“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(Just before the session began she did feel nervous. She began dictating in a normal voice however, and maintained it through the session. Her delivery was not characterized by the exaggerated slowness of the last two or three sessions. She paced at her usual moderate rate; her eyes darkened as usual.)

I can state this in no stronger terms. Communications must always be maintained clearly. I suggest, but merely suggest, that Ruburt hold even; again, patience is not one of his characteristics. I will not dwell upon this matter any longer. Your cocktail party, however, I found immensely amusing, and at a later date I may give you some reasons for its rather explosive nature.

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.

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.

When you maintain that identity is dependent upon the duration of the physical body, you are taking it for granted that the physical body is one complete thing, more or less rigid in form, and permanent within a certain perspective. You know however that the physical body is not one thing in those terms, and that the stuff of which it is composed is forever coming and going, arriving and departing, and yet identity is maintained.

Also, for reasons that I will for now withhold, the psychic patterns within your physical universe are not maintained, as you know, indefinitely. As far as I know, no gestalt of any kind remains the same. But psychic gestalts develop in terms of value fulfillment, and it is known at the first appearance of a physical pattern how long the particular to-be-built-up gestalt will be maintained.