“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.

As I have explained the ego to you, within your system it can only perceive in terms of continuity, in a straight-line fashion so to speak, one event after the other. It can only choose to experience one event out of all the probable events at a time. The ego is however the only portion of the self that is, in the main, limited to follow experience along these lines.

Since your physical time operates as it does, the physical organism does not have time within its own framework to experience any more than one probable event. It cannot focus upon two events at once. It goes without saying, again, that we are simplifying matters considerably, since each physical event is actually a gestalt of many small events.

The ego must choose one of all these because of its physical time limitations. But this other portion of the self can, and does, delve into what you could call event X1, X2, X3, et cetera. It can pursue and experience all of these alternate events, and it can do so in the same amount of physical time that it takes for the ego to experience event X alone.

These actions exist nevertheless. It does not take you time to perceive them one by one. You perceive them in their completed fashion. Now this other portion of the self experiences these probable events, consciously, with as much rapidity as you subconsciously perceive the million small actions that make up the handshake.

There are no ultimate boundaries that divide one from another. They simply seek their experience in separate dimensions. In this particular instance, compare the various portions of the self to the various members of a family.

I am trying to make this analogy clearer. The child would fit into the man’s office building, for example. There would be no boundary to keep him out while letting the father enter, physically speaking. The man could also enter the school. In the same manner there is no basic reason why one self, or rather one portion of the self, has its main experiences in one dimension, while other portions of the self experience reality within different fields.

The imagination can vaguely perceive, of course, some probabilities, but the physical organism can directly experience but one of these within physical time, and in terms of continuity. The probable events however are precisely as real as that one event which is chosen from them to be a physical experience. And these events therefore become “real”, in quotes, within other dimensions. As a sideline here, there are some interesting episodes, not at all understood, when a severe psychological shock, or even a deep sense of unendurable futility, will cause a short circuit, so to speak, so that one portion of the self becomes aware, and begins to experience reality as it exists for another portion of the self.

A lamp on a still higher portion of the desk. This portion is like a ledge. The letter opener is a metal-type one, I believe of a silver color. Also a small round object on the desk, I believe of glass, the shape of a globe, and it is heavier than it looks. (Pause.)

Ruburt will find incidentally that his book of poetry, the new and rather swiftly written one, will be published. He recognized the abundance of energy that was available to him as he wrote it.

(Jane said she had been working quite happily on the book dealing with the Seth material, and on one about dreams. When she got the burst of energy on the poetry book idea however, she took advantage of it, and felt certain the material would be published. Here is a schedule of events: