“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Now, if you want organization then you shall have it—at any time. You structure your own existence and you choose those realities that have exactly as much organization as you need at any given time. In this reality you very nicely emphasize all the similarities which bind you together and make a pattern of them and you very nicely ignore all the dissimilarities. But you do not perceive it. Out of a vast field of perception you choose to focus your attention upon certain specific areas and ignore all others, and so there is perfect agreement among you as far as this small area is concerned. The vastness that you do not perceive does not bother you at all and you do not ask questions about it because it does not concern you. And yet it exists.

I have said this before also. If you were able to focus your attention upon the dissimilarities, merely those that you can perceive but do not, then you would be amazed that mankind could form any idea of an organized reality. I look now between the two of you (looking at the couch where Natalie S. and Arnold were sitting). When the others look at our friends here on the fancy blue couch, they see a picture of true organization. There is an individual here and an individual here on the blue couch with space between. The picture is equalized. It appears perfect and organized. However, the space between our two friends is not vacant. You merely perceive it as vacant because you do not perceive what is there. And so the picture is very organized.

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.

You agree, for example, that objects are physical—it makes little difference whether they are or not as long as you agree upon this. Your consciousness belongs in a body. You would not be caught dead with your consciousness outside your body. It is taboo!! Now, the fact is that your consciousness is not imprisoned within your body. But as long as you believe that it is, again, you will not be caught dead outside it. And when you are caught dead outside it there will be some amazement indeed.

There must be, however, a willingness to admit that there are other dimensions in which you exist. You must also have faith in your physical self—faith that it will be here when you get back, and I assure you that it will. There is no other way—and I repeat this—there is no other way of getting first-hand information about other realities but by the exploration and manipulation of your own consciousness. There are no other doors—your own sense of adventure.

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.

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.

Even though someone like myself will come along and take off the comfort blanket—for after awhile they hamper your development, where earlier they helped you grow. The fact remains, however, you do not have to die to find God. All That Is—is now. And you are a part of All That Is now. And as I have told you often, you are a spirit now. The avenues for development are open now. You can, now, set upon exploring environments that are not physical if you want to, but I do not see any rush of students at that invisible door!

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!