“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] Your physical brain automatically converts such data into temporal terms so that many of your significant, remembered dream experiences are already translations by the time you recall them. [...]

[...] Your dream, though clearly remembered, is already a translation of the physical brain. [...]

[...] Now you translate activity into many areas. You have been frightened of your mother’s disease, and you have also translated a fear of inactivity into other than physical realms.

[...] This simply has to do with translations difficult to assess from my standpoint.

[...] In one way, I translate what I am into an event that you can understand to some extent. In a much more limited manner, any artist does the same thing when he translates what he is, or a portion of it, into a painting. [...]

They are taught, in other words, the methods that allow them to translate emotion and thought into physical actuality. [...]

[...] In one manner of speaking you do this now, you see, translating your psychological experience — your thoughts and emotions — quite literally but unconsciously into physical objects. [...]

[...] These symbols can be translated and perceived in many terms; as a series of notes for example, as a combination of senses, as a series of images. [...]

[...] This is of course translated in many ways, and reflected. [...]

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

(Certainly the house affair is a good demonstration of at least some of the elements contained within The “Unknown” Reality—But then, The “Unknown” Reality can just as well be translated in ordinary terms like houses and neighborhoods as any other way....)

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

[...] He was very outspoken — yet his material came through with a much lighter touch than these printed words alone can indicate:) … Ruburt’s voice sounds rather dreary in this transitional phase, [yet] the one thing that pleases me immensely is the way he can translate at least a few of my humorous remarks and the inflections of my natural speech … As a man’s voice I fear he will sound rather unmelodious. [...]

[...] That is, he automatically translates inner data given by me into coherent, valid, and faithful camouflage⁵ patterns — into words. [...]

[...] I say that I am an energy personality essence, since that is what I am … My name for him is Ruburt,¹⁵ which happens to be a male name simply because it is the closest translation, in your terms, for the name of the whole self or entity of which he is now a self-conscious part.

[...] This connecting framework does some of the translating for me that a reassembled ego would do. [...]

Seth explains exactly how we translate thoughts into physical reality. [...]

[...] As you know them, body chemicals are physical, but they are the propellants of this thought-energy, containing all the codified data necessary for translating any thought or image into physical actuality. [...]

Throughout the centuries many people have recognized that mind and matter were related, but the Seth Material specifically gives the ways and means by which mind is translated into the reality that we know. [...]

But as you will see, we form our physical reality not only now and after death, but through at least several lifetimes, as we learn to translate energy and idea into experience. [...]

[...] And there is experience that cannot be translated in human terms. [...]

[...] Master events may end up translated through mythology, or religion or art, or the effects may actually serve to give a framework to an entire civilization. [...]

(9:46.) In that regard, it is true that in the other species innate knowledge is more clearly, brilliantly, and directly translated into action. [...]

[...] The immobile foot was a direct translation of the following: “I am exhausted and I will go no further at this point.” [...]

In the main physical existence means a translation of inner mood and psychological climate into physical terms, and no consciousness is constantly in a state of bliss. [...]

[...] The Spain connection with your friend the traveler, Carlos (Smith), and with the question of foreign translation of the books. [...]

[...] Last month we were informed through Tam and personal letter from Switzerland that a foreign translation of Seth Speaks may be in the works, but nothing concerning Spain that we know of. [...]

A few moments earlier he vaguely caught an image, as his mind, picking up inner information, translated it: he was being led to a physician’s office in the image. [...]

[...] Language and your verbal thought patterns make such translations highly difficult, however, even in the best of circumstances. A multilingual individual, in that regard at least, might have some idea of how concepts are structured through verbal pattern, and hence possess some additional freedom in such translations — provided of course that he or she was aware of the possibilities to begin with.

I wrote in the Introductory Notes that I thought Jane’s speed in producing the Seth material was “a close physical approach to, or translation of, Seth’s idea that basically all exists at once — that really there is no time …” I’ll add here that the phenomenon of double dreaming can be another way of approximating the idea of simultaneous time (or lives), about which we as physical creatures always have so many questions.

[...] Once again, however, she shied away from translating any more of that dirgelike Sumari song she’d sung to herself, and recorded, shortly before going into the hospital. [...]

[...] When Jane read her material of this afternoon to me, I thought she likened the Sinful Self’s renewal to reincarnation, meaning that she thought this renewal might account for many of our overt ideas of reincarnation—that at least some of our ideas about reincarnation were based upon our intuitive knowledge of the return of portions of one’s self to that earlier state of innocence—a rebirth, in other words, that we might translate into the idea of physical incarnation. [...]

[...] Have Ruburt translate your dream (of July 7) for you, and then I will comment. [...]

(To me:) Your own creativity has also had a psychic basis, and often you have translated such information into your paintings without ever having been aware you have done so. [...]

[...] (Long pause.) Both of you have always been strongly creative, have always been concerned with translating inner reality outward.

[...] In the laboratory of dreams this information is processed, collected, and finally formed into the dreams that you may or may not remember; dreams that are already translations of other events, shaped into forms that you recognize.

[...] You are watching symbols translated into images that are then visually perceived. [...]