“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

There are of course many subdivisions here, and also other types of constructions. We will begin however with primary and secondary ones.

What you consider your consciousness, or your self, or your thinking ego, represents of course only one portion of your entire consciousness, that part which you are using at this time. It is as if, for example, consciousness of any whole self were compared to a huge, and indeed almost infinite light, with the ability inherent in the light to focus in many directions; to be diffused, as if the light had many switches that would turn it to greater or lesser intensities and directions.

The form that consciousness takes in the field of matter is determined by its own strength and capacity. Consciousness forces its way into matter. You should see, then, that though you call a particular portion of grass one blade of grass, the matter that composes it is not static or permanent, and it is not a particular physical object growing, since the matter that composes it is neither static or permanent.

And neither then do seeds grow (underline that so it’s plain) into grass. You perceive certain matter as blades of grass, as you perceive the matter of grass as lawn. You can see clearly that the matter of grass in a lawn is not the same. Then understand also that the matter within one blade of grass is not the same.

It still, however, merely represents the base point of achievement, a necessary first step along the way. I am very pleased with both of you, and this could be called the end of book one. There will be many more books—

(End at 11:10. Jane was dissociated as usual. She said Seth could have continued had we been willing. By now my writing hand had tired, and Jane was quite tired. It had been one of those sessions that really took something out of her; she had, she said, felt that Seth was pushing the material through.)

(Misspellings are included as received. Many of the answers were given very slowly. Since Seth has not yet had a chance to comment on this session, we do not know whether this is because of our own languorous attitude on a hot night, the inexperience of the sender, or what. I am the one who asked the questions.

(“You had one male child, is that correct?)

(Then I was inside the house we intend to buy. I was facing two men in work clothes; one of them was dark and I believe unshaven. I asked them who they were. They said they were from the gas company. I didn’t know how they got in. They then said they would need a key; they had to have the place open to get in.