situation, becomes merely a symbol for an inner sense that the universe is not safe, and so money becomes a needed security. [...]

[...] It does you no good for me to come here and give you a symbolic pat on the back, and say, “My chickadees, fly away—you are doing well!”—not when you are not doing well. [...]

[...] We become important symbols, both in their waking and dream lives.

[...] There is nothing about outside, in those terms, that frightens him—that is from the house into the garage, symbolically speaking. [...]

[...] Your parents were simply symbols to you. [...]

[...] You had to climb up, symbolically, but the ladder you see was one-directional rather than crooked, and this shows that the road is clear.

(Pause at 9:57.) Let those who will, laugh at tales of spirits turning into the trees⁵ — a simplistic theory, certainly, yet a symbolic statement in such societies: The dead were buried at home in the same close territory, to form in later times the very composition of the ground upon which religions grew. [...]