“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(Jane then resumed; but now her voice was much stronger and some-what deeper, quite different from the easygoing tone and volume she had used to open the session.)

We will again use this chair, this time to explain our point. The chair is being constantly constructed. Now the chair represents a subdivision in matter, being what you term dead matter, though we know that consciousness is everywhere.

The chair is being fully constructed simultaneously and instantaneously. Now take the blade of grass, and the seed. Energy and the consciousness within continually constructs itself into completely new constructions; because of the various speeds I have spoken of, and because you do not perceive the full reality, you do not notice the simultaneous constructions, and think them continuous, rather than separate and ever new.

When energy in its performance brings about a complete change of form, as it does when a seed seems to grow into a blade of grass, what you have here is merely such a complete difference between the gradations which you are able to perceive, that finally you are forced to admit that the thing you take to be continuous matter has somehow or other become something entirely different.

The chair is neither durable nor continuous, and its reality is limited to the recognition which you give it as an object.

(Break at 9:23. Jane was dissociated as usual. Seth has yet to explain what he means by “preparing” our new house for us. During break we tried to give the Pipers a brief resume of what the Seth material involves. Jane resumed in the same vigorous and strong-voiced manner at 9:32.)

I have not known either of your guests before, but then I do not have to. I am not the nervous one. It is Ruburt who constantly, and oftentimes bull-headedly, blocks what I have to say.

He was an alchemist. He has been in past existences concerned with matters that lie beneath matter, if you will excuse a pun; and for this reason the interest has grown. One life was in a country close to what you now call Palestine, I believe approximately 832 A.D., and in this life the accident occurred.

Germany also, 1732, in what is now Cologne; an alchemist. 1872, a very brief life as a woman, dying at age 33 in childbirth. Sweden.

The child of the man and the woman has existed as a personality four times before, which makes him older than his parents, in a manner of speaking. He died as a young child upon one occasion, a girl with musical abilities. During another existence in, I believe Babylonia, he was what passed for a scribe.

(“What is the child’s entity name?”)

I will now, with your kind permission, say a few words in reference to the reality of which I spoke briefly last session.

You can come close to understanding this reality if you will once more consider an analogy that we made much earlier. Do you remember our imaginary painting that hung upon the wall?

The depth of this reality cannot be plunged into in the same manner that one plunges into a river or a stream. The depth of this reality can, again, be compared to the depth of a sleep or a trance, or the depth of any common psychological experience.

In the same manner, other constructions are affected. It is true that what becomes matter must be dealt with as matter, and yet the inner vitality and the inner self have their own ability to heal. The trouble is, these abilities are little utilized and seldom appreciated.

The mind constructs into matter its own idea of reality, and this is where personal expectation comes into play. You do not only create your own environment, generally speaking, you create it concretely, in forms of mass and matter.

You knock your head against walls that you yourselves have made. We will go into a long discussion concerning the actual physical and subconscious mechanisms involved in the construction of idea into material reality at a later session.