“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(By now Jane was nervous. As she wondered how she would do this evening, she received the following:)

A death in a family, for example, is a physical occurrence. Various members of the family will react differently, as you know. The psychological experience will be intensely diversified, personal, unpredictable as far as each family member is concerned. You cannot observe this actual psychological experience with the outer senses. Even you yourself cannot see, smell, touch that inner experience. You cannot hold it in both hands and look it over. You cannot observe it in any objective manner, as you can observe a pencil on a table, yet it would be foolish to say that this psychological experience did not exist. It is too vivid to ignore, and oftentimes the personality is almost divorced from action because of this experience that is psychological, that cannot be observed with instruments, or even by the person involved.

The fields intermingle. I wanted to make another point, which was that data received by the inner senses is as intense and vivid, and often more so, than any psychological experience, and as I mentioned, you cannot examine a psychological experience in a laboratory either. But the worst of fools would not deny psychological experience for this reason.

If you closed your mind and refused to see a whole tree, nothing would convince you that the part you did not see existed. If such a tree fell upon you, you might wonder at its weight. However, you would find some explanation, rather than the right one. If some few individuals began to question the shape of trees, and some therefore began to see whole trees, you would undoubtedly call them mad, be completely unbothered, and feel yourselves justified.

But if some of these individuals who saw whole trees began eating the fruits of the other side of the trees, you would be up in arms. You would call the fruits, I am sure, extra benefits or extrasensory perceptions. This is just a little story of my own, though I am glad to see a smile on Joseph.

The planes therefore meet in a very real fashion. They are basically part of each other and yet because of certain very real laws, they would seem to be at different ends, so that the appearance on your plane seems oftentimes to be one of opposites.

Death is the personality’s release from the physical plane, or we will use the term “the physical field,” and that is all. To the ego this is a frightening future in prospect. To the ego, even sleep seems a slap in the face. Recognition in physical life of the whole self would do much to negate this death fear, since there are rather pleasant psychological experiences which are akin to the experience of death, and which would prepare the personality for this eventuality.