“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Now. It is not likely that I will be heard by anyone for some time in the way that Philip heard me speak. Again, the condition simply happened to be favorable. I have told you that all action is psychic action, but the terms used make little difference. All action does have an electromagnetic reality, which is usually not perceived by the physical senses.

The various levels of the self possess this sort of reality. They are actions which are aware of themselves as identities, whether or not such distinctions are made by the ego. They are sensitive to other realities which fall within their particular range, and they repel actions which do not.

For a psychic communication to take place the communication must fall within the particular range of electromagnetic reality that can be picked up by the receiver, and by that particular level of the receiver’s self that is able to translate it into meaningful terms. If, that is, you want any kind of proof. Otherwise the communication is simply received and acted upon automatically without leaving a trace. It merely becomes part of a new action, giving no evidence of its source.

For all my humor concerning the particular communication to Philip, I wanted him to be conscious of hearing me. Actually this caused an interruption of action, in order to make the source of the communication stand out in his mind. Otherwise he would have merely automatically recorded my warning, and reacted to it smoothly without any realization on the part of the ego.

The sort of things with which we are involved then often imply an interruption of action of this kind, and a translation or transformation of data from one range of electromagnetic energy to another. On those occasions when Ruburt has heard me more or less directly in his psychological time experiments, there has always been on his part a sound quite independent of himself, from outside of himself, of static. If you recall, on several occasions he was so certain of the static that he checked to see if he had left the radio on by mistake.

A small note here: my candle effect was quite legitimate the other evening. This sort of thing will almost always occur without Ruburt’s conscious knowledge for a long time to come. The reason is simply that conscious knowledge of such an effect would inhibit him, regardless of his best intentions, and the energy used would block the action or effect that I was trying to deliver.