“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

9. Appendixes 4 and 5, in Volume 1, show the insights Jane herself has gained so far about the more complicated trances she experiences while delivering the sessions for “Unknown” Reality. As noted in Appendix 4, she waits for that “certain clear focus” she needs before taking up the challenges of “translating multidimensional experience into linear terms and thought patterns.” [...]

Earth life is seen as murky, a dim translation of greater existence, rather than portrayed as the unique, creative, living experience that it should be. [...]

[...] Thoughts are often translated into dream images by a simple transformation. [...]

(This of course implies that Jane translated the same impression on a subconscious basis for Seth, misreading and all. [...]

[...] Instead of having your mother say “He hit me in the chest,” and in order to punish yourself through your identification with your father, instead you translated the words to “He has a spot on his lungs,” therefore punishing symbolically both your father and yourself for the violence.

The music represented your main interest then in several lives, but behind this has always been an interest in emotions translated into some kind of creativity such as music or art; but also, at times an oversusceptibility to emotions so that they drove you, and you could find no escape from them. [...]

[...] You remember, Joseph, the rather frightening sensation you felt during one instance of your use of one inner sense, when you translated inner data into the almost nightmare picture of open mouths that could not scream. [...]

[...] The organism needs no other mechanism to translate ideas. [...]

[...] Instead the dimensions of action have to do with intensities; not only the intensities of the electromagnetic components that compose them, but with intensities as they are translated into psychological terms. [...]

[...] It can only translate and perceive what seems to be the evidence of the physical senses. [...]

In your present existence the large area of mental activity is translated into physical terms.

[...] Our experience is not translatable. [...]

If you do not understand the natural grace of your being¹ then when you try some of the exercises given here you may automatically translate them into a quite limiting set of beliefs.

[...] It must also be considered as an electrical reality, as a psychological reality, for any experience is automatically translated into all these systems.

[...] The fact is that the animals caught your emotional contagion and, according to their own abilities, translated it for themselves.

[...] You are destroying the meaning in the translation. [...]

[...] It translates outer data to the inner personality.

The knowledge then available is first of all creative, intuitive knowledge which the outer ego may translate into intellectual terms when possible. [...]

The individual’s ability to receive these impressions of which we have been speaking, and his ability to translate them and to construct them, is all determined by his own personal psychic background in past existences and in the present one, and by his own inner conception of himself, the physical universe, his place in it, and by his inner reactions to ideas.

[...] The recent sale of Oversoul Seven to an English publishing house for an unbelievable $100, and Prentice’s recent notice to us of a possible sale of Seth Speaks for translation and publishing by a German house for only $300 bothered me greatly; I just couldn’t believe that so little money was available in Europe, no matter what Prentice told us. [...]