“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

The boy has been in several locations, with one stop, a brief one, in a hospital. He seemed to have some difficulty with a lung, or his lungs. I believe he visited Detroit. (Pause.) Also the state of Florida, near a small town beginning with a P, but a long enough name.

California was in his mind strongly, also. Thirty-six. (Pause.) He had one job, in what seems to be a factory location, in a rather dark environment, with rows of what I assume to be machinery and large windows, treated so that the sunlight did not shine through brightly.

Either this or the place was half below ground level. The name “George” connected with him. A friend perhaps. Also he sent a telegram I believe, either to someone, or he will send one to his mother.

(The above data was delivered at a crisp pace. We have no way of knowing how long Seth’s reply to a query like Mrs. R’s will be. Whatever the length — one, five, or ten pages — we send a copy of it to the writer as soon as I get the session typed up. We ask for a reply, to see if it’s possible to check the material. In this case, we didn’t hear from Mrs. R.)

(“I’ve already thought of that,” I said. As I told Jane at our first break, the knowledge that time is actually simultaneous is sometimes confounding when one asks certain types of questions; this knowledge half answers the question, yet we want the rest of the question considered.)

They exist now, however, as certainly as do, say, the dinosaurs. You only choose to focus your attention upon a highly specific field of space-time coordinates, accepting these as present reality, and closing yourselves off from all others. Specifically, complicated physical forms are not the result of previous simpler ones. They all exist in larger terms at once.

(Pause at 9:42.) Since you do not perceive the future and do not understand that life goes out in all directions, then it seems only logical to suppose that present forms must be based upon past ones. You do close your eyes to evidence that does not support this theory. (Heartily, smiling): And of course I am not speaking of you personally, Joseph.

You have indeed. One was a painting purchased by Carl and Sue Watkins (which, half jokingly, we had called Moses); one, the portrait of me (pause); and one that you have not completed — that the Dean (Seth’s friendly title for Tom M., one of the members of ESP class) asked about recently, of a woman. And your blue man. (Pause.) That is your answer.

(When Seth tells me I’ve done a Speaker’s portrait, I translate this to mean that I’ve tuned-in on but one personality out of the very many making up that Speaker’s entity.

What separates events is not time, but your perception. You perceive events “one at a time.” Time as it appears to you is, instead, a psychic organization of experience. The seeming beginning and end of an event; the seeming birth and death, are simply other dimensions of experience as, for example, height, width, weight. Instead it seems to you that you grow toward an end, when an end is a part of a particular experience, or if you prefer, person-event.