“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

You do not suddenly become a spirit. You are one. Your training—for you are also involved, Joseph—your training has only begun. Without Ruburt’s acquiescence neither of you could go further. Your acquiescence has been given. His was given only recently. This permits us to use more energy for our purposes in our sessions.

There are indeed no physical places. There are the illusions. The psychological reality, the psychic reality, always forms it own environment. The divisions between various environments have nothing to do with space. There are fields of energy set up and channels that open between various such environments, and communications can be made through these.

Upon physical death you simply step out of the intense focus upon one self-constructed plane. You are released into a wider spectrum of activity. The mental and psychic energy which you have expended in the physical system does continue, to some varying degree, to sustain it. A lingering feeling allows those who have left your system to keep in contact with it if they so desire. I do not mean necessarily that in all cases communication will occur, but a psychic return can be made at will.

It is as if an artist finished a painting, and instead of going to a new one he does countless variations of the original, without realizing what he is doing. This is a between-plane existence, and legends refer to it as purgatory.

Even the misguided desires behind their activities diminishes. They are not utilizing energy correctly. Their sense of time is completely different. They do not experience centuries, you see, though they may remain attached to your system for centuries of earth time.

(Long pause.) One point however. A continuity that Ruburt overlooks, having to do with his continuing interest in religious matters from the time of childhood, echoed in the poetry and in the science fiction. He was even then leaning toward our direction, by nature, ability and inner desire.