“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Objects—this is four—are blocks of energy perceived in a highly specialized manner.

Yet you may be straddling time in such an instance, perceiving, say, the room as it existed in the 1700’s, and the street as it exists in your present. These elements may appear side by side. The car may disappear before your eyes, to be replaced by an animal, or the whole street may suddenly turn into a field. This is how dreams work, you may think. This cannot be a legitimate projection anywhere. Yet you may be suddenly perceiving the street, and the field that existed before it, and the images may be transposed one upon the other.

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.

It also unites experience. The unifying and the limiting aspects of consecutive moments are absent in inner reality. Time cannot be counted upon to unify action. The series you see does not exist basically. The unifying elements will be those of your own understanding, your own abilities. You are not forced to perceive action as a series of moments within inner reality, therefore.

You have completely forgotten the chaos and unpredictable nature it presented to you before learning processes were channeled into specific directions. You learned to perceive reality in a highly specialized fashion.

The unity, you see, is different. Basically perception of the spacious present is naturally available. It is your nervous and physical mechanism which acts as a limiting device, and also as a focusing device. By limiting many otherwise available perceptions it forces you to focus upon what you can perceive with greater intensity.

You are basically capable of seeing this particular location as it existed a thousand years in your past, or as it will exist a thousand years in your future. (Jane indicated the living room in which we sat.) The senses serve to blot out many more aspects of reality than they allow you to perceive. They are actually rather rigid limiting devices, yet in many inner explorations you will automatically translate experience into terms that the senses can use.