Seth

now: in your local programming you have hosts of familiar characters, and at different times, in your terms, you have them play different roles. They take different roles. These often represent strong idealizations alive in the private and mass psyche. (humorously:) Let me give you a brief example that will also show you how well i have learned your culture.(seth then named three television detectives) in their own ways, these are heroes representing the detective who is out to protect good against evil, to set things right. Now these characters exist more vividly in the minds of television viewers than the actors who play those roles. The actors know themselves as apart from the roles. The viewers, however, identify with the characters. They may even dream about the characters. These have their own kind of superlife because they so clearly represent certain living aspects within each psyche. the aspects are personified in the character. through the centuries, in your terms, there have been different personalities, some physical and some not, with whom the species identified. Christ is one of these: in some respects the most ideal detecteve- in a different context, however-out to save the good and to protect the world from harm. In certainways man also projected outward the idea of a devil or devils, and for somewhat the same reasons, so that he could identify with what he understood them at any given time. In between there are a multitude of such personalities, all vividly portraying parts of the psyche. These characters become portions of the inner literature of the mind. Suppose an inhabitant from another reality saw [one of those programs] and realized that people were watching it. Pretend he wanted to add more depth to the show. He might then come on himself in the guise of [the hero detective], but enlarging upon the characterization, adding more dimension to the plot. So, often when some personality from another station wants to help change the programming, he comes on in the form of a personlity already known in fact or fiction. However, you must realize that that perosnality is larger than fact or fiction. "it" is independent at its own level, yet it is also a part of the portion of the private and mass psyche that is so present. i am seth in those terms