“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

A more or less intimate rapport between you helps you both whenever outside difficult situations arise. You are able to draw upon more constructive energy when such rapport exists. This is true in any case, that is, either one involving you Joseph, or involving Ruburt; and the difference between the energies that you tap when you are in rapport with each other and when you are not is immeasurable.

By this time you should know that our material on material is excellent. I mentioned earlier that very little distortion occurs in such material. There is very much to be covered. It goes without saying then, that there is consciousness of a kind, conscious energy, behind and to some extent within all material.

Energy as it comes through your plane is individualized; and indeed, irregardless of any other theories, all energy contains some consciousness, in simple or more complicated gestalt fashion, as I have mentioned that atoms and molecules so possess a limited consciousness, and a generalized subconsciousness which contains within it a capsule comprehension of the universe as a whole.

This will help you when we begin to speak of the patterns or shapes into which energy flows, and so maintains its appearance of permanence and relative rigidity. This will be somewhat difficult in the beginning, and yet it is quite understandable.

As energy flows through your field and appears within it, it does so according to its own inherent nature. This nature of energy, believe it or not, includes individualization and consciousness. Therefore, if you will for a moment think of bits of energy, or consciousness, initially without definite form, entering your physical plane, then according to the innate strength and capacity of any given particle it will, on entering your plane, on its own subconscious level already know how small or large a physical pattern it can form.

This is at our simplest and most basic level. The forms then build, one within or upon the other, in the manner in which I explained that the gestalt of a human body was maintained. In many ways like does attract like; certain patterns therefore being set up, are used by other energy bits of similar capacity and strength.

This cooperation is a necessity on a molecular level, and continues through all phases of physical existence. Remember however that it is the conscious cooperation of the individualized energy that makes the molecule itself possible.

Another inherent ability of energy is its own innate recognition of potential form. This is seen in the innate comprehension existing in the fetus. No one atom or molecule within the fetus will exist within the adult, and yet the bits of energy that have formed together to form the pattern of the fetus know the capacity and limits of their own nature, and know therefore the potentialities and limits of the pattern which they have made.

They follow the law of value fulfillment, which on your plane is thought of as growth. But the growth, so-called, is not of itself a property of matter, in that the same matter does not grow, but energy completely forms the pattern ever anew, as far as the particular strength of the energy itself can carry it, and knowing the limitations and capacities of the pattern which it has formed. To some extent the image or physical pattern ultimately blurs.

It must be apparent however that all energy is not materialized as it passes through your field. There are also psychic gestalts with intelligences that are not materialized on your physical plane, and with these you are not of course familiar.

What your senses show to be empty, you term space, and you think of matter rather paradoxically as filling up space, and yet as being where space is not, so-called space and so-called material are energy, and the true properties of energy are very difficult to explain to you, because all your concepts are so limited.

Energy itself is continually new—event, and motion, and no particular pattern will suffice it for long. Energy is self-renewing, and indefinite duration of pattern would lead to dead ends. Energy always builds. Identity, again, is not dependent upon matter. Energy propels and carries along with it, its own traces.

Identity, being independent of matter, is then not finished when the particular physical pattern is no longer created. Energy while being propulsive, is also retentive. It retains what you may call memory of previous gestalts. Capsule comprehension exists even in the smallest particle of energy, and even within the smallest particle of energy there exists all possibilities of development and creation.

You have little idea, apparently, of the feat in which we are herein involved. I have been ending the sessions earlier for a time merely to protect my interests. We have been working with difficult material. Ruburt’s energy has recuperated in the main, and I hope that by next spring he will have learned to handle the spring months with more efficiency.