“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

It is no coincidence that Ruburt does not possess a scientific vocabulary, though he does possess a scientific as well as intuitive mind. The very attempt to describe reality in scientific terms, as they are currently understood, pays, my dear friend, undue tribute to a vocabulary that automatically scales down greater concepts to fit its rigors. In other words, such attempts further compound the problem of considering a seemingly objective universe, and describing it in an objective fashion.

The universe is — and you can pick your terms — a spiritual or mental or psychological manifestation, and not, in your usual vocabulary, an objective manifestation.

(9:30.) Since I must use [an] objective vocabulary I am always seeking for analogies. By objective I refer to the use of language, the English language, that automatically sets up its own screens of perception — as of course any language must do to some extent.

[...] Besides, that would put an unnecessary burden on the reader, who might feel he or she needed a particular vocabulary. The use of a normal vocabulary would put the ideas within the reach of the ordinary person as much as possible. [...]

[...] In the vocabulary of the present time you know, you can always cop out. [...]

[...] You all realize that you are playing with vocabulary. [...]

Now you can all play around with your vocabulary, but what you know is not dependent upon words and do not allow them to limit you. [...]

[...] That vocabulary automatically structures the information, of course. [...]

[...] In the most basic of terms, almost incomprehensible in your vocabulary, energy is not divided. [...]

Ruburt’s vocabulary is not an official scientific one. Nor for our purposes should it be — for that vocabulary is limiting.

[...] In the same session Seth also comments on Jane’s vocabulary, as he does after break tonight.

As far as the book passages are involved, it is indeed very difficult to write about complicated matters with a simple vocabulary. [...]

We are struggling with Ruburt’s vocabulary. [...]

...We are working with Ruburt’s vocabulary...

When I speak to you, obviously I use words and vocabulary. [...]

[...] There are certain similarities here both to the behavior of electricity as you understand it, and the behavior of the nervous system as you understand it, and I have tried to hint at this through the vocabulary that is available to me through Ruburt.

[...] (Long pause.) We are struggling with Ruhurt’s vocabulary. [...]

We are working with Ruburt’s vocabulary.

“Camouflage” became a familiar word to us in those early sessions, and we thought it an excellent one for Seth’s purposes — but rather oddly, except for using it once in a while in recent years, he’s largely dropped it from his vocabulary.

[...] Because of Ruburt’s limited scientific vocabulary, this is somewhat difficult to explain. [...]

[...] Jane’s mathematical knowledge and vocabulary [and mine] is so limited that any valid [or invalid?] data obtained in trance by Jane, on this subject, is of interest to us; the more we learn about these two sessions, the easier it will be for us to interpret another facet of trance experience.

[...] Jane said she didn’t have the vocabulary for it; it was something “he” knew he couldn’t get her to say.

[...] In later vocabulary—that is later vocabulary. [...]

I have tried to explain the God concept in many ways, using different vocabularies, speaking very simply; and yet because of the subject matter I see that it is not understood. [...]

(11:25.) The vocabulary used in the regular class was interpreted in the psyche in that manner, and it was literally and symbolically true language. [...]

[...] The interpretation is his own, colored by subconscious prejudice, and largely a matter of vocabulary. [...]

[...] I prefer you see the vocabulary used in our sessions. [...]

[...] Your vocabulary is not equipped to deal with the concept. [...]

With Ruburt’s limited vocabulary, this is rather difficult to explain, but it would be as if the positions of your north and south poles changed constantly while maintaining the same relative distance from each other, and by their change in polarity upsetting the stability (pause) of the planet—except that because of the greater comparative strength at the poles of the units (gestures, attempts to draw diagrams in the air), a newer stability is almost immediately achieved after each shifting. [...]

This verbal description must necessarily distort the true picture, because the true events completely escape your vocabulary, but the explanation is valid-enough to give you some idea of what I mean. [...]

[...] I will give you a vocabulary test. [...]