“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] I had trouble visualizing such a situation.⁵

[...] I’ve always wanted to see the poem published; I think it very rich in both subject matter and visual content.

[...] This is visual data, and as far as photographs are concerned personal data, out in the open, so to speak.

[...] Not that we wanted or needed conscious control—but why didn’t we have the conscious visual knowledge of the workings of our various bodily parts, be they heart, liver, or whatnot?

[...] The visual area is enlarging. [...]

(“I felt claustrophobic for a bit … my visual perception was again altered in a strange smoother way, so that everything I saw was an inside that was inside itself, ad infinitum. [...]

(“Each of these ideas came as emotional revelations, accompanied by various bodily sensations and alterations of visual perception. [...]

It is much more difficult for this data to be transformed by you, Joseph, and Ruburt is right here, because you are sensitive to inner visual data, and pictures that you get in this way would frequently need interpretation.

[...] I visualized myself walking across this bridge, feeling the wooden flooring beneath my feet. [...]

(Pause.) Now a musician translates visual data as though it was an auditory pattern; recreating say, and interpreting a bowl of grapes as a particular medley of musical notes.

You can do this in the opposite manner, building up from sounds visual frameworks that are completely original portraits, created from the sound of voices. [...]

[...] I told Jane I wanted to copy off separately the paragraph I’d written on page 3 of yesterday’s session, about my efforts to visualize her at home doing various things while walking and sitting—not about how she got there. [...]

[...] This was a visual image, yet I couldn’t read it.

(Now came a second image, partly visual, partly impression. [...]

(“I feel that a whole mass of people would visualize a pyramid in their imagination,” Jane said, “then through their chanting, the use of certain vowels and pitches, they actually changed the air where that building was going to be. [...]

(In a few moments I seemed to visualize a pyramid shape that was based on pictures I remembered of the actual structures in Egypt. [...]

A 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 don’t know what Rob would have thought then if he’d realized what Seth meant by “internal visual data,” though; and writing this now I just remembered that he was pretty surprised when his first few internal visions appeared with extraordinary vividness. [...]

[...] Earlier today I’d suggested that she visualize herself sitting at her desk in the breezeway, writing—and without giving a thought as to how she got there. [...]

(Just before the session, Jane told me later, she was again aware of the cone affect, which she calls an obvious intellectual attempt to visualize the new as it is postulated in the sessions. [...]

(Jane said she saw a photographic “size and shape” while she was speaking, but the visual data weren’t clear here. [...]

([Class Member:] “Would we necessarily, in looking out of all these windows, see a visualization of another channel? [...]

[...] And in many cases, the visualization in itself would be a distortion. [...]

[...] She had trouble visualizing such situations, she said. [...]

[...] I learned that I’d also confused something Jane had told me about her visualizing efforts yesterday: she’d meant she saw herself washing down 1730 Pinnacle, not 458 West Water Street. [...]

Actually, through the generic system each cell possesses capsule comprehension, (pause) that is a certain kind of visualizing, and an emotional charge. [...]

(In here Jane said she had visual inner images, as of stars being born, etc.— attempts, she thought, to put the inner data into recognizable visual terms.)

(At this time also, while trying to visualize a method of diagramming the spacious present, I saw an animated graph consisting of long black jointed sticks thrusting up from a common base, at various angles. [...]

[...] Cellular consciousness is highly codified in actuality, much more emotional than visual, and the visual dream images are but translations of inner comprehensions. [...]

[...] Jane and I did not think of negative in connection with the word no, for instance, but in relation to pictures or visual images. [...]

Women exceed men in such areas as finger dexterity; accounting aptitudes; rate of idea flow, as in sales, writing, and teaching; observing small changes in physical detail; non—tangible ideas requiring complex vocabulary, as in medicine and law; the ability to visualize three-dimensional relationships, as in engineering.

According to these tests, us poor guys exceed women in only two categories: structural visualization, as in engineering, mechanics and building; and measures of simple muscular strength.

[...] In this dream Rob is in the process of working out that idea, visually. [...]