“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(Earlier this evening the pendulum had told Jane we would have a witness for the session, but none had appeared. Jane was somewhat nervous by 8:59, though not anything like she used to be. She began dictating on time in a normal voice, and at a rather brisk pace. Her eyes darkened and she paced back and forth as usual. None of these attributes changed to any degree during the session.)

(It will be noted that Seth referred to Thomas Voghler in the present tense, whereas the board noted he died in 1894. But this subject is closed, at least for now. Jane gave an amused chuckle.)

We will go into them all, in detail, but they will also be grouped.

I do suggest merely that your friend and landlord look at it, but merely because this will set your own feelings; and that is all.

(For the record, let it be known that our landlord, James Spaziani, has already looked at the house in question. He did so Sunday night, yesterday, unknown to Jane and me. Yesterday afternoon I had told Jimmy that Jane and I would value his opinion of the property, but no arrangements had been made as to when the three of us might get together to look the property over. Jimmy told me this afternoon that he had already seen the house.)

The keystone here is that you are only aware of your own constructions. This is most important. You truly construct your own environment, and it in turn then has its influence upon you. When I speak of environment I include for simplicity’s sake that which is close to the self in its nebulous form, but which is still called notself.

Actually it can be said that since the self creates its environment, then the environment is an extension of the self. The division between the subject who creates the environment, and the object-(hyphen) environment, which is created, is an artificial but necessary development.

New senses are developed to perceive new creations. Idea pushes itself through; nor is idea a disembodied nonentity absolute, but composed of energy to begin with.

(Our cat Willy had been more or less peaceful during the first delivery, but just before break ended he became quite active, as he has often done lately during sessions. Willy began to chase bugs. Then as Jane began dictating he dove for her ankles and began nipping at them none too gently. Without interrupting her delivery Jane picked him up and deposited him in another room. Resume at 9:38.)

There are laws on your plane that govern the construction of matter, but these laws are psychic laws having to do with the ability of the individual in projection of idea into matter, the ability to receive and transmit energy, and with abilities having to do with the actual construction itself.

The healthy physical body, therefore, is eloquent testimony of inner balance. And in all cases of illness, the inner cause must be uncovered; not only uncovered intellectually, but understood intuitively if recovery is to take place.

I mentioned at one time the unfortunate occurrence of your dog’s illness. The dog, of course, created and maintained his own physical construction, but you saw only your own construction of him.

These constructions exist definitely in terms of atomic structure, but of such different densities and speeds that you are unaware of them though they are perceived by the inner senses, and utilized by the subconscious and inner self as a very important reality.

In the far future instruments may detect them completely. In the near future glimpses will be perceived with the use of instruments, but use and recognition of the inner senses will result in a quicker recognition.

These are not vague, formless half-realities. Their existence is as real as your own, but simply on a different level. For various reasons all of your ideas are obviously not constructed onto the physical plane. Many of these reasons are psychological. Some of these reasons have to do with matters which we have not yet discussed.

This merely means that the characteristics of their reality differs from the reality of physical construction. There is always an inner comprehension of such constructions, but the conscious mind has its purpose of dealing with the world of physical construction, is itself a physical construction, and unaware of other realities.

(Break at 10:32. Jane was dissociated as usual. Just before break, she held her hands out toward me, indicating that once again they felt fat or enlarged. She could not say just when the phenomenon began, but during break it began to quickly abate.

(Later I saw the smiling face of our landlord, James Spaziani. He said something quite clearly, which I understood and retained for a few minutes, but nevertheless forgot by the time the experiment was over.