“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] It involved the two of us and was very optimistic; I was sure that in symbolic terms it dealt with our work. [...]

Here he seems to make contact with impersonal symbols whose message is somehow automatically translated into words. [...]

(Long pause.) Seth Two is familiar with an entirely different set of symbols and meanings, so that, in this case, two translations are being given — one by me and one by Ruburt.

[...] The symbolism apparent to Ruburt when Seth Two speaks works well, but outward is also inward, and so consciousness travels as far inward as it seems to him to go outward.

[...] The snake was then—in your terms, now (underlined)—both a feminine and masculine symbol. [...] Yet also, in its extended form particularly, it was the symbol of the penis. [...]

[...] Even the bare-seeming facts of history are experienced far differently according to the symbolic content within which they are inevitably immersed. [...]

In the same fashion man is born with an inbuilt propensity for language, and for the communication of symbols through pictures and writing. [...]

To him it was a direct action taken against something that annoyed him—the dust—an act of independence since he did it, and a symbolic clearing away of inner debris. To completely redecorate and rearrange your apartment would represent a symbolic and literal statement. [...]

[...] Symbolism: When you’re good enough.” [...]

Everything he does is literal and symbolic at the same time. [...]

[...] He familiarizes himself with the symbolism of his own dreams, and sees how these do or do not correlate with the exterior symbols that appear in the waking life that he shares with others. I will have more to say about these shared symbols later, for they can become agreed upon signposts.

3. A note added later: Unfortunately, Seth didn’t keep his promise to elaborate upon dream/symbol meeting places.

[...] Yet before me I saw, like an afterimage, a symbol that Seth had described in the 84th session. [...] Seth stated that this small symbol, with some initials, was on a rowboat at Provincetown, MA, and that Bill Macdonnel should have seen it while he spent some weeks there. [...]

(The symbol as I saw it appeared to be suspended in the air several feet away from me, and although the room was dark I can only say I seemed to see it in black line. [...]

[...] Remember that symbolism is important. Often, you must learn your own way of handling dream symbolism to make sense of dream. [...] Some precognitive information will be in symbolic form. However, as a few of my own dreams will clearly show, if you do not know the meaning of a symbol, give yourself the suggestion that it will be made clear to you intuitively — thus trust your answer.

[...] Others were partially disguised in symbolism. [...]

[...] Yet it was valid, symbolically. [...]

[...] Even if it was symbolic, I didn’t like it a bit.

[...] When Christ spoke he did so in the context of his times, using the symbolism and vocabulary that made sense to a particular people in a particular period of history, in your terms.

[...] (See the 647th session in Chapter Twelve for related material.) In their terms he showed them that “bad” spirits could be vanquished; but these were, then, symbols accepted as realities by the people — sometimes for quite “normal” diseases and human conditions.

[...] He took it upon himself to become the symbol of this knowledge.

[...] Its great creative power still exists and you use it in your own way, even changing your own symbolism as your beliefs change. [...]

[...] In his restrained motion he has to some extent (underlined) adopted what he feels to be the more proper, deliberate responsible characteristics connected in his mind with the symbolically masculine, analytical intellectual.

The relative (underline that twice) exile of Ruburt’s symbolically feminine characteristics is something that neither of you consciously realized. [...]

[...] You also identified your creativity with female characteristics or abilities, symbolically speaking, and this has something to do with your distrust of making money with your art.

The fallacy that neither of you recognized was that the creative, symbolically feminine portions of the self were not unpredictable, given to overemotionalism. [...]

[...] The written news story is actually composed of a group of symbols. [...] You are watching symbols translated into images that are then visually perceived. [...] The symbols carry the message, but they are not the event they depict.

[...] But such a dream is also a symbol for another unrecalled event, a consciously unrecorded “falling star,” and a clue as to how any environment is formed.

The symbols are so precisely and accurately produced that they simultaneously serve as aspects relating to your intimate daily life as well. Since everyday events are formed in part as a result of such dream information, then each event of your physical life is also a symbol for another otherwise undecipherable event that occurs in those levels of the psyche in which your own being is immersed.

[...] Each aspect of a dream stands in coded form as a symbol for greater, undecipherable events.

Each dream object is chosen with the highest discrimination so that it serves as a symbol at many levels, and also sends pertinent messages to the individual cells and organs of your body as well.

[...] Your attending class, and hence symbolically standing with him as he relates this greater understanding, not distantly but to individual encountered human beings—a good point, important on your part, for you have never before been willing to encounter others at such a direct level.

This means symbolically that your painting will also achieve an even greater depth because you are willing to encounter the emotionalism that is always highly personal, that speaks out through each portrait. [...]

The tree, or trees, Ruburt had painted on the kitchen wall, were not beneficial symbols. [...] If he intends decorating there, sun symbols would help.

[...] There is some sexual basis in the hidden man-woman symbolism in this respect, this being on a psychic level.

Again, my words are symbols. The inner part of you will respond to the symbols. [...]

Words are but symbols! [...]

[...] You are but symbols of yourselves. [...]

(Pause.) Your dog dream (of March 31, 1979) also somewhat symbolizes that dilemma: do you go with your head, forcing a conscious decision, or do you go with your instincts, symbolized by the dog’s form? [...]

You did indeed, but do not be so intent upon putting a symbolic meaning upon the crocodile for it was quite real. [...]

[...] Then sense the acceleration, and see what you can do with it and use it in your own way for the voice is also a symbol of that acceleration as well as the energy. [...]

[...] You form the reality that you know, not esoterically, not symbolically, not philosophically. [...]

[...] I want you to open up those barriers that you have erected within yourselves; this voice is only used as a symbol of the energy and the strength that is available to each of you, as you utilize those abilities that are your heritage.

You should hear your own echo of my voice as a symbol of your own energy and joy. [...]

[...] One of the symbols is a snake shape, like a heavy twisted rope. Now the fish impression mentioned earlier may also be connected with the symbols on this object. The symbols on the object seem to represent creatures of the sea, land and air.

Now our object is something small and round, quite like a button but with symbols on it, and larger than a button. [...]

[...] The image of an Indian is representative, or used as a symbol here. [...]

[...] The symbol is reality, you see. [...] Christianity has believed in a heaven and a hell, a purgatory, and reckoning; and so, at death, to those who so believe in these symbols, another ceremony is enacted, and the guides take on the guises of those beloved figures of Christian saints and heroes.

Certain images have been used to symbolize such a transition from one existence to another, and many of these are extremely valuable in that they provide a framework with understandable references. [...]

This “life-symbolization” may be adopted by those who gave little thought to self-examination during their lifetime. [...]

[...] I’d say that some of them are classics of their kind; Jane’s own symbolism is beautifully illustrative of the way dreams can offer insights and solutions to very real physical challenges. [...]

“Seth straddles many of these points and appears in the dream levels of others at their personal symbol level. [...]

I am speaking of a deeper relationship to the environment, however, and of the environment’s symbolic as well as practical aspects in relationship to health and illness. [...]

In the next chapter let us look more specifically at the importance of symbolism in your mind, your body, and your environment.