“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

In reference to the second pair, or set of fingers, for example, these were not so-called spirit hands. We were manipulating energy, and forming it into pseudomatter. These were secondary constructions, if you remember the distinction between primary and secondary constructions given earlier.

Now. Bear with me, for some new background material is necessary here. All physical matter exists first as an idea or mental image. The idea of mental image has its own reality, and is charged with energy, and this energy can never be withdrawn. You only accept data when it appears within the physical camouflage system. As you know this severely limits your conception of the real.

Some such data will never be utilized. Some such data will be utilized time and time again. Now you see the energy does not reside within any given physical object, but in the idea form that is within it. Physical objects do not exist as such in a basic manner. You can only perceive large areas of reality data however by transforming it into terms that can be picked up by the physical senses.

As you know, you create or construct all physical matter. What you see are your own constructions. This does not mean however that there is not something within or behind what you perceive. All thoughts are composed of energy, and from our discussions you realize that there are electrical intensities within whose range all reality exists.

In such cases however definite atoms and molecules are utilized. Now. In our seance we were, again, manipulating energy and forming objects from it—objects that you could perceive with your physical senses. The whole matter, if you will forgive my pun (smile) on matter is highly intriguing, and we shall have several sessions at least, dealing with the reality of sense data, and the unreality, comparatively speaking, of matter itself.

Now. In the experimental seance, due to the circumstances and lack of training on Ruburt’s part, we redistributed some energy. Ruburt, during the seance, weighed somewhat less than his usual weight. Very little actually. With his help certain portions of energy were used to construct pseudoimages.

Again, these images are as real as any physical matter is. (Long pause.) Now once energy is formed into any kind of a pattern, the identity of the pattern is maintained. If it will help you, think in terms of a memory image. Except you see that in many cases the object may never have existed in physical reality.

Reality changes its form in order to become known to itself. It constructs varieties of consciousness with varying kinds of sense apparatus, or perceiving apparatus. Each consciousness then perceives reality in a different fashion. Yet all fashions you see are legitimate, as far as physical sense apparatus is concerned. But the mental or psychic energy behind all this is the one basic reality.