“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

I did want to answer Ruburt’s question as to the expanding universe, though we will not go into all the details now. Your camouflage idea of time is no help, and until you realize that time as you think of it does not exist in any real terms, then you will not be able to understand the true nature of your universe.

Their time measurements, based on camouflage to begin with, are almost riotously inadequate and bound to give distortive data, since the universe simply cannot be measured in these terms. The universe was not created at any particular time, but neither is it expanding into nowhere like an inflated balloon that grows forever larger, at least not along the lines now being considered. The expansion is an illusion, based among other things upon inadequate time measurements, upon the limited cause and effect theories; and yet in some manners the universe could be said to be expanding, but with entirely different connotations than are usually used.

Therefore the expanding universe implies a universe expanding in a more or less empty space, and this is not true. The phenomena that are given as evidence of this kind of expanding universe are the result of camouflage instruments, distortive ideas of time, and the resulting cause and effect theory.

I suggest you take a break in your expanding universe.

Now this material on inner senses will ultimately be tied into the material on your so-called expanding universe, but there are many connections yet to be made.

Using the senses developed on a particular plane to perceive its characteristic camouflage patterns, it is almost impossible to see beyond these boundary effects. The inner senses are inherently equipped to do this, but for many reasons they do not. The appearance of an expanding universe is also caused therefore by this distortive boundary effect, resulting from the interaction of which I have just spoken. In some cases the distortive effect could be likened to the reflection of a solid tree in water.

The material will probably reflect such fluctuations, but as a whole it will gain and not suffer. There is a balance to be maintained here. I do not want to drive you too hard. On the other hand I have no intention of letting you grow lazy. We will still probably run over our usual time on some occasions, while during certain periods we may run somewhat less. This is of no consequence. I may have more to say on your expanding universe next time, and there is still material on our next inner senses to be covered. I usually end up getting sidetracked in one way or another.