“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

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 experiences behind them bring you in contact with the deepest portions of your nonphysical reality, and it is the unconscious who translates these for you into recognizable images and forms.

[...] What you read, however, is in one way or another translated into other terms, so that for example your stomach reacts in its way to your reading matter, as the visual information is translated into other terms. [...]

(Pause.) This information is, then, often interpreted on return by other layers of the self such as the body consciousness and subconscious, where it is formed into dreams that will have meaning to these areas of the self and where general teaching, for example, may be translated into practical advice involving a particular matter.

[...] Many artists, poets, and musicians are Speakers, translating one world in terms of another, forming psychic structures that exist in both with great vitality — structures that may be perceived from more than one reality at once.

[...] The dream that you remember is already a translation of a deeper experience.

[...] In certain portions of sleep, your experience reaches into areas of being so vast that the dream is used to translate it for you.

In your world knowledge must be translated into specifics, yet we also deal with emotional realities that cannot be so easily deciphered. [...]

(11:13.) There is more, but it will have to wait simply because it is not presently translatable. [...]

[...] 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. [...]

[...] Jane’s sense of time had been elongated while she spoke for Seth: “I feel like I was really far … like you were getting more than you could translate, like you were right on the edge of something….”

If an individual is hampered in that attempt strongly and persistently enough, then the dissatisfaction and frustration will be translated into a lack of physical exuberance and vitality. [...]

[...] Then rather dramatically but beautifully I tell her that: “Poetry is your characteristic method of expression, your way of translating the data into physical reality and that even its rhythm is the rhythm of your heartbeat.” [...]

[...] The other portions of the personality need translation and interpretation. [...]

[...] His intentness then is translated or transferred away from the normal environment.

[...] In many cases however the stimulus comes from the deeper levels of the self, where however it may be translated into terms that the personal subconscious can use.

Dr. Instream understands, I am sure, that we are not only involved here with inner perceptions, and with translations that must be made as data is given by me to Ruburt, but we are also working within human limitations, and of course with human potentialities.

[...] This material is more illuminating because Ruburt is in training, so to speak; because the ways in which the personality receives, interprets and translates inner perceptions are more obvious now than they will be at a later date.

Believe this all has to do with the above, plus with a strange session held the night before last, in which through me the voice said it was sort of ‘beyond Seth’; the message coming from a higher portion of that personality; tremendous energy seemed to flow through me and the definite, thank God, certainty, that this came from beyond me, and was automatically translated into words at my end. [...]

[...] He attracts it and it must therefore then go through him, translated into experience outward. [...]

When he allows the experience, his creative abilities will translate it. [...]

[...] There must be a psychological chamber between these two portions of the self, however — these seemingly undifferentiated areas, in which back-and-forth translations can occur. [...]

(10:14.) In those terms the undifferentiated area is actually filled with motion as psychological transitions and translations are made, until in dreams the two egos often merge into each other — so that sometimes you waken briefly with a sense of elation, or a feeling that in dreams you have met an old and valued friend.

(Seth II:) Certain translations are being made for you so that these communications make sense to you. [...]

When I use perceptions in your reality then I automatically translate inner data into physical terms, otherwise I am not limited to that kind of perception. [...]

[...] In the past, he has more or less translated this data automatically, without realizing it, into paintings, with no memory of any vision at all. [...]

[...] He automatically translates inner data given by me into coherent, valid and faithful camouflage patterns. [...]

The problem is not only to receive data through the inner senses in an undistorted, coherent manner, but also to translate this into the particular camouflage patterns with which you are familiar. [...]

His methods worked very well in the transcription of his records, and purified his translations. [...]

(And, of course, recording the thousands of pages of the Seth material in my meticulous way for over 20 years surely reflects a large portion of the Nebene psyche: keeping his own “purified” translations of ancient records.)

The dilemma was, here now, between truth—a literal translation of ancient records—or a creative approach which could lead to falsification, so he was highly suspicious of the creativity in himself. [...]

[...] It is with this chant always that we begin our endeavors in our space; it is not your own, and only a translation, for we do not use verbal communication. [...] And yet you are even familiar with what comes out as what appears as my voice in your own traits and your own translations. [...]

[...] Maybe I’ve just translated all the mixed-up feelings about my father and the house there and everything into Midge. [...]

Some feelings and thoughts are translated into structures that you call objects; these exist, in your terms, in a medium you call space. Others are translated instead into psychological structures called events, that seem to exist in a medium you call time.

[...] So your inner experience is translated in those terms.

[...] The life of its atoms and molecules and cells is translated into other living natural forms. [...]