“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Now, you each generally agree, I am sure, that you sit upon a couch. You do not perceive the same couch. You only perceive your own idea constructions. You cannot perceive those of another. Telepathically you transpose your ideas in line with what you know of the other person’s thinking. You agree that the couch is here. Now, it is true that within your physical system—for I know this will come next from our friend Florence—you can measure your couch. I expect at any moment anyone will get a ruler and measure it and then say to me that the couch is so long—how can you say it is not one couch? However, within your physical system the instruments themselves are distorted and, of course, they will agree with what they measure. There is no reason why they should not. Telepathically you all agree upon the placement of objects and their dimensions.

Now, you use atoms and molecules in a strange way. You transpose your ideas upon them. You perceive them in a certain fashion. Now, I am not blaming you. I have done it too in my time, and there is a good reason for it. But the fact is that physical matter is not solid except when you believe that it is. And that organization is transposed from within upon the without. It is not transposed from the without upon you. You form the reality that you know, and even though the table holds up your arms and you may lean upon it and write, I still tell you that the table is not solid. This makes little difference as long as you can write upon it. It makes little difference as long as you can sit upon your couch. But when you leave your physical system, and when physical perception is no longer the rule—then you must learn new root assumptions. Root assumptions are those meaning laws upon which you agree in any system of reality.

Now, a portion of your entire identity has memory of both. The entire personality structure dwells in many dimensions and simultaneously. You are at the very beginning of any idea of psychology. You simply do not realize what you are now, and as I’ve said before, when you ask me questions about life after death, you automatically transpose, if you will all forgive me, this lack of knowledge into the next realm and therefore, sometimes I am at a loss to answer your questions. You are learning to know yourselves. At the rate you are going, it will take you some time!

What so many want is a god who walks down the street and says “Happy Sunday, I am I, follow Me.” But God is hidden craftily in His creations so that He is what they are and they are what He is, and in knowing them, you know Him. Now you may all take a break.

Now there are many words for psychological time. I do not mean my method of meditation alone. I do mean subjective activity on your part and exploration. Do you follow me? I am glad!

Actually you are with God now. It is you who do not realize this. I am not speaking only to our Lady of Florence, although it may seem as though I have that habit. You see, you have believed many tales, and symbolically they were very important, and as was mentioned earlier, they have their place in your lives and development. But there are times when you must leave them behind and you may feel lonesome for awhile without them.

Now I am going to close our session, but I would like you all to read carefully a copy of what I have said, and now and then, where you have nothing else—nothing better to do—then try, try to sense that lapse in the pulsation of your consciousness. Try to leap that gap!