“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.

The universe is continually being created. All universes are continually being created, and the appearance of expansion seen by your scientists is distortive for many reasons.

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.

For one thing levitation as such has little value. However the ego instantly stiffens its control when it feels that any physical law is being disobeyed, because the ego is concerned with your physical universe, and your existence upon your plane is definitely determined by your recognition and obedience to camouflage necessities.

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.

I am not sure precisely which way to give you this material. However we are on firmer ground now. As I mentioned, there is no real expansion of the universe in space. The appearance is a distortion. I have mentioned in the past that everything does have a form or a tissue capsule and field of energy.

These forms vary on different planes, are visible or invisible according to your own situation. A form that may be perceived by you as solid may be perceived merely as an electrical unit in another plane, or as color on a third. You for example have a certain physical form to other inhabitants of your universe. You are perceived by others on other planes at this moment, but to them you are not perceived in the form with which you are familiar.

Now I have said that a plane is not necessarily a location. It is not necessarily a planet, though it may be. The universe as you think of it contains innumerable planes, all taking up in your terms the same amount of space. The forms within these planes are in constant motion, as are the planes themselves. There is a continual exchange of energy and vitality, in other words, of actual atoms and molecules between one plane and another.

Your universe is only one of many such universes. You are aware only of perceptions along the horizontal planes, and the more powerful your scientific instruments become the more you will be able to see. One universe does become another. However, the universes containing an almost infinite number of planes are therefore affected by the exchange of energies involved, and the interaction and continual movement even of one plane through another results in effects which will be perceived in various ways, again according to your own situation in them.

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.

I do want to add one note. The camouflage effect surrounding a plane, and apparent in your universe, can be measured. But it must be recognized first as a camouflage distortion, and then translations of the camouflage measurements must be made.