The Early Sessions: Book 1 of The Seth Material

by Jane Roberts

The mind is the connective. It is here that the secrets of the univer...

The brain is of your plane.

Imagination belongs to the mind.

That is physical instruments can be made to make the imagination move on occasion.

and no physical tool can force the imagination to conceive of an original conception or idea.

but it cannot be forced to move along the lines of conceptual thought, because the imagination is in reality a connective fiber between the physical individual and the nonphysical entity.

Mental enzymes have a chemical effect or reaction on your plane.

they can be observed on your plane through their chemical effect in it. But the effec...

planet because earth is one

of the planets that contain many planes.

Mental enzymes transform vitality into the particular camouflage patterns.

This explains the reason why a chemical imbalance in a physical body will also show itself as a corresponding distortion of sensual data.

The subconscious is a property of the mind,

a strong degree independent of camouflage.

are in direct contact with the basic vitality of the universe.

you often take it for granted that the subconscious is personal, exclusively dealing with matters of your egos’ personal past.

The subconscious also contains the undistorted material of the mind, which is uncamouflaged, and which operates between planes, knowing no boundaries.

Material which comes from the so-called subconscious comes from that part of the mind which knows no boundaries, either of time or space,

and in a deeper sense knows no boundaries of species or planes in any manner.

but the mind has abilities of which the brain is ignorant.

On your plane the brain is extremely important, and for your information many animals have a highly developed mind though their brains may be small.

The mind however determines which mental enzymes will be utilized and to what degree,

also determines the strength, type, and validity of camouflages necessary to physical survival.

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Sleepyheads.

When I get to you it will be crystal clear. (We laughed.)

Mental enzymes

inner senses, simply because they are uncamouflaged.

seems to imply a more or less permanent opening, and this is not true.

One of the marvels of your outer senses is their reach. They actually carry you further ahead, in distance for example, than your physical body may be at any particular time.

the ears ordinarily hear sounds outside the body more readily than sounds inside the body itself.

The sense of smell also seems to leap forward.

Touch usually involves contact of a direct sort.

but touch involves an immediacy different from the distant perceptions of sight and smell.