“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Your main sense of identity is involved with your physical body, so that it is, for example, extremely difficult for you to imagine yourself without it, or outside it, or in any way disconnected from it. Form is the result of concentrated energy, the pattern for it caused by vividly directed emotional or psychic idea images. The intensity is all important. If you have, for example, a highly vivid desire to be somewhere else, then without realizing it consciously a pseudophysical form, identical with your own, may appear in that very spot. The desire will carry the imprint of your personality and image, even though you remain unaware of the image or its appearance in the other location.

Each individual actually sends such replica images of himself out frequently, though the degree of the materialization may differ, some forms, for example, being more or less shadowy than others. However, these forms are not mere projections — “flat” images. They have a definite effect upon the atmosphere. They “make room” for themselves in ways that are rather difficult to explain, although they may coexist at times with physical objects or shapes, or may even be superimposed upon these. In this case there is a definite interaction — an interchange that is, again, beneath physical perception.

(“Very interesting.” I had noticed the nearly regular variations in the speed of Jane’s delivery not long after the session began. Each segment of this fast, then slow, tempo seemed to cover a few paragraphs at the most. The effect was much more apparent tonight than usual.)