“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Now this event X is only one of a literally numberless amount of probable events which the conscious self could experience. For its purposes however the conscious self chooses this particular event X. But again, this event X, until the conscious self experiences it, is only one of many other probable events, different in no basic manner from the others. It becomes real, actual and different from those other probable events, only when it is experienced by our conscious self, or by this conscious self.

I am making this discussion as simple as possible, and using the conscious self simply because less difficulties are presented in explanation. It is obvious, for example, that some events are experienced by the subconscious also, that may or may not be experienced by the ego.

This event X becomes real then, in your terms, only when it is experienced or perceived by our conscious self. What about all of these other probable events, however? The only difference between them and event X is that event X was perceived and experienced by our conscious individual. In other words, were it not for this perception of the event X, it would still be as valid, or as invalid, as real or as unreal, as all the other probable events that were not perceived.

The package of experience that you can focus upon and make sense of, is indeed composed of many small packages, but the whole package of reality is actually much larger than this. There is however a portion of the self that can and does experience events in an entirely different fashion, and this portion of the self goes off on a different tangent. For when our individual perceives event X, this other portion of the self branches off, so to speak, into all the other probable events that could have been just as easily experienced by the ego.

Some experiences or events will be perceived by all layers of the self, though in their own fashion, and experienced as a unit. There are few of these, but they are extremely vivid, and serve as the family’s joint experiences serve to reinforce the identity of the whole psychological structure.

In some such cases the individual is experiencing a probable event. But he must experience it, you see, within his own time system.