“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

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 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.

This facility, the translation of data to the ego, who would otherwise distrust it, any such translation is nevertheless a secondhanded version of the original reality; and that is an important point.