“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

The immediate physical environment of your own apartment, for example, is the result of continual inner processes with which you are not acquainted. The existence, maintenance, and appearance of that environment depends upon inner manipulations and automatic transfers that are as natural and as necessary to your existence physically, as breath.

The physical with its multitudinous and astonishing complexity, merely hints at the full nature of inner reality however, for all of inner reality cannot be translated in physical terms. Your own physical environment is constantly tended by you automatically. It constantly reflects in its own way the nature of your inner environment. Again, this is far from symbolic. Every least alteration of psychic and emotional existence immediately alters the nature of the physical environment through instant interaction.

If, for example, at two o’clock your apartment appears comfortable, cozy and peaceful and twenty minutes later it suddenly seems crowded, uncomfortable and cluttered, then you see this is not imagination. You have changed the relationships existing within the immediate physical environment, and you perceive the change physically.

The change itself is the direct reflection of inner psychic and psychological alterations; but you have actually altered the nature of the physical environment and the quality that pervades it. The influence of others is also involved.

There is obviously a cooperative element here, for each living consciousness has its part to play in maintaining the environment, which in turn gives its nourishment.

Now in the same way that consciousness originated the physical dimension, you as portions of consciousness continue to maintain and create it anew. Your source of energy is that first creation, in which consciousness focused, where before it had not. You also then know and develop yourselves through your own creations, and you automatically create and maintain your physical environment in the same manner that you breathe. Your physical image and your physical environment are both materialized extensions of your inner selves.

The physical body itself however has much more to do with the maintenance of environment than is realized, for you use it so that your environment becomes almost like a second body, extending outward from the first, through which you express your inclinations and characteristics. There are intricate complications that arise as environmental elements merge and mix with those of others. You can see here the formation of nationalistic characteristics on a mass level.