“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

For reasons that we will mention later, the cat did sense the apparition. Now, I have told you that there are many factors involved in the construction of matter, and I have explained that telepathy and many other factors which I have listed are important.

In the case of the apparition, many of these factors were lacking. I purposely short-circuited them very nicely, for my own reasons. Now even though individuals only see their own constructions, as a rule, with the other factors in operation you will appear to see others’ constructions because there will be such a similarity in the various constructions of what appears to be one physical object.

I have also spoken of constructions which do not appear in the usual manner on the physical level, though they exist and are valid. There are many reasons why such constructions do not retain, or sometimes even gain, even the appearance of physical durability, and the apparition of the other evening falls in this category.

—and the more complete they are, the less they are realized as apparitions. Other reasons are found to rationalize away their existence.

Gradual cumulative improvement, for reasons that may seem highly inadequate to you. The temperature of the water is an element here, and it is very cool.

(Jane has no depth perception, although her glasses help this condition. She cannot drive an automobile, for instance. She has been told that although it is in good condition, for some reason she does not use one eye. As it happens, the eye she uses to see with is much the poorer of the two.