“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

You will need perhaps to reread your material on the spacious present, since our explanation here will be necessarily in terms of sequence of events, when as you know in the spacious present events are actually simultaneous. When the personality withdraws itself from the physical image therefore, in a sort of slow motion of actual simultaneous happenings, this is what occurs.

The physical image does not immediately disappear, for a number of reasons. The personality, through the inner self, has indeed created or constructed the physical form, but the very material from which it was constructed also contains its peculiar consciousness, as you know.

This consciousness of organs, atoms and molecules, cells and other components, is left undiminished with whatever degree of consciousness and vitality they originally possessed, not enough of course to hold form or organization to any degree. However, the image is also maintained partially by those others who view it. An explanation for this you will find in our discussion of the nature of matter.

There is much involved here that a reading of past sessions on matter will make plain. You realize of course that the atoms and molecules within the physical image continually change during existence on the physical field. Openings, so to speak, for the influx of new material into the physical form, are made possible by the inner self. When it abdicates it closes up the possibility of this repairing type of molecular action.