“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(We visited the park three times during that week, but I kept the date for the ticket straight by attaching a penciled slip to it. As it happens some of the envelope data arises out of our two subsequent visits. The first visit was on Tuesday, July 12, the second on Thursday, July 14, and the third on Saturday, July 16.

I have told you that pulsations occur as energy enters into an atom and then departs from it. There is an interval in which the chair simply does not exist, but you do not perceive it. A mechanism something like an afterimage allows you to see matter as continuous.

We have, again, almost a mental afterimage that gives you the illusion that one moment leads smoothly to the next. You do exist during these intervals, but you do not exist in any physical terms. It is not a matter—if you will excuse my pun—it is not a matter of the consciousness escaping from the body. It is a matter concerning the fact that no physical body exists from which to escape.

The amount of focus and the intensity varies according to the individual, but consciousness is never entirely focused within physical reality. Now when conscious projections occur you are taking advantage of these intervals between materializations. You may call these nonintervals, actually.

You may say that these noninterval experiences are subjective, but no more are they subjective than your physical life is. Theoretically you could explore these endlessly. Practically you cannot. Now in your physical life as you know it, you are indeed exploring such a noninterval. Do you see?

The pure and brilliant quality of the surroundings have much in common with the appearance physical reality has for children. The physical senses seem to operate with such efficiency that you think you are awake, but their brilliancy is superperfect. As soon as you realize what type of dream this is, then with practice you can project within it consciously, and explore your environment.

(“A small round object in a lower corner, rather balanced by another round object in a diagonal corner.” Jane, her eyes closed, indicated both ends of the envelope. There was of course but one object, the parking ticket, in the envelopes. Two of its corners are beveled but hardly round. The object however is small in comparison to the envelopes. Jane had one of her images here, seeing mentally two small objects in a space resembling the usual envelopes; she saw no detail however.

(“A center, as the center of spokes. As the spokes of a wheel, for example.” In a free manner Seth uses associations of Jane’s to get at the idea of a car, or travel. The parking ticket was obtained at the state park as a result of a 60-mile round trip by automobile, as were the two subsequent parking tickets for the same state park. But again no mention of either a car or the park in specific terms.

(“A connection with the number five. This could refer to a date or to five people. At an affair or a gathering, and this is a distant connection.” A somewhat distant connection, but a good one, we believe. As stated Jane and I visited Enfield Glen, or Robert Treman State Park, three times—July 12 for Tuesday, July 14 for Thursday, and July 16 for Saturday. The envelope object contained the ticket for the visit of July 12. We also obtained like objects for the other two visits, and Seth evidently uses this fact to lead to related connections. The above data concerns our visit to Enfield Glen on Saturday, July 16.

(The object also contains the number 5 twice, in the serial number and the price. I didn’t ask Seth about this, but perhaps the number 5 at the beginning of the above data was used to lead to the rest of it involving the gathering, etc.

(At break she now recalled that in addition to the D O L L which she had given voice to, and which she had seen mentally within, she had also seen the letters A R, but hadn’t spoken them aloud. The word of course being dollar. Jane now said this word was Seth’s way of leading her to the price on the object, 50¢; she thought that if she voiced the word dollar, Seth might have tried to get the 50¢ through.

(First Question: “Are you saying there are two objects in the envelope?” Answer: “Or represented on a single object.” Only one item comprised the envelope object, but we don’t know how particularly to break down this single item to comprise two objects. See the tracing on page 3205.