“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.

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.

This is one of the difficulties with our sessions, in that you cannot take in concepts directly. That is, you cannot experience them directly, and I must cut them down, dimensionally speaking, in order that you can perceive them in your more limited dimension.

(Jane delivered the above paragraph with a smile. It is true that she, and I to a lesser extent, have begun to read up on our physics. Both of us have largely neglected the subject since school days, although of course we came across references to it in other reading, since the subject plays such an important part in everyday life now. Jane has been quite surprised to find many references in these books that tally with what Seth has said. Many other points in the books have served as jumping-off points for Seth’s material, also.)

I have told you that a plane was not necessarily a location in space, but a field of mental vitality. The material that I have given you on the fifth dimension will here prove invaluable. I have told you that it is space, since this was the beginning of our discussions. During our earliest session I used the term space for simplicity’s part for your sakes, while still explaining most carefully that this fifth-dimensional space was far different than what you consider space to be.

Now I will indeed close our session. It has been a most fruitful one, and I feel quite close to both of you this evening.