“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

In a manner of speaking, the brain put visual information together so that the visual contents of the world were not as stationary as they are now. You have learned to be highly specific in your physical sight and interpretations. Your mental vision holds hints as to data that could be, but are not visually, physically perceived. You have trained yourselves to react to certain visual cues which trigger your mental interpretations, and to ignore other variations.

Visual data as you perceive them amount to visual language; the images perceived are like visual words. An object is presented to your visual perception so that you can safely perceive it from the outside. Objects as you see them are also symbols.

Whatever your language, you perceive trees, mountains, people, oceans. You never see a man merge with a tree, for example. This would be considered an hallucinatory image. Your visual data are learned and interpreted so that they appear as the only possible results of those data. Inner vision can confound you, because in your mind you often see images quite clearly that you would dismiss if your eyes were open. In the terms of which we are speaking, however, the young species utilized what I have called the “inner senses” to a far greater degree than you do. Visually, early man did not perceive the physical world in the way that seems natural to you.

You will have to give us time… (Pause, one of many.) When a man’s consciousness, for example, blended with that of a tree, those data became “visual” for others to perceive. When a man’s consciousness merged with an animal’s, that blending became visual data also.

He is not as visually oriented as you, and it will be a while before the released sounds of the Sumari language will visually appear to him as symbols. [...]

[...] Your interest in painting and your abilities do not only spring from the Denmark life, for example, but also arose out of your quite legitimate life as Nebene, when you were focused upon the visual symbols and their correct inscription. [...]

[...] Visually you were able to pick up the present version of the Sumari statement. [...]

[...] In the Denmark life the love of the visual was still with you, but you were trying to allow yourself greater freedom with it, to feel the freedom of adding to what you saw, but you felt a great reluctance to do so. [...]

[...] For example, you have visual images when you are born, internal visual images, symbols that are activated the moment you open your eyes for the first time. [...]

If you let yourself lie still longer with eyes closed, the symbolism would continue to change character, losing perhaps some of its visual characteristics and growing more intense in other directions. [...]

[...] Such multidimensional symbols will appear then in many ways, not simply visually. [...]

[...] In your dreams and particularly beyond those dreams that you recall, are areas of consciousness in which these sounds are automatically perceived and translated into visual images. [...]

The designations will make certain contrasts clear visually. I simply wanted to launch into the next chapter, and to make sure the visual aspects were clearly stated. [...]

(“Do you think automatic writing might work in my case-something more visual, that is?”)

Was fragment of his own entity, a past personality regaining momentary independence on visual plane. [...]

[...] Any contacts on your part will probably include internal visual data. [...]

[...] I’m asking his help in obtaining source material for the visual “evidence” for evolution — showing the forms involved, say, as little by little the descendants of the reptile changed into the bird. [...] As far as I’ve been able to learn, no such transitional fossils have been found, like the discrete forms of reptiles and birds that have been discovered, so I decided to search out the next best thing: the visual representations as to what they must have looked like. [...]

[...] But each time I start visualizing the results, I end up with two notions: First, that as I work with those intermediate forms I’ll become involved with myth and fantasy, rather than ‘fact.’ Just how did reptiles change into birds? [...] I’m especially interested in visual data….”

The impression is visual. The circle outlined in yellow, I believe, and I see visually a red five inside. [...]

(The next question was: “How about that five in a circle?” “The impression is visual. The circle outlined in yellow, I believe, and I see visually a red five inside.” [...]

[...] Seth’s mention of a visual impression, and the yellow and circle data, reminded me of the chain. [...]

[...] You would perceive it simply as a visual object, but these people were great synthesizers. A line was not simply a visual line, but according to an almost infinite variety of distinctions and divisions, it would also represent certain sounds that would be automatically translated.

An observer could automatically translate the sounds before he bothered with the visual image, if he wanted to. [...]

AN AID IN VISUALIZING TIME
AS A DIMENSION
BY: ARNOLD PEARSON,
MEMBER OF JANE’S ESP CLASS. [...]

[...] You could not get the material visually in physical terms, though you were trying to, but you could not receive it as internal vision either at that point. [...] There was always a sense of motion in the background that was interpreted visually as an unsteadiness, a massing of blurs.

[...] But visual interference was now lifting considerably.

[...] It’s very interesting that I would choose tonight, of all nights, to try for visual data, although in recent days I’ve been inquiring mentally about subjects for my next oil painting. [...]

(It seems to be the rule now that Jane has some visual data, whether faint or stronger, during the envelope experiments. [...] Seth gives her the information visually; it is then up to a part of Jane to correctly interpret this. [...]

[...] See Volume 1, page 172 for a description of my first experience with this sensation, which was at first frightening to me, and accompanied by visual internal data which was quite vivid. [...]

[...] As mentioned on page 7, this is an instance where Jane received internal visual data from Seth, and had the responsibility of interpreting it correctly. [...]

(Jane said that when giving this bit of data she plainly had the feeling that the visual X-shape was to show her that something was canceled. [...]

Many times such constructions are used as inner visual patterns, for example. Visually they often bear a similarity to the inner architecture of the cells, and to planets. [...]

[...] I visualized myself walking across it and felt the wooden flooring beneath my feet. [...]

[...] And I never tried to visualize him. [...]

Since you are more sensitive to inner visual data, Joseph, the pictures that you would get in this manner would need interpretation. [...]

[...] Therefore in our experiments, often, I will give him an impression, and he will automatically translate it into visual terms, although his eyes are closed. And then he is tempted to interpret it literally, as he would an ordinary visual image.

[...] See also page 9, where Jane describes the internal visual data accompanying her vocal data.)

The sight of our imaginary automobile, therefore, is perceived by you as a visual stimulus, because you are conditioned to perceiving it in such a fashion. [...]

The scent image built up by the animal is every bit as real as the visual image. [...]

You should see him visually either entirely objectified, or in an unusually vivid inner image. [...] He is also visually oriented you understand. [...]

[...] Odors therefore have a visual reality, and, as you know, visual data can also be perceived in terms of other sense perceptions.

[...] I have the visual impression of a round glass globe, one of the old-fashioned variety. [...]

[...] The quite legitimate visual data was quickly and frantically transformed. [...]

Some small effort was made to keep the original visual data but even this was sacrificed for the same subconscious purpose when it became necessary.

You are being given directions and suggestions. (Pause.) You are of course amiable to inner visual stimuli, and used to interpreting reality in highly specialized forms, through visual data.

[...] You have within you a readymade method of achieving desire: positive visualization, positive imagination, and confidence.

Negative visualization, negative imagination, and the feeling that the result will not be achieved, leads to the opposite of your desire. [...]