“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

I mentioned that the change in Ruburt’s features was authentic, and also that what you prefer to call an apparition did indeed exist.

For the time being the word will serve, since I know what you mean by it. Of course, it was a valid construction. There is much to be said here. I told you I would use Mark for a demonstration concerning the nature of matter, and so I did.

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.

This is what I am leading to. Outer constructions are always translations of actions from inner reality into material. Their validity is dependent upon the individual’s ability to receive inner data, to translate inner data, to manipulate energy, and to construct it onto the material field.

(“You said that Jane and I were very fussy about what we saw.”)

(“That’s what I meant.”)

(“What about those fragments you said Jane and I created at York Beach, Maine, last August? Were they apparitions?”

However, instead of our glasses, please consider a very simple situation: the two of you in this room. Now. Ruburt constructs his own physical image, which is, I hope, obviously conscious. You construct your physical image of Ruburt. Now the question is: What about your construction of Ruburt, which is valid as a material construction. Is it conscious—

—and to what degree? If five people were in this room, then they would each construct, in their own personal perspective, their own image of Ruburt, which would be composed of definite, material, atoms and molecules. You would have five actual physical constructions, plus Ruburt’s own. Do all five constructions, plus Ruburt’s own, contain Ruburt’s consciousness?

For one thing, we ran over last time. For another, I have already covered what I wanted to this evening. For a third, I do not want to overburden you with typing.

(“All right, just one question. What if Jane and I go to York Beach in Maine again, and meet those fragments we created; what will happen, if anything?”)

Many things could happen. You have nothing to fear certainly, and the peculiar circumstances will not reoccur. I should hope that the apparitions would not occur; and if they did, they would represent your fear of what they once stood for, and would not be the threats that they were originally, but after-images, so to speak.

That is not what I said exactly. The question is too complicated to be answered in this manner, and I will cover it in a regular discussion.

I, of course, would suggest “the house of Seth” as a fitting name for your new residence. This might lead to embarrassing questions, so you may do what you wish.

What?