“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

If this were fully understood you see, then there would not be the necessity of looking for some god. I am certainly not going into the God concept at this time, though you can be certain that I will cover it thoroughly, since it is itself an idea camouflage covering something much different.

At the same time the camouflage consciousness cannot be aware of the actual originator, and therefore must look for causes from the outside. In your dual system, that is, the two self-consciousnesses are more divided and alien to themselves than need be. The old idea of spirits pervading all physical matter actually represents an intuitive glimpse into reality that your sciences will finally arrive at in a long labored manner.

(Break at 9:27. Jane was “in between” this time, or but partly dissociated. It seemed that we had not acquired as much material as usual. By the end of her delivery she was talking a bit louder and at a slightly faster rate. Resume at 9:29.)

I hope I will be able to make this entirely comprehensible at some future time. Nevertheless I will state a few matters now and you will understand them more fully in later sessions.

The laws of evolution were self-limiting laws in one respect, but involve a necessary discipline in formation. The fact that entities always existed and always will exist sounds strange or even impossible simply because of your present perspective. Even your small studies with psychological time should give you some valuable insight into this matter, however, and the use of psychological time is very important because of the avenues which it will open for you.

If you use psychological time as I have told you, you will get immediate firsthand experience of many facets of reality which take me pages to explain with the indirect use of words. All entities basically are self-aware portions of energy or vitality. They are self-generating and there is no possibility of thinking in terms of either beginning or end. Again, it is only your own camouflage-imprisoned data which makes you think that everything has a beginning and an end.

In a very simple example, consider that you yourself use your own energy to create your dream world. In this way also you create your so-called real camouflage world, the only difference being that the dream world images do not have duration in physical time although they have duration in psychological time. And believe it or not, actually your individuality has much more freedom in the creation of your dream world, and this is the reason why the dream world does not appear consistent to others.

(Break at 9:56. This time we seemed to acquire a normal amount of material between breaks. Jane was fairly well dissociated also. She said that somehow the idea that all entities were in existence at the time of the creation of the earth shocked her.

(A few days ago, while doing some painting, the idea had popped into my conscious mind unbidden that the very act of painting a picture involved the construction of a plane. I had mentioned it to Jane at the time. Resume at 10:03.)

Nevertheless it also partakes of the strange unity that unites all personalities beneath the camouflage pattern, while at the same time it is only partially connected to the camouflage pattern. In some respects art creations are a meeting of the dream world and the world of camouflage patterns, but in a deeper way art creations represent the appearance or materialization in the actual element of physical time of inner realities. That is, the inner individualistic self forces its vision and knowledge into the world of camouflage pattern, giving its dreams a physical reality denied to the usual dream. And here the use of energy for this purpose is conscious, that is the strong hidden self actually makes use of the camouflage conscious self and molds the two into a reality that combines two planes. This I hope will become clear as you read it over.

(“Well, I’m quite sure we’ll have more questions on the subject from time to time.”)

(This time Jane was pretty well dissociated. She said that part of her knows when she smokes a cigarette, and part does not. I also asked her why she couldn’t sit down and deliver Seth’s messages, as well as do so much pacing. The question came up because I thought she was getting tired. Her voice was becoming hoarse. Resume at 10:36.)

On your particular kind of culturally organized grouping the camouflage is necessarily strong, and the outside senses correspondingly vivid. This of course is bound to block some inner data. At the same time it is the inner vitality which creates the camouflage to begin with. Joseph was right when he spoke of entities creating stages upon which to act out their problems. The point of course being that once the play begins the actors are so completely immersed in their roles that they forget that they themselves wrote the play, constructed the sets, or are even acting. The reason for this is rather apparent.

Incidentally, I was able to give you some of the information about Miss Callahan by drawing upon some of the abilities or qualities of Frank Watts, even though he is resting at the time.

I would also like to really bawl Ruburt out in strongest terms about his smoking habits. This time of year in particular too much smoking is not good; and he knows I was going to say this and blocked me nicely since the beginning of this session.

This hidden self-consciousness can also at times look out through your outer senses upon your camouflage world. At these times you get something of the same effect as when you look through a telescope, and you may think of the long tube of the telescope as the channel of the subconscious.

I will not go further into this matter this evening. Suffice it to say that to kill for self-protection or even to kill a natural prey on your plane does not involve you in what we may call for the first time, I believe, karmic consequences.

Your cat sensed me in the beginning of the session. He is however rather acquainted with me now. It takes a while for Ruburt and I to get together so to speak, and at that time I was diffused and he was confused.

I am ready to end the session, as I have been trying to watch your time and since Ruburt sends up such mighty shouts if I keep you over.

And now good night, peachies. Try to keep things on an even keel, and in quiet times remember to experiment with the use of your inner senses.