“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

You agree to accept certain data in the physical universe. You agree to form this into certain patterns, and you agree to ignore other data completely. These, now, root agreements, form the main basis for the apparent permanence and coherence of your physical system.

If you are trying to judge such an experience in terms of physical root assumptions, then it will be meaningless. You may, as I mentioned earlier, perceive the form of a building that never did exist physically, and never will in your universe. This does not mean that the form is an illusion. You are simply in a position where you can pick up and translate the energy pattern before you.

Now. If another individual under the same circumstances comes across the same potential object, he can also perceive it as you did. He may however, because of his own makeup, perceive and translate another portion of allied pattern. He may see the form of the man who originated the thought of the building. (Pause.) To a large extent your habit of perceiving time as a sequence forms the type of experience, and also limits the experience that you will have in physical reality.

You must learn to differentiate between many forms that may appear in many ways similar enough, to seem to be of identical nature. In physical life however you do this now automatically.

In a projection the problems will be of a different sort. The form of a man for example, may be a thought form, or fragment sent quite unconsciously by another individual whom it resembles. It may be another projectionist like yourself. It may be a potential form like any potential object—a played-over-and-over-again record of a form.

It may be another version of yourself. We will discuss ways of distinguishing between these. A man may suddenly disappear, and to be replaced by a small girl, a nonsensical development to the logical mind. Yet the girl could be the form of the man’s previous or future reincarnated self.

Your mental processes are formed and developed as a result of this conditioning. The intuitive portions of the personality are not so formed, and these will operate to your advantage in any inner exploration. (Pause.)